{"id":9320,"date":"2025-06-05T19:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/royals-jac-caglianone-connects-1st-hit-and-dedicates-it-to-his-father\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:20:41","slug":"royals-jac-caglianone-connects-1st-hit-and-dedicates-it-to-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/royals-jac-caglianone-connects-1st-hit-and-dedicates-it-to-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Jac Caglianone Connects 1st Hit and Dedicates it to His Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals rookie outfielder Jac Caglianone had a memorable day on Thursday, marking several significant milestones in his career.<\/p>\n\nCaglianone hit a run-scoring double against pitcher Miles Mikolas, sending the ball to the right field corner. This hit drove in Salvador Perez and represented the young prospect&#8217;s first hit and first RBI of his career.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cHe&#8217;s a highly decorated pitcher, a veteran and all that, so I knew his command was really good. So, he started with two fastballs up, got to 0-2 and, fortunately, I saw the curveball come up,\u201d Caglianone commented.<\/p><cite>Jac Caglianone<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe player revealed that he thought of his father when he hit the hit. The ball, a special souvenir, will go directly to his father, who was present in the stands to witness the moment.\n\nIn addition to his outstanding offensive performance, Caglianone proved his worth in right field, making an excellent catch to prevent an extra-base hit by Alec Burleson in the Royals&#8217; 6-5 loss.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cHe tracked that ball really well,\u201d Royals manager Matt Quatraro said.<\/p><cite>Matt Quatraro<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nCaglianone, who was the sixth overall pick in the 2024 draft, had a Major League debut where he failed to get a hit in five at-bats on Monday. However, he came close to getting hits in three of those at-bats.\n\nThe 22-year-old, before his promotion, batted .319 with nine home runs and 43 RBIs in 38 games with Triple-A Omaha, after playing the first 12 games of the season with Double-A Northwest Arkansas.\n\n<p>Manager Quatraro expressed his confidence in the impact that Caglianone will have on the team.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0605%2Fr1502970_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Caption: Royals rookie right fielder Jac Caglianone celebrates with teammates after his first Major League hit, a run-scoring double, during Thursday&#8217;s game against the Cardinals.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals rookie outfielder Jac Caglianone had a memorable day on Thursday, marking several significant milestones in his career. Caglianone hit a run-scoring double against pitcher Miles Mikolas, sending the ball to the right field corner. This hit drove in Salvador Perez and represented the young prospect&#8217;s first hit and first RBI of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[680,2533,2885,321],"class_list":{"0":"post-9320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-debut","9":"tag-jac-caglianone","10":"tag-rbi","11":"tag-royals"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320","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=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}