{"id":18518,"date":"2025-07-25T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/severino-shines-with-8-k-and-leads-athletics-guerrero-jr-and-latinos-excel\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:45:37","slug":"severino-shines-with-8-k-and-leads-athletics-guerrero-jr-and-latinos-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/severino-shines-with-8-k-and-leads-athletics-guerrero-jr-and-latinos-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Severino Shines with 8 K and Leads Athletics; Guerrero Jr. and Latinos Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Severino Shines on the Mound: Oakland Overcomes Houston<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican pitcher Luis Severino delivered a masterful performance this Thursday, leading the Oakland Athletics to a 5-2 victory over the Houston Astros. Severino struck out eight batters in seven solid innings, demonstrating his dominance on the mound.<\/p>\n\n\nMexican Luis Ur\u00edas backed Severino&#8217;s performance with a home run and two hits, contributing significantly to Oakland&#8217;s victory. Severino (4-11) allowed only four hits and two earned runs, breaking a four-game losing streak for his team. Mason Miller closed the game, securing his 20th save of the season.\n\nUrias hit his eighth home run of the season in the sixth inning, while Nick Kurts drove in runs with a double in the fourth inning. Max Schuemann also contributed with a run batted in.\n\nBy the Stars, Christian Walker drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, and Victor Caratini scored thanks to a groundout by Cam Smith in the seventh inning. Jason Alexander (1-1) was the losing pitcher, allowing five runs and 11 hits in six innings.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guerrero Jr. Powers the Blue Jays<\/h2>\n\n\nIn Detroit, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had an outstanding performance with three hits, including two RBI doubles, leading the Toronto Blue Jays to a resounding 11-4 victory over the Tigers. Ernie Clement and Joey Loperfido hit back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning, solidifying Toronto&#8217;s win, which marked their 19th victory in the last 24 games.\n\nEric Lauer (6-2) dominated from the mound, allowing only one run in eight solid innings.\n\n<h2>San Luis with Latino Power Beats San Diego<\/h2>\n\nThe St. Louis Cardinals achieved a 9-7 victory over the San Diego Padres, thanks to two three-run home runs hit by Brendan Donovan and Willson Contreras. Venezuelan catcher Contreras finished with four RBIs, while Iv\u00e1n Herrera also shone with a home run and two RBIs.\n\nDespite home runs by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado, Yu Darvish (0-3) took the loss.\n\n<h2>Rodriguez and Polanco Lead Seattle<\/h2>\n\nIn another exciting encounter, Dominicans Julio Rodr\u00edguez and Jorge Polanco, along with Cuban Randy Arozarena, hit home runs in the Seattle Mariners&#8217; 4-2 victory over the Angels. Logan Evans (4-3) earned the win after five quality innings, and Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz closed the game with his 23rd save.\n\nRodr\u00edguez made history by becoming the first player in MLB with at least 15 home runs and 20 stolen bases in each of his first four seasons.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outstanding Performances by Latino Players<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Luis Severino: 7.0 IP, 8 K, 4 H, 2 ER (win).<\/li>\n<li>Luis Ur\u00edas (MEX): 4-2, HR, R, RBI.<\/li>\n<li>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (RD): 5-3, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI.<\/li>\n<li>Julio Rodr\u00edguez (RD): 5-2, HR, R, RBI, SB.<\/li>\n<li>Jorge Polanco (RD): 3-1, HR, R, RBI.<\/li>\n<li>Randy Arozarena (CUB): 4-1, HR, 2 RBI, R.<\/li>\n<li>Willson Contreras (VEN): 3 H, HR, 4 RBI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severino Shines on the Mound: Oakland Overcomes Houston Dominican pitcher Luis Severino delivered a masterful performance this Thursday, leading the Oakland Athletics to a 5-2 victory over the Houston Astros. Severino struck out eight batters in seven solid innings, demonstrating his dominance on the mound. Mexican Luis Ur\u00edas backed Severino&#8217;s performance with a home run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,3905,3085,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-18518","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-luis-severino","11":"tag-mlb"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518","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=18518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}