{"id":584878,"date":"2026-02-21T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/584878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:10:38","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-padres-play-mariners-in-first-game-of-26-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/584878\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Padres play Mariners in first game of \u201826 Spring Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Diego Padres are set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary\/53618\/padres-2026-spring-training-preview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open their Spring Training schedule<\/a> with a contest against the Seattle Mariners today. It will be the first opportunity for the Friar Faithful to see the 2026 players in action. There are competitions at first base, designated hitter and the starting rotation, which should make for compelling performance as spring progresses. Tat will come later, but during the first game of spring it will be nice to hear the crack of the bat and the pop of the glove that are universal signals to baseball fans that Opening Day is not far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Padres are set to open their Spring Training schedule with a contest against the Seattle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,38806,2231,2230,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-584878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-san-diego-padres-daily-links","14":"tag-san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary","15":"tag-san-diego-padres-news","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116109025286458833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584878","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=584878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}