11 thoughts on “Game 49: Josh Willingham 3, Oakland Athletics 2”

  2. I didn't even think about Willingham doing this to his old team until it was mentioned by an announcer in the highlights.

  3. "That's the first time all season I think we've kind of caught a break or had a dramatic win," Span said. "We've lost some tough one-run games all season. You don't want to prematurely jinx yourself, but hopefully we can build some momentum from this, starting tomorrow, and see what happens."

    Oh how the losing colors the memory. Denard, I think the A's would like to point out a pop fly that fell for a game-tying double in the eighth inning on Monday and it set up a sac fly that scored the go-ahead run. Plus, the Twins are 11-9 in one-run games and 6-23 in all other games. Not only have the Twins not struggled in one-run games, but I would say they've succeeded brilliantly in those games.

    1. Not only have the Twins not struggled in one-run games, but I would say they've succeeded brilliantly in those games.

      that's all Capps, of course. 😉

      In reality, Capps is 10 saves, 3 losses in one-run games. He created two one-run wins and converted one one-run lead into a one-run loss. He entered tied games in the other pair of one-run losses.

  4. Willingham's shot on Tuesday was the first time since Kirby Puckett in 1995 that the Twins hit a walk-off homer to erase a deficit of two or more runs, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

    Matthew LeCroy once hit a grand slam to put the Twins up by one or two in the ninth in Toronto, IIRC, but that was on the road so it wasn't a walkoff HR.

    1. Oh, I remember listening to that game on the radio at work.
      Back when the signal was strong enough to make it to my desk.

  5. The Twins had a 10 percent chance of winning this game when Willingham came to the plate. He is second in the AL with 2.2 WPA, .9 of which came on one swing.

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