{"id":44123,"date":"2026-08-12T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=44123"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:59:36","slug":"womens-pro-baseball-league-begins-historic-inaugural-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/44123-womens-pro-baseball-league-begins-historic-inaugural-2026-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Pro Baseball League Begins Historic Inaugural 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) has officially begun its historic, inaugural 2026 season.\u00a0 The league\u2019s four teams \u2013 New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles \u2013 are taking the field at Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Regular Season runs through September 6th, with all games being played Wednesday through Sunday, with most games starting at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Following the regular-season finale on September 6th, the postseason will begin on Wednesday, September 9th.\u00a0 The winners advance to a best-of-5 Championship Series starting September 16th, culminating in the crowning of the first WPBL Champion.<\/p>\n<p>The WPBL is the only professional women\u2019s baseball league in the United States.\u00a0 The League is co-founded by baseball pioneer, Justine Siegal, who is the first woman to coach a professional men\u2019s baseball team and to pitch batting practice in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) has officially begun its historic, inaugural 2026 season.\u00a0 The league\u2019s four teams \u2013 New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles \u2013 are taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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