Cardinals rookie Báez makes history with 3 homers in debut

On the evening of August 15th, a 22-year-old named Joshua Báez walked into the oldest theater in American sport and, in three turns at the plate, did something no one had ever done in more than 150 years of the game. The St. Louis Cardinals rookie hit a home run in each of his first three major league at-bats — an achievement that belongs not merely to baseball history, but to the broader human story of the unannounced arrival, the moment when an ordinary entrance becomes something permanent. What Báez did reminds us that records are not always broken by those we expect, and that sometimes his