{"id":43606,"date":"2000-10-19T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-10-19T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/play-ball-12\/"},"modified":"2000-10-19T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-10-19T01:43:56","slug":"play-ball-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/10\/19\/play-ball-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Play ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Professional Baseball League 2000-2001 Winter Season begins tomorrow, Friday 20 October with games scheduled for Santo Domingo, San Pedro de Macor&iacute;s and San Francisco de Macor&iacute;s. The Dominican league is made up of two eastern-based teams (La Romana and San Pedro), two central-based teams (San Francisco and Santiago) and two Santo Domingo-based teams. This year is an especially good year to go to a ball game. Several of the stadiums have been remodeled, including the La Romana, Santiago, San Pedro de Macor&iacute;s and Santo Domingo stadiums.  The Friday, 20 October 8 pm opening games are: San Pedro de Macor&iacute;s: Miguel Batista of the La Romana Toros faces Mike Saipe of the Estrellas Orientales at the Estadio Tetelo Vargas. Santo Domingo: Amaury Telemaco of the Leones del Escogido faces Manny Aybar of the Tigres del Licey at the Estadio Quisqueya.  San Francisco de Macor&iacute;s: Fernando Hern&aacute;ndez of the Aguilas Cibae&ntilde;as confronts Efraim Valdez of the Pollos del Cibao at the Estadio Juli&aacute;n Javier. The season will last through January, with the winning teams going on to play in the Caribbean Series that takes place early in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Professional Baseball League 2000-2001 Winter Season begins tomorrow, Friday 20 October with games scheduled for Santo Domingo, San Pedro de Macor&iacute;s and San Francisco de Macor&iacute;s. The Dominican league is made up of two eastern-based teams (La Romana and San Pedro), two central-based teams (San Francisco and Santiago) and two Santo Domingo-based teams. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/10\/19\/play-ball-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}