New York Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon has been in the MLB for nearly 20 years. He’s won a Cy Young, been to the playoffs, pitched in the World Series and he just recently passed Pedro Martinez on the MLB’s all-time wins list for a pitcher but one thing he hasn’t done is hit a homerun.
Bart or ‘Big Sexy’ finally did it against the San Diego Padres, smacking a homerun to left field off the Padres’ ace, James Shields. Not only was it Colon’s first homerun of his career but it was also his first hit of the season.
Colon, often finding himself at the end of some good ‘gifs’ or ‘memes’, finally has done the impossible. Yes people, this is real, so real that even his Mets teammates didn’t wait for him in the dugout, they fleed the scene to properly celebrate his first dinger.