{"id":588487,"date":"2026-02-14T03:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/588487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:10:11","slug":"baylors-tyce-armstrong-becomes-2nd-college-baseball-player-with-3-grand-slams-in-the-same-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/588487\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor&#8217;s Tyce Armstrong becomes 2nd college baseball player with 3 grand slams in the same game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WACO, Texas (AP) \u2014 Tyce Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BaylorBaseball\/status\/2022472215761948765?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hit three grand slams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">hit three grand slams<\/a> in his Baylor debut Friday night in the Bears&#8217; 15-2 season-opening victory over New Mexico State, just the second college baseball player to ever accomplish that feat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m speechless,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cIt\u2019s the coolest thing I\u2019ve ever been a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He joins Louisville&#8217;s Jim LaFountain as the only players with that distinction. LaFountain hit two of his three grand slams in the same inning on March 24, 1976, in the second game of a doubleheader against Western Kentucky. He also hit a two-run home run in the 26-4 victory that was called in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>No Major League Baseball player has ever hit three grand slams in one game. Thirteen players have had two in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong, a senior first baseman, transferred from Texas-Arlington, where he had 17 homers and 87 RBIs over three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Against New Mexico State, he went 3 or 4 with 12 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong hit all three homers to left field \u2014 a 401-foot shot in the third inning, a 407-foot blast in the fourth and a 386-foot homer in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP college sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas (AP) \u2014 Tyce Armstrong hit three grand slams in his Baylor debut Friday night in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":588488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[46019,102712,26106,81504,254616,254617,1266,141855,62,254615,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-588487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-armstrong","tag-baseball-player","tag-baylor","tag-grand-slams","tag-jim-lafountain","tag-lafountain","tag-mlb","tag-new-mexico-state","tag-sports","tag-tyce-armstrong","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116066793836415588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}