JJ Wetherholt passes Cy Young, ties Bob Uecker in St. Louis Cardinals baseball history

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JJ Wetherholt will have many special nights in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals.

One of the first came Tuesday, when he blasted two home runs for the first time, doing it in front of the home fans.

In the process, he temporarily joined some fascinating ranks in Cardinals home run history.

When you look way down a franchise's all-time home run charts, you find some fascinating names.

Wetherholt entered Tuesday night with one career homer. He exited it with three.

That means he passed all the Cardinals who ever hit two homers, including Cy Young, Chris Carpenter and Miles Mikolas. Yes, that Cy Young, who played two seasons for the Cardinals in 1899 and 1900.

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His third home run then moved him into a tie with legendary announcer Bob Uecker, as well as the southpaw Steve Carlton, who pitched for the Cardinals before the Philllies.

Does this company mean anything in particular? No, not really.

It's just one of those fascinating deep-dive baseball tidbits that exists in a sport with this much statistical history.

Wetherholt will likely hit many more home runs and have many more accomplishments.

But he's just climbing the charts right now, and he's off to a great start.

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