{"id":46395,"date":"1999-10-28T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-10-28T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/pedro-martnez-opens-1999-2000-baseball-season\/"},"modified":"1999-10-28T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-10-28T01:43:56","slug":"pedro-martnez-opens-1999-2000-baseball-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/10\/28\/pedro-martnez-opens-1999-2000-baseball-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Mart&#237;nez opens 1999-2000 Baseball Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Mart&iacute;nez threw the first ball to a standing ovation of a full stadium at the start of the Dominican Winter Baseball League last night. Because of contractual obligations, Mart&iacute;nez cannot play in the league, but he recalled with nostalgia all the times he and his brother wore the Licey Tigers uniform. Mart&iacute;nez is the most likely winner of the 1999 American League Cy Young award.  The Escogido Lions defeated the Licey Tigers in the 10th inning of the opening game, 3-2. Fernando Tatis and Ronnie Belliard, two leading Major League players were in the game last night, to the delight of the fans.     Baseball Games Schedule OCTOBER Thursday, 28 October 1999 Santo Domingo: Aguilas vs. Escogido San Francisco de Macor&iacute;s: Escogido vs. Pollos   Friday, 29 October 1999 Santo Domingo: Estrellas vs. Licey Santiago: Escogido vs. Aguilas   Saturday, 30 October 1999 Santo Domingo: Pollos vs. Escogido San Pedro de Macor&iacute;s: Estrellas vs. Licey   Sunday, 31 October 1999 Santo Domingo: Escogido vs. Licey San Francisco de Macor&iacute;s: Aguilas vs. Pollos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Mart&iacute;nez threw the first ball to a standing ovation of a full stadium at the start of the Dominican Winter Baseball League last night. Because of contractual obligations, Mart&iacute;nez cannot play in the league, but he recalled with nostalgia all the times he and his brother wore the Licey Tigers uniform. Mart&iacute;nez is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/10\/28\/pedro-martnez-opens-1999-2000-baseball-season\/\" 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":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46395"}],"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=46395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}