{"id":6250,"date":"2012-07-24T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2012-07-24T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T20:03:08","slug":"video-cubs-albert-almora-homers-in-first-professional-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/6250","title":{"rendered":"Video: Cubs&#8217; Albert Almora Homers in First Professional Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the Chicago Cubs&#8217; top draft pick, OF Albert Almora, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?sid=milb&amp;t=g_box&amp;gid=2012_07_23_cubrok_brrrok_1\" target=\"_blank\">made his professional debut<\/a> for the Rookie-level AZL Cubs. Playing alongside recent import Jorge Soler, who launched his first professional home run on Sunday, the center fielder jumped the yard in the fifth inning and finished the game 1-for-3.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the video, it wasn&#8217;t a cheap bomb:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"490\" height=\"276\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X1XAc1JVWhg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X1XAc1JVWhg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the Chicago Cubs&#8217; top draft pick, OF Albert Almora, made his professional debut for the Rookie-level AZL Cubs. Playing alongside recent import Jorge Soler, who launched his first professional home run on Sunday, the center fielder jumped the yard in the fifth inning and finished the game 1-for-3. As you can see in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,9,11,13,2368,10,14,775],"tags":[2529,3314,3313,3317,3315,3316,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}