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Jason Heyward<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> wasted no time at all demonstrating why he’s the best hitting prospect in baseball. In his first major league at-bat, the 20-year-old hit a three-run bomb off Cubs’ starter Carlos Zambrano<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> – and we definitely mean bomb<\/em>. The ball landed deep in the Atlanta bullpen in right-center. You’ll find the video here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n Zambrano fell behind Heyward 2-0, then threw him a sinker that didn’t sink nearly enough. When Heyward made contact, there was no doubt whatsoever about the result. The crowd’s reaction was of course fantastic. That’s Chipper Jones<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> pictured above waiting to hug Heyward, looking like your grandma greeting you at the door. <\/p>\n This has already been a spectacular opening day, featuring a no-hit bid<\/a> from Shaun Marcum<\/a>(notes)<\/a>,<\/span> a two-homer game<\/a> from Albert Pujols<\/a>(notes)<\/a>,<\/span> and a defensive gem of the highest quality<\/a> from Mark Buehrle<\/a>(notes)<\/a>.<\/span> But Heyward’s blast was the goosebumps moment. <\/p>\n If you left him on your fantasy bench today – and he was only started in 54 percent of Yahoo! leagues – then you’re free to complain in comments… <\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Photo via AP Images <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jason Heyward(notes) wasted no time at all demonstrating why he’s the best hitting prospect in baseball. In his first major league at-bat, the 20-year-old hit a three-run bomb off Cubs’ starter Carlos Zambrano(notes) – and we definitely mean bomb. The ball landed deep in the Atlanta bullpen in right-center. You’ll find the video here. Zambrano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}