{"id":15077433,"date":"2026-03-27T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/these-two-balls-looked-like-sure-home-runs-but-then-they-werent\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:56:46","slug":"these-two-balls-looked-like-sure-home-runs-but-then-they-werent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/these-two-balls-looked-like-sure-home-runs-but-then-they-werent\/","title":{"rendered":"These two balls looked like sure home runs &#8230; but then they weren&#039;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.mlbstatic.com\/mlb-images\/image\/upload\/t_2x1\/t_w1536\/mlb\/vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Ian Happ hit a notably loud home run on Opening Day in Chicago. Kind of. So did Yordan Alvarez in Houston. Also, kind of.<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t say that in the box score, because Happ went 1-for-5 (a single) with three strikeouts, as the Cubs fell to Washington 10-4, while Alvarez<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/how-ian-happ-and-yordan-alvarez-lost-sure-homers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News \u2013 Chicago \u2013 rss.app<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Happ hit a notably loud home run on Opening Day in Chicago. Kind of. So did Yordan Alvarez in Houston. Also, kind of.<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t say that in the box score, because Happ went 1-for-5 (a single) with three strikeouts,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15077435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15077433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg",1536,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-620x310.jpg",620,310,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-768x384.jpg",768,384,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-940x470.jpg",940,470,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg",1536,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg",1536,768,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-1340x768.jpg",1340,768,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg",24,12,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg",48,24,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg",96,48,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg",150,75,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15077433-vhird5itokmlkscyjxqd.jpg",300,150,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/usa\/chicago\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Chicago<\/a>","tag_info":"Chicago","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15077433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15077433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15077433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15077434,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15077433\/revisions\/15077434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15077435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15077433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15077433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15077433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}