Justin Crawford picked up his first hit on the first pitch he saw in the majors on Opening Day
Justin Crawford walked to the plate for the first time in his major league career in the bottom of the second inning on Thursday with two outs, nobody on, and 40 family members and friends watching from the stands. Nathan Eovaldi threw him a first-pitch fastball. Justin Crawford ripped it up the middle for a single.
“I feel like a 10-pound weight got off me,” he said after the game.
He was not trying to wait around and he did not. First pitch. First at-bat. First hit. Justin Crawford became the first Phillies player to get a hit in his first Opening Day at-bat since Denny Doyle on April 7th, 1970.
He singled again in the fifth inning to finish 2-for-4 and became just the 15th player in Phillies history with two or more hits in an Opening Day debut, the first to do it since Bryson Stott on April 8th, 2022.
Justin Crawford takes the field at Citizens Bank Park on Opening Day
Justin Crawford: One Pitch. One Hit.
Twenty-two years old. Two hits. An 0-for-4 from Harper and Garcia already forgotten. The kid looked like he belonged on day one and that is all you can ask from a rookie center fielder making his debut in front of a packed Citizens Bank Park on Opening Day.
It is a moment he will never forget. Neither will the people who watched it.
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