{"id":102637,"date":"2024-03-10T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/?p=102637"},"modified":"2024-03-10T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:50:31","slug":"dominican-born-red-sox-infielder-crushes-homecoming-home-run-hong-nhung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/dominican-born-red-sox-infielder-crushes-homecoming-home-run-hong-nhung\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican-Born Red Sox Infielder Crushes Homecoming Home Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox returned to the Dominican Republic for two exhibition games with the Tampa Bay Rays beginning on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/enmanuel-valdez_d25cfc.jpg\" alt=\"Dominican-Born Red Sox Infielder Crushes Homecoming Home Run\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two games offer a break from spring training as the start of the MLB World Tour in 2024. Boston took the field with\u00a0several Dominican-born players, with one of them creating a moment to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Enmanuel Valdez stepped to the plate and blasted a\u00a0solo home run\u00a0around the foul pole in right field to\u00a0extend the lead\u00a0for the Red Sox in the sixth inning to sixth inning of an\u00a0eventual 4-0 win\u00a0for Boston.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"cy\" dir=\"ltr\">Y tiene swing<br \/>Y baila swing<br \/>Y goza swing<br \/>\u00a1Qu\u00e9 lindo SWING, SWING, SWING! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wBiNMnUHoY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wBiNMnUHoY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Red Sox (@RedSox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedSox\/status\/1766613534253666750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Enmanuel Valdez&#39;s HR in Spanish! \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RedSox<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M8Xu5i56jL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/M8Xu5i56jL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NESN (@NESN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NESN\/status\/1766625483704193047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The infielder is a native of San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic, and he showed what he could do on Saturday night. Valdez got\u00a0occasional time at second base\u00a0last year, hitting .266 with six home runs in 49 games. Red Sox manager Alex Cora has been complimentary of Valdez and Wilyer Abreu, who both came over in a 2022 trade with the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old could very well be in the lineup on Opening Day in place of Vaughn Grissom, who has missed time this spring with a groin injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox returned to the Dominican Republic for two exhibition games with the Tampa Bay Rays beginning on Saturday. The two games offer a break&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":102653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}