Nelson Cruz became the third player in major league history to homer in the first four games of a season on Monday night as the Rangers defeated the Mariners 6-4. Cruz went to the plate in the fourth inning guessing he'd get a first-pitch curve from Seattle's Erik Bedard. Instead, Bedard threw something else off speed and Cruz adjusted with a drive over the center-field fence. "In that at-bat I was thinking, hit the ball through the hole [at] second base hard, because he was throwing that curveball," Cruz said. "I was hoping he would throw that so I could hit it the other way, but he threw me a changeup and I turned on it." Cruz joined Willie Mays (1971) and Mark McGwire (1998) as the only players to go deep in each of their first four games of a season.