{"id":1935738,"date":"2026-09-29T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1935738"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:22:47","slug":"sparse-crowd-empty-seats-greet-500-astros-for-wild-card-opener-vs-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1935738","title":{"rendered":"Sparse crowd, empty seats greet .500 Astros for wild-card opener vs White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The crowd at Daikin Park was surprisingly sparse as the Houston Astros \u2014 baseball&#8217;s first division winner with a .500 or worse record \u2014 opened their Wild Card Series against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/62b31-sparse-crowd-empty-seats-greet-500-astros-for-wild-card-opener-vs-white-sox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The crowd at Daikin Park was surprisingly sparse as the Houston Astros \u2014 baseball&#8217;s first division winner with a .500 or worse record&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1935739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116,120,121],"class_list":["post-1935738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","tag-lanka","tag-odi","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935740,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935738\/revisions\/1935740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}