{"id":648278,"date":"2026-03-28T07:53:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648278\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:53:47","slug":"welcome-to-the-show-cards-wetherholt-goes-deep-for-first-career-hit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648278\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Show! Cards\u2019 Wetherholt goes deep for first career hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Matrix Midwest) &#8211; Highly-touted second baseman JJ Wetherholt has gone deep in his big league debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Wetherholt, who is hitting lead off on Opening Day, went deep in his second at-bat, homering in the third inning off Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Drew Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JJ WETHERHOLT&#8217;S FIRST MAJOR LEAGUE HIT IS A HOME RUN!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardinals\/status\/2037274433589510459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Wetherholt was selected by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2024 draft and is considered one of the Redbirds\u2019 best young talents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Matrix Midwest. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Matrix Midwest) &#8211; Highly-touted second baseman JJ Wetherholt has gone deep in his big league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,82631,1480,3930,2335,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-648278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-drew-wetherholt","tag-first","tag-hit","tag-home-run","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116305730413102021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648278","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=648278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}