Watch: Brett Baty making his family and high-school team-mates proud after aristocratic HR in 1st career at-bat

Watch: Brett Baty making his family and high-school team-mates proud after aristocratic HR in 1st career at-bat

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Brett Baty was at the home plate on Thursday for his inaugural at-bat as a Major League player, and he swung to deliver a statement, a statement that he revealed after the game, “I’m here for a reason. I’ll let it show.” Just four hours in on the Major League Baseball atmosphere, Brett jogged around the Truist Park infield dirt, having become the fifth Mets player to homer in his first career at-bat.

As the New York Mets pick up a crucial 9-7 road victory, Brett Baty had much of his family and friends in the stands and nearly 1,000 miles west of Atlanta in Austin, TX., the Lake Travis High School baseball team (Baty’s alma mater) was watching the 22-year-old’s first at-bat. He knew he had to impress the people who supported him throughout.

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“Regardless of what happens, there is a moment that you kind of step back and take it all in from a baseball fan standpoint and put yourself in their shoes a little bit,” Manager Buck Showalter said. “You do kind of live through it with them and hope that things go well for them.”

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Brett Baty has impressed Major League with his stunning debut performance

Brett Baty
Brett Baty

“I think about not only Brett, but all the people that got some joy out of it,” manager Buck Showalter said. Brett Baty, who is from Round Rock, Texas, said pregame that his mother, father, sister and several other relatives had flown to Atlanta for his big-league debut.

“I was just looking for a pitch I could drive,” Brett Baty said. “He left one over the plate.” He was delighted. “To look up (in the stands) and see my family up there, to celebrate in the dugout with my teammates, it’s just pure joy,”

Brett Baty had always been said to be leaning towards progress quickly. And so, he did, slashing .312/.406/.544 with 19 home runs in 89 games at Binghamton to reach Triple-A earlier this month. Baty landed later in the evening and tried to sleep as best he could, he arrived at Truist Park the following afternoon, he found a gray No. 22 jersey hanging in his locker.

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