{"id":346162,"date":"2026-09-14T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346162\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:20:14","slug":"news-12-bronx-ducks-clinch-playoff-berth-with-second-half-championship-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346162\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Ducks Clinch Playoff Berth With Second Half Championship Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Long Island Ducks are postseason-bound for the first time since 2023!<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The team secured their berth in the 2026 Atlantic League Playoffs after beating the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs 6-1 on Sunday, completing a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">With the win, the hometown team clinched the Second Half North Division Championship.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Ducks will now begin a best-of-five series against the first half champion Hagerstown Flying Boxcars.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Games one and two will take place Tuesday and Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. on their home turf at Fairfield Properties Ballpark in Central Islip.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The series then shifts to Meritus Park in Maryland game three and if necessary, games four and five, Friday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tickets for all playoff games are now available for <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/ld1.glitnirticketing.com\/ldticket\/web\/ev_list.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchase here<\/a>, by visiting the ballpark box office, or you can call (631) 940-TIXX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Island Ducks are postseason-bound for the first time since 2023! The team secured their berth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-346162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}