On August 17, Cubs star Pete Crow-Armstrong became just the sixth player in Major League history to start a game with a leadoff home run and end it with a walk-off homer.
Apparently, the NL MVP candidate started a trend.
Just five days after PCA, what player became the seventh in MLB history to hit both a leadoff home run and a walk-off home run in the same game — and, for good measure, made a spectacular catch to rob another home run?
Hint: He’s a former Rookie of the Year.
Julio Rodríguez
Gunnar Henderson
Yordan Alvarez
Randy Arozarena
Frisbee Jones-Leonard
Answer: Randy Arozarena
Born in Pinar del Río, Cuba, Arozarena was the 2021 American League Rookie of the Year with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Now watch Arozarena’s remarkable night — the leadoff homer, the home-run robbery and the walk-off homer.
And Frisbee Jones-Leonard?
We loved the name so much, we asked the TWIST Art Department what Frisbee Jones-Leonard might look like.
Here’s what they came up with…
Completely made up.