This Day in Baseball History: May 20th, 2000
It was on this day in 2000 that
Rickey Henderson, in the first at-bat of his first game with the Seattle Mariners, hit a home run
to lead off the game. It was the 76th time in his career that he
accomplished that feat. At the time, second place on the all-time list was
Bobby Bonds (35). The Mariners would lose the game to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
by a score of 4-3. The game was played at Safeco Field in Seattle.
Henderson would go on to hit
five more home runs leading of a game before he retired following the 2003
season, giving him a total of 81. Currently in second place on the all-time
list of lead-off homers is Alfonso Soriano with 54.
Henderson’s home run on May 20th,
2000, also made him only the third player in MLB history (joining Ted Williams
and Willie McCovey) to hit a home run in four different decades. In 2010, Omar
Vizquel became the fourth member of the group.
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