{"id":414045,"date":"2026-09-29T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414045\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:32:07","slug":"st-pete-mayor-rays-to-kick-off-postseason-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414045\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Mayor, Rays to kick off postseason Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete is ready for postseason baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Ken Welch and other city officials will join representatives from the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday, Oct. 2, to raise the Rays playoff flag at City Hall in celebration of the team&#8217;s 2026 postseason berth.<\/p>\n<p>The flag-raising ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. outside St. Petersburg City Hall, 175 Fifth St. N.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays went 98-64, posting the best record in the American League and third best in all of Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>They will open postseason play Saturday at Tropicana Field against either the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Those teams were to start a best-of-three series Tuesday night in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and Rays fans are invited to join Friday&#8217;s celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete is ready for postseason baseball. Mayor Ken Welch and other city officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1238,2200,115,596,275,110,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,3815,2032],"class_list":["post-414045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-sports","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414045","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=414045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}