{"id":17480,"date":"2025-07-20T19:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/guerrero-jr-ignites-toronto-420-foot-homer-and-winning-streak\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:06:18","slug":"guerrero-jr-ignites-toronto-420-foot-homer-and-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/guerrero-jr-ignites-toronto-420-foot-homer-and-winning-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerrero Jr. ignites Toronto: 420-foot homer and winning streak"},"content":{"rendered":"Toronto, Canada \u2013 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. demonstrated his power at the crucial moment, propelling the Toronto Blue Jays to a key victory over the San Francisco Giants with a score of 8-6. The outstanding Dominican player hit an impressive 420-foot home run in the first inning, marking the beginning of an exciting day.\n\nThis home run, Guerrero&#8217;s first since the end of June, not only ignited the game but also marked his third extra-base hit in the last 14 games. The Blue Jays&#8217; offense, which had been showing a collective performance, found in &#8220;Vladdy&#8221; the individual boost needed to shine at the Rogers Centre.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1682039678907459584\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We are winning and we are playing good baseball, and for me that&#8217;s the most important thing,&#8221; Guerrero expressed.<\/p><cite>Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBo Bichette also had a standout performance, connecting on a double that drove in two runs in the third inning. George Springer contributed with his 17th home run of the season. Mexican Alejandro Kirk and Addison Barger added more runs with a single and a two-run home run, respectively, during an explosive fifth inning.\n\nWhen the Giants attempted a comeback with four runs, Guerrero responded again. His second hit of the game, a strategic ground ball, drove in Springer and re-established the lead that the Blue Jays held until the end.\n\nWith this victory, Toronto secured its tenth consecutive home win and added its 29th comeback win of the year, solidifying its position at the top of the American League.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, Canada \u2013 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. demonstrated his power at the crucial moment, propelling the Toronto Blue Jays to a key victory over the San Francisco Giants with a score of 8-6. The outstanding Dominican player hit an impressive 420-foot home run in the first inning, marking the beginning of an exciting day. This home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,3905,2723,2663],"class_list":{"0":"post-17480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jonron","10":"tag-tiles","11":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480","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=17480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}