{"id":26925,"date":"2010-08-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/600-for-alex-rodriguez\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T01:43:56","slug":"600-for-alex-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/08\/05\/600-for-alex-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"600 for Alex Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dominicans are celebrating Alex Rodriguez&#8217;s latest achievement. The Dominican-American baseball superstar has joined Sammy Sosa in the exclusive 600-homerun club. He is only the seventh player in Major League Baseball history to have achieved this feat. The milestone run was batted against Toronto Blue Jay&#8217;s Shaun Marcum, in the first inning of the game at the Yankee Stadium. Rodriguez has recovered from a homerun slump after 12 consecutive games without a homer since he hit No. 599 on 22 July. At 35 years, he is the youngest player to reach the 600 home runs. <\/p>\n<p> Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr. and Sammy Sosa are the other members of the 600 homerun club.<\/p>\n<p> www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/yankees\/galleries\/alex_rodriguez_&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominicans are celebrating Alex Rodriguez&#8217;s latest achievement. The Dominican-American baseball superstar has joined Sammy Sosa in the exclusive 600-homerun club. He is only the seventh player in Major League Baseball history to have achieved this feat. The milestone run was batted against Toronto Blue Jay&#8217;s Shaun Marcum, in the first inning of the game at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/08\/05\/600-for-alex-rodriguez\/\" 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":[229,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925"}],"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=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}