{"id":660157,"date":"2026-04-03T03:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660157\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:52:24","slug":"hospitals-tiniest-fans-ready-for-tigers-opening-day-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660157\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital&#8217;s tiniest fans ready for Tigers&#8217; Opening Day | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MID-MICHIGAN, Mich. (WJRT) &#8211; Babies in the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Michigan&#8217;s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are getting ready for the Tiger&#8217;s home opener in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The NICU nurses and care team dressed the tiny patients in Tigers gear to celebrate the occasion. The littlest fans will be cheering on the Tigers from their hospital beds Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital staff worked to get the babies in the spirit for the baseball holiday.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc12.com\/sports\/detroit-tigers-announce-ways-for-fans-to-watch-games\/article_c3f4f9d3-915c-431b-aa5d-be51789fad18.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Detroit Tigers announce ways for fans to watch games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Detroit Tigers announce ways for fans to watch games\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/670adcc975a18.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc12.com\/news\/detroit-baseball-star-brandon-inge-supports-flint-youth-initiatives\/article_7d7f92f8-b9f3-4114-a9c7-ae66dc93625b.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Detroit baseball star Brandon Inge supports Flint youth initiatives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Detroit baseball star Brandon Inge supports Flint youth initiatives\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"944\" height=\"531\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/697eb780130e8.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MID-MICHIGAN, Mich. (WJRT) &#8211; Babies in the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Michigan&#8217;s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are getting ready&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,4,169,185,1682,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-660157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-state","16":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116338751315263250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660157","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=660157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}