{"id":36038,"date":"2026-08-15T18:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=36038"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:59:01","slug":"cardinals-prospect-joshua-baez-hits-3-run-homer-vs-cubs-on-first-major-league-pitch-he-sees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=36038","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals prospect Joshua B\u00e1ez hits 3-run homer vs. Cubs on first major-league pitch he sees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Cardinals rookie Joshua B\u00e1ez made a strong first impression in his major-league debut on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e1ez, ranked as the Cardinals&#039; No. 3 prospect by MLB.com, was called up from Triple-A Memphis on Friday night and penciled into Saturday&#039;s starting lineup versus the Chicago Cubs by manager Oliver Marmol.<\/p>\n<p>Batting fifth and playing left field, B\u00e1ez quickly announced his MLB debut by hitting the first pitch he faced from Cubs starter Matthew Boyd for a home run. Boyd left a 93 mph fastball out over the plate where B\u00e1ez could extend his arms and he did not miss.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-run homer from B\u00e1ez gave the Cardinals an early 3-0 lead. St. Louis first got on the board following a leadoff walk by JJ Wetherholt and Iv\u00e1n Herrera getting hit by a pitch. Alec Burleson then drove in a run on a groundout. One pitch later, B\u00e1ez gave the Cardinals a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e1ez, 23, was St. Louis&#039; 2021 second-round pick out of Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Before his call-up, he hit 34 home runs with 90 RBI and a .256\/.328\/.573 slash average for the Redbirds.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/article\/cardinals-prospect-joshua-baez-hits-3-run-homer-vs-cubs-on-first-major-league-pitch-he-sees-185120801.html' target='_blank'>Read the original article on sports.yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Cardinals rookie Joshua B\u00e1ez made a strong first impression in his major-league debut on Saturday. B\u00e1ez, ranked as the Cardinals&#039; No. 3 prospect by MLB.com, was called up from Triple-A Memphis on Friday night and penciled into Saturday&#039;s starting lineup versus the Chicago Cubs by manager Oliver Marmol. Batting fifth and playing left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[69,28,32],"class_list":["post-36038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodities","category-technology","tag-impact-eth","tag-signal-buy","tag-stage-stage-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}