{"id":162169,"date":"2025-07-09T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/162169\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:30:09","slug":"rangers-astros-join-pro-sports-teams-in-pledging-relief-efforts-after-deadly-central-texas-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/162169\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers, Astros join pro sports teams in pledging relief efforts after deadly central Texas floods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas\u2019 two Major League Baseball teams are joining to help recovery efforts after devastating flooding in the central part of the state.<\/p>\n

The Texas Rangers<\/a> and Houston Astros<\/a> each pledged $1 million toward relief efforts Monday. They are the latest professional teams to make a donation. The Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, Houston Texans<\/a> and the NFL Foundation combined to donate $1.5 million, and the state\u2019s three NBA teams, along with the NBA Players Association, combined to donate more than $2 million.<\/p>\n

A massive storm swept through Kerr County, which sits northwest of San Antonio, and the surrounding areas Friday. As of Tuesday afternoon, according to The New York Times<\/a>, the death toll had risen to at least 111 people. At least 161 remain missing in the county, and officials said nobody had been found alive since Friday.<\/p>\n

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Fast-moving waters rose more than 20 feet in fewer than two hours along the Guadalupe River on Friday morning, which led to millions of people being placed under flood watches over the weekend. A Christian summer camp for girls was especially impacted. At least 27 campers and staff members were killed in the flooding, and several are still missing.<\/p>\n

“It is important to the entire Astros organization to send immediate support to our fellow Texans throughout the Hill Country during this devastating time,” Astros owner Jim Crane said in a statement. “There is a lot still unknown as recovery efforts are ongoing, but the Astros are committed to supporting Central Texas communities in the long term through the coming days, months and years to rebuild and heal. We also want to acknowledge and personally thank all for the first responders for their continued heroic efforts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 two Major League Baseball teams are joining to help recovery efforts after devastating flooding in the central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,12069,54,17249,19,4,30813,30814,149,30416,30815,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-162169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-houston-astros","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-major-league-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-nba-players-association","15":"tag-nba-teams","16":"tag-rangers","17":"tag-recovery-efforts","18":"tag-recovery-efforts-after-devastating-flooding","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-texas-rangers","21":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114820692970918508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}