{"id":80019,"date":"2024-07-14T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T21:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=80019"},"modified":"2024-07-14T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T21:12:56","slug":"reds-rookie-rece-hinds-sets-mlb-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/14\/reds-rookie-rece-hinds-sets-mlb-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds Rookie Sensation Sets Unprecedented MLB Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just six days into his major league career, Cincinnati Reds rookie sensation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hindsre01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rece Hinds<\/a> is already re-writing the record books. Since making his big-league debut on July 8th,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Hinds<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has had one of the most memorable and historic starts in baseball history. In Saturday\u2019s win over the Miami Marlins, the 23-year-old outfielder blasted two homers off the second deck, marking his first multi-homer game through six major league appearances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His nine extra-base hits are two more than any other player in a six-game span since at least 1901. Hinds is just the second player with at least five home runs in his first six outings, trailing only <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/storytr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Story<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who went deep seven times for the Colorado Rockies in 2016. On top of that, Saturday was also his third game with multiple extra-base hits. Hall of Famer <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccovwi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie McCovey<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the only other player to achieve that feat within their first six career games, which he did as a member of the San Francisco Giants in 1959. Three records that the hot-hitting rookie was not even aware of.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In 6 days as a big leaguer, Rece Hinds of the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Reds<\/a> has:<\/p>\n<p>9 total XBH<br \/>\n5 total HR<br \/>\na game with all 3 types of XBH<br \/>\na grand slam<br \/>\na multi-HR game<\/p>\n<p>Nobody else in MLB history has done all of that over any 6-day span at any point in his career. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JupzYqSPOw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/JupzYqSPOw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaSTATS\/status\/1812325422417301573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHonestly, I wasn\u2019t [aware of it] until some people started talking about it,\u201d Hinds said. \u201cI try not to think about it too much. Try to stay humble, stay even-keeled, not get too high, not get too low. We have the All-Star break coming up, a couple of days off, so [it will] probably sink in a little bit more then, when I&#8217;m just relaxing, thinking about the week that just happened.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Reds Rookie Rece Hinds Exceeding Expectations and Making History<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Cincinnati promoted the 23-year-old from Triple-A Louisville last week, they were hoping he would give them another power bat in their lineup. But Hinds has exceeded any and all expectations. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/05\/28\/rece-hinds-2019-mlb-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">former second-round pick<\/a> is batting .440\/.481\/1.240 with a 1.721 OPS in 25 at-bats. He slashed .216\/.290\/.409 with 13 homers in 77 games with Triple-A Louisville before being called up to Cincinnati.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite having an abundance of power, Rece Hinds often struggles to make contact. He has the second-most strikeouts in the minors (126), as well as the fifth-highest strikeout rate at 38.4%. Regardless, the Reds will continue to roll with the red-hot rookie and his incredible production for however long it lasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just six days into his major league career, Cincinnati Reds rookie sensation Rece Hinds is already re-writing the record books. Since making his big-league debut on July 8th,\u00a0Hinds has had one of the most memorable and historic starts in baseball history. In Saturday\u2019s win over the Miami Marlins, the 23-year-old outfielder blasted two homers off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":80030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1071,35],"tags":[71,2655,624,2251],"class_list":["post-80019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reds","category-mlb","category-news","tag-miami-marlins","tag-rece-hinds","tag-trevor-story","tag-willie-mccovey"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}