{"id":48864,"date":"2025-08-06T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48864\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:30:11","slug":"lourdes-gurriel-jr-makes-history-crushes-103-9-m-p-h-pitch-for-two-run-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48864\/","title":{"rendered":"Lourdes Gurriel Jr. makes history, crushes 103.9 m.p.h. pitch for two-run homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gurriel\u00a0crushed a 103.9 m.p.h. fastball from Miller\u00a0into the left-field seats for a two-run homer in the eighth inning, tying the game at 5-all. It was the hardest hit pitch for a homer since MLB started pitch tracking in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of a two-homer night for Gurriel. The veteran also hit a two-run shot in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-throwing Miller was acquired from the Athletics at last week&#8217;s trade deadline. He routinely throws over 100 m.p.h. and hit 104.2 m.p.h. with his hardest pitch on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gurriel\u00a0crushed a 103.9 m.p.h. fastball from Miller\u00a0into the left-field seats for a two-run homer in the eighth inning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-48864","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\/48864","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=48864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}