{"id":71014,"date":"2025-07-25T00:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=71014"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:33:01","slug":"yankees-prospect-jones-homers-in-first-3-at-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=71014","title":{"rendered":"Yankees prospect Jones homers in first 3 at-bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Associated Press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jul 24, 2025, 10:43 PM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. &#8212; New York Yankees prospect Spencer Jones homered in his first three at-bats in Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s 10-8 loss to Rochester on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A frequent subject of trade rumors, the left-handed-hitting Jones, a towering figure at the plate at 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds, took the minor league home run lead with 29.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old former Vanderbilt star has 13 homers in 19 games in Triple-A. New York drafted him 25th overall in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Jones had his first three-homer game, with all of them off Bryce Conley &#8212; and on two-strike pitches. In the first, Jones hit Conley&#8217;s changeup 401 feet to left-center. Jones led off the third with a 425-foot shot to right, and he added a 433-footer to center in the fifth. In the bottom of the fifth, he made a sliding catch to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>He struck out in his fourth at-bat and popped out in his fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yankees prospect Spencer Jones homered in his first three at-bats in Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s 10-8 loss to Rochester on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":71016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees prospect Jones homers in first 3 at-bats - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=71014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees prospect Jones homers in first 3 at-bats - 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