{"id":1928097,"date":"2026-08-15T18:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928097"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:44:02","slug":"joshua-baez-of-the-cardinals-hits-3-homers-in-his-first-3-at-bats-in-a-historic-major-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928097","title":{"rendered":"Joshua B\u00e1ez of the Cardinals hits 3 homers in his first 3 at-bats in a historic major league debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Joshua B\u00e1ez smashed the first pitch he saw in the majors about 450 feet, then flashed a grin to the St. Louis dugout as he began his home run trot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/0b0e9-joshua-b-ez-of-the-cardinals-hits-3-homers-in-his-first-3-at-bats-in-a-historic-major-league-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Joshua B\u00e1ez smashed the first pitch he saw in the majors about 450 feet, then flashed a grin to the St. Louis dugout&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1928098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928099,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928097\/revisions\/1928099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}