{"id":77455,"date":"2026-08-15T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/cardinals-rookie-joshua-baez-makes-mlb-history-with-three-homers-in-first-three-at-bats\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:54:48","slug":"cardinals-rookie-joshua-baez-makes-mlb-history-with-three-homers-in-first-three-at-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/cardinals-rookie-joshua-baez-makes-mlb-history-with-three-homers-in-first-three-at-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals rookie Joshua B\u00e1ez makes MLB history with three homers in first three at-bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>23-year-old hits home run on first pitch in majors<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>B\u00e1ez drives in five during 8-4 victory over Cubs<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rookie was called up from Triple-A earlier in day<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joshua B\u00e1ez became the first player to hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in the major leagues, leading the St Louis Cardinals to an 8-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old left fielder, called up from Triple-A Memphis earlier in the day, hit the first pitch he saw into the Wrigley Field bleachers, then homered in his next two at-bats. He also drove in five runs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/15\/joshua-baez-three-home-runs-cardinals-cubs-mlb-record\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23-year-old hits home run on first pitch in majors B\u00e1ez drives in five during 8-4 victory over Cubs Rookie was called up from Triple-A earlier in day Joshua B\u00e1ez became the first player to hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in the major leagues, leading the St Louis Cardinals to an 8-4 &#8230; <a title=\"Cardinals rookie Joshua B\u00e1ez makes MLB history with three homers in first three at-bats\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/cardinals-rookie-joshua-baez-makes-mlb-history-with-three-homers-in-first-three-at-bats\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cardinals rookie Joshua B\u00e1ez makes MLB history with three homers in first three at-bats\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}