{"id":244625,"date":"2017-01-18T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=244625"},"modified":"2017-01-18T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:00:50","slug":"japanese-pro-baseball-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/japanese-pro-baseball-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Pro Baseball Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-244625 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/japanese-pro-baseball-clinic\/japanese-pix-1-2\/'>Japanese-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-244632'>\n\t\t\t\tSaipan players and Japanese Consul Toshio Matsumura, fifth left second row, pose with the baseball pros from Japan\u2019s Nippon Professional Baseball after the short clinic at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield last Sunday.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/japanese-pro-baseball-clinic\/japanese-pix-2-2\/'>Japanese-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-244633'>\n\t\t\t\tTaishi Ohta, second left, through an interpreter, talks to Saipan players after conducting a clinic with his fellow pros.\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/japanese-pro-baseball-clinic\/japanese-pix-3\/'>Japanese-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-244634'>\n\t\t\t\tDai Podziewski follows through his swing during a batting drill.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure 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