{"id":317979,"date":"2025-09-15T21:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/317979\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:09:15","slug":"cubs-moises-ballesteros-drawing-fourth-straight-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/317979\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs&#8217; Moises Ballesteros: Drawing fourth straight start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757793132_238_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/CHC\/chicago-cubs\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/316.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/28837122\/ballesteros\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballesteros<\/a> will serve as the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/CHC\/chicago-cubs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cubs<\/a>&#8216; designated hitter and cleanup batter in Monday&#8217;s game against the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Ballesteros will be awarded his fourth straight start after he went 5-for-10 with one home run, one triple, two walks, two RBI and three runs during the Cubs&#8217; series versus the Rays over the weekend. Though he&#8217;s made the most of his opportunities since being called up from Triple-A Iowa last Tuesday, Ballesteros&#8217; playing time could be squeezed once Seiya Suzuki (illness) makes his return to the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballesteros will serve as the Cubs&#8216; designated hitter and cleanup batter in Monday&#8217;s game against the Pirates. Ballesteros&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,28,4,1896],"class_list":{"0":"post-317979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-fantasy-baseball","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-moises-ballesteros"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115210365799512888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}