Atlanta Braves prospect Vaughn Grissom homers, 'seemed like a kid on the playground' in debut

BOSTON — Top Atlanta Braves prospect Vaughn Grissom homered onto Lansdowne Street in his major league debut, and Marcell Ozuna hit a three-run homer on Wednesday night to highlight an 8-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

Called up earlier in the day from Double-A, the 21-year-old Grissom hit the first pitch he saw in the seventh inning over the Green Monster and the seats above it and onto the street below for his first big-league hit. He tossed his bat aside before taking off around the bases, clapped his hands as he rounded third base and arrived home to be congratulated by Michael Harris II, who had singled ahead of him.

«I didn't feel a thing. I didn't feel one thing,» Grissom said of his home run during his on-field, postgame interview on Bally Sports South. «Literally, I hit it, and blacked out until I saw my first-base coach, and just started laughing.»

A healthy number of Braves fans in the crowd of 35,406 gave Grissom a big cheer. Grissom singled in the ninth, stole second and scored as Atlanta completed a two-game sweep.

«I'm super-shocked. What a moment. I didn't know what else to think, but 'wow,'» Grissom said.

Grissom was batting .324 with 14 homers, 67 RBIs and 27 stolen bases at Single- and Double-A this season. He started at second base and batted ninth for Atlanta. With family and friends in the Fenway Park stands, he hit into a fielder's choice in the third inning, struck out in the fifth and came up again with one on and one out in the seventh, when he homered to make it 5-1.

«I can't even put it into words,» he said. «We've all really got me here to this point. So for them to be here, to watch it, it was one of the best things in my life.»

Grissom added a single in the ninth. Since the home run ball