A's catcher Shea Langeliers makes baseball history for first time in 101 years
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Find a player more locked in right now at the plate than A's catcher Shea Langeliers.
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You probably won't.
Langeliers homered again on Wednesday, taking Braves ace Chris Sale deep on a home run into the left field bullpen.
With that blast, Langeliers made history, with still a few more at bats to go to try to add to it.
Langeliers is the second catcher in MLB history to hit at least five home runs through his team's first six games of the season, according to @JayHayKid on X.
The first? You've got to go all the way back to 1925, when Gabby Hartnett did it.
Hartnett, whose full name was Charles Leo Hartnett -- leaving us to believe he knew how to talk -- was born on Dec. 20, 1900 and died on Dec. 20, 1972.
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He's in the Hall of Fame and won an MVP award.
Harnett hit 24 home runs in that 1925 season with the Chicago Cubs. His career best was 37 in the 1930 campaign.
Langeliers is now placing himself in that historic company, and serving a reminder of why baseball history is so cool.
You've got to go back 101 years to find someone who did what Langeliers is doing right now.
At this point, it's hard to bet against Langeliers doing it again sometime soon. He's dialed in.
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