{"id":366374,"date":"2026-10-07T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366374\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:02:09","slug":"nick-martinez-returns-with-rays-to-bronx-in-full-circle-alds-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366374\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Martinez returns with Rays to Bronx in full-circle ALDS moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Yankees are going to extend their season beyond Wednesday, they\u2019ll have to figure out a way to beat a right-hander who has plenty of experience playing in The Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rays are set to start <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/02\/sports\/yankee-killers-local-ties-and-what-to-know-about-rays-before-alds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fordham product Nick Martinez<\/a> in Game 3, looking to knock the Yankees out of the ALDS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Martinez, who played at Fordham from 2009-11, is very familiar with the setting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever we had a day off and they were playing at home, we\u2019d come over, catch a train and watch a game at Yankee Stadium,\u2019\u2019 Martinez said Tuesday. \u201cAnd we\u2019d be in the bleachers \u2014 my roommate or a couple buddies \u2014 and I would just watch them and say, \u2018Man, obviously playing here would be pretty badass.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Yankees are going to extend their season beyond Wednesday, they\u2019ll have to figure out a way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,6301,20,5515,9,24,321,63,319,428,25678,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-366374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-fordham-university","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-tampa-bay-rays","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\/366374","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=366374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}