{"id":198884,"date":"2026-03-20T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198884\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:19:13","slug":"jacksonville-jumbo-shrimp-to-honor-national-champions-during-opening-weekend-104-5-wokv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198884\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp to honor National Champions during opening weekend \u2013 104.5 WOKV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp announced its promotional events for opening weekend on March 27-29 against the Rochester Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">On Friday, March 27, the Jumbo Shrimp will hold an Opening Day street carnival at VyStar Ballpark starting at 4 p.m. The carnival will feature a climbing wall, interactive vendors, and street games. The team will honor the 2025 Triple-A National Champions during a special pre-game ceremony. The first 2,000 fans will receive a schedule magnet. The team encourages fans to wear red in support of the military for Red Shirt Friday. Gates open at 5:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">Gates open at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 28. The first 2,000 fans can receive a replica national championship ring. The giveaway will only be available at the Main Gate on Georgia Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">On Sunday, March 29, fans can play catch on the field for the first 20 minutes after gates open as part of Baptist Health Sunday Family FUNday. Gates open at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/jacksonville\/tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/jacksonville\/tickets\">Tickets for the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp<\/a> are on sale now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">\u25b6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/on-demand\/morning-news-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/on-demand\/morning-news-podcast\/\">Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/fp\/download-free-wokv-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/fp\/download-free-wokv-app\/\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wokv.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wokv.com\/newsletters\">click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp announced its promotional events for opening weekend on March 27-29 against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,11609,117,11608],"class_list":["post-198884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jumbo-shrimp","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jumbo-shrimp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}