{"id":182045,"date":"2025-09-26T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182045\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:16:13","slug":"mets-francisco-lindor-joins-30-30-club-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182045\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Francisco Lindor joins 30-30 club for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 25, 2025, 09:11 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32129\/francisco-lindor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francisco Lindor<\/a> reached the 30-30 mark for the second time in his career when he homered for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets were leading 2-0 in the third when Lindor connected against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5134630\/shota-imanaga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shota Imanaga<\/a>, sending a solo drive beyond the left-field bleachers to Waveland Avenue. That gave him 30 homers to go with 31 steals. The five-time All-Star had 31 homers and 31 steals for New York in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>With Lindor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36969\/juan-soto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Soto<\/a> (43 homers, 36 steals entering the game), the Mets have two 30-30 players in a season for the second time. Howard Johnson (36 homers, 32 steals) and Darryl Strawberry (39 homers, 36 steals) did it in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>New York also has three players with at least 30 homers for the first time &#8211; Lindor, Soto and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/37498\/pete-alonso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Alonso<\/a> (37).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 25, 2025, 09:11 PM ET CHICAGO &#8212; Francisco Lindor reached the 30-30 mark for the second time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-182045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182045","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=182045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}