{"id":898726,"date":"2026-09-17T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898726\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:05:07","slug":"padres-rookie-ethan-salas-becomes-youngest-catcher-in-mlb-history-with-multi-homer-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898726\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres rookie Ethan Salas becomes youngest catcher in MLB history with multi-homer game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/san-diego-padres\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"san-diego-padres\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Diego Padres<\/a> rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/ethan-salas\/e7f097eb-5a14-428c-b6fb-3c94fe7f1d2c\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"e7f097eb-5a14-428c-b6fb-3c94fe7f1d2c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ethan Salas<\/a> became the youngest catcher in major league history with a multi-homer game, going deep twice against the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Salas\u00a0hit a solo shot\u00a0in the second inning off Mason Adams, becoming the youngest catcher to homer in the majors since Hall of Famer Iv\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez in 1991. He followed with\u00a0a two-run homer\u00a0off Nick Frasso to break Butch Wynegar&#8217;s record for the youngest catcher with a multi-homer game.<\/p>\n<p>Salas did it at 20 years, 107 days. Wynegar was 20 years, 192 days when he did it in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Salas, rated the Padres&#8217; top prospect, opened his big league career hitless in 15 at-bats before he tripled against San Francisco on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 San Diego Padres rookie Ethan Salas became the youngest catcher in major league history with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-898726","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\/898726","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=898726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}