{"id":859666,"date":"2026-08-16T01:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859666\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T01:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:56:30","slug":"cardinals-rookie-joshua-baez-makes-mlb-history-with-three-homers-in-first-three-at-bats-st-louis-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859666\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals rookie Joshua B\u00e1ez makes MLB history with three homers in first three at-bats | St Louis Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joshua B\u00e1ez became the first player to hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in the major leagues, leading the St Louis Cardinals<\/a> to an 8-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old left fielder, called up from Triple-A Memphis earlier in the day, hit the first pitch he saw into the Wrigley Field bleachers, then homered in his next two at-bats. He also drove in five runs.<\/p>\n

Blaze Jordan and Alec Burleson added solo home runs to help the Cardinals win a day after dropping the opener of the three-game series.<\/p>\n

B\u00e1ez is the first St Louis player to homer in his first career plate appearance since Lane Thomas in June 2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Michael Conforto hit a three-run homer for the Cubs, who had won nine of 11.<\/p>\n

Michael McGreevy (5-9) allowed three runs \u2013 all unearned \u2013 on five hits and two walks while striking out six in the first six innings to win for the first time since 8 July.<\/p>\n

B\u00e1ez tagged Matthew Boyd (8-2) for all three homers. He drove his first, a two-run shot, deep into the left-center field bleachers in the first inning.<\/p>\n

Conforto\u2019s home run tied the game at 3-all in the second, but B\u00e1ez led off the fourth and sent a full-count pitch down the left-field line, then went down the opposite side in the sixth for another two-run homer.<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s home run was the end of day for Boyd, who allowed seven runs on five hits and three walks in 5 1\/3 innings. He struck out two.<\/p>\n

Burleson homered off Colin Rea in the eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua B\u00e1ez became the first player to hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-859666","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\/859666","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=859666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}