When people think of important postseason home runs, they tend to think of one of the iconic late-game homers . But sometimes an early-game blast can be just as important.

In 1903, Boston’s Patsy Dougherty slugged the first leadoff home run in postseason history in the form of an inside-the-park home run in Game 2 of the World Series. Including that, there have been 75 leadoff home runs in the postseason, the most recent coming off the bat of Shohei Ohtani in Game 4 of the 2025 NLCS.

Eleven players have gone so far as to hit multiple leadoff home runs in postseason play, but no one has started a postseason game off with a bang more often than Kyle Schwarber, whose leadoff clout in Game 1 of the 2024 NLDS was the fifth of his career. Ohtani, Derek Jeter and Jimmy Rollins, who each hit

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