{"id":4000,"date":"2015-10-04T18:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T18:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2015-10-04T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T18:09:56","slug":"sydney-to-host-world-baseball-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"Sydney to host World Baseball Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Philippine players to compete.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Western Sydney will host a World Baseball Classic Qualifier in 2016, which will feature some of the world\u2019s best players competing for a spot in the prestigious event.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events and Minister for Sport Stuart Ayres said the event will be held at Blacktown International Sports Park and will provide a big boost for the visitor economy of Western Sydney attracting local and overseas visitors to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, created and sanctioned by Major League Baseball (MLB), will feature Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the <strong>Philippines<\/strong> in a six game, four day tournament to be held from 11-14 February 2016, with the winner qualifying for the 2017 World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe event is expected to attract over 1,000 domestic and overseas visitors to Western Sydney, generating almost $1.5 million in visitor expenditure and providing a massive boost to the hotels, businesses and restaurants in the area,\u201d Mr Ayres added.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNSW is the Australian home of baseball. NSW also secured the Opening Series of the 2014 Major League Baseball regular season between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at the Sydney Cricket Ground and supported the Australian Little League Championships in Lismore, making the World Baseball Classic Qualifier another great baseball win for the State.\u201d The World Baseball Classic qualifier was secured exclusively for Western Sydney by the NSW Government\u2019s tourism and major events agency Destination NSW. \u2014 <strong>by<\/strong> <strong>Olivia Suzanski<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine players to compete. Western Sydney will host a World Baseball Classic Qualifier in 2016, which will feature some of the world\u2019s best players competing for a spot in the prestigious event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}