{"id":153414,"date":"2025-09-13T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153414\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:49:11","slug":"rays-christopher-morel-clubs-three-run-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153414\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays&#8217; Christopher Morel: Clubs three-run homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-rays\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/329.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2829081\/morel\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morel<\/a> went 1-for-4 with a three-run home run in Friday&#8217;s 6-4 loss against the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Morel gave Tampa Bay an early 3-0 lead with his first-inning homer, but the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-rays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rays<\/a> bats were mostly quiet the rest of the afternoon. The 26-year-old sees most of his starts against left-handed pitching, and he&#8217;s excelled in that platoon role since the beginning of August with a .288\/.323\/.525 slash line, though he also has a 46.8 percent strikeout rate during that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morel went 1-for-4 with a three-run home run in Friday&#8217;s 6-4 loss against the Cubs. Morel gave Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[94160,21850,399,398,396,397,99,974],"class_list":["post-153414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-christopher-morel","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}