{"id":8805,"date":"2025-06-02T11:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/elly-de-la-cruz-50-hr-and-100-sb-before-turning-24-baseball-legend\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:38:19","slug":"elly-de-la-cruz-50-hr-and-100-sb-before-turning-24-baseball-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/elly-de-la-cruz-50-hr-and-100-sb-before-turning-24-baseball-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Elly De La Cruz: 50 HR and 100 SB before turning 24, baseball legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States &#8211; At 23 years old, Elly De La Cruz continues to build his legacy in baseball. This Sunday, the talented Dominican player added a new milestone to his career by hitting his 50th home run in the Major Leagues.<\/p>\n\n<p>With this home run, De La Cruz joins a select group of baseball players who have managed to reach the mark of 50 or more home runs and 100 or more stolen bases before turning 24 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Place in History<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Elly De La Cruz, known as &#8220;La Cocoa&#8221;, enters an elite club that includes figures of the stature of:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elly De La Cruz<\/li><li>Mike Trout<\/li><li>\u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez<\/li><li>C\u00e9sar Cede\u00f1o<\/li><li>Vada Pinson<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>This achievement not only highlights Elly&#8217;s offensive ability, but also his speed and his impact on the game since his debut in the Majors. His combination of power and agility on the bases positions him as one of the most complete and exciting figures in current baseball.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cCocoa is already in history\u201d<\/p><cite>Erick Jos\u00e9 Lantigua<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States &#8211; At 23 years old, Elly De La Cruz continues to build his legacy in baseball. This Sunday, the talented Dominican player added a new milestone to his career by hitting his 50th home run in the Major Leagues. With this home run, De La Cruz joins a select group of baseball players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,92,1117,2003],"class_list":{"0":"post-8805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","10":"tag-home-runs","11":"tag-stolen-bases"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805","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=8805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}