Yoenis Cespedes has always been good at first impressions.
He homered for the Athletics in his first game on American soil on Apr. 6, 2012. He was still a member of the Athletics the first time he stepped on the field at his future big league home Citi Field on July 15, 2013, when he won the All-Star Game Home Run Derby by launching 32 homers, most of which landed well beyond the centerfield fence or in the left field third deck.
On June 10, 2017, in his first game back after spending more than six weeks on the disabled list, Cespedes hit a ninth-inning grand slam in the Mets’ win over the Braves. On July 20, 2018, he homered again, this time against the Yankees, in his first game in more than two months — and the only game he’d play in the majors until last Friday, when he homered to provide the only run in the Mets’ Opening Day win over the Braves.
But the first Cespedes impression that first sprung to mind Sunday was the one occurring in the midst of a three-homer, four-pitch span five years ago last night.
Cespedes had the only non-homer in that barrage — he singled for his first hit with the Mets immediately before Lucas Duda’s two-run homer — but his presence in the rally two days after he was acquired from the Tigers served as the confirmation he’d infused the Mets with a swagger, and the fanbase with a belief, that neither had possessed since Citi Field opened in 2009.
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