{"id":881353,"date":"2023-09-30T23:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/lvarez-has-6-rbis-and-megill-unveils-american-spork-as-mets-sweep-phillies-4-3-and-11-4"},"modified":"2023-10-10T23:58:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T23:58:01","slug":"lvarez-has-6-rbis-and-megill-unveils-american-spork-as-mets-sweep-phillies-4-3-and-11-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/lvarez-has-6-rbis-and-megill-unveils-american-spork-as-mets-sweep-phillies-4-3-and-11-4","title":{"rendered":"&#193;lvarez has 6 RBIs and Megill unveils American Spork as Mets sweep Phillies 4-3 and 11-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Francisco &#193;lvarez&#8217;s hit his first grand slam Saturday night, has more homers before turning 22 than any catcher since Johnny Bench and has earned praise for his defensive work with the New York Mets. &#8220;I think I can do better than that,&#8221; &#193;lvarez said after he drove in a career-high six runs to power the Mets to an 11-4 win and a doubleheader sweep of the playoff-bound Philadelphia Phillies. Mets right-hander Tylor Megill unveiled his attempt at throwing Kodai Senga&#8217;s Ghost Fork in the opener, when he threw a career-high 7 1\/3 innings in a 4-3 victory. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been calling it the American Spork,&#8221; Megill said. &#8220;Off-brand version.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Francisco &#193;lvarez&#8217;s hit his first grand slam Saturday night, has more homers before turning 22 than any catcher since Johnny Bench and has earned praise for<\/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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881353","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=881353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}