{"id":297446,"date":"2026-05-17T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:54:08","slug":"former-gu-pitcher-alek-jacob-optioned-to-el-paso-by-san-diego-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297446\/","title":{"rendered":"Former GU pitcher Alek Jacob optioned to El Paso by San Diego Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two days after joining the Padres in Seattle to provide short-term bullpen coverage, right-hander Alek Jacob has been optioned back to Triple-A El Paso to make room for right-hander Lucas Giolito, who will get the start for Sunday\u2019s 4:20 p.m. first pitch on NBC\/Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Jacob appeared in one game \u2014 on Saturday, when he allowed two runs on two hits and a walk without recording an out. His previous outing was much better as he struck out three over two shutout innings in a win on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob had 4.08 ERA, 18 strikeouts and 10 walks in 17\u2154 innings so far in the Pacific Coast League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two days after joining the Padres in Seattle to provide short-term bullpen coverage, right-hander Alek Jacob has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-297446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297446","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=297446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}