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Marlins' Brian Moran strikes out his brother in historic MLB debut
Mark Townsend

Yahoo SportsSeptember 5, 2019, 9:41 PM EDT
Thursday’s game between the Miami Marlins and Pittsburgh Pirates had no impact on the MLB standings. But unlike most September games without playoff implications, you can’t call this one meaningless.

That’s because a dream scenario played out for brothers Brian and Colin Moran.

The game marked the MLB debut of Brian Moran, a 30-year-old left-hander who toiled in the minor leagues for 10 seasons. He was summoned by Marlins manager Don Mattingly to pitch the fourth inning, which set up a scenario that had not been seen in MLB since 1900.


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Facing your brother in your big league debut?

Couldn't draw it up any better.

The second batter Brian Moran faced in his MLB debut?

His own brother, Colin Moran.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this exact scenario had not played out in an MLB game 119 years.

With Colin and Brian Moran squaring off right now, it is the 1st time since 1900 a brother faced off against his sibling in his Major League debut in a pitcher-vs-batter scenario (or other way around).

And even more amazing was the outcome of this historic matchup.

After battling to a 3-2 count, Brian Moran earned bragging rights for life by making his brother his first career strikeout victim.

The decisive pitch was a 72-mph slider.

Ironically, Colin Moran was the Marlins’ first-round pick in the 2013 MLB draft.

He was traded to the Houston Astros before making his MLB debut. The 26-year-old third baseman has received regular playing time for Pittsburgh this season. In 133 games, he's batting .286/.333/.450 with 13 homers and 77 RBIs.

As Brian Moran will surely remind his brother, he couldn’t even get the ball in play when they faced each other.


https://sports.yahoo.com/marlins-brian-m...-014105850.html

The best part was ... my fiance’s a Pirates fan so there always on while i’m putzing around on my puter ...

It was a called strike 3 and the only strike he threw him ... *L* ... the other two were balls he fouled off ...

Was pretty cool ... the decisive pitch was also very borderline ... *L* ...

I mean I don't care their positions in the MLB

on a MLB roster

Older brother new to the League and took a while to get there

……

IDC what the scenario or talent level disparity between the two, older brother was gonna strike out little brother 10 x out of 10

Indian's outfielder, Bradley Zimmer, now rehabbing with the Columbus Clippers, has an older brother (Kyle) who's a pitcher in the Kansas City Royals minor league system. They could easily face each other in the next year or two in a Major League game.

Imagine the odds! Growing up as brothers or sisters and both making it to the bigs....in any sport!

Off the top of my head...

Alomar's
Neikro's
Perry's Baseball
Perry's Football
Bosa's
Tennis's the William's sisters.
Etc, etc.

Out of the millions of siblings who start out playing little leagues(in all sports), off the top my head those are the ones that come to mind.

Tell me another pair and I'll say, "Oh Yea, you're right".

But.........man oh man oh man...

There are 408 sets of brothers who have played in the MLB.

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/family/fam1.shtml

There are 377 sets of brothers who have played in the NFL.

https://www.profootballhof.com/assets/1/6/Brothers_Mar_09_2017.pdf

This seems like a good place to put this ...



Clay and Bruce Matthews are they only brothers to ever play on the same Pro Bowl team - and they did it twice.

There's only been 3 third generation NFL families: The Matthews, the Pynes (including former Cleveland Brown OL Jim Pyne), and the Kupps (latest being Cooper Kupp of the Rams). If you can't win a drink with that in a bar trivia bet, I'll buy you one.

In hockey, the Sutter brothers, as well as the Staal brothers.

the Sutter family had about five brothers who played in the NHL, two were twins.

Wayne Gretzky's brother Brent played a few games in the NHL, but he probably doesn't bring it up at family get-togethers.

That’s a pretty impressive family tree

Heard a stat the other day that there are seven MLBers who were struck out by Nolan Ryan who had sons that grew up to be struck out by Nolan Ryan