The lockout resulted in the San Francisco Giants staying home on Opening Day for the first time since 2009. It’s taken until now, their seventh game of the season, to pack their bags and visit someone else’s inferior ballpark.
The Giants are becoming just the third team in MLB history to face the Cleveland Guardians, as the AL Central team has finally eschewed their problematic name and logo. You can still expect the broadcasters to get the name wrong a bit this weekend — old habits die hard. Duane Kuiper, who spent the first eight years of his playing career with Cleveland, got the name wrong a good two or three times during Wednesday’s broadcast before realizing it.