Tyler O’Neill Hits Home Run in Record Sixth Consecutive Opening Day

Tyler O’Neill of the Baltimore Orioles really likes Opening Day of the baseball season. On March 27th, O’Neill hit a three run homer in the Orioles’ 12-2 win over the Blue Jays in Toronto. It was the sixth consecutive Opening Day that he has hit a home run, extending his own major league record.

O’Neill hit his first four Opening Day homers as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was traded to the Boston Red Sox after the 2023 season, and hit his fifth homer in the 2024 opener. He signed as a free agent with Baltimore in the last off season, and hit his sixth.

Here’s a link to a video of all of O’Neill’s Opening Day homers.

In another home run first on Opening Day, the New York Yankees’ Austin Wells became the first catcher to hit a lead off homer an Opening Day in MLB history when he connected off Freddy Peralta in the Yankees’ 4-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.