{"id":8384,"date":"2025-10-20T19:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:10:36","slug":"hood-baseball-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/hood-baseball-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hood Baseball in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Charles Baynum\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hood College baseball team is preparing for a season filled with uncertainty as the college has not yet determined where the Blazers will play their home games in 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What began with optimism surrounding a possible new home field has turned into months of confusion and shifting plans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The college had previously discussed Westside Regional Park as a long-term solution, but that idea seems to have faded from the conversation for now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, Hood expects to continue using Frederick Community College\u2019s field and other available sites. There has been no consistent home venue finalized.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like we will be bouncing around locations this season,\u201d Matthew Gelhard, Hood\u2019s assistant director of athletics for communications, said. \u201cThere will be more away games, less of a standard contract with FCC, and more based on availability. Westside is currently still quite a ways away from being a day-to-day facility for the team.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation has created a complicated stretch for the program, with scheduling and logistics shifting as the season approaches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, Hood baseball waits for clarity on where the team will take the field and hopes for stability in seasons to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Charles Baynum\/\/ The Hood College baseball team is preparing for a season filled with uncertainty as the college has not yet determined where the Blazers will play their home games in 2026.&nbsp; What began <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/hood-baseball-in-focus\/\" title=\"Hood Baseball in Focus\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":8385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hood-college-athletics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8386,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/8386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}