{"id":142274,"date":"2025-09-14T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:38:12","slug":"moises-ballesteros-hits-first-mlb-hr-to-anthony-rizzos-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142274\/","title":{"rendered":"Moises Ballesteros hits first MLB HR to Anthony Rizzo&#8217;s section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN.com<\/p>\n<p>Sep 14, 2025, 06:14 AM<a data-behavior=\"copy_link\" data-social-tool=\"copy\" href=\"#\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-chain-solid-before reactions-copy-link copy-link\" aria-label=\"Copy Link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/check.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80.png\" alt=\"Copy Link\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a data-social-tool=\"email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Moises%20Ballesteros%20hits%20first%20MLB%20HR%20to%20Anthony%20Rizzo%27s%20section&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com.au%2Fmlb%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F46246013\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-email-solid-before email social-clicks-email\" aria-label=\"Email\">Email<\/a><a data-social-tool=\"print\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/print?id=46246013\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link print icon-font-before icon-print-solid-before page-action\" aria-label=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Print<\/a>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"26cdda29-3dc0-d40e-0010-2dcf6b973b90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30782\/anthony-rizzo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Rizzo<\/a> made <a data-player-guid=\"c5741c22-a697-390e-99b7-5086e5d61482\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4987418\/moises-ballesteros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moises Ballesteros<\/a>&#8216; first major league home run extra special.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5cda5067-7075-66b1-4b94-2333ab8d9807\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> first baseman was at Wrigley Field on Saturday for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46245665\/former-cubs-1b-anthony-rizzo-celebrated-wrigley-retirement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retirement ceremony,<\/a> where he was officially named an ambassador for the team. After the ceremony, Rizzo took in the game from the left-field bleachers.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45133489\/cubs-put-ian-happ-il-call-prospect-moises-ballesteros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rookie Ballesteros<\/a> launched his first-ever MLB dinger &#8212; and Rizzo nearly caught it.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros hits his first Major League home run &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TO ANTHONY RIZZO \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C8fXQoXVuH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/C8fXQoXVuH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1966938505822490881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 13, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What an incredible moment for both players.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN.com Sep 14, 2025, 06:14 AMEmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions Anthony Rizzo made Moises Ballesteros&#8216; first major league home run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-142274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142274","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=142274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}