"Brian McCann has taken a little kidding in the clubhouse for taking 11 games to get his first extra-base hit.

"Singles hitter," Derek Lowe uttered Wednesday afternoon as McCann walked past, continuing the teasing he started over the weekend when he said to McCann: "What have you got, like 18 singles? Can you get a double or something?"

It was 13 singles, actually, when Lowe said that on Sunday. On Tuesday night, he homered off the Marlins' Chris Volstad, ending the longest wait for a extra-base hit in his seven years in the big leagues.

From his rookie year in 2005 when he homered in his second game in the big leagues, he has hit his first home run of the season either in the first or second game until this year.

But McCann didn't mind one bit. After Tuesday, he was hitting a team-high .350 (14-for-40) with six RBIs."