{"id":8551,"date":"2025-07-19T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8551\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:20:11","slug":"braves-star-ronald-acuna-jr-stuns-yankees-with-incredible-throw-in-atlantas-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8551\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves star Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. stuns Yankees with incredible throw in Atlanta&#8217;s win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. caught the New York Yankees off-guard with a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1946361563343892511\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:spectacular throw;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">spectacular throw<\/a> to end the third inning in the Atlanta Braves&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yankees-braves-final-score-c570383f71cdba20e084b8ce6451226a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:series-opening 7-3 victory;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">series-opening 7-3 victory<\/a> Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Star right fielder threw out Jorbit Vivas at third base when Vivas was trying to tag up on a deep fly to the corner in right.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis accuracy is stupid,\u201d Braves manager Brian Snitker said. \u201cHe&#8217;s a weapon in right field. His arm is so strong and accurate, and the ball carries, release is good. He&#8217;s special out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acu\u00f1a caught the ball just in front of the warning track with his back to the infield. He spun and fired a throw that reached third base in the air just in time Nacho Alvarez to tag a slowing Vivas, who ignored third-base coach Luis Rojas&#8217; signal to slide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just always try to anticipate those plays,\u201d Acu\u00f1a said through an interpreter. \u201cThat&#8217;s really what I always try to focus on, anticipating the play before it happens. I really wasn&#8217;t trying to do anything besides that. Thankfully, I have a good arm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez was casual as the throw approached in an attempt to fool Vivas, who would likely have been safe if he had run hard all the way and slid.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Vivas) got deked,\u201d Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cThat just can&#8217;t happen. I did that all my career at third base. Just kind of play dumb, play dead. And that&#8217;s what (Vivas) read. The body language of Alvarez there, just deked him. He knew it was a deep fly ball, so it caught up to him. &#8230; It&#8217;s a lesson that that can&#8217;t happen on a baseball field, especially in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill Trocchi, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. caught the New York Yankees off-guard with a spectacular throw to end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3960,8830,49,48,8290,8831,3980,8292,82],"class_list":["post-8551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-brian-snitker","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jorbit-vivas","tag-nacho-alvarez","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551","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=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}