{"id":117356,"date":"2026-04-26T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/julio-rodriguez-key-home-run-drives-mariners-to-victory-in-slugfest\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:56:14","slug":"julio-rodriguez-key-home-run-drives-mariners-to-victory-in-slugfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/julio-rodriguez-key-home-run-drives-mariners-to-victory-in-slugfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Rodr\u00edguez: Key home run drives Mariners to victory in slugfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Julio Rodr\u00edguez and the Mariners outscore the Cardinals in a slugfest<\/h2>\n<p>Santo Domingo \u2013 Dominican Julio Rodriguez shined with the bat by hitting a home run in the Seattle Mariners&#8217; 11-9 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, in a game full of long hits.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez joined Will Wilson and Cole Young on Seattle&#8217;s home run list. Venezuelan Leo Rivas was key in hitting a two-run single in the ninth inning, securing the victory against reliever Riley O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>The game remained contested until the end, with the Mariners tying the score at 9 runs in the eighth inning thanks to a timely hit by Connor Joe, before taking the lead in the final inning.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Brash earned the win for Seattle, pitching a scoreless eighth inning, while Mexican Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz secured the victory by earning his fifth save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals also displayed their offensive power with several home runs, including two by Nathan Church and back-to-back homers by JJ Wetherholt and Iv\u00e1n Herrera early in the game, but they failed to hold the lead.<\/p>\n<p>The match was characterized by its high offensive pace, with constant changes in the score and an exciting finish that favored Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julio Rodr\u00edguez and the Mariners outscore the Cardinals in a slugfest Santo Domingo \u2013 Dominican Julio Rodriguez shined with the bat by hitting a home run in the Seattle Mariners&#8217; 11-9 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, in a game full of long hits. Rodr\u00edguez joined Will Wilson and Cole Young on Seattle&#8217;s home run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[293,3905,2222,2223],"class_list":{"0":"post-117356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-cardinals","9":"tag-jonron","10":"tag-julio-rodriguez","11":"tag-sailors"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}