{"id":433210,"date":"2023-04-14T01:07:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433210"},"modified":"2023-04-13T23:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:50:05","slug":"walkers-12-game-hitting-streak-comes-to-an-end-in-5-0-pirates-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/walkers-12-game-hitting-streak-comes-to-an-end-in-5-0-pirates-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker\u2019s 12-game hitting streak comes to an end in 5-0 Pirates loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis rookie Jordan Walker ended his hitting streak at 12 games when he went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in the Cardinals\u2019 5-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old tied Eddie Murphy&#8217;s record for longest hitting streak at the start of a career by a player 20 or younger. Murphy hit in 12 straight games with the Philadelphia Athletics from Aug. 26, 1912, to Sept. 5, 1912. The longest streak at the start of a career, regardless of age, is 17 by Chuck Aleno of the 1941 Cincinnati Reds and David Dahl of the 2016 Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Santana doubled twice, and Connor Joe and Rodolfo Castro hit consecutive homers in the eighth against G\u00e9nesis Cabrera. The Pirates have multiple homers in five games this season, going 5-0. Velasquez (1-2) allowed three hits in six innings, struck out three and walked two.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sGKLm3N4q8Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis rookie Jordan Walker ended his hitting streak at 12 games when he went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":433211,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18787,18518],"news_category":[16708,14084],"gn_keywords":[18788,18520],"acf":{"announce":"He tied the record of Eddie Murphy from 1912","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433210"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433210"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}