{"id":201221,"date":"2026-03-22T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201221\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:58:08","slug":"mets-mark-vientos-belts-homer-to-snap-out-of-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201221\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Mark Vientos belts homer to snap out of slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from Mets spring training Saturday:<\/p>\n<p>Veintos lives<\/p>\n<p>Mark Vientos, who began the day 1-for-31 in the Grapefruit League, homered as part of the 3-1 split-squad victory over the Nationals in West Palm Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46704871;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38857966\" width=\"866\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mark-Vientos.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Vientos, hitting earlier in spring training, belts a homer in the Mets' 7-5 spring training loss to the Astros on March 21, 2026 in Port St. Lucie.\" class=\"wp-image-38857966\"  \/>Mark Vientos, hitting earlier in spring training, belts a homer in the Mets\u2019 7-5 spring training loss to the Astros on March 21, 2026 in Port St. Lucie. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Wide right<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Polanco committed a throwing error in the eighth inning of the 7-5 exhibition loss to the Astros in Port St. Lucie. <\/p>\n<p>Polanco threw behind the pitcher covering first base.<\/p>\n<p>Caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Semien had a 3-for-3 performance against the Astros and raised his OPS this spring to .700.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>David Peterson will get the start for the Grapefruit League finale in Jupiter, Fla., against the Marlins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Mets spring training Saturday: Veintos lives Mark Vientos, who began the day 1-for-31 in the Grapefruit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[81670,72567,75004,70676,3817,12193,171,173,172,110],"class_list":["post-201221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-david-peterson","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-marcus-semien","tag-mark-vientos","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}