{"id":1463,"date":"2019-08-26T09:19:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2019-08-28T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:29:33","slug":"former-ssc-baseball-player-makes-major-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/former-ssc-baseball-player-makes-major-league-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SSC Baseball Player Makes Major League Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Seminole State College Trojans baseball player Abraham Toro made his Major League Baseball debut for the Houston Astros on August 22.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/toro-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1465 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/toro-headshot-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/toro-headshot-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/toro-headshot-33x50.jpg 33w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/toro-headshot.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>Toro started as third baseman in the Astros game against the Detroit Tigers. The Astros brought Toro up from their Triple-A affiliate team the Round Rock Express, based on his batting average and his skill as both a first and third baseman. Toro held a .424 batting average in his first 16 Triple-A games. He played the bulk of the 2019 season for the Double-A Corpus Christi team, where he held a batting average of .393 with 16 home runs and 70 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Toro played for SSC during the 2015-2016 season. He helped the team earn a win-loss record of 42-13. He was also named a 2016 All-Region Infielder and named 2016 First Team All American Infielder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Seminole State College Trojans baseball player Abraham Toro made his Major League Baseball debut for the Houston Astros on August 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-athletics","tag-august-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}