{"id":89520,"date":"2015-12-09T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=89520"},"modified":"2015-12-09T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:53:10","slug":"mlb-recommends-netting-fan-safey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=89520","title":{"rendered":"MLB recommends netting, fan safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5018\" alt=\"MLB\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MLB.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) &#8211; Major League Baseball has recommended teams have protective netting between the dugouts for any field-level seats within 70 feet of home plate.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The guidelines were issued Wednesday at the winter meetings following a season in which several fans were injured by foul balls, prompting MLB to study fan safety.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Commissioner Rob Manfred says &#8220;it is important that fans have the option to sit behind protective netting or in other areas of the ballpark where foul balls and bats are less likely to enter.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;This recommendation,&#8221; he says, &#8220;attempts to balance the need for an adequate number of seating options with our desire to preserve the interactive pre-game and in-game fan experience that often centers around the dugouts, where fans can catch foul balls, see their favorite players up close and, if they are lucky, catch a tossed ball or other souvenir. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) &#8211; Major League Baseball has recommended teams have protective netting between the dugouts for any field-level seats within 70 feet of home plate. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The guidelines were issued Wednesday at the winter meetings following a season in which several fans were injured by foul balls, prompting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89522,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89520\/revisions\/89522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}