{"id":236643,"date":"2022-04-24T22:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/jeremy-pena-hits-walk-off-homer-in-10th-to-lift-astros-past-jays"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:24:51","slug":"jeremy-pena-hits-walk-off-homer-in-10th-to-lift-astros-past-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/jeremy-pena-hits-walk-off-homer-in-10th-to-lift-astros-past-jays","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Pena hits walk-off homer in 10th to lift Astros past Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie shortstop Jeremy Pena crushed a two-run, walk-off home run to straightaway center field in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Houston Astros averted a series sweep with an 8-7 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday. Pena drilled a 96.6 mph fastball from Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano (0-1), who had converted 31 consecutive saves and led the majors with eight this season. Pena drove home Kyle Tucker, the automatic runner, with his third home run this season to counter the run-scoring double Lourdes Gurriel Jr. stroked in the top of the 10th that gave the Blue Jays a 7-6 lead. Gurriel drove home Bo Bichette, the automatic runner, with one out in the 10th inning. He produced a pair of extra-base hits and two RBIs. Houston received production from the bottom third of their batting order. Aledmys Diaz (walk) and Pena (error) reached and scored in the Astros&#8217; two-run second inning and Diaz produced an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie shortstop Jeremy Pena crushed a two-run, walk-off home run to straightaway center field in the bottom of the 10th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}