{"id":155539,"date":"2025-09-20T00:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155539\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:58:06","slug":"jack-wilson-recreates-19-year-old-first-pitch-to-son-jacob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155539\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Wilson recreates 19-year-old first pitch to son, Jacob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates<\/a> shortstop Jack Wilson threw out the first pitch Friday to his son, Jacob, who plays the same position for the Athletics as they revisited a similar scene from 19 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, 4-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33742\/jacob-wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Wilson<\/a> threw out the first pitch to Jack before a Pirates game.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Wilson played 12 seasons in the major leagues, including 2001 to 2009 in Pittsburgh. His best season was in 2004 when he batted .308 with 59 RBIs and a league-leading 12 triples.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Wilson entered Friday&#8217;s game hitting .320 with 13 home runs and 59 RBIs. This season, he became the first fan-elected rookie shortstop for the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH &#8212; Former Pirates shortstop Jack Wilson threw out the first pitch Friday to his son, Jacob, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-155539","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\/155539","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=155539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}