{"id":15883,"date":"2020-03-26T09:51:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15883"},"modified":"2020-03-23T19:34:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:34:01","slug":"the-opening-day-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/the-opening-day-that-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opening Day That Wasn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today should have been be my 20th straight Opening Day at Comiskey Park II\/US Cellular Field\/Guaranteed Rate Field, and my 23rd overall for the White Sox.\u00a0 The first one was in 1985, a blowout win against the Red Sox at Comiskey Park that introduced rookie shortstop Ozzie Guillen to Chicago.\u00a0 Other highlights include the 2005 1-0 victory against the Indians, the raising of the championship banner on Sunday Night Baseball in 2006, and Mark Buehrle’s between-the-legs flip in 2010.<\/p>\n

The most frequent opponent has been the Tigers, who are also the only team with a winning record on Opening Day in games I’ve attended.\u00a0 The other AL Central foes have each appeared at least 3 times.<\/p>\n

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Today should have been be my 20th straight Opening Day at Comiskey Park II\/US Cellular Field\/Guaranteed Rate Field, and my 23rd overall for the White Sox.\u00a0 The first one was in 1985, a blowout win against the Red Sox at Comiskey Park that introduced rookie shortstop Ozzie Guillen to Chicago.\u00a0 Other highlights include the 2005 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[597,631,6917,115,124,86,50,893,111,255,258,126,230,118,596,49],"class_list":["post-15883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-comiskey-park","tag-comiskey-park-ii","tag-guaranteed-rate-field","tag-indians","tag-mariners","tag-mark-buehrle","tag-orioles","tag-ozzie-guillen","tag-rangers","tag-rays","tag-red-sox","tag-royals","tag-tigers","tag-twins","tag-us-cellular-field","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15885,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions\/15885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

White Sox Home Opener Team Records<\/b><\/caption>\n
Team Name<\/span><\/th>\nWon<\/span><\/th>\nLoss<\/span><\/th>\nWinning Pctg<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Chicago White Sox<\/span><\/td>\n15<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\n0.682<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Detroit Tigers<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n0.667<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cleveland Indians<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n0.400<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minnesota Twins<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n0.333<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kansas City Royals<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston Red Sox<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tampa Bay Rays<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Texas Rangers<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baltimore Orioles<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seattle Mariners<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n