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Boston native Joshua B\ufeff\u00e1\ufeffez hits three home runs in MLB debut<\/p>\n

\"ImaniST. LOUIS \u2014<\/p>\n

Boston native Joshua B\u00e1ez stunned in his MLB debut as a St. Louis Cardinal Saturday, hitting three home runs in three at-bats. <\/p>\n

B\u00e1ez, who attended the Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, was called up from the Triple-A Memphis team less than 24 hours before making his debut.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old right fielder homered his first hit, a whopping 449-foot home run, at the top of the first inning against the Chicago Cubs. <\/p>\n

B\u00e1ez hit two more home runs in the 4th and 6th innings.<\/p>\n

B\u00e1ez was named the 2019-20 Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n

He transferred to Dexter Southfield ahead of the 2019-20 school year from the Snowden International School in Boston. <\/p>\n

B\u00e1ez was drafted by the Cardinals in the second round of the 2021 MLB Draft and played 103 games for Triple-A Memphis before being called up to St. Louis.<\/p>\n

B\u00e1ez became the first player to hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in the major leagues, leading the Cardinals to an 8-4 victory over the Cubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston native Joshua B\ufeff\u00e1\ufeffez hits three home runs in MLB debut ST. LOUIS \u2014 Boston native Joshua B\u00e1ez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95930,95931,95923,5125,5,95925,95924,160,24,95926,7877,2335,29990,4,4688,3711,3644,95929,95928,235,95927,14986,2022,1319],"class_list":["post-779877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-23-year-old-right-fielder","tag-6th-innings","tag-b-oston","tag-baez","tag-baseball","tag-boston-native-joshua-baez","tag-brookline","tag-cardinals","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dexter-southfield-school","tag-first-inning","tag-home-run","tag-joshua-baez","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-debut","tag-score","tag-second-round","tag-snowden-international-school","tag-st-louis-cardinal-saturday","tag-team","tag-triple-a-memphis-team","tag-wcvb","tag-win","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117102957597216134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779877","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=779877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}