Guardians rookie has historic two-homer performance in regular season debut: 'He's not from this planet'

It’s hard to person a amended MLB regular-season debut than Cleveland Guardians rookie Chase DeLauter.

In the Guardians' 6-4 triumph implicit the Seattle Mariners connected Thursday astatine T-Mobile Park, DeLauter homered doubly successful his regular-season debut, becoming the sixth subordinate to ever bash so. The apical imaginable debuted successful the American League Wild Card Series past fall, truthful Thursday wasn’t DeLauter’s archetypal sensation of big-league action, but helium said helium won’t ever hide his regular-season debut.

"That’s thing I’ll ne'er forget," DeLauter said of his postseason debut past year. "I won’t hide this 1 either, don’t get maine wrong."

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Cleveland Guardians' Chase DeLauter jogs the bases aft hitting a solo location tally against Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert during the archetypal inning of an opening time shot crippled successful Seattle, Washington, connected March 26, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)

In the archetypal inning, the 24-year-old clobbered Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert’s 85-mph slider 358 feet implicit the right-field partition for his archetypal Major League location run, giving the Guardians a 1-0 lead.

He became the 5th subordinate successful Cleveland’s 126-year franchise past to deed a location tally successful his archetypal vocation regular-season at-bat. He is the archetypal Guardians subordinate to bash truthful since Jhonkensy Noel connected June 26, 2024.

DeLauter’s 2nd blast of the crippled came successful the ninth inning, erstwhile helium crushed Mariners reliever Cooper Criswell’s cutter 422 feet into right-center field, providing a cardinal security tally arsenic helium gave the Guardians a 6-4 lead.

"He’s not from this planet," reliever Erik Sabrowski said of DeLauter, according to The Athletic. 

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Cleveland Guardians' Chase DeLauter jogs the bases aft hitting a solo location tally against Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert during the archetypal inning of an opening time shot crippled successful Seattle, Washington, connected March 26, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)

DeLauter finished the nighttime 3 for 5, which tied him with seasoned slugger Rhys Hoskins for the squad pb successful hits. Hoskins was peculiarly impressed with however unfazed DeLauter was successful conscionable his 3rd major-league game.

"Maybe helium doesn’t know, possibly ignorance is bliss," Hoskins said. "But, to person that dilatory of a heartbeat, successful a location opener, evidently their assemblage is each charged up due to the fact that of what this squad was capable to bash past year. So yeah, conscionable ace cool."

DeLauter is conscionable thrilled to beryllium astir the squad and available. In DeLauter’s 3 seasons successful the organization, helium has lone played successful 138 games portion dealing with a litany of injuries.

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Cleveland Guardians' Chase DeLauter celebrates successful the dugout aft hitting a solo location tally against Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert during the archetypal inning of an opening time shot crippled successful Seattle, Washington, connected March 26, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)

"I mean, conscionable thrilled to beryllium astir the guys," DeLauter said. "Thrilled to beryllium available. Really excited to conscionable play immoderate meaningful shot again."

DeLauter volition look to proceed his blistery commencement erstwhile the Guardians (1-0) play the Mariners (0-1) again connected Friday astatine 9:45 p.m. ET.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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