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You'll see a lot of babies and dogs in the stands at Target Field Friday, when the Twins take on the Kansas City Royals. Well, their likenesses at least. 

Team staff spent Wednesday and Thursday installing 2,200 enlarged photo cutouts submitted by fans — many of them featuring kids and pets.

“In a normal year I’d be planning for giveaways and theme nights and activating with fans in the building, but this year it’s been a little different,” said Mitch Retelny, senior manager of promotions and special events for the Twins.

Now he and his colleagues are helping plastic, 2.5-foot big heads to their seats and fastening them there with zip ties. They’ll stay there through the season, helping this pandemic baseball season feel a little less lonely, if not a bit more bizarre.

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 photos for a fee through Sunday. At the end of the season, the Twins will make the cutouts available to fans who want them as keepsakes.

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Twins staff are installing fan-submitted cutouts to help this pandemic baseball season feel a little less lonely, if not a bit more bizarre.

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Cutouts of faces are placed in a section of seats at a baseball field. 

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A person holds a cutout of a woman's face. 

A view of a grounds crew working in a baseball field. 

A person wearing a face mask holds a cutout of a dog. 

A group of people holding cutouts of people's faces. 

A piece of paper that reads "section 119, 285 heads."

A person attaches a cutout of a dog to a seat. 

Photos: Fans fill Target Field with their likenesses — and a little levity — during pandemic

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