{"id":660421,"date":"2026-05-10T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660421\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:30:22","slug":"diamondbacks-ryan-waldschmidt-makes-first-mlb-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660421\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks&#8217; Ryan Waldschmidt: Makes first MLB start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ARI\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" 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\/330.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/29644453\/waldschmidt\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waldschmidt<\/a> started in center field and went 0-for-3 and struck out three times in Saturday&#8217;s 2-1 win over the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Waldschmidt, who was called up from Triple-A Reno on Friday, made his first start in the majors. He was called up after the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ARI\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diamondbacks<\/a> designated Alek Thomas for assignment and is expected to receive plenty of opportunities to adapt to MLB pitching.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waldschmidt started in center field and went 0-for-3 and struck out three times in Saturday&#8217;s 2-1 win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[485,49,48,11142,462,244211,82],"class_list":["post-660421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-ryan-waldschmidt","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660421","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=660421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}