Whee! It’s Friday. Brett Baty and Brandon Nimmo homered for the losing Mets last night, and we’ve already done their home run chains, so how about the guy who then pinch-hit for Baty for… reasons?
Danny Mendick hit his first home run off Jaime Barria, 9/8/19
Jaime Barria gave up his first home run to Ryan Rua, 4/11/18
Ryan Rua hit his first home run off Huston Street, 9/21/14
Huston Street gave up his first home run to Paul Konerko, 7/10/05
Paul Konerko hit his first home run off Bob Wells, 6/6/98
Bob Wells gave up his first home run to J.T. Snow, 5/6/95
J.T. Snow hit his first home run off Bill Wegman, 4/6/93
Bill Wegman gave up his first home run to Jim Rice, 9/14/85
Jim Rice hit his first home run off Steve Kline, 10/1/74
Steve Kline gave up his first home run to Frank Howard, 7/10/70
Frank Howard connects to the Daniel Vogelbach home run chain, so both Danny and Daniel track back through baseball history together. Connecting to Frank Howard with the 1970 Senators (managed by Ted Williams), that’s nothing. They had Dick Billings, Dick Bosman, Dick Nen, and Dick Such.
Unfortunately, despite the passage of time and that baseball team having moved to Texas, Washington remains FULL OF DICKS.
We Can Pod It Out 145: Revolution 1