{"id":6412,"date":"2014-08-03T02:12:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T08:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2014-08-01T19:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T01:57:37","slug":"ballpark-tour-target-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/ballpark-tour-target-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour &#8211; Target Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/targetfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6498\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/targetfield.jpg\" alt=\"targetfield\" width=\"648\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/targetfield.jpg 648w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/targetfield-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a>Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Target Field<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Minneapolis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Team:<\/strong>\u00a0Twins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a02010 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:\u00a0<\/strong>2<\/p>\n<p>After 28 seasons of indoor baseball at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the Twins moved back outside starting with the 2010 season when they opened Target Field in downtown Minneapolis. \u00a0The first regular season game took place on April 12, 2010, with the Twins defeating the Red Sox. \u00a0This summer, Target Field hosted the All Star Game, the first in Minnesota since 1985.<\/p>\n<p>I took the long trip up to Minneapolis last weekend, along with Danny and Michael, to see the White Sox take on the Twins. \u00a0We picked two good games to see, as the White Sox offense came to life and they won both games against the Twinkies. \u00a0We sat down on the first level, between home plate and third base behind the White Sox dugout for both games, so I didn&#8217;t get to sample the different areas of the ballpark, but I certainly liked what I saw. \u00a0The one thing I didn&#8217;t like about the park was the configuration of most of the outfield. \u00a0Between the large hitting background in center field and the high walls in left and right, there is a lot of dead space in the outfield that seems to put the fans far away from the action. \u00a0Besides that, though, a good time was had by all and I certainly wouldn&#8217;t mind returning one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadium Name:\u00a0Target Field Location:\u00a0Minneapolis Home Team:\u00a0Twins Years in Service:\u00a02010 \u2013 Present Visits:\u00a02 After 28 seasons of indoor baseball at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the Twins moved back outside starting with the 2010 season when they opened Target Field in downtown Minneapolis. \u00a0The first regular season game took place on April 12, 2010, with the [&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":[5041,5040,258,4942,118,49],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-all-star-game","tag-metrodome","tag-red-sox","tag-target-field","tag-twins","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6516,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}