June 15, 2003, Reed Johnson started his game with a home run and finished it with one. Johnson led off the bottom of the first inning with a homer, then homered to start the 10th in lifting the Toronto Blue Jays over the Chicago Cubs 5-4 Sunday.

“That was a first for me,” Johnson said. “There’s no better feeling than doing something significant to win a game.” Johnson became the first player to hit a leadoff homer and a game-ending homer in the same game since Anaheim’s Darin Erstad did it on June 25, 2000, against Minnesota. It is only the 4th time it has happened in baseball history, Billy Hamilton did it in 1893, Vic Power 1957 and Erstad was the other.

Johnson, playing in place of the injured Shannon Stewart, homered off Mark Guthrie (0-3) to win it. The 26-year-old rookie went 2-for-3 with three RBIs for the Blue Jays, who took two of three from the Cubs. Johnson homered in the first off Shawn Estes and hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth, giving Toronto a 2-0 lead.