{"id":11307,"date":"2018-08-13T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11307"},"modified":"2018-08-13T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:12:30","slug":"ronald-acuna-becomes-youngest-player-to-home-in-four-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/08\/13\/ronald-acuna-becomes-youngest-player-to-home-in-four-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Acuna becomes youngest player to homer in four straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11308\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/acuna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/acuna.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/acuna-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11308\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/acuna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/acuna.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/acuna-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nRonald Acuna led off both games of a double leader against the Marlins with a home run. In doing so the former No. 1 prospect became the youngest player to hit a home run in four straight games.<\/p>\n<p>The mark bests that of another guy you may have heard of in Miguel Cabrera who did it in 2004.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. is the youngest player to homer in 4 straight games in the Live-Ball Era (since 1920).<\/p>\n<p>The only other 20-year-old to do it in that span was Miguel Cabrera in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliasSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EliasSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AZf4pctcK6\">pic.twitter.com\/AZf4pctcK6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN Stats &amp; Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNStatsInfo\/status\/1029161350306701313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Acuna led off both games of a double leader against the Marlins with a home run. In doing so the former No. 1 prospect became the youngest player to hit a home run in four straight games. The mark bests that of another guy you may have heard of in Miguel Cabrera who did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,503,501,1027],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-ronald-acuna"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11310,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions\/11310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}