{"id":469975,"date":"2025-06-02T11:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/elly-de-la-cruz-joins-legends-with-50-hr-and-100-stolen-bases-before-turning-24\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:35:33","slug":"elly-de-la-cruz-joins-legends-with-50-hr-and-100-stolen-bases-before-turning-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/elly-de-la-cruz-joins-legends-with-50-hr-and-100-stolen-bases-before-turning-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Elly De La Cruz joins legends with 50 HR and 100 stolen bases before turning 24"},"content":{"rendered":"United States.- At just 23 years old, <strong>Elly De La Cruz<\/strong> continues to write his name among the greats of baseball. This Sunday, the electrifying Dominican player hit the <strong>50th home run<\/strong> of his career in Major League Baseball, and with it joined an elite group of players who have achieved <strong>50 or more home runs and 100 or more stolen bases before turning 24 years old<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/lindor-soto-y-alonso-conectan-jonrones-juntos-por-primera-vez-y-los-mets-barren-a-los-rockies\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lindor, Soto and Alonso hit home runs together for the first time and the Mets sweep the Rockies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nDe La Cruz, nicknamed \u201c<strong>La Cocoa<\/strong>\u201d, is now part of a select club that includes:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf4 <strong>Elly De La Cruz<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <strong>Mike Trout<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf4 <strong>\u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf4 <strong>C\u00e9sar Cede\u00f1o<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <strong>Vada Pinson<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This achievement not only highlights Elly&#8217;s offensive power, but also his explosive speed and his immediate impact on the game since his arrival in the Majors. His combination of <strong>power and dynamism on the bases<\/strong> makes him one of the most complete and exciting figures in current baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCocoa is already in history,\u201d wrote journalist Erick Jos\u00e9 Lantigua on social media, highlighting the generational impact of the young Dominican.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States.- At just 23 years old, Elly De La Cruz continues to write his name among the greats of baseball. This Sunday, the electrifying Dominican player hit the 50th home run of his career in Major League Baseball, and with it joined an elite group of players who have achieved 50 or more home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":469976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[40231,21106,40813,13766],"class_list":["post-469975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-dominican-republic","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Ygf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/udekjmz4k3hejg0i1wih.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/udekjmz4k3hejg0i1wih.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}