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Cleveland radio team mentions the "dozens" of fans joining them for game 1.

I think I'll take Guthrie v Liriano again, thank you. Like, Guthrie v Liriano as they are today.

Doubleheaders. I love doubleheaders. Except when they're only 7 innings per game; then I only like them. But I digress. I wish MLB would go back to scheduled doubleheaders. It's an easy way to keep the quantity of games and still condense the schedule. As a fan, I imagine that I wouldn't be alone in making a day of it in and around the ballpark. My love for doubleheaders goes back to my playing days as a young lad. What more can a kid want than to play baseball all day long? Traveling and playing doubleheaders was even better. On our way home, we'd often stop at a Zorbaz somewhat on the way and we'd load up on nachos and pizza and hang out by the lake a while. Lots of fond memories from those summer weekend tournaments, nachos and pizza. Oddly enough, perhaps my favorite doubleheader memory is a more recent occurrence that doesn't involve traveling, pizza or playing baseball. Having only known indoor home baseball up to that point in my life, I had never seen a MLB doubleheader in person. As it turned out, neither had my dad. Nor had Target Field. Which all brings me to May 8th, 2010. A Saturday twin bill versus the Orioles of Baltimore. And as fortune would have it, I already had tickets for one of the games. How much more perfect could this opportunity possibly be? I suppose that it could have involved pizza, but one can't have everything? So, I asked my dad if he wanted to partake in the first doubleheader at Target Field. As I recall, it didn't require a lot of arm twisting. Game day arrives. We sojourned downtown for a pre-doubleheader burger and a beer lunch, talking baseball the whole time. Game 1 featured a pitching matchup of Jeremy Guthrie v Francisco Liriano. Not the most exciting pitching matchup, but it was what it was. The hometown 9 dropped the opener 7-3. Local squad scoring provided off homers by Morneausy and Cuddy. Having time to kill, we exited the ballpark and decided to spend the afternoon eating nachos and beer at the Hard Rock Cafe, which was still in the now long defunct Block E across from Target Center. While there, we noticed many other fans doing the same thing and enjoying the nice May day. We were still talking mostly baseball with the occasional detour of jabbing the guys at the next table about how much beer they're drinking and how they're going to have to spend the rest of the afternoon in line for the restroom. There would be some irony there for my dad. I won't go into details... Game 2 featured a Kevin Millwood v Scott Baker dual. Baker tossed 8 innings of 1 R ball to best Millwood's 7 innings while allowing 3 runs himself. Delmon Young had a big night with a 3-hit, 2-RBI night. Drew Butera even chipped in with two RBI himself to help give the Twins a 6-1 W. Full of nachos and to a lesser extent beer, we made our way home after a long, but very enjoyable day of baseball and the memories to go with it. Interestingly enough, both of these games were two and a half hours long. Those were the days! Now to today's doubleheader, the Soon to be Guardians of Cleveland and the Twins of Minnesota square off starting at 2:10 local time! Grab your nachos, pizza and beer! Lineups for Game 1: The Visiting 9: On the bump - Triston McKenzie, RHP CF - Straw, RHB SS - Rosario, RHB DH - Reyes, RHB 1B - Bradley, LHB LF - Ramirez, RHB RF - Zimmer, LHB C - Hedges, RHB 2B - Gimenez, LHB The Hometown 9: On the bump - Joe Ryan, RHP 3B - Arraez, LHB CF - Buxton, RHB DH - Polanco, SHB RF - Kepler, LHB 1B - Sano, RHB 2B - Gordon, LHB LF - Refsnyder, RHB C - Rortvedt, LHB SS - Simmons, RHB Game 2 lineups to follow.

And referenced/used with relative frequency on this very site!

I am. But only in the context of NOT picking of the 2022 option.

Something to strive for! Everyone needs goals!

Yup. One run is not unraveling. 5 can be though.

Not enough volume to this Game Thread! ?

I'm very anti-automated, but that is as good an example of why it needs to be there as it gets. Absolutely brutal.

Definitely has. I was speaking generally and/or historically. It was an issue earlier this season for sure.

Yes, the inability to add on is infuriating. It also doesn't help a lackluster bullpen.

One run is hardly unraveling, especially at Yankee Stadium.

This has essentially been a bullpen game, so I'm not sure the same logic holds.

FIVE scoreless innings!

FOUR scoreless innings!

Refsnyder continues his free fall back to Earth.

And public pressure to do so increases as well. I think you're probably onto something there.

THREE scoreless innings!

Buxton...continuing to show signs of life with the bat!

While I agree, an injury to Gant increases the likelihood that we get even more Andrew Albers or Charlie Barnes. Impact for 2022 or not, I don't want to see any more of those guys.

TWO scoreless innings!

By the opponent mostly, I imagine.

a scoreless inning!

Yet another pitcher injury... You can't make this stuff up.

"Too bad Cave isn't in the lineup..."?