{"id":33,"date":"1991-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1991-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"1991-06-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1991-06-24T00:00:00","slug":"dave-winfield-hits-for-the-cycle-at-age-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Dave Winfield Hits for the Cycle at Age 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 24, 1991 California\u2019s Dave Winfield goes 5 for 5 and hits for the cycle as the Angels defeat Kansas City, 9 \u2013 4. In so doing, he becomes the oldest player in history (39) to accomplish the feat. He completes the cycle, the first of his career, in the 8th with a triple off infielder Bill Pecota, making his first pitching appearance. Winfield is the first batter faced by Pecota, who takes over when Tom Gordon\u2019s hemorrhoids act up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 24, 1991 California\u2019s Dave Winfield goes 5 for 5 and hits for the cycle as the Angels defeat Kansas City, 9 \u2013 4. In so doing, he becomes the oldest player in history (39) to accomplish the feat. He completes the cycle, the first of his career, in the 8th with a triple off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,71,73,2,72,75],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-pecota","tag-california-angels","tag-dave-winfield","tag-june-24","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-tom-gordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagebaseballreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}