{"id":625088,"date":"2026-04-23T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625088\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:38:15","slug":"white-sox-rookie-munetaka-murakami-ties-mlb-rookie-record-with-hr-in-5th-straight-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625088\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami ties MLB rookie record with HR in 5th straight game"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Chicago White Sox<\/a> slugger Munetaka Murakami<\/a> tied a Major League Baseball rookie record by homering in his fifth straight game, crushing a 451-foot shot to right-center field against the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> for his 10th homer of the season.<\/p>\n

He is the 13th rookie in big-league history to go deep in five straight, according to MLB.com. The Japanese first baseman also tied the team’s franchise record, a mark shared by A.J. Pierzynski<\/a> (2012), Paul Konerko<\/a> (2011), Carlos Lee (2003), Frank Thomas (twice in 1994), Ron Kittle (1983) and Greg Luzinski (1983).<\/p>\n

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Murakami’s two-run homer came off Diamondbacks reliever Ryan Thompson in the seventh, cutting Arizona’s lead to 10-7. His 10 homers are second in the big leagues behind Houston<\/a>‘s Yordan Alvarez<\/a>, who has 11.<\/p>\n

Murakami\u2019s 10 homers, eight coming on the road, are the most in MLB history by a Japanese-born player in his first 24 career games.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami tied a Major League Baseball rookie record by homering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[302831,592,64,63,302830,5256,302827,302829,302826,23303,5145,5882,591,128516,302828,47210,85,16050],"class_list":{"0":"post-625088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-a-j-pierzynski","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-carlos-lee","13":"tag-chicago-white-sox","14":"tag-fifth-straight-game","15":"tag-frank-thomas","16":"tag-greg-luzinski","17":"tag-homer","18":"tag-houston","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-munetaka-murakami","22":"tag-paul-konerko","23":"tag-ron-kittle","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625088","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=625088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}