Doug Padilla covers the happy debut of long-time minor league hitter Rob Segedin:

When Segedin wanted to quit baseball last year, his wife Robin was the first to talk him out of it. When he thought the New York Yankees no longer had his best interest in mind, after seven years in the minor leagues, his family members convinced him to believe.

Segedin said it did not take long to realize he owed those close to him a debt of gratitude, with the moment of realization coming right around the time he hit a two-run double in the fourth inning Sunday of his second career at-bat. He followed that with a two-run single an inning later.

The four RBIs were the most from a Los Angeles Dodgers player in his major league debut and helped the club to an 8-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox that pulled them within a game of the National League West-leading San Francisco Giants.

At the peak age of 27 he was tearing up AAA. His power was always more doubles and triples, which makes is first hit rather appropriate.

Other than Segedin, it was a rather beastly game to watch. It was high scoring non-slugfest, where poor pitching and poor fielding led to more runs than the extra base hits, it seemed.