{"id":164191,"date":"2021-09-07T06:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=164191"},"modified":"2021-09-07T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T16:07:59","slug":"vladimir-guerrero-hit-his-40th-homerun-and-joins-rare-father-son-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/07\/vladimir-guerrero-hit-his-40th-homerun-and-joins-rare-father-son-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Guerrero hit his 40th homerun and joins rare father-son club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Vladimir-Guerrero-Youtube.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Vladimir-Guerrero-Youtube.png 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Vladimir-Guerrero-Youtube-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Major League Baseball celebrated the 40th homerun by Dominican young baseball star Vadimir Guerrero Jr. 22-year old Guerrero batted the homerun in the Toronto Blue Jay\u2019s 8-0 smashing win over the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. This season, Vlad Jr. is third in the Majors in home runs behind Salvador Perez (41) and Shohei Ohtani (43).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, 5 September, Vlad Jr became the youngest Blue Jays hitter to reach 40 homers and one of just 10 father-son duos to hit 40 home runs in MLB history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vlad Sr. had hit 42 home runs when he was 24 with the Montreal Expos and reached the 40-homer plateau once more the next season, totaling 449 in his Hall of Fame career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/vladimir-guerrero-jr-hits-40th-home-run\">MLB<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/blue-jays-vladimir-guerrero-jr-crushes-40th-home-run-marcus-semien-gets-closer-to-history-with-two-hr-game\/\">CBS Sports <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ECkJRfPf-aU\">YouTube <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 September 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball celebrated the 40th homerun by Dominican young baseball star Vadimir Guerrero Jr. 22-year old Guerrero batted the homerun in the Toronto Blue Jay\u2019s 8-0 smashing win over the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. This season, Vlad Jr. is third in the Majors in home runs behind Salvador Perez (41) and Shohei &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/07\/vladimir-guerrero-hit-his-40th-homerun-and-joins-rare-father-son-club\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164302,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164191\/revisions\/164302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}