{"id":985393,"date":"2026-08-06T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/985393\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:45:13","slug":"reds-elly-de-la-cruz-closing-in-on-20-homers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/985393\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds&#8217; Elly De La Cruz: Closing in on 20 homers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/26912505\/de-la-cruz\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">De La Cruz<\/a> went 1-for-5 with a solo home run in Thursday&#8217;s 6-5 win over the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz jumped on the second pitch he saw to give the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/CIN\/cincinnati-reds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reds<\/a> an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. It was the 19th of the season for De La Cruz, who&#8217;s seeking a third consecutive 20-homer campaign. He&#8217;s slashing a career-best .276\/.356\/.501 for the season along with 18 doubles, five triples, 19 homers and 53 RBI through 95 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De La Cruz went 1-for-5 with a solo home run in Thursday&#8217;s 6-5 win over the Athletics. De&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":982063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,5048,6367,2084,2961,224,5337],"class_list":["post-985393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985393","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=985393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}