{"id":69761,"date":"2020-07-24T05:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=69761"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:52:49","slug":"the-ten-7-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=69761","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 7\/24\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51887\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51887\" \/><\/a>(The TEN is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Giancarlo Stanton hit the first home run of the 2020 season and the New York Yankees went on to beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 Thursday night in a rain shortened game on opening day. <\/p>\n<p>2. Left-hander Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers scheduled starter for opening night, was placed on the injured list with back stiffness and right-hander Dustin May was recalled. <\/p>\n<p>3. Paraclete has reached an agreement to open the season at home against JSerra. <\/p>\n<p>4. MLB has expanded the playoffs for the 2020 season to 16 teams. All second place teams in the six divisions will now qualify for the playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>5. Nationals outfielder Juan Soto tested positive for the coronavirus and missed Thursday night&#8217;s opener. Soto will now quarantine and will need two negative tests before he can return to the field. <\/p>\n<p>6. Mike Tyson is making plans for a comeback and will fight Roy Jones Jr. in an eight round exhibition on September 12. <\/p>\n<p>7. The NFL team formerly known as the Washington Redskins has announced it will call itself the &#8220;Washington Football Team&#8221; throughout the upcoming season as it continues to finalize a replacement name. <\/p>\n<p>8. The Dodgers signed outfielder Mookie Betts to a 12-year, $365 million extension. <\/p>\n<p>9. Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez said the school could lose more than $100 million if the upcoming football season is canceled. <\/p>\n<p>10. Arroyo will host Sierra Vista in Week 1 when the season gets underway in January. The schools agreed to a two-year contract.                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The TEN is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69761"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69770,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761\/revisions\/69770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}