{"id":112742,"date":"2025-09-01T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112742\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:28:06","slug":"trevor-story-gets-strange-homer-after-ball-hits-glove-pesky-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112742\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Story gets strange homer after ball hits glove, Pesky Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6df06f6-785d-3900-4935-5fd13742e2ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston<\/a>&#8216;s <a data-player-guid=\"7b86c936-8027-3486-082c-f189e53b3e16\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32150\/trevor-story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Story<\/a> had a strange Fenway Park homer in the sixth inning against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ad8fa03-36bc-baab-c76a-345b6544424d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland<\/a> on Monday when the ball went off an outfielder&#8217;s glove and then the Pesky Pole.<\/p>\n<p>Facing right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"f1c8a848-17bb-ba4a-81e5-43072c424958\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36056\/jakob-junis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakob Junis<\/a>, Story hit a 306-foot fly down the right-field line, where Jhonkensy Noel tried for a leaping catch. The ball ticked off Noel&#8217;s glove and then the pole as Story stopped at second and umpires gathered to discuss the play.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Umpires ruled the ball foul, then conducted a video review. Crew chief Jordan Baker then announced the call had been overturned, giving Story his 23rd homer for a 6-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox held on for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/game\/_\/gameId\/401696966\/guardians-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-4 victory<\/a> &#8212; their ninth in 12 games to improve to an AL-best 35-18 since the beginning of July.<\/p>\n<p>Boston (77-62) pulled within a percentage point of the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b9cedf3-ce60-0bcf-fafe-8cd055255685\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> (76-61) for the American League&#8217;s top wild-card spot, with both teams just 2 1\/2 games behind the first-place <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> in the AL East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON &#8212; Boston&#8216;s Trevor Story had a strange Fenway Park homer in the sixth inning against Cleveland on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-112742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}