{"id":725527,"date":"2026-06-14T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/725527\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:18:16","slug":"june-13-first-mlb-game-played-in-omaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/725527\/","title":{"rendered":"June 13: First MLB game played in Omaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; June 13, 2019, marked the day a Major League Baseball game was played in Omaha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The matchup between the Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers at TD Ameritrade Park kicked off that year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/sports\/college\/college-world-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/sports\/college\/college-world-series\/\">College World Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A year later, Omaha was set to host Major League Baseball\u2019s draft, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/health\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/health\/coronavirus\/\">the pandemic<\/a> canceled that plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Royals won the game 7-3 with the help of Nicky Lopez\u2019s first major league home run in Omaha, where he played college ball at Creighton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/community\/we-the-people\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/community\/we-the-people\/history\/\">MORE LOCAL HISTORY<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On July 4, 2026, our country will celebrate its 250th birthday. Every day leading up to it, First Alert 6 will take a look at the people and events that shaped our area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Get a first alert to severe weather approaching your area. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/page\/get-the-first-alert-weather-app\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/page\/get-the-first-alert-weather-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download the First Alert 6 Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; June 13, 2019, marked the day a Major League Baseball game was played in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,90595,90598,190,90597,6123,193,52611,90596,33806,2291,4,1586,6309,33808,516,3315,53331,90281,33807,90591,90592,90593,21654,33805,90594],"class_list":["post-725527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-draft","tag-baseball","tag-chalres-schwab-field","tag-creighton-university","tag-day","tag-detorit-tigers","tag-historic","tag-history","tag-iowa-history","tag-kansas-city-roayls","tag-local-history","tag-major-league-baseball-draft","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-nebraska","tag-nebraska-history","tag-nicky-lopez","tag-omaha","tag-omaha-baseball","tag-omaha-college-world-series","tag-omaha-history","tag-omaha-mlb","tag-omaha-mlb-team","tag-roylas-vs-tigers","tag-td-ameritrade-stadium","tag-today-in-history","tag-what-happened-to-td-ameritrade-stadium"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116747246424723326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725527","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=725527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}