{"id":73506,"date":"2016-04-29T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=73506"},"modified":"2016-04-29T11:36:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:36:03","slug":"david-ortiz-shows-his-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/04\/29\/david-ortiz-shows-his-class\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ortiz shows his class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In his retirement year, Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz passed two Hall of Fame Red Sox on the extra-base hits list in the game at Turner Field when Boston beat Atlanta 9-4 on Wednesday 27 April 2016.  <\/p>\n<p> In the game, 40-year-old Ortiz had three doubles and drove in two runs, giving him 1,119 extra-base hits to tie Hall of Famer George Brett for 16th career. On the second double, he passed Boston greats Ted Williams and Jimmie Foxx.<\/p>\n<p> In the fourth, Ortiz hit his second RBI double and scored on Travis Shaw&#8217;s stand-up triple.<\/p>\n<p> David Ortiz has a record of more than 83% hits for his appearances as a designated hitter. Ortiz is also known for being the only player with 3,000 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsworld.nbcsports.com\/david-ortiz-hall-fame-complicated\/\">It&#8217;s complicated<\/a><\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/boston-red-sox\/2016\/04\/27\/pedroia-hits-slam-solo-hr-red-sox-beat-braves-9-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his retirement year, Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz passed two Hall of Fame Red Sox on the extra-base hits list in the game at Turner Field when Boston beat Atlanta 9-4 on Wednesday 27 April 2016. In the game, 40-year-old Ortiz had three doubles and drove in two runs, giving him 1,119 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/04\/29\/david-ortiz-shows-his-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506"}],"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=73506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}