The First Day of the Rest of Milledge's Life

Hopefully the loss to the Diamondbacks will be a game that we remember for a long time, and if we do it'll be because it marked the debut of Lastings Milledge.

Milledge got four at bats, hitting a hard liner to short, and two groundouts to the left side. But his third at bat was a ripped double into left. He'll always remember his first major league hit.

"I'm thinking about not falling down," Milledge said with a smile when asked about running toward first on his first hit. "It calmed me down. Now I don't have to fight for that first hit."

Overall, I was impressed with Milledge at the plate and in the field. Obviously, you can't judge a position player by one game but I'm very excited to watch him play.

The reaction he got from the crowd was very nice, in all of his at bats. Mets fans embraced Wright from his first day and hopefully Milledge can join Wright and Reyes as cornerstones of this team for years to come.

There are still a lot of questions about what will happen to him when Nady comes back, but for now we must hope he knocks the cover off the ball for a month or so.

Lastings Milledge made his major league debut at 21 years and 55 days old. That's the exact age to the day that Darryl Strawberry was when he made his major league debut in 1983.