{"id":922444,"date":"2026-10-10T00:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922444\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:38:17","slug":"how-mlb-made-an-urgent-pitch-to-fans-for-the-2026-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922444\/","title":{"rendered":"How MLB Made an Urgent Pitch to Fans for the 2026 Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into the 2026 postseason, Major League Baseball set out to give America\u2019s favorite pastime some urgency, also making some headlines along the way.<\/p>\n<p>In various postseason baseball markets in late September, MLB took out full-page ads in major publications such as The New York Times and the LA Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2105292748517412934?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">declaring that \u201cOctober Starts Today<\/a>.\u201d It was a stunt meant to build excitement around the month known for playoff baseball, but it\u2019s also an eye-catching example of how the league is looking to approach this year\u2019s postseason campaign differently.<\/p>\n<p>MLB\u2019s new postseason campaign, along with its tagline of \u201cNo Time Like October,\u201d is positioned to disrupt everyday routines and showcase how fans can\u2019t miss any moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heading into the 2026 postseason, Major League Baseball set out to give America\u2019s favorite pastime some urgency, also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,1325,591,11603,85,94571],"class_list":["post-922444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-general","tag-mlb","tag-premium","tag-sports","tag-sports-marketing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}