{"id":18343,"date":"2025-07-25T05:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/spencer-jones-yankees-prospect-hit-3-hr-in-triple-a-impressive\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:12:22","slug":"spencer-jones-yankees-prospect-hit-3-hr-in-triple-a-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/spencer-jones-yankees-prospect-hit-3-hr-in-triple-a-impressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Jones: Yankees Prospect Hit 3 HR in Triple-A \u00a1Impressive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. &#8212; New York Yankees prospect Spencer Jones showed off his power by hitting three home runs in his first three at-bats during Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s 10-8 loss to Rochester on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, whose name has echoed in rumors of possible trades, is 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 240 pounds. With these home runs, the left-handed batter established himself as the home run leader in the minor leagues, totaling 29.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old player, former Vanderbilt star, has accumulated 13 home runs in 19 games in the Triple-A category. The Yankees selected him in the 25th position in the 2022 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Jones achieved his first three-home-run game, all connected against pitcher Bryce Conley, and in two-strike situations. In the first at-bat, Jones sent a changeup from Conley 401 feet towards left-center field. In the third inning, he started with a 425-foot hit to right field, and in the fifth, he added another 433-foot hit to center field.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his outstanding offensive performance, Jones made a sliding catch to end the fifth inning. In his two remaining at-bats, he struck out and then was out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. &#8212; New York Yankees prospect Spencer Jones showed off his power by hitting three home runs in his first three at-bats during Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s 10-8 loss to Rochester on Thursday. Jones, whose name has echoed in rumors of possible trades, is 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 240 pounds. With these home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[87,4930,574,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-18343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-home-run","9":"tag-spencer-jones","10":"tag-triple-a","11":"tag-yankees"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343","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=18343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}