{"id":54729,"date":"2023-04-27T20:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54729"},"modified":"2023-04-27T20:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:44:53","slug":"mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54729","title":{"rendered":"He deserved the ovation!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Drew Maggi is the new fan favorite in Pittsburgh, where he made his major-league debut this week.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the big deal? Maggi spent 12 years &#8212; count &#8217;em, 12 years! &#8212; toiling in the minor leagues. He played in 1,115 minor league games before he got the call to go to the Bigs.<\/p>\n<p>He went to the plate Wednesday night to pinch hit for Andrew McCutchen.<\/p>\n<p>When he stepped into the batter&#8217;s box, the Pittsburgh Pirates crowd gave him a <em>standing ovation<\/em>. The Pirates were ahead 8-1, and eventually won the game. Maggi&#8217;s first plate appearance didn&#8217;t end heroically.<\/p>\n<p>He fouled a pitch off, got called on a game-delay penalty and then struck out swinging.<\/p>\n<p>Was he dismayed at his initial big-league appearance? Not at all.<\/p>\n<p>Maggi said after the game: &#8220;It&#8217;s the best strikeout I ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well said, young man. I can&#8217;t wait to see the reaction when he hits one out of the park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Maggi is the new fan favorite in Pittsburgh, where he made his major-league debut this week. What&#8217;s the big deal? Maggi spent 12 years &#8212; count &#8217;em, 12 years! &#8212; toiling in the minor leagues. He played in 1,115 minor league games before he got the call to go to the Bigs. He went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He deserved the ovation!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[552,10167,3105],"class_list":["post-54729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-baseball","tag-big-leagues","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54731,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54729\/revisions\/54731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}