{"id":713192,"date":"2026-05-31T00:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/713192\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:42:14","slug":"finally-fernando-tatis-jr-crushes-a-451-foot-drive-for-his-first-home-run-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/713192\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally! Fernando Tatis Jr. crushes a 451-foot drive for his first home run of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XESV6ORZ45DEHC2BT34OMLYCFY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Fernando Tatis Jr. finally connected for his first home run of the season \u2014 and boy was it a blast.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JKXSMRUVTRFMJLGHS4RJC5ZS3Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Tatis slugged a 451-foot solo shot to left field in the fifth inning against Washington on Saturday, although the San Diego Padres went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nationals-padres-score-b2652804157601c592f9f5d2d64b0af5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lose 9-4<\/a> to the Nationals. Tatis, who has five 20-homer seasons in his career and hit 42 in 2021, had not gone deep in 240 plate appearances before this game \u2014 the longest drought in the major leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Fernando Tatis Jr. finally connected for his first home run of the season \u2014 and boy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[43179,5,89358,4,76331,256,39931,76332,76333,6179,3537,415,185,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-713192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-2026-mlb-schedule","tag-baseball","tag-bbo-tatis-homers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-2026-news","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-highlights","tag-mlb-latest-news","tag-mlb-schedule-2026","tag-mlb-scores","tag-mlb-news","tag-nationals","tag-sports","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116666416716228840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713192","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=713192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}