{"id":54665,"date":"2015-07-07T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54665"},"modified":"2015-07-07T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:23:09","slug":"blue-jays-russell-martin-jose-bautista-joining-donaldson-at-mlb-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/07\/blue-jays-russell-martin-jose-bautista-joining-donaldson-at-mlb-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays\u2019 Russell Martin, Jose Bautista joining Donaldson at MLB all star game"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54666\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Blue-Jays-player.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54666\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Blue-Jays-player.png\" alt=\"Blue Jays' Russell Martin, Josh Donaldson and Jose Bautista (Photo courtesy of Toronto Blue Jays)\" width=\"650\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Blue-Jays-player.png 650w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Blue-Jays-player-300x138.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Jays&#8217; Russell Martin, Josh Donaldson and Jose Bautista (Photo courtesy of Toronto Blue Jays)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Canadian Russell Martin and Jose Bautista will represent the Toronto Blue Jays as reserves at the MLB all-star game on July 14.<\/p>\n<p>The league announced pitchers and reserves that will represent both the American and National Leagues on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, a Montreal native, was selected by AL manager Ned Yost as one of two reserve catchers on the AL roster. It\u2019s his fourth all-star appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Since signing with the Blue Jays in the off-season, Martin has enjoyed success in his first season in Toronto. In 72 games, Martin has 12 home runs, 39 runs-batted in and a .253 average.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista was voted in through a player ballot \u2013 a combination of votes from players, managers and coaches \u2013 to the roster. It will be his sixth all-star appearance. He has 17 home runs and 57 RBIs in 78 games so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>In the initial fan voting, Martin was second in voting for catchers with 7,521,557. Bautista was fourth in AL outfielders with 9,050,339.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista and Martin join teammate Josh Donaldson at the all-star game in Cincinnati. Donaldson was named the AL\u2019s starting third baseman on Sunday and set a new all-time single season all-star voting record with 14,090,188 total votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Russell Martin and Jose Bautista will represent the Toronto Blue Jays as reserves at the MLB all-star game on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":54666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-54665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}