{"id":545122,"date":"2026-03-25T21:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:57:10","slug":"the-royals-are-now-offering-the-9-9-9-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545122\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royals are now offering the 9-9-9 challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog! Now we\u2019ve got beers, it\u2019s time for cheers!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Coming this season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/sports\/mlb\/royals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/sports\/mlb\/royals\/\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> are offering the 9-9-9 challenge as a menu item.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Kauffman Stadium will sell the 9-9-9 Challenge at a select concession stand in 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Q24OXOO6ONAPFLDPEN5IB6W3P4.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>Kauffman Stadium will sell the 9-9-9 Challenge at a select concession stand in 2026.(Aramark)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">What is the 9-9-9 challenge? Eating nine hot dogs and drinking nine beers over nine innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Major League Baseball <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2036114967133364542?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2036114967133364542?s=20\">posted to social media<\/a> that the Royals are one of six teams to introduce the menu item to their in-stadium concessions list in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is a catch: the hot dogs are mini-sized and the beers are flight-sized. The 9-9-9 Challenge will be available for purchase at Double Dip Hoagies in Section 247.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog! Now we\u2019ve got beers, it\u2019s time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[243310,243315,30845,243311,4,243313,37712,17033,17034,2321,98110,243312,363,15063,25696,99,243314],"class_list":["post-545122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-9-9-9-challenge","tag-999-challenge-at-royals-games","tag-aramark","tag-beers","tag-breaking-news","tag-flight-size","tag-home-games","tag-hot-dog","tag-hot-dogs","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kauffman-stadium","tag-mini-hot-dogs","tag-mlb","tag-newsbreak-app","tag-royals","tag-sports","tag-where-can-i-get-the-9-9-9-challenge-at-royals-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}