{"id":572388,"date":"2026-03-31T07:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572388\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:03:38","slug":"nationals-joey-wiemer-ties-mlb-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572388\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals&#8217; Joey Wiemer: Ties MLB record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774793888_590_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/WAS\/washington-nationals\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/322.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/26757772\/wiemer\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wiemer<\/a> went 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored and tied an MLB record for most consecutive plate appearances reaching base to start a season in Monday&#8217;s 13-2 win over the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>With two singles to start Monday&#8217;s game, Wiemer officially matched the mark of 10 consecutive plate appearances reaching base to start a season set by Carlos Delgado in 2002. The streak stopped at 10 after he grounded out in the fifth inning. Regardless, the first three games of Wiemer&#8217;s <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/WAS\/washington-nationals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nationals<\/a> tenure couldn&#8217;t have started much better as he&#8217;s slashing .800\/.846\/1.600 with two home runs and eight RBI.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wiemer went 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored and tied an MLB record for most consecutive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,11142,134032,462,82,3968],"class_list":["post-572388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-joey-wiemer","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572388","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=572388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}