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Keeping Track

1965 Rewind: Game Twenty-six

MINNESOTA 2, KANSAS CITY 0 IN KANSAS CITY

Date:  Saturday, May 15.

Batting stars:  Jerry Kindall was 2-for-3 with a home run (his third) and two RBIs.  Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4 with a double.  Bob Allison was 1-for-4 with a run.

Pitching stars:  Dave Boswell pitched 7.1 scoreless innings, giving up four hits and four walks with six strikeouts.  Mel Nelson pitched 1.2 perfect innings.

Opposition stars:  Don Buschhorn pitched five innings, allowing two runs on four hits and no walks with four strikeouts.  Wes Stock struck out three in three shutout innings, allowing a hit and a walk.  Dick Green was 2-for-4 with a double.

The game:  Kindall homered in the third to put the Twins up 1-0.  In the fifth, consecutive one-out singles by Allison, Earl Battey, and Kindall produced a second run.  That was all the Twins would get, but it was all they would need.  The Athletics did not get two men on base until the eighth, when a walk and a one-out single put men on first and second.  Nelson came in to get a double play and then retired the side in order in the ninth.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-4.  Rich Rollins was 0-for-4.  Tony Oliva was 0-for-4.  Harmon Killebrew was 0-for-3 with a walk.

Record:  The win gave the Twins a record of 18-8, but they remained in second place, a half game behind Chicago.

Notes:  The loss was the seventh straight for the Athletics, dropping their record to 5-21.  They were, of course, in last place, four and a half games behind ninth-place Washington.

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–October 31

Harry Smith (1874)
Cal Hubbard (1900)
Ken Keltner (1916)
Jim Donohue (1938)
Ed Stroud (1939)
Dave McNally (1942)
Dave Trembley (1951)
Mike Gallego (1960)
Matt Nokes (1963)
Fred McGriff (1963)
Eddie Taubensee (1968)
Steve Trachsel (1970)
David Dellucci (1973)
Tim Byrdak (1973)
Mike Napoli (1981)

Cal Hubbard was an American League umpire from 1936-1951.  He is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the College Football Hall of Fame.

Dave Trembley was the manager of the Baltimore Orioles from 2007-2010.

David Dellucci was drafted by Minnesota in the eleventh round in 1994, but did not sign.

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Friday Music Day

FMD:

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Okay, so, a few quick points:

-Thank you everyone for submitting, and some of you way too much (the request was pretty specific, right?).  I haven't gone through the last post's SPOILERs, but according to the compiler, the number of submissions wildly exceed the number of submitters (which was a no-no).
-I really wanted to get a chance to create and edit a much more concise list, but several factors conspired against me.
-As such, whatever, I just slapped whatever everyone submitted together in Spotify list for all that want to spice up their Halloweekends (probably best to play it on shuffle).
-We'll do this better next year (ha! fat chance).
-Also, to whomever requested the Barn Owl screeches, they were not available on said streaming music service.

 

Pete does this next, right?

Keeping Track

1965 Rewind: Game Twenty-five

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MINNESOTA 5, KANSAS CITY 3 IN KANSAS CITY

Date:  Friday, May 14.

Batting stars:  Bob Allison was 1-for-4 with a three-run homer, his fourth.  Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a run.  Jerry Kindall was 2-for-4 with a run.

Pitching stars:  Jim Kaat pitched six innings, giving up one run on four hits and three walks with five strikeouts.  Jerry Fosnow pitched a perfect inning with one strikeout.  Bill Pleis pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Dick Green was 1-for-5 with a triple, scoring once and driving in one.  Bert Campaneris was 1-for-3 with a run, an RBI, and a stolen base.  John O'Donoghue pitched eight innings, allowing four runs on nine hits and three walks with three strikeouts.

The game:  Jim Landis singled in a run in the fourth to give the Athletics a 1-0 lead.  In the sixth, O'Donoghue got an infield single, Green hit an RBI triple, and Campaneris delivered a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.  In the seventh, Killebrew and Jimmie Hall got two-out singles followed by Allison's three-run homer to tie it 3-3.  In the ninth, Kindall singled, Jerry Zimmerman reached on catcher's interference, Zoilo Versalles singled in the go-ahead run, and a wild pitch gave the Twins some insurance.

Of note:  Versalles was 2-for-5 with an RBI.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-4 with a walk.  Earl Battey returned to the lineup, going 0-for-3 with a walk.

Record:  The win made the Twins 17-8 and kept them in second place, a half game behind Chicago.

Of note:  Rich Rollins apparently was shaken up on a play in the second inning on which he committed an error, as he was removed from the game.  He was replaced by Frank Kostro, but would be back in the starting lineup the next day.  The insurance run was scored by Dave Boswell, who was used as a pinch-runner (it was not uncommon to use pitchers as pinch-runners back then).  Kansas City's loss was their sixth in a row and dropped them to a record of 5-20.

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–October 30

Ed Delahanty (1867)
Buck Freeman (1871)
Charlie Deal (1891)
Clyde Manion (1896)
Bill Terry (1898)
Dave Barnhill (1914)
Leon Day (1916)
Bobby Bragan (1917)
Joe Adcock (1927)
Jim Perry (1935)
Bruce Gardner (1938)
Jim Ray Hart (1941)
Mickey Rivers (1948)
Houston Jimenez (1957)
Dave Leeper (1959)
Dave Valle (1960)
Lee Tunnell (1960)
Gerald Perry (1960)
Scott Garrelts (1961)
Danny Tartabull (1962)
Mark Portugal (1962)
Marco Scutaro (1975)
Jason Bartlett (1979)
Laynce Nix (1980)
Shane Robinson (1984)

Pitcher Dave Barnhill was a four-time all-star in the Negro Leagues.

Pitcher Leon Day was a star in the Negro Leagues, primarily with the Newark Eagles.

Dave Leeper was drafted by Minnesota in the third round in 1978, but did not sign.

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