{"id":6849,"date":"2020-07-13T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/traverse-city-pit-spitters\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2020-07-13T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T17:32:23","slug":"baseball-is-back-season-resumes-july-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/traverse-city-pit-spitters\/2020\/07\/13\/baseball-is-back-season-resumes-july-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball is BACK! Season Resumes July 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRAVERSE CITY, MI \u2013 The Northern Pod of the Michigan Northwoods League is set to resume play on Sunday, July 19<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The season was put on hold July 5<sup>th<\/sup>, after players on two of the teams tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Pit Spitters Front Office has worked diligently with the Grand Traverse County Health Department throughout this process and with their consultation a restart plan was developed and approved to allow for a restart to the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take this restart extremely seriously.\u00a0 All of the Pit Spitters players have completed and passed multiple COVID-19 tests,\u201d said Pit Spitters General Manager Mickey Graham. \u201cAny new players joining either team will be tested at home, and again upon arrival, and will be isolated until their results come back and they will then be placed with their team,\u201d added Graham.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the restart, there will be a few changes as the action resumes. The pod will look a bit different upon resuming play as it will restart with two teams with expanded rosters rather than three \u2013 The Traverse City Pit Spitters and the Great Lakes Resorters will be playing the remainder of the summer schedule. All players will continue to adhere to necessary screening and social distancing protocols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re starting back up with just two teams and expanded rosters.\u00a0 The Dune Bears are not gone completely, I think we will continue to have fun with both the Resorters and Dune Bears branding elements throughout the summer.\u201d Graham continued. \u201cAs our coaches were reworking the rosters, they wanted to create increased competition, playing time and player development opportunities and resuming with one less team helps achieve those goals.\u00a0 Only having two rosters in the mix also allows us to better manage potential exposure to the virus as we ramp back up,\u201d added Graham.\u00a0 \u201cWe feel really good about the socially distanced fan experience we have created, and we are excited to safely return to play next week Sunday.\u201d\u00a0 An overview of Turtle Creek Stadiums COVID Preparedness Plan can be found at PitSpitters.com<\/p>\n<p>A new schedule can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitspitters.com\">www.PitSpitters.com<\/a>. The game dates have not changed, if fans had tickets to a game from July 19<sup>th<\/sup>, on, those tickets are still good for those games.\u00a0 Any fan that had a ticket from July 5<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 July 18<sup>th<\/sup>, can exchange those tickets for any other game on the schedule.\u00a0 Please email <a href=\"mailto:tickets@PitSpitters.com\">tickets@PitSpitters.com<\/a> or call the office at 231.943.0100 for more ticket information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Northwoods League:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. Now entering its\u2019 27<\/em><em><sup>th<\/sup><\/em><em> season, the Northwoods 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 230 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time All-Star and 2016 Roberto Clemente Award winner Curtis Granderson, three-time Cy Young Award winner and World Series Champion Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist (CHC) and Brandon Crawford (SFG) and World Series Champion Chris Sale (BOS). As well as 2019 Rookie of the Year and Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso (NYM) and MLB All-Star Jordan Zimmermann (DET). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. For more information, visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\">www.northwoodsleague.com<\/a><em> or download the Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAVERSE CITY, MI \u2013 The Northern Pod of the Michigan Northwoods League is set to resume play on Sunday, July  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":6850,"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":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Baseball is BACK! 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