{"id":16191,"date":"2025-07-12T17:14:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/twins-all-star-buxton-hits-for-cycle-with-hr-and-heads-to-derby\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T17:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:14:35","slug":"twins-all-star-buxton-hits-for-cycle-with-hr-and-heads-to-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/twins-all-star-buxton-hits-for-cycle-with-hr-and-heads-to-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins&#8217; All-Star Buxton Hits for Cycle with HR and Heads to Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Byron Buxton Hits for the Cycle and Makes Twins History<\/h2>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins&#8217; center fielder, Byron Buxton, had a stellar performance on Saturday by hitting for the cycle against the Pittsburgh Pirates. This historic achievement occurred at Target Field and marked a milestone for the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Buxton cycle is the first achieved in the history of Target Field since its inauguration in 2010. In addition, it is the first cycle for a Twins player since Jorge Polanco achieved it in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Buxton showed his skill early in the game, connecting three hits in the first three innings: a single in the first, a triple in the second, and a double in the third. After another single in the fifth inning, he had one more opportunity in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>With two outs in the seventh inning, Buxton, who will participate in next week&#8217;s Home Run Derby, hit a solo home run of 427 feet against Pirates reliever Andrew Heaney, thus completing the cycle and sealing the victory with a score of 11-3.<\/p>\n<p>This home run, which completed the cycle, was the 21st of the season for Buxton, tying him for fifth place in the American League.<\/p>\n<p>Buxton was replaced in center field after the seventh inning, but before leaving, he received a standing ovation and a call to the field from the Twins fans present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Buxton Hits for the Cycle and Makes Twins History The Minnesota Twins&#8217; center fielder, Byron Buxton, had a stellar performance on Saturday by hitting for the cycle against the Pittsburgh Pirates. This historic achievement occurred at Target Field and marked a milestone for the team. The Buxton cycle is the first achieved in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2292,5741,5362,316],"class_list":{"0":"post-16191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-byron-buxton","9":"tag-cycle","10":"tag-homer","11":"tag-twins"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191","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=16191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}