{"id":3494,"date":"2026-08-17T20:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:59:02","slug":"500-home-runs-for-hubbard-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/08\/17\/500-home-runs-for-hubbard-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Home Runs for *Hubbard, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/player_24327.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-140\" \/>Friday, September 27th , 2052<br \/>\nMinas Tirith defeated Old Forest today 9-8 and took some of the joy out of Alrond *Hubbard, Jr.&#8217;s 500th career home run.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to get a good swing on the ball all day,&#8221; *Hubbard, Jr. said. &#8220;And I did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, it was a good game for the 29-year-old Merry Fellows designated hitter. He had 3 hits, scored 3 runs and had 4 runs batted in.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans manager said, &#8220;You could see he was aggressive up there. The worst thing we did was throw him a strike. It probably would have been better if we threw the ball outside of the strike zone every time he came to the plate because he seemed like he was in a hurry to get it over with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His lifetime stats show that *Hubbard, Jr. has hit .314 and connected for 502 home runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 27th , 2052 Minas Tirith defeated Old Forest today 9-8 and took some of the joy out of Alrond *Hubbard, Jr.&#8217;s 500th career home run. &#8220;I just wanted to get a good swing on the ball all day,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/08\/17\/500-home-runs-for-hubbard-jr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-old-forest-merry-fellows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}