Metropolitan Stadium

Former names: Jacobs Field (1994–2007)
Address: 8000 Cedar Avenue South
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota, U.S.
Coordinates:

Home teams: Minnesota Twins

Field Size
Left field: 343 ft (105 m)
Left-center: 365 ft (111 m)
Center field: 402 ft (123 m)
Right-center: 370 ft (113 m)
Right field: 330 ft (101 m)
Backstop: 60 ft (18 m)
Wall: 8 feet (2.4 m)

Special Events:
1965 World Series

Ball Park First Game Date – 04/21/1961 (1)

Starting Pitchers – vs. Senators: 04/21/1961

Final Score 5-3 (WS1)

Attendance – 24,606

Starting Pitchers Camilo Pascual (MIN); Joe McClain (WS2)

First Batter – Marty Keough (WS2) Result – Singled to RF

First Hits – Marty Keough (WS2),Singled to RF (1st)

First Run – Marty Keough (WS2)

First RBI – Dale Long (WS2)

First Homerun – Dale Long (WS2) vs. Camilo Pascual (MIN) on 04/21/1961 (1st inning)

Grandslam – Mickey Mantle (NY) vs. Camilo Pascual (MIN) on 05/02/1961 (10th inning)

First Inside Park Homerun – Harmon Killebrew (MIN) vs. Cal McLish (CHA) on 07/04/1961 (8th inning)

First No Hitter – Jack Kralick (MIN) vs. Royals on 08/26/1962

Ball Park Lasts Last Game – vs. Royals: 09/30/1981, Final Score – 5-2 (KCA)

Attendance – 15,900

Starting Pitchers – Fernando Arroyo (MIN); Larry Gura (KCA), Winning Pitcher – Larry Gura (KCA) Losing Pitcher – Fernando Arroyo (MIN)

Last Batter – Roy Smalley (MIN), result – Popped to SS

Last Hit – Gary Ward (MIN), Singled to RF (9)

Last Run – U.L. Washington (KCA), Last RBI – Willie Wilson (KCA)

Last HR – Clint Hurdle (KCA) vs. Fernando Arroyo (MIN) on 09/30/1981 (4th inning)

Last Grand Slam – Lenny Randle (SEA) vs. Don Cooper (MIN) on 04/27/1981 (10th inning)

Last Inside The Park Homerun – Mike Cubbage (MIN) vs. Jackson Todd (TOR) on 08/20/1980 (6th inning)

Last No Hitter – Jack Kralick (MIN) vs. Royals on 08/26/1962

At the Ball Park

Ball Park News, Stories, Games & More:

TRIVIA – On August 10, 1971 Harmon Killebrew homered in the first inning off Baltimore’s Mike Cuellar for career home run number 500. He homered off Cuellar again in the sixth.; On June 3, 1967 Harmon Killebrew hit a home run off California’s Lew Burdette that traveled an estimated 520 feet and is listed as the longest recorded home run in the history of the stadium.

Ball Park History

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Notable Events and Chronology

April 21, 1961

The Twins play their first home game, losing to the ‘new’ expansion Washington Senators at Metropolitan Stadium

July 4, 1961

Harmon Killebrew tags the longest homer in Memorial Stadium

Harmon Killebrew’s hits his only career inside-the-park homer

July 18, 1962

The Twins are first American League Team to hit two grand slams in one inning

July 23, 1964

Bert Campaneris hits two home runs in his major league debut

July 13, 1965

Giants rule the day as Mays and Marichal combine to help NL win All Star Game 6-5

October 6, 1965

Sandy Koufax declines to pitch the first game of the World Series against the Twins because the scheduled game occurs Yom Kippur, Dodgers lose 8-2

December 25, 1965

Sandy Koufax & Willie Mays Signed 8.75x12 Magazine Page #U91962 - JSA Certified

Major League Baseball Season Recap 1965

June 3, 1967

Harmon Killebrew 503 foot homerun the longest home run ever hit in Metropolitan Stadium

September 22, 1968

Cesar Tovar plays one inning at each position for the Minnesota Twins, becoming only the second major leaguer in history to do it.

June 16, 1969

Rod Carew and Tony Oliva complete two double steals on two consecutive pitches

October 1, 1969

Harmon Killebrew slams his 49th home run of the season

August 10, 1971

Harmon Killebrew joins the 500-home run club

July 31, 1972

Dick Allen second inside park homerun same game

Dick Allen hits 2 inside park Hr’s

May 24, 1973

The Twins’ Bert Blyleven one-hits the Royals to win‚ 2 – 0. Ed Kirkpatrick’s bunt single in the 5th is the only hit.

September 18, 1975

Harmon Killebrew hits his 573rd and final career home run

May 31, 1980

Ken Landreaux’s 31-game hitting streak comes to an end when he goes hitless in four at-bats in Minnesota’s 11-1 loss to Baltimore at Metropolitan Stadium. The 33 year-old outfielder’s accomplishment, the longest span in the American League since Dom DiMaggio’s 34 for the Red Sox in 1949, establishes the record for the most consecutive games with a hit in Twins history.

August 14, 1980

Mike Norris goes 11 to beat the twins

September 7, 1996

In a pregame ceremony in front of a sellout crowd at the Metrodome, the Twins bid farewell to Kirby Puckett, one of the team’s most popular players in recent years. After a remarkable 12-year Hall of Fame career, the talented and personable outfielder was forced to retire in July because of blindness in his right eye caused by glaucoma.

August 2, 2019

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