{"id":4477,"date":"2019-08-08T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2019-08-08T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:16:59","slug":"garth-brooks-teaming-up-with-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/08\/garth-brooks-teaming-up-with-mlb\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Teaming Up With MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s-acc1qfktE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Major League Baseball has announced a league-wide initiative by all 30 MLB Clubs and more than four dozen Major League players to support childhood hunger prevention and battle food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, called \u201cHome Plate Project,\u201d is in partnership with Garth Brooks\u2019 Teammates For Kids Foundation (TFK) and Big League Impact, which was founded by St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright and is supported by Minnesota Twins pitcher Kyle Gibson. Garth said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTeammates for Kids started with 67 baseball players 20 years ago, and as we look forward, we are excited to launch this project with ballplayers from every MLB team to help fight childhood hunger. The Home Plate Project is special for Teammates for Kids because it incorporates our founding principles of teaming up with athletes who have a passion for helping kids, such as Adam Wainwright and Kyle Gibson who help kids around the world through Big League Impact. The beauty of it all, 100% of the money that is getting donated to this effort will feed children in local communities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHome Plate Project\u201d includes an overall $900,000 commitment, including $300,000 from MLB players, to help individual Club charities support local groups dedicated to fighting childhood hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Clubs will fund efforts with local food organizations, or local affiliates of national organizations, to distribute food and non-perishables to children in need throughout the United States and in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is expected to reach a minimum of 25,000 children providing more than 3.6 million meals.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Here is the list of player ambassadors for each MLB Club:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>ARI \u2013 Nick Ahmed &amp; Luke Weaver<br \/>\nATL \u2013 Brian McCann &amp; Mark Melancon<br \/>\nBAL \u2013 Trey Mancini &amp; Chris Davis<br \/>\nBOS \u2013 Nate Eovaldi &amp; Mitch Moreland<br \/>\nCHC \u2013 Steve Cishek &amp; Daniel Descalso<br \/>\nCWS \u2013 Jon Jay &amp; James McCann<br \/>\nCIN \u2013 Tucker Barnhart &amp; Curt Casali<br \/>\nCLE \u2013 Jason Kipnis<br \/>\nCOL \u2013 Daniel Murphy &amp; Brian Shaw<br \/>\nDET \u2013 Tyson Ross<br \/>\nHOU \u2013 Will Harris &amp; Ryan Pressly<br \/>\nKC \u2013 Ian Kennedy<br \/>\nLAA \u2013 Andrew Heaney &amp; *Tyler Skaggs*<br \/>\nLAD \u2013 Clayton Kershaw &amp; David Freese<br \/>\nMIA \u2013 Martin Prado<br \/>\nMIL \u2013 Chase Anderson<br \/>\nMIN \u2013 Kyle Gibson &amp; Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez<br \/>\nNYM \u2013 Steven Matz &amp; Jacob deGrom<br \/>\nNYY \u2013 Aaron Hicks<br \/>\nOAK \u2013 Stephen Piscotty &amp; Liam Hendriks<br \/>\nPHI \u2013 JT Realmuto &amp; Aaron Nola<br \/>\nPIT \u2013 Josh Bell &amp; Trevor Williams<br \/>\nSD \u2013 Austin Hedges &amp; Ian Kinsler<br \/>\nSEA \u2013 Marco Gonzales &amp; Sam Tuivailala<br \/>\nSF \u2013 Tony Watson<br \/>\nSTL \u2013 Andrew Miller &amp; Adam Wainwright<br \/>\nTB \u2013 Tommy Pham &amp; Charlie Morton<br \/>\nTEX \u2013 Hunter Pence &amp; Lance Lynn<br \/>\nTOR \u2013 Randal Grichuk &amp; Clayton Richard<br \/>\nWAS \u2013 Brian Dozier &amp; Yan Gomes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball has announced a league-wide initiative with Garth Brooks to support childhood hunger prevention and battle food insecurity.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[991,992,56,993,994,995],"class_list":["post-4477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-big-league-impact","tag-garth-brooks","tag-kyle-gibson","tag-mlb","tag-teammate-for-kids-foundation"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 14:16:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/08\/garth-brooks-teaming-up-with-mlb\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}