{"id":990,"date":"2013-07-03T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bostons-iglesias-named-al-rookie-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:36:00","slug":"bostons-iglesias-named-al-rookie-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bostons-iglesias-named-al-rookie-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston&#8217;s Iglesias named AL Rookie of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; Boston Red Sox infielder Jose Iglesias has been named the American League&#8217;s Rookie of the Month for June.<\/p>\n<p>Iglesias batted .395 with four doubles, two triples, one home run, six RBI and 17 runs scored over 25 games over the season&#8217;s third month, becoming the first Red Sox rookie to claim the award since Jacoby Ellsbury in September 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Iglesias put together a career-high 18-game hitting streak from May 27-June 18 and finished the month first in batting average, on-base percentage (.453), slugging percentage (.523), base hits and runs scored among qualifying AL rookies with at least 81 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Other players considered included David Lough of the Kansas City Royals, Seattle&#8217;s Nick Franklin, teammates Wil Myers and Alex Torres of the Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota&#8217;s Oswaldo Arcia and Jose Cisnero of the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; Boston Red Sox infielder Jose Iglesias has been named the American League&#8217;s Rookie of the Month for June. Iglesias batted .395 with four doubles, two triples, one home run, six RBI and 17 runs scored over 25 games over the season&#8217;s third month, becoming the first Red Sox rookie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,188,189],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}