{"id":523772,"date":"2026-09-17T09:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=523772"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:54:34","slug":"video-umpire-narrowly-avoids-111-1-mph-line-drive-off-junior-camineros-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/video-umpire-narrowly-avoids-111-1-mph-line-drive-off-junior-camineros-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Umpire narrowly avoids 111.1 mph line drive off Junior Caminero&#8217;s bat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tampa Bay Rays infielder Junior Caminero nearly sent a line drive straight into an umpire during a game, with the ball reportedly traveling at 111.1 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hard-hit ball came directly toward the umpire, who reacted quickly and managed to avoid being struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dramatic moment was captured on video, showing just how little time the umpire had to get out of the ball&#8217;s path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A line drive at that speed can reach the area behind the batter in a fraction of a second, making the umpire&#8217;s quick reaction critical in avoiding a potentially serious injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Junior Caminero casi manda a un umpire al hospital con una l\u00ednea a 111.1mph \ud83d\udc80 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CZ5co8S6m2\">pic.twitter.com\/CZ5co8S6m2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Njord (@VikingoArtico) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VikingoArtico\/status\/2100360273118851313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Rays infielder Junior Caminero nearly sent a line drive straight into an umpire during a game, with the ball reportedly traveling at 111.1 mph. The hard-hit ball came directly toward the umpire, who reacted quickly and managed to avoid being struck. The dramatic moment was captured on video, showing just how little time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":523775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[35481,6],"tags":[611,13766,40230],"class_list":["post-523772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","category-sports","tag-deultimominuto","tag-mlb","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2cfW","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-09-17-095228.png","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Baseball","Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-09-17-095228.png"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523772","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}