{"id":479521,"date":"2025-08-21T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/tatis-jr-steals-home-run-from-rafael-devers-and-padres-are-one-game-behind-first-place\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:21:20","slug":"tatis-jr-steals-home-run-from-rafael-devers-and-padres-are-one-game-behind-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/tatis-jr-steals-home-run-from-rafael-devers-and-padres-are-one-game-behind-first-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatis Jr. steals home run from Rafael Devers and Padres are one game behind first place"},"content":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2013 Petco Park once again witnessed the defensive magic of <strong>Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/strong>. On Wednesday night, the Dominican robbed a home run in the first inning and led the <strong>San Diego Padres<\/strong> to a resounding <strong>8-1<\/strong> victory over the <strong>San Francisco Giants<\/strong>, a result that brings the friars to just <strong>one game of first place<\/strong> in the <strong>National League West Division<\/strong>, currently held by the Dodgers.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/charlie-morton-y-un-primer-inning-explosivo-sellan-la-barrida-de-los-tigres-sobre-los-astros\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Morton and an explosive first inning seal the Tigers&#8217; sweep over the Astros<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nIn the first episode, <strong>Rafael Devers<\/strong> hit a deep shot to right field that seemed destined to go out of the park. But Tatis, with a perfect jump, soared above the fence and caught the ball, unleashing the euphoria of the more than 40,000 fans present.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was hunting it from the beginning,\u201d Tatis Jr. confessed after the game. \u201cI knew that if I was close to the wall I had a chance. Just happy to make that catch for my starter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThis was the <strong>third time in the last 18 games at Petco Park<\/strong> that Tatis robbed a home run from a rival, solidifying himself as one of the best defensive outfielders in Major League Baseball. At just 26 years old, the <strong>Platinum Glove winner<\/strong> continues to demonstrate that his impact goes beyond offense.\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=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FERNANDO TATIS JR. AT THE WALL!<br><br>ARE YOU KIDDING! \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mW45mMYax2\">pic.twitter.com\/mW45mMYax2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1958345561033031979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe Padres&#8217; perfect night also included solid work from the starting pitching and timely offensive support, with a lineup that mercilessly punished the Giants&#8217; pitching staff.\n\nWith this triumph, <strong>San Diego<\/strong> improves its record and gets fully into the fight for the divisional lead. The series against San Francisco continues this Thursday, with the aim of reaching and surpassing the Dodgers.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2013 Petco Park once again witnessed the defensive magic of Fernando Tatis Jr.. On Wednesday night, the Dominican robbed a home run in the first inning and led the San Diego Padres to a resounding 8-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants, a result that brings the friars to just one game of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":479523,"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":[611,40231,33831,39774,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-479521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20Kd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/bmz9jq5u6riy3m0ivmnc.jpeg","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\/bmz9jq5u6riy3m0ivmnc.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479521","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=479521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}