{"id":885930,"date":"2026-09-09T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885930\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:42:11","slug":"peterson-joins-mlb-ranks-record-seven-huskies-in-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885930\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterson Joins MLB Ranks, Record Seven Huskies in MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND &#8211; Former UConn All-American RHP Austin Peterson (2021-22) received an MLB call up by the Cleveland Guardians and made his Major League debut on September 5 against the Detroit Tigers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peterson is the third former Husky to make his MLB debut this season (Kyler Fedko &amp; Andrew Sears) and sets another program record with seven former Huskies playing in an MLB game in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Chesterton, Ind. native becomes the 23rd Husky to reach the Big Leagues and is the 12th former player under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/coaches\/jim-penders\/1229\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1229\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Penders<\/a> to reach The Show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peterson was a team captain and First Team NCBWA All-American on the Huskies 50-win, Super Regional team that was one win away from reaching the College World Series. Peterson set the UConn single season record with 147 strikeouts that season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND &#8211; Former UConn All-American RHP Austin Peterson (2021-22) received an MLB call up by the Cleveland Guardians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-885930","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\/885930","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=885930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}