{"id":152943,"date":"2019-08-12T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=152943"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:04:54","slug":"pitching-new-york-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/08\/pitching-new-york-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching in for the New York Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Tom Katsouleas and Scott Roberts, UConn foundation president, joined forces in throwing the ceremonial first pitch during a New York Mets baseball game on Aug. 11, at Citi Field in Queens.<\/p>\n

The university was also represented at the game by Jonathan the Husky, alumni and friends. The afternoon celebration kicked off at Mikkeller Brewing NYC.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan the Husky poses for photos with UConn alumni and friends at Mikkeller Brewing NYC before a New York Mets baseball game at Citi Field in Queens NY on Aug. 11. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Mets190811a112\"<\/a>
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President Tom Katsouleas, right, throws the ceremonial first pitch to Scott Roberts, UConn foundation president, at Citi Field during a New York Mets baseball game on Aug. 11. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Mets190811a229\"<\/a>
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President Tom Katsouleas, right, and Scott Roberts, UConn foundation president, left, speaks with Jim Riggleman, center, New York Mets bench coach, at Citi Field in Queens after throwing the ceremonial first pitch during a New York Mets baseball game (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Mets190811a218\"<\/a>
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President Tom Katsouleas, left, and Scott Roberts, UConn foundation president, walk off Citi Field in Queens after the ceremonial first pitch. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Mets190811a330\"<\/a>
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Jonathan the Husky cheers during a New York Mets baseball game at Citi Field. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Mets190811a263\"<\/a>
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Jonathan the Husky mingles with UConn alumni and friends in the stands at Citi Field in Queens during a New York Mets baseball game on Aug. 11. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UConn President Tom Katsouleas threw the ceremonial first pitch during a New York Mets baseball game Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":152937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,173,92,174,2225,90,2234,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-152943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-uconn-avery-point","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-stamford","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-waterbury","category-university-life","category-university-news","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 06:25:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152947,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152943\/revisions\/152947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/152937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152943"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=152943"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=152943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}