{"id":5434,"date":"2012-07-09T07:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2012-07-08T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T05:04:48","slug":"2012-home-run-derby-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/07\/2012-home-run-derby-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Home Run Derby day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5435\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4185robinson-cano-home-run.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5435\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4185robinson-cano-home-run-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"new york yankees robinson cano home run\" title=\"robinson cano home run swing\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4185robinson-cano-home-run-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4185robinson-cano-home-run-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4185robinson-cano-home-run.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees shows his home run swing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I have ever watched a MLB Home Run Derby. Most years I haven&#8217;t had ESPN or I&#8217;ve been traveling overseas during the All-Star Break. Tonight I may watch my first.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s champion was Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees. He hit one during my first visit to <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/06\/yankee-stadium-panorama\/>Yankee Stadium last month<\/a>. It was a historic day as the Yankees and Braves combined to tie the record for the most home runs hit at Yankee Stadium in a single game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4041robinson-cano-home-run.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4041robinson-cano-home-run-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"robinson cano of the yankees rounds the bases\" title=\"robinson cano home run trot home plate\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4041robinson-cano-home-run-800x553.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4041robinson-cano-home-run-250x172.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4041robinson-cano-home-run.jpg 1561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5437\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4046robinson-cano-home-run.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5437\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4046robinson-cano-home-run-800x726.jpg\" alt=\"joe girardi high fives robinson cano\" title=\"robinson cano high fives alex rodriguez joe giradi\" width=\"800\" height=\"726\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4046robinson-cano-home-run-800x726.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4046robinson-cano-home-run-250x227.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_4046robinson-cano-home-run.jpg 1189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Robinson Cano be smiling again at the end of tonight&#039;s contest?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I have ever watched a MLB Home Run Derby. Most years I haven&#8217;t had ESPN or I&#8217;ve been traveling overseas during the All-Star Break. Tonight I may watch my first. Last year&#8217;s champion was Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees. He hit one during my first visit to Yankee Stadium last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,11],"tags":[164,176,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5438,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}