{"id":674376,"date":"2026-04-12T22:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:10:47","slug":"laviolette-hits-home-run-as-captains-beat-dragons-to-split-series-news-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674376\/","title":{"rendered":"LaViolette hits home run as Captains beat Dragons to split series \u2013 News-Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardians 2025 first-round pick Jace LaViolette hit his first professional home run, and the Captains beat host Dayton, 7-4, on April 12.<\/p>\n<p>LaViolette\u2019s homer was a three-run blast in the first inning, and also marked his first three career RBI. He also scored two runs.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett Thompson hit a solo home run, Aaron Walton had an RBI double and Jason Chourio hit a sacrifice fly for the Captains. Chourio also scored a run on a throwing error.<\/p>\n<p>Lake County had eight hits, one each for eight batters.<\/p>\n<p>Starter Franklin G\u00f3mez pitched four innings and gave up one run. He struck out four and walked one. He has a 1.13 ERA in two appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Captains (4-5) and Dragons split the six-game series. Lake County returns to Eastlake next week to face the TinCaps, beginning on April 14.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First career homer for Jace LaViolette. Swung 3-0 and didn&#8217;t miss<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wcwx530uH5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wcwx530uH5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin L. (jlbaseball on bluesky) (@JL_Baseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JL_Baseball\/status\/2043377144856781159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guardians 2025 first-round pick Jace LaViolette hit his first professional home run, and the Captains beat host Dayton,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,13180,135,51,2565,538,4,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-674376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-captains","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-guardians","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116394029388693267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674376","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=674376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}