{"id":8043,"date":"2019-05-27T21:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T21:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:44:10","slug":"2019-opener-watch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/2019\/05\/27\/2019-opener-watch-party\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Opener Watch Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-large wp-image-8044\" src=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Front-Office-Staff-Additons-700x368.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Front-Office-Staff-Additons-700x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27700%27%20height%3D%27368%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20700%20368%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27700%27%20height%3D%27368%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Front-Office-Staff-Additons-120x63.jpg 120w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Front-Office-Staff-Additons-250x131.jpg 250w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Front-Office-Staff-Additons-700x368.jpg 700w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Front-Office-Staff-Additons-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Front-Office-Staff-Additons.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Come join the Eau Claire Express front office watch our boys take on the Bismark Larks at Eau Claire Ale House Tuesday evening at 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>For the second year running, our season opener watch party will include awesome door prizes, food and drink specials, and of course, some great baseball action. The fun doesn&#8217;t stop there. For every run scored, one lucky Express fan will win an additional prize.<\/p>\n<p>So be prepared to kick back, relax, and cheer on the Express!<\/p>\n<p>Eau Claire will return to Carson Park for their home opener on Saturday, June 1st, when they face the Duluth Huskies at 7:05 pm. Tickets are available online and by calling the Express at 715-839-7788.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>The Eau Claire Express are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The 25-year old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 22 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, over 200 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist (CHC) and Brandon Crawford (SFG) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET) and Curtis Granderson (MIA).\u00a0 All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League portal. For more information, visit www.eauclaireexpress.com or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Express as your favorite team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come join the Eau Claire Express front office watch our boys take on the Bismark Larks at Eau Claire Ale  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45,27,43,1,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-permanentslider","category-league-news","category-team-news","category-uncategorized","category-update-ticker-all-categories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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