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1961 In his first major league at-bat, Cuno Barragan hits his only big-league home run, taking Dick LeMay deep over the left-field fence at Wrigley Field in the second inning of the Cubs' 4-3 loss to San Francisco. The 29-year-old catcher will play in 69 games for Chicago over three seasons.
1998 Cardinal slugger Mark McGwire, in a 7-1 victory over Florida, homers twice to break Hack Wilson's National League single-season home run record of 56. Big Mac's seventh-inning shot ties the 1930 mark set by the Hall of Fame Cubs' outfielder, and he establishes a new record in the ninth, hitting a Don Pall pitch 472 feet over the center-field wall at Miami's Pro Player Stadium.
2001 Cubs' slugger Sammy Sosa hits the longest home run in Turner Field history when his two-run shot, the outfielder's 53rd of the season, travels 471 feet to straightaway center field. The historic homer comes in the first inning off four-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux in the team's 5-3 victory in Atlanta.
2020 In the Giants' 23-5 Giants' rout of the Rockies at offensively friendly Coors Field, Alex Dickerson blasts homers in the first, second, and sixth innings and doubles in the fourth and ninth. The 30-year-old left fielder's 16 total bases equal the franchise mark established by Willie Mays when he hit four round-trippers in a 1961 contest against the Braves. 

(Ed. Note: Joining Kris Bryant (Cubs-2016) and Matt Carpenter (Cardinals- 2018), Dickerson becomes the third major leaguer to hit a trio of homers and pair of doubles in a game. LP)

 
2024 Longtime manager Dusty Baker's son, Darren, collects a hit on the first pitch he sees in the major leagues, pinch-hitting in the Nationals' 14-1 loss to the Cubs in Washington. The 25-year-old September call-up first gained notoriety as a three-year-old bat boy for the Giants, who J.T. Snow saved after he crossed paths with Bengie Molina trying to score in Game 5 of the 2002 World Series.
5 Fact(s) Found