{"id":339876,"date":"2026-05-31T05:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:11:14","slug":"san-diego-star-outfielder-finally-snaps-homerless-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339876\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Star Outfielder Finally Snaps Homerless Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Tatis Jr. spent the beginning of the 2026 season swinging an ice-cold bat. To put it kindly, he looked terrible. Through April, Tatis batted .250 and struggled to pull the ball in the air. He looked like a shell of his former self. Without his bat, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/san-diego-padres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Diego Padres;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Diego Padres&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Diego Padres<\/a>\u2018 offense was struggling and Tatis was dropped in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the month of May, he started to heat up. Tatis has batted .290\/.371\/.333 in 25 games this month, a marked improvement from the previous two months. He\u2019s been even better in his last seven games, batting .520\/.586\/.680 with three walks. It\u2019s been an incredible turnaround to an otherwise tough start.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But his lack of home runs have come from being unable to pull balls in the air. Tatis has pulled a career-low 26.4 percent of balls and hit a career-worst 45.9 percent of balls in the air. His contact hasn\u2019t exactly been conducive to driving balls out of the yard, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the elusive first homer couldn\u2019t be found \u2026 until Saturday. Against <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Nationals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Washington Nationals&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Washington Nationals<\/a>\u2018 starter Foster Griffin, Tatis launched the third homer of the day a Statcast-projected 451 feet. It was a four-seam fastball middle-in: a pitch that the slugger has mashed in the past. The hope now for the Padres is that the homers will come in bunches, though that remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Tatis Jr. spent the beginning of the 2026 season swinging an ice-cold bat. To put it kindly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[108436,74,76,75,2611,19316],"class_list":["post-339876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-fernando-tatis","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}