{"id":651485,"date":"2026-03-30T00:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651485\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:19:19","slug":"uva-baseball-alum-ethan-anderson-keys-baysox-in-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651485\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA Baseball alum Ethan Anderson keys Baysox in exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ethan-anderson-uva-baseball.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"ethan anderson uva baseball\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ethan-anderson-uva-baseball.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Ethan Anderson. Photo: UVA Athletics<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/baseball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UVA Baseball<\/a> alum Ethan Anderson had a two-run double and a solo homer in an extended spring training exhibition game on Sunday between the Chesapeake Baysox and the Delmarva Shorebirds, two minor-league affiliates of the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>The game ended in a 9-9 tie as the teams prepare for the start of their 2026 regular-season schedules.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, a second-round pick in the 2024 MLB Draft, laced a two-run double in the top of the first inning off the Orioles\u2019 third-ranked pitching prospect, Esteban Mejia, to give the Baysox an early 2-0 edge.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson later belted a solo home run in the third inning, and came up just short of a multi-home run performance with a deep flyout to center field in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>He finished the afternoon 2-for-4 with a walk at the plate, while also catching all nine frames of the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson slashed .248\/.338\/.339 with four homers in the minors in 2025, then shined in the Arizona Fall League, hitting .300 with an .840 OPS in 83 plate appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Anderson. Photo: UVA Athletics UVA Baseball alum Ethan Anderson had a two-run double and a solo homer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,83386,4,125,14309],"class_list":["post-651485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-go-hoos","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-uva-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116315263301094749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651485","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=651485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}