{"id":48442,"date":"1998-09-01T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-09-01T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/sammy-sosa-hits-his-55th-home-run\/"},"modified":"1998-09-01T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-09-01T01:43:56","slug":"sammy-sosa-hits-his-55th-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/09\/01\/sammy-sosa-hits-his-55th-home-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Sosa hits his 55th home run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican slugger, Sammy Sosa took a curtain call after hitting his 55th home run in the third inning of the Cubs&#8217; 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Sosa&#8217;s 55th tied him with Mark McGwire who is expected to break Roger Maris&#8217; all-time record of 61 before the remaining 24 games of the season are over. Sosa is now only one home run away from Hack Wilson&#8217;s National League and Cubs mark of 56 home runs. Sosa has averaged 14 homers a month since June 1, when he trailed McGwire by 14. For more information on Monday&#8217;s game, see http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/section\/0,1296,215-0,00.html <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican slugger, Sammy Sosa took a curtain call after hitting his 55th home run in the third inning of the Cubs&#8217; 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Sosa&#8217;s 55th tied him with Mark McGwire who is expected to break Roger Maris&#8217; all-time record of 61 before the remaining &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/09\/01\/sammy-sosa-hits-his-55th-home-run\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48442"}],"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=48442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}