{"id":478082,"date":"2025-08-11T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/jose-altuve-reaches-250-home-runs-in-his-career-with-a-home-run-at-yankee-stadium\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:58:08","slug":"jose-altuve-reaches-250-home-runs-in-his-career-with-a-home-run-at-yankee-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/jose-altuve-reaches-250-home-runs-in-his-career-with-a-home-run-at-yankee-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Altuve reaches 250 home runs in his career with a home run at Yankee Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>NEW YORK \u2014<\/strong> Venezuelan second baseman Jos\u00e9 Altuve hit the 250th home run of his career in the Major Leagues, joining a select group of only 11 players who have reached that figure while playing at least half of their games at second base.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/yadier-molina-regresa-al-dugout-de-los-cardenales-como-coach-invitado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">:Yadier Molina returns to the Cardinals dugout as a guest coach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe hit came in the first inning against the left-hander Max Fried, silencing the boos of Yankee Stadium with a solid hit to left field. The home run opened the scoring and paved the way for the Houston Astros&#8217; 7-1 victory over the Yankees, successfully closing a nine-game road trip.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Jose Altuve hits career home run No. 250! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RWOCuNCFxE\">pic.twitter.com\/RWOCuNCFxE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1954599208910266676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAltuve, 35 years old, joins legends like Rogers Hornsby, Joe Morgan, Joe Gordon, and Ryne Sandberg on the historical list. In addition, the veteran maintains a particular dominance against New York, with 19 home runs against the Yankees in his career, including memorable postseason performances.\n\n&#8220;Starting with a swing like that is a tremendous boost for everyone,&#8221; said rookie Cam Smith. For his part, manager Joe Espada praised Altuve&#8217;s ability to respond in key moments: &#8220;It&#8217;s incredible what he does and how often he does it, and in the most important moments.&#8221;\n\nWith the victory, Houston improves its record to 66-52 and remains the leader of the American League West Division.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Venezuelan second baseman Jos\u00e9 Altuve hit the 250th home run of his career in the Major Leagues, joining a select group of only 11 players who have reached that figure while playing at least half of their games at second base. You may be interested in:Yadier Molina returns to the Cardinals dugout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":478084,"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":[611,40231,41884,41119],"class_list":["post-478082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-football","tag-theperiodicodelaverdad"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20n0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Jose-Altuve-Foto-Leslie-Plaza-Johnson-Icon-Sportswire.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\/08\/Jose-Altuve-Foto-Leslie-Plaza-Johnson-Icon-Sportswire.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478082","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=478082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}