{"id":42318,"date":"2025-08-04T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42318\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:38:12","slug":"julio-rodriguez-makes-history-with-20-20-season-in-1st-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42318\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Rodriguez makes history with 20-20 season in 1st 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE — Julio Rodriguez<\/a> homered to become the first player in major league history with 20 or more home runs and 20 or more stolen bases in each of his first four seasons, and the Seattle Mariners<\/a> beat the Texas Rangers<\/a> 5-4<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Rodriguez hit a two-run shot<\/a> in the third inning — his 100th career homer — and the slugging and speedy center fielder also added his 21st stolen base of the season after singling in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n

“That’s a very big accomplishment,” Rodr\u00edguez told reporters, according to MLB.com. “I know my family’s very happy, and I’m sure they’re thinking of all the things I had to do to be able to get here. To be able to do it with this team and this organization is awesome. I’m just excited to see where things are going to go from here.”<\/p>\n

Jorge Polanco<\/a> added a solo shot in the second, and shortstop J.P. Crawford<\/a> smacked a two-run blast in the fourth against Rangers starter <\/a>Jacob deGrom<\/a> (10-4), who became the fastest pitcher in major league history to reach 1,800 career strikeouts by games and innings Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Rangers kept things close by pushing across three runs against Mariners starter Logan Evans<\/a> (5-4), but tallied only one run against the Mariners bullpen before closer Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz<\/a> locked down his 25th save of the season.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE — Julio Rodriguez homered to become the first player in major league history with 20 or more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-42318","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\/42318","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=42318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}