{"id":229781,"date":"2021-07-12T22:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T03:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=229781"},"modified":"2021-07-12T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T03:53:26","slug":"alonso-repeat-home-run-derby-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=229781","title":{"rendered":"Alonso Repeat Home Run Derby Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-229782\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Alozo-Petet-HRD-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Alozo-Petet-HRD-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Alozo-Petet-HRD-431x287.jpeg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Alozo-Petet-HRD-862x574.jpeg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Alozo-Petet-HRD-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Alozo-Petet-HRD-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Alozo-Petet-HRD-263x175.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Alozo-Petet-HRD.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Pete Alonso danced to his second straight Home Run Derby title, besting Shohei Ohtani, Trey Mancini and Juan Soto on a night of record long balls in the thin Rocky Mountain air of Coors Field.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Mets first baseman hit 74 total home runs and beat Mancini 23-22 in the final round, joining Ken Griffey Jr. (1998-99) and Yoenis C\u00e9spedes (2013-14) in winning consecutive titles.<\/p>\n<p>Batting second, Alonso trailed 22-17 after the first two minutes of the final round, then hit six homers on six swings over the first 28 seconds of his final minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Pete Alonso danced to his second straight Home Run Derby title, besting Shohei Ohtani, Trey Mancini and Juan Soto on a night of record long balls in the thin Rocky Mountain air of Coors Field. The New York Mets first baseman hit 74 total home runs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229783,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229781\/revisions\/229783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}