{"id":995,"date":"2024-10-22T01:31:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T01:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=995"},"modified":"2024-10-22T01:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T01:31:47","slug":"number-3500-for-baggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/22\/number-3500-for-baggins\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 3500 for *Baggins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/player_17870.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-85\" \/>Sunday, August 8th , 2049<br \/>\nIt was a great day for Forerunner *Baggins of the Ravenhill Darkwings &#8212; but not a perfect day. He became the latest player to reach the 3500-hit mark, but his team lost the game. The 40-year-old first baseman got his hit in Ravenhill&#8217;s 11-6 loss to Numenor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a very special game for me, but not a good one for the team,&#8221; said *Baggins after the game. Commenting on his achievement to reporters, he told them, &#8220;3500 hits are a lot. It puts you in a very select group. You have to hit well over a lot of seasons to do this. It&#8217;s a good feeling to have your name in the record books with the other guys who have reached this level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He finished the day with 2 hits in 4 at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>*Baggins has a lifetime .333 batting average and .465 on-base percentage in his 2959-game career with 3501 hits and 923 home runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, August 8th , 2049 It was a great day for Forerunner *Baggins of the Ravenhill Darkwings &#8212; but not a perfect day. He became the latest player to reach the 3500-hit mark, but his team lost the game. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/22\/number-3500-for-baggins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-news","category-ravenhill-darkwings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}