{"id":46956,"date":"2025-11-10T20:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/46956\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:11:37","slug":"meet-the-glow-riders-modestos-new-professional-baseball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/46956\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Glow Riders, Modesto&#8217;s new professional baseball team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/modesto-pioneer-league-baseball-naming-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Modesto&#8217;s new Pioneer League<\/a> baseball team has been revealed: Meet the Modesto Glow Riders.<\/p>\n<p>Main Street Baseball, the owners of the new franchise, announced the team&#8217;s name on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>A total of nine finalists for the new team&#8217;s name were being voted on. The other names included the Bombers, the Harvesters, the Cherry Bombers, the Monster Trucks, the Road Hogs, the Golden Goats, the 99ers, and the Graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/modesto-baseball-team-name-finalists.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"modesto-baseball-team-name-finalists.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Monday&#8217;s announcement of the new team&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Glow Riders games are expected to start next spring.<\/p>\n<p>The games will be played at John Thurman Field, which was vacated by the Modesto Nuts after nearly 80 years. <\/p>\n<p>Modesto city officials say about a million dollars in upgrades will go into John Thurman Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The name for Modesto&#8217;s new Pioneer League baseball team has been revealed: Meet the Modesto Glow Riders. Main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[30782,15563,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-46956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-minor-league-baseball","9":"tag-modesto-news","10":"tag-sacramento","11":"tag-sacramento-headlines","12":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46956","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=46956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}