{"id":437481,"date":"2023-06-07T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437481"},"modified":"2023-06-07T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:54:08","slug":"mlb-wnba-postpone-matches-because-of-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mlb-wnba-postpone-matches-because-of-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB, WNBA postpone matches because of wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLB shared that matches in the Big Apple, and Philly will be postponed on Wednesday because of the air quality due to wildfires in Canada.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MLB, WNBA postpone games due to smoke from Canadian wildfires<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uWs3vfxgcL\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/uWs3vfxgcL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OfddXz73gs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OfddXz73gs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1666556968423628800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A match from the women&#8217;s soccer championship and a WNBA match in Brooklyn will also have new dates because of health risks due to smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees match vs. the Chicago White Sox will be a doubleheader on Thursday, and the Philadelphia Phillies&#8217; clash vs. the Detroit Tigers will be played tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These postponements were determined following conversations throughout the day with medical and weather experts and all of the impacted clubs regarding clearly hazardous air quality conditions in both cities,&#8221; MLB said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These postponements were determined following talks today with medical and weather experts and all of the impacted franchises due to the risk for everyone&#8217;s health in New York and Philadelphia,&#8221; the Major League Baseball shared with the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLB shared that matches in the Big Apple, and Philly will be postponed on Wednesday because of the air quality due to wildfires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437470,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,18413],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[18415,12402],"acf":{"announce":"Canadian fires forced the games to be postponed.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437481"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437481"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}