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Grandy’s walk-off blast comes 11 years after his 1st
- Updated: May 28, 2016
NEW YORK — Curtis Granderson wasn’t even a full-time player in the Major Leagues when he hit the first — and, until Friday night at Citi Field, the only — walk-off home run of his career with the Tigers in 2005.
Granderson’s game-ending blast leading off the bottom of the ninth against the Dodgers, a scorched hooking shot into the seats beyond the right-field corner off a 97-mph fastball from reliever Pedro Baez to give the Mets a 6-5 win, was more than 10 years in the making.
Naturally, much has changed for Granderson since Sept. 26, 2005, a game in his early days in Detroit — only his 50th in the Major Leagues. Still, he remembers that first one well.
“Against the White Sox. I remember exactly when that was. I had just made my second stint in the big leagues,” Granderson said. “Not as many fans at that moment, because it was towards the end of the season. And we as a team weren’t playing very well.”
That’s about as far as it gets from his homer in New York, which revitalized …
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