Meet the exclusive club of big-league pitchers likely forever stuck on one career home run

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New York Daily News

On Oct. 3, 2021, Giants’ pitcher Logan Webb tucked a home run just inside the left field pole at San Francisco’s Oracle Park. Four months later, Major League Baseball announced the designated hitter’s arrival in the National League, making it a near impossibility that pitchers (Shohei Ohtani doesn’t count) will get to hit anymore, let alone hit a ball over the fence. What would it take for the Mets to send a pitcher to the plate again? “It’d have to be late-inning, late in the season where injury wasn’t a factor,” said Buck Showalter. “We’re out of people,” Taijuan Walker guessed. “Some freak …

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