PHOENIX (AP) – Look out Denver! Here comes Trevor Story.
The 23-year-old rookie made baseball history by becoming the first player to hit a home run in each of his first three big-league games and the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3 on Wednesday.
“It’s just kind of surreal right now,” he said. “It’s hard to explain. I can’t really put words to it.”
Story also is the first player in baseball history to hit a home run for each of his first four hits, according to information provided to the Rockies by the Elias Sports Bureau.
“It was fun to watch him,” Rockies manager Walt Weiss said, “a young kid who has dreamt of this his whole life and shows up and is probably better than his dream was – that first game, that first series. … It is quite a story – pun intended.”