{"id":250542,"date":"2026-04-03T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250542\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:55:09","slug":"opening-day-for-visalia-rawhide-at-valley-strong-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250542\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day for Visalia Rawhide at Valley Strong Ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, April 3, 2026 8:31PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Opening Day for Visalia Rawhide at Valley Strong Ballpark\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Minor League Baseball returns Friday night to the Valley!<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Visalia Rawhide will take on the Fresno Grizzlies for Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two ball clubs will be part of the new &#8220;Highway 99 Rivalry Series,&#8221; which is a new season-long competition that will spotlight the Central Valley&#8217;s two baseball clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At stake each season will be a new, custom-designed Highway 99 Rivalry Trophy, awarded to the team that wins the season series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The first game of the season takes place Friday at Valley Strong Ballpark on Giddings Street. First pitch is at 7:05 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Tickets are still available.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, April 3, 2026 8:31PM VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Minor League Baseball returns Friday night to the Valley!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[111501,112,114,113,30782,43223,127,294,111500],"class_list":{"0":"post-250542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-111501","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-minor-league-baseball","13":"tag-opening-day","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-timely","16":"tag-visalia-rawhide"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250542","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=250542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}