{"id":261476,"date":"2026-04-22T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:05:44","slug":"linkin-garcia-tabbed-wallace-award-semifinalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261476\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkin Garcia tabbed Wallace Award Semifinalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">OVERLAND PARK, Kan. \u2013 Texas Tech Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/linkin-garcia\/14087\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14087\" target=\"_blank\">Linkin Garcia<\/a> was named one of the 15 Semifinalists for the 2026 Brooks Wallace Award (Nation&#8217;s Best Shortstop), the Wallace Award Committee announced Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A native of Huntington Beach, Calif., Garcia has hit .367 with a team-high 62 hits. Garcia has also added four home runs and 45 RBIs. He has 14 doubles and scored 47 times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Sunday afternoon at Utah, Garcia snapped a 33-game home run less streak when he homered to lead off the fourth inning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Garcia followed up his strong Sunday performance with a 4-for-5 day against Tarleton on Tuesday night. He drove in the run-rule clinching run in the win over the Texans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The performance was his team-best 20th-multi hit game of the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OVERLAND PARK, Kan. \u2013 Texas Tech Freshman Linkin Garcia was named one of the 15 Semifinalists for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-261476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}