Nationals' Joey Wiemer makes baseball history never done before for Nats
Wiemer is making a quick mark this season.
Nationals' Joey Wiemer makes baseball history never done before for Nats originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Joey Wiemer isn't a guy who was necessarily expected to make history at the MLB level.
Right now, though, that's exactly what he's doing for the Washington Nationals . Before this week, no player had ever homered in his first two games with the Nationals, dating to the franchise's move to Washington in 2005. Now, that's exactly what Wiemer has done after leaving the yard again on Sunday at Wrigley Field.
Wiemer is a 27-year old outfielder from Sylvania, Ohio. He was a fourth-round pick by the Brewers in the 2020 MLB Draft. He's 6-foot-4 and 226 pounds, certainly looking like a guy who should have MLB-level power.
In his career before this season, he had 16 home runs. Already this season, Wiemer has left the yard twice. With his home run in the first inning, Joey Wiemer became the first player to homer in each of his first two games as a National (2005-pres.