{"id":146833,"date":"2026-03-24T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146833\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:36:06","slug":"new-season-brings-big-ballpark-upgrades-for-railriders-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146833\/","title":{"rendered":"New season brings big ballpark upgrades for RailRiders fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOOSIC, Pa. \u2014 It didn\u2019t feel like baseball weather at <a href=\"http:\/\/wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PNC Field<\/a> this morning, but Opening Day for the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders is just two weeks away! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fans will see some improvements to the ballpark, such as a new video board that is almost three sizes bigger than the old one. \u00a0There are also new food items like a kielbasa cheesesteak. \u00a0There are 75 home games this season, with plenty of fun events like fireworks, themed nights, and celebrity guests. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders start the season on the road this Friday against the Buffalo Bisons. Opening day is Tuesday, April 7, against the Durham Bulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOOSIC, Pa. \u2014 It didn\u2019t feel like baseball weather at PNC Field this morning, but Opening Day for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-146833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}