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Ken Griffey Jr. during his final plate appearance of the 2009 season. Griffey went 1-for-3 with a home run in his regular-season debut on April against the Minnesota Twins . [ 92 ] The home run was Griffey's eighth Opening Day home run; [ 92 ] as of 2013, he is tied with Frank Robinson and Adam Dunn for first place in this category.
Griffey was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2016 after a 22-year big league career spent mostly with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds. He was a 13-time All-Star and hit 630 home runs, which ...
Dozens of father-and-son combinations have played or managed in Major League Baseball (MLB).. The first was Jack Doscher, son of Herm Doscher, who made his debut in 1903.. Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr. became the first father-and-son duo to play in MLB at the same time, in 1989 when Ken Jr. was called up by the Seattle Mariners while Ken Sr. was playing with the Cincinnati Reds.
In August of that year, as members of the Seattle Mariners, Griffey Sr. and Griffey Jr. became the first father and son to play in the same MLB game. “First father and son to play baseball, now ...
Ken Griffey Jr. is making good on his pledge to support LeBron and Bronny James! The retired Hall of Fame slugger plans to be in attendance on opening night of the NBA season on Tuesday, Oct. 22 ...
The Double was a double hit by the Seattle Mariners' Edgar Martínez in Game 5 of Major League Baseball's 1995 American League Division Series on October 8, 1995. Trailing by one run in the bottom half of the 11th inning, with Joey Cora on third base and Ken Griffey Jr. on first, Martinez's hit drove in Cora and Griffey, giving the Mariners a 6–5 victory over the New York Yankees to clinch ...
George Kenneth Griffey may refer to: George Kenneth Griffey Sr. or Ken Griffey Sr. (born 1950), American former baseball player and coach; George Kenneth Griffey Jr. or Ken Griffey Jr. (born 1969), American former baseball player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame; George Kenneth Griffey III or Trey Griffey (born 1994), American football ...
Prior to Friday’s HBCU Swingman Classic, Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. shared the advice they would give to LeBron James and Bronny before they take the court together.