{"id":21842,"date":"2025-01-11T03:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21842"},"modified":"2024-12-08T14:28:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T20:28:19","slug":"ballpark-tour-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ballpark-tour-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/guardians_primary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22198\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/guardians_primary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/guardians_primary.jpg 360w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/guardians_primary-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>With the spring training camps opening early next month, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we look at the Cleveland Guardians, the last new stadium I added to my list prior to the lockdown in 2020. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my one game history with Progressive Field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/progessive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15224\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/progessive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/progessive.jpg 656w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/progessive-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Progressive Field<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a01994 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong>\u00a02<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland moved into Jacobs Field for the 1994 season after calling Cleveland Stadium home since 1932.\u00a0 In 1997, the park became one of the few in MLB history to host both the All-Star Game and the World Series in the same season.\u00a0 2008 saw the naming rights sold to a local insurance company and the stadium was renamed Progressive Field.\u00a0 Since opening, the park has seen twelve Central Division titles and three trips to the World Series.\u00a0 It hosted its second All Star Game in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>I almost took my first trip to the park in 2016, for Game 7 of the World Series against the Cubs, but I just couldn\u2019t quite pull the trigger.\u00a0 A Southwest credit this summer led to me booking a 2-day September trip to Cleveland for $3, so there was no second guessing this time.\u00a0 I arrived on a Wednesday afternoon, in plenty of time for that evening\u2019s tilt between the White Sox and Cleveland.\u00a0 A tremendous catch on a smash by Eloy Jimenez saved the game for the then-Tribe.\u00a0 The matinee performance on Thursday afternoon entailed a nice one-hitter by Reynaldo Lopez, giving the White Sox a quick victory before I had to head back to the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the spring training camps opening early next month, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we look at the Cleveland Guardians, the last new stadium I added to my list prior to the lockdown in 2020. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take [&hellip;]<\/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":[6980,5041,11674,120,7511,9687,8573,6993,8035,3589,49],"class_list":["post-21842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-all-star-game","tag-cleveland-stadium","tag-cubs","tag-eloy-jimenez","tag-guardians","tag-jacobs-field","tag-progressive-field","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842","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=21842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22200,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions\/22200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}