{"id":396458,"date":"2026-07-13T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396458\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:00:35","slug":"mikey-bell-drafted-by-san-francisco-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396458\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Bell Drafted by San Francisco Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco Giants selected Gonzaga 3B <a href=\"https:\/\/gozags.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/mikey-bell\/5702\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5702\" target=\"_blank\">Mikey Bell<\/a> in the 19th round of the MLB Draft on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bell, the back-to-back WCC Player of the Year, was selected after two record setting seasons in which he started every single game for the Bulldogs. He was selected as an ABCA\/Rawlings All-West Team selection after both seasons at GU. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gozags.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/mikey-bell\/5702\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5702\" target=\"_blank\">Mikey Bell<\/a> ended the 2026 season with a .378 batting average while starting all 53 games this season. He hit for 24 doubles, the fifth most doubles of any Division 1 Baseball player. His 85 total hits were the 25th\u00a0most in Division 1 baseball on the year and ninth most in a single season in program history. Bell&#8217;s career batting average of .369\u00a0at Gonzaga is the eighth highest in GU history and second highest for a Zag since 2000. He scored 52 runs and drove in 47\u00a0RBIs on the season while tying program records for doubles in a single game with three and tying the record for hits in a single game three different times with five hits on three occasions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A native of Fresno, California, Bell was selected by the MLB team he has followed since childhood. The Zags have had a player selected in every full MLB draft since 1999. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco Giants selected Gonzaga 3B Mikey Bell in the 19th round of the MLB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-396458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396458","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=396458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}