{"id":859,"date":"2010-08-31T00:51:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T05:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=859"},"modified":"2010-08-31T00:51:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T05:51:26","slug":"mike-moustakas-belts-3-hr-drives-in-11-in-route-of-round-rock-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/859","title":{"rendered":"Mike Moustakas belts 3 HR, drives in 11 in route of Round Rock Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/moustakas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-860\" title=\"moustakas\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/moustakas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>On Monday night, <strong>Mike Moustakas<\/strong> established a new precedent for what we call a \u201ccareer night.\u201d\u00a0 After being named the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.minorleaguebaseball.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20100830&amp;content_id=14110436&amp;vkey=news_milb&amp;fext=.jsp\">Texas League Player of the Year<\/a> earlier in the day, Moustakas lead the Royals\u2019 AAA affiliate <strong>Omaha Royals<\/strong> to a 23-5 route of the Round Rock Express that featured 25 hits, 11 of which went for extra bases.\u00a0 Since being selected 2<sup>nd<\/sup> overall in the 2007 draft, Moustakas has mashed his way through the Royals minor league system, and Monday\u2019s performance only further solidified his place at the hot corner in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is his line from the game:<\/p>\n<p>4-6, 4 R, 2B, 3 HR, 11 RBI<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, Mike Moustakas drove in 11 runs in a 9-inning game, something that is essentially impossible to do even in the most flawed video games.\u00a0 Of his 3 home runs, he belted 2 of them in the bottom of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, an inning in which his team pushed across 11 runs and quickly turned a 3-2 Omaha lead into a 14-2 route.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Monday night\u2019s game, Moustakas was named the Texas League Player of the Year after hitting .347 with 25 2B, 21 HR, 76 RBI- 1.100 OPS- in 259 at-bats for the <strong>Northwest Arkansas Naturals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since his promotion to AAA Omaha, Moustakas is hitting .297 with 13 HR and 43 RBI- .826 OPS- in just 195 at-bats.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, Mike Moustakas established a new precedent for what we call a \u201ccareer night.\u201d\u00a0 After being named the Texas League Player of the Year earlier in the day, Moustakas lead the Royals\u2019 AAA affiliate Omaha Royals to a 23-5 route of the Round Rock Express that featured 25 hits, 11 of which went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,9,11,10,14],"tags":[734,735,302,731,533,732,733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}