{"id":56605,"date":"2025-08-04T01:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/56605\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T01:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:18:06","slug":"julio-rodriguez-makes-history-with-20-20-season-in-1st-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/56605\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Rodriguez makes history with 20-20 season in 1st 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41044\/julio-rodriguez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julio Rodriguez<\/a> homered to become the first player in major league history with 20 or more home runs and 20 or more stolen bases in each of his first four seasons, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401696590\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5-4<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45861327\/mlb-2025-power-rankings-week-18-post-trade-deadline-standings\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754270286_406_mlb_power18_new_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mariners\/status\/1952115125877678198\" rel=\"nofollow\">two-run shot<\/a> in the third inning &#8212; his 100th career homer &#8212; and the slugging and speedy center fielder also added his 21st stolen base of the season after singling in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32525\/jorge-polanco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Polanco<\/a> added a solo shot in the second, and shortstop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33210\/jp-crawford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.P. Crawford<\/a> smacked a two-run blast in the fourth against <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rangers-jacob-degrom-2d14132b94862cad902acbb4763c9d3f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers starter <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32796\/jacob-degrom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob deGrom<\/a> (10-4), who became the fastest pitcher in major league history to reach 1,800 career strikeouts by games and innings Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers kept things close by pushing across three runs against Mariners starter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5202474\/logan-evans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Evans<\/a> (5-4), but tallied only one run against the Mariners bullpen before closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40939\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz<\/a> locked down his 25th save of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE &#8212; Julio Rodriguez homered to become the first player in major league history with 20 or more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-56605","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\/56605","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=56605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}