WORLD SERIES / MINNESOTA TWINS VS. ATLANTA BRAVES : NOTES

A rib injury prevented Terry Pendleton, then with the St. Louis Cardinals, from playing in the 1987 World Series, but he became familiar with the Metrodome.

Local knowledge, the Atlanta third baseman said, gives the Twins a built-in advantage.

“It’s not a horrible dome, but I’d rather be starting in Atlanta,” Pendleton said. “It’s hard enough to find the ball here, much less go get it.”

The problem, he said, stems from a combination of the light-colored, tent-like ceiling and the tendency to lose balls coming out of the homer hankies.

“They start waving those white hankies and it’s big trouble,” Pendleton said, “but the hardest (because of the trajectory coming out of the crowd) is the routine fly ball to the warning track. You have to find it before you can go after it, and that’s not easy.”