{"id":111588,"date":"2025-09-01T20:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111588\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:42:17","slug":"an-instant-hit-reds-prospect-sal-stewart-singles-in-his-first-mlb-at-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111588\/","title":{"rendered":"An instant hit: Reds prospect Sal Stewart singles in his first MLB at-bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sal Stewart didn&#8217;t waste any time making himself comfortable in the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, the highest-rated prospect for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Reds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>, singled in his first at-bat at the MLB level, and then came around to score from first base when the next batter, Ke&#8217;Bryan Hayes, doubled to center field.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Reds player move Sal Stewart <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/sal-stewart-cincinnati-reds-where-165539248.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sal Stewart is up with the Cincinnati Reds. Where will be play in the field?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sal Stewart is up with the Cincinnati Reds. Where will be play in the field?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cincinnati Reds officially called up Stewart on Sept. 1 to make his Reds debut after roaring through the club&#8217;s farm system all summer.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Sal Stewart, shown in spring training, singled in his first major league at-bat and scored a run on Ke'Bryan Hayes double in the second inning Sept. 1.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d96c5651d43270b4d83ff99e101caff1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sal Stewart, shown in spring training, singled in his first major league at-bat and scored a run on Ke&#8217;Bryan Hayes double in the second inning Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart hit .315 in 38 games at Triple-A Louisville. He had 15 doubles and 10 homers there and a 1.023 OPS \u2212 and that includes what Stewart described to The Enquirer as a disappointing first week with the Louisville Bats after making the jump from Double-A Chattanooga. In Chattanooga, Stewart hit .306 over 80 games and posted an .850 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Reds hitters\u2019 debuts of note in recent years:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Matt McLain, May 25, 2023 \u2014 1-for-4, BB (1B in 1st AB)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Elly De La Cruz, June 6, 2023 \u2014 1-for-3, 2B, 2 BB (BB, 2B 1st 2 PAs)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Christian Encarnacion-Strand, July 16, 2023 \u2014 0-for-3<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Noelvi Marte, Aug. 19, 2023 \u2014 Appeared as PR; did not bat (1-for-4, 2B in 1st GS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rece Hinds, July 8, 2024 \u2014 2-for-3, HR, 2B (groundout 1st AB)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2025\/09\/01\/an-instant-hit-reds-prospect-sal-stewart-singles-in-his-first-mlb-at-bat-toronto-blue-jays\/85929590007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:An instant hit: Reds prospect Sal Stewart singles in his first MLB at-bat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">An instant hit: Reds prospect Sal Stewart singles in his first MLB at-bat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sal Stewart didn&#8217;t waste any time making himself comfortable in the big leagues. Stewart, the highest-rated prospect for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,79720,5257,58084,35992,7636,591,15145,79721,79719,79718,85,51303],"class_list":{"0":"post-111588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-christian-encarnacion-strand","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","13":"tag-louisville-bats","14":"tag-matt-mclain","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-noelvi-marte","17":"tag-rece-hinds","18":"tag-sal-stewart","19":"tag-sal-stewart-sal-stewart","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-stewart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}