{"id":26873,"date":"2023-04-15T05:16:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T05:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/leadoff-hr-helps-george-springer-equal-a-hall-of-famer\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T05:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T05:16:30","slug":"leadoff-hr-helps-george-springer-equal-a-hall-of-famer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/leadoff-hr-helps-george-springer-equal-a-hall-of-famer\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadoff HR helps George Springer equal a Hall of Famer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/toronto_blue_jays\/29\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> veteran outfielder George Springer smashed the 53rd leadoff home run of his career on Friday and, in the process, equaled a Hall of Famer.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Facing off against the red-hot Tampa Bay Rays, Springer went yard in the bottom of the first, tying Houston Astros great Craig Biggio for the third-most leadoff homers in MLB history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/leadoff_hr_helps_george_springer_equal_a_hall_of_famer\/s1_13132_38699447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Blue Jays veteran outfielder George Springer smashed the 53rd leadoff home run of his career on Friday and, in the process, equaled a Hall of Famer.\u00a0 Facing off against the red-hot Tampa Bay Rays, Springer went yard in the bottom of the first, tying Houston Astros great Craig Biggio for the third-most leadoff homers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26874,"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-26873","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\/26873","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=26873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}