{"id":7782,"date":"2025-05-23T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T00:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/acuna-jr-returns-with-a-467-foot-home-run-an-explosive-start-in-atlanta\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T00:19:52","slug":"acuna-jr-returns-with-a-467-foot-home-run-an-explosive-start-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/acuna-jr-returns-with-a-467-foot-home-run-an-explosive-start-in-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Acu\u00f1a Jr. returns with a 467-foot home run: An explosive start in Atlanta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, USA \u2013 Baseball fans witnessed a historic moment when Venezuelan outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. returned to MLB with a stunning home run.<\/p>\n\n<p>After almost a year of absence due to an injury, Acu\u00f1a Jr. showed that his power is still intact, hitting a 467-foot home run in his first at-bat.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Triumphant Return at Truist Park<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Truist Park was the scene of the Braves player&#8217;s long-awaited return. Facing pitcher Nick Pivetta of the San Diego Padres, Acu\u00f1a Jr. hit a tremendous home run to center field.<\/p>\n\n<p>The hit, driven by a 93.1 mph fastball, shot off the bat at 115.5 mph.<\/p>\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\/1805212345678901234\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>The fans celebrated enthusiastically when the native of La Sabana, La Guaira state (Venezuela), ran the bases.<\/p>\n\n<p>This home run not only opened the scoring for Atlanta (1-0), but also represented Acu\u00f1a Jr.&#8217;s 35th home run to start a game in his career.<\/p>\n\n<p>Acu\u00f1a Jr.&#8217;s return comes after overcoming an anterior cruciate ligament rupture suffered in 2024, which kept him off the fields for 363 days.<\/p>\n\n<p>The confirmation of his re-entry to the roster was announced via the social network X, where the Braves reported his activation in place of infielder Orlando Arcia.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, USA \u2013 Baseball fans witnessed a historic moment when Venezuelan outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. returned to MLB with a stunning home run. After almost a year of absence due to an injury, Acu\u00f1a Jr. showed that his power is still intact, hitting a 467-foot home run in his first at-bat. A Triumphant Return at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[747,87,344,1768],"class_list":{"0":"post-7782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-braves","9":"tag-home-run","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-ronald-acuna-jr"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","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=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}