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

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

In nan Guardians' 6-4 triumph complete nan Seattle Mariners connected Thursday astatine T-Mobile Park, DeLauter homered doubly successful his regular-season debut, becoming nan sixth subordinate to ever do so. The apical imaginable debuted successful nan American League Wild Card Series past fall, truthful Thursday wasn’t DeLauter’s first sensation of big-league action, but he said he 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 nan bases aft hitting a solo location tally against Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert during nan first inning of an opening time shot crippled successful Seattle, Washington, connected March 26, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)

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

He became nan 5th subordinate successful Cleveland’s 126-year franchise history to deed a location tally successful his first profession regular-season at-bat. He is nan first Guardians subordinate to do truthful since Jhonkensy Noel connected June 26, 2024.

DeLauter’s 2nd blast of nan crippled came successful nan ninth inning, erstwhile he crushed Mariners reliever Cooper Criswell’s cutter 422 feet into right-center field, providing a cardinal security tally arsenic he gave nan 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 nan bases aft hitting a solo location tally against Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert during nan first inning of an opening time shot crippled successful Seattle, Washington, connected March 26, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)

DeLauter vanished nan nighttime 3 for 5, which tied him pinch seasoned slugger Rhys Hoskins for nan squad lead successful hits. Hoskins was peculiarly impressed pinch really unfazed DeLauter was successful conscionable his 3rd major-league game.

"Maybe he doesn’t know, possibly ignorance is bliss," Hoskins said. "But, to person that slow of a heartbeat, successful a location opener, evidently their crowd is each charged up because of what this squad was capable to do past year. So yeah, conscionable ace cool."

DeLauter is conscionable thrilled to beryllium astir nan squad and available. In DeLauter’s 3 seasons successful nan organization, he has only played successful 138 games while dealing pinch a litany of injuries.

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Cleveland Guardians' Chase DeLauter celebrates successful nan dugout aft hitting a solo location tally against Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert during nan first 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 nan guys," DeLauter said. "Thrilled to beryllium available. Really excited to conscionable play immoderate meaningful shot again."

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

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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