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Four-panel full-color sports comic with cartoon ballplayers, not likenesses. Panel 1: Coors Field scoreboard vibe for Padres at Rockies. Panel 2: cartoon catcher crushing a first-pitch home run deep to center. Panel 3: dugout multi-homer celebration under a CRACK burst. Panel 4: Padres 9 Rockies 3 final board.
Four panels: Coors Field night board, cartoon first-pitch 426-ft blast to center, multi-homer catcher celebration, Padres 9 Rockies 3 final. Cartoon ballplayers only. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: ESPN.

Sports

Salas’s first two HRs make him youngest catcher with multi-homer game

What happened

The ESPN / AP recap from Tuesday night in Denver has San Diego Padres catcher Ethan Salas hitting the first two home runs of his career in a 9–3 win over the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. Salas, at 20 years and 107 days old, became the youngest catcher in MLB history to post a multi-homer game, breaking the mark set by Butch Wynegar (20 years, 192 days) for the Twins on Sept. 22, 1976. That is the Sports filing: a Coors night, two first career blasts, and a record age stamp on the catcher’s gear.

Salas opened the second with a first-pitch, 426-foot home run to center off Mason Adams (0-1), becoming the youngest catcher to homer since Iván Rodríguez at 19 in 1991. His two-run shot later capped a four-run Padres fifth that stretched the lead to 8–1. San Diego improved to 83-69 and has won nine of its last 10, moving 3.5 games ahead of Arizona for the final NL wild-card spot after the Diamondbacks fell 4–3 to Miami. Colorado dropped to 56-96. Cartoon ballplayers only — never likenesses of living athletes. Bright Padres brown-and-gold and Coors night purple. White gutters. The ESPN recap URL is the receipt. Skip farm-system speculation and keep politics out of the dugout.

September baseball still moves wild-card math on nights like this. A first multi-homer night from a 20-year-old catcher who just rewrote Wynegar’s age line is a clean Sports slot for a Thursday filing. Readers get Salas’s first two career homers, the 20y 107d record stamp vs. Wynegar’s 20y 192d, the first-pitch 426-ft blast off Adams, the Rodríguez 1991 age note, the two-run fifth that made it 8–1, Padres 83-69 and nine of 10, the +3.5 gap on Arizona after Miami’s 4–3 win, and Rockies 56-96 — not a season retrospective, just one Tuesday’s wire from Denver.

Why it matters

A Coors Field multi-homer night that crowns the youngest catcher ever to do it is the strip: first-pitch 426-ft crack to center, second blast capping an 8–1 fifth, Padres 9 Rockies 3. Color on the walk-off-adjacent fireworks feel and the Coors night board. White gutters. Readers get Salas’s age record, Wynegar’s 1976 mark, the Rodríguez note, Padres 83-69 / nine of 10, the 3.5-game wild-card cushion after Arizona’s loss, Rockies 56-96, and the source URL on the page.

Conclusion

Ethan Salas’s first two career home runs — including a first-pitch 426-foot shot to center off Mason Adams (0-1) and a two-run blast that capped a four-run fifth — made the 20-year-old, 107-day Padres catcher the youngest in MLB history with a multi-homer game, breaking Butch Wynegar’s 1976 mark, in San Diego’s 9–3 win at Coors Field as the Padres (83-69, nine of last 10) moved 3.5 games ahead of Arizona for the last NL wild card after the Diamondbacks lost 4–3 to Miami, with Colorado falling to 56-96, per ESPN / AP. Cartoon ballplayers only. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401816970

Source: ESPN