In Brown’s 102nd appearance in his career, the slugger hit a milestone that had kept him out on Saturday in the A’s 7-3 win over the Astros, throwing his first home run.
The first long ball in Brown’s Major League was not cheap either. At 424 feet with an output speed of 106.1 mph, the explosion was the definition of the textbook of a non-hesitant, traveling to the second deck of Minute Maid Park.
His teammates understood the magnitude. When they returned, they received Brown with a reservoir of five hundred emphatics. Some offered hugs. Brown could be seen smiling, almost looking relieved to have finally broken the bagel in the home run column.
Brown failed to make the Spring Training A’s Opening Day roster, losing to Ka’ai Tom in the competition for fourth off the field, but was remembered when Chad Pinder moved to the 10-day IL with a sprained left knee.