Triple Crowns have now been won for batting and horses. That means we'll get a .400 season soon too.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Minor Details: Games of June 5
The Lookouts win a close one. A rare bad game for Chih-Wei Hu. No pitching for the Kernels. The DSL Twins try to let Jorge do it. We'll hope to get caught up this afternoon.
Happy Birthday–June 7
Bones Ely (1863)
Ed Wells (1900)
Dusty Boggess (1904)
Rosey Gilhousen (1913)
Herb Score (1933)
Roger Nelson (1944)
George Mitterwald (1945)
Don Money (1947)
Thurman Munson (1947)
Bobby Marcano (1951)
Bill Hohn (1955)
Tim Laudner (1958)
Heathcliff Slocumb (1966)
Donaldo Mendez (1978)
Virgil Vasquez (1982)
Mark Lowe (1983)
Dusty Boggess was a National League umpire from 1944-62.
Rosey Gilhousen was a long-time scout who is credit for signing George Brett and Dan Quisenberry.
Bobby Marcano was an all-star in Japan.
Bill Hohn has been a major league umpire since 1989.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Scot.
Jerry Lee Lewis – What’s Made Milwaukee Famous
Come on, gentlemen, pull it together.
1969
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Game 55: Brewers @ Twins
We've got ourselves a bullpen game today...
The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
According to Chris Jaffe, fifty years ago today the Rolling Stones released (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in the US.
1965
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Loading... June 6, 2015: Soon…Soon
I'll be in MN for ten days or so starting in under a month. With the addition of two driving days on both sides, this is the longest break I've had from work for four years.
Happy Birthday–June 6
Ed McKean (1864)
Fresco Thompson (1902)
Bill Dickey (1907)
Wild Bill Wright (1914)
Hector Espino (1939)
Merv Rettenmund (1943)
Bud Harrelson (1944)
Bobby Randall (1948)
Dave Bergman (1953)
Max Venable (1957)
Brooks Kieschnick (1972)
Tony Graffanino (1972)
David Lamb (1975)
Mark Ellis (1977)
Jeremy Affeldt (1979)
Matt Belisle (1980)
Wild Bill Wright was a star in the Negro Leagues in the 1930s and 1940s.
Hector Espino is considered the greatest player in the history of the Mexican League, hitting 453 home runs there.
Game 55 recap: Milwaukee 10 Twins 5
Sometimes awesome things happen at baseball games. The hot topic around the Twins-sphere today was Joe Mauer's bunt in Boston. Today, he answers the critics by pulling (!) a 3run (!!) home run (!!!) to tie the game at 5. Or a guy with a sub 5.0 k/9 rate getting 9 strikeouts in 7 innings. Good job Kyle Gibson!
Sometimes not so awesome things happen, like the Brewers taking sinkerballer Kyle Gibson deep 3 times. Or Torii Hunter misplaying a line drive that leads to the go ahead run. Or an infield fly that travels 25 feet from home is allowed to drop in and Adam Lind can easily lumber in from second base to score a run. And also not awesome is the Twins losing to the Brewers. yuck.
But, there are still two more games in the series. We can still get a series win.
Notes:
- Mauer's home run was his 111th of his career and passed Roy Smalley on the Twins HR list. Next up is Jacque Jones with 132.
-Mauer is already 10th on the franchise RBI list. With 3 tonight he has 722. Rod Carew had 733 and Torii Hunter added one more tonight, he has 747
- Kyle Gibson had a career high 9 strikeouts. His previous high was 8 and that happened only two starts ago against the White Sox.
Game 55 Twins hosting Milwaukee. 7:10pm.
I cant say much about the team because due to working long hours and falling asleep at 8:30 most nights I have missed a lot of Twins baseball.
All I know is that the Twins are good, Milwaukee is bad and on their second manager this year. Ron Roenicke wen 7-18 and Craig Counsell hasnt done much better at 11-18.