{"id":645541,"date":"2026-03-27T00:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:11:22","slug":"fans-flood-downtown-for-cardinals-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645541\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans flood downtown for Cardinals Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) &#8211; Baseball was back at Busch Stadium Thursday afternoon as the St. Louis Cardinals hosted the Tampa Bay Rays on Opening Day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Tens of thousands of fans flooded downtown ahead of the action. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Cardinals are in a reset after moving on from key veterans in the offseason, leaning on their youth in 2026. It is also the first season Chaim Bloom serves as the President of Baseball Operations for the club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Despite the changes, the traditions and legacy of Opening Day in St. Louis were on full display Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KMOV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) &#8211; Baseball was back at Busch Stadium Thursday afternoon as the St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,10149,19,4,1406,673,67,4311,4310,68],"class_list":["post-645541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-chaim-bloom","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-opening-day","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116298244730122410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645541","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=645541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}