{"id":176135,"date":"2026-02-13T05:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176135\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:48:41","slug":"csub-baseball-hosts-leadoff-dinner-with-former-dodger-eric-gagne-ahead-of-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176135\/","title":{"rendered":"CSUB baseball hosts Leadoff Dinner with former Dodger Eric Gagne ahead of Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 With Opening Day approaching for the Bakersfield College Roadrunners baseball team, CSUB baseball hosted its <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/sports\/content\/csub-to-host-baseball-fundraiser-dinner-with-cy-young-winner-eric-gagne-dodgers-major-league-baseball-runners-los-angeles-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 Leadoff Dinner<\/a> tonight with special guest, Cy Young winner and former Dodger, Eric Gagne, to help bring the community closer to the program.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/163d23c1-1cb3-4e91-b889-0fb977462c63-Sequence_MILLS_GARAGEDOORDAMAGE_0001_frame_7243.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The event, previously known as the Hot Stove Dinner, is designed to connect Kern County with the Roadrunners baseball team. This year\u2019s Leadoff Dinner was held at Legends Event Center (previously 1933).<\/p>\n<p>The dinner featured a special guest and keynote speaker: former Los Angeles Dodgers closer and Cy Young Award winner Eric Gagne. He shared advice with young athletes who hope to follow a similar path in baseball.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo courtesy: CSUB Athletics{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/82fb4f97-fb4c-4e77-a23b-b69bf6ac4e31-EG.jpg\"\/>Photo courtesy: CSUB Athletics<\/p>\n<p>Roadrunners baseball Opening Day is Friday, Feb. 13, against Southern Indiana, at 6:30 p.m. at Hardt Field.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For the full Roadrunners&#8217; schedule, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/gorunners.com\/sports\/baseball\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gorunners.com\/sports\/baseball\/schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 With Opening Day approaching for the Bakersfield College Roadrunners baseball team, CSUB baseball hosted its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-176135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}