{"id":245843,"date":"2026-05-30T01:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/braves-ronald-acuna-jr-hits-incredible-38th-career-leadoff-home-run\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T01:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:07:43","slug":"braves-ronald-acuna-jr-hits-incredible-38th-career-leadoff-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/braves-ronald-acuna-jr-hits-incredible-38th-career-leadoff-home-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Ronald Acuna Jr. hits incredible 38th career leadoff home run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Friday evening, Ronald Acuna Jr. crushed his 38th career leadoff home run against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/cincinnati_reds\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>, illustrating how he&#8217;s heating up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/atlanta_braves\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Braves<\/a>. On the season, he has racked up 10 stolen bases with 16 RBI and 38 hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The home run was hit off a curveball from Reds starter Chris Paddock. His 38 leadoff homers and counting is the story for the 28-year-old right fielder. He hits like anaconda providing a powerful impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The home run was also a clear indication that their five-time All-Star has returned with a bang for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/on_deck_braves_red_sox_dodgers_bullpen_anthony_volpe_position_switch_corbin_carrolls_triples\/s1_13132_43881262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braves<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His 38 career leadoff home runs also insinuate that pitchers haven&#8217;t been able to take down the three-time Silver Slugger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/braves_ronald_acuna_jr_hits_incredible_38th_career_leadoff_home_run\/s1_13132_43897673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday evening, Ronald Acuna Jr. crushed his 38th career leadoff home run against the Cincinnati Reds, illustrating how he&#8217;s heating up for the Atlanta Braves. On the season, he has racked up 10 stolen bases with 16 RBI and 38 hits.\u00a0 The home run was hit off a curveball from Reds starter Chris Paddock. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}