{"id":245194,"date":"2026-07-16T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245194\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:43:08","slug":"air-quality-concerns-in-philadelphia-move-phillies-vs-mets-start-time-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245194\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality concerns in Philadelphia move Phillies vs. Mets start time up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/bad-air-quality-philadelphia-canadian-wildfire-smoke\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Air quality concerns<\/a> in Philadelphia led the Phillies to move up the start time of their series opener Thursday against the New York Mets at Citizens Bank Park by an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The city has dealt with extremely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/wildfire-smoke-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hazy skies<\/a>\u00a0from wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota, triggering air quality alerts throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>The game was originally scheduled for 7:10 p.m., but the first pitch is now set for 6:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies say the third base and left field gates will open at 5:10 p.m., and other gates will open at 5:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air quality concerns in Philadelphia led the Phillies to move up the start time of their series opener&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4662,4606,28,69,71,70,1425],"class_list":["post-245194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-baseball","tag-new-york-mets","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245194","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=245194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}