MINNESOTA 11, CLEVELAND 1 IN CLEVELAND
Date: Tuesday, April 27.
Batting stars: Camilo Pascual was 2-for-5 with a grand slam and a walk, driving in five. Earl Battey was 2-for-2 with two walks, scoring twice and driving in one. Bob Allison was 3-for-5 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.
Pitching star: Pascual also pitched a complete game, giving up one run on two hits and two walks with five strikeouts.
Opposition stars: Dick Howser was 1-for-4 with a double and a run. Gary Bell struck out two in a scoreless inning, allowing one hit. Lee Stange pitched two scoreless innings, allowing a hit and a walk with one strikeout.
The game: The Twins blitzed Sam McDowell, scoring six runs off him in a third of an inning. Tony Oliva singled in the first run, Allison brought one home on a ground out, and a bases-loaded walk to Jerry Kindall (one of three walks McDowell issued) made it 3-0. Stan Williams then came in and gave up a grand slam to Pascual to make it 7-0. Pascual gave up a double and two walks in the first inning, when the Indians scored their only run, but then retired twenty-one batters in a row before giving up a single to Camilo Carreon in the eighth.
Of note: Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-5 with a double and a run. Rich Rollins was 1-for-5. Oliva was 1-for-4 with a run and two RBIs. Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring once.
Without looking it up, it seems Harmon has an unusually high average right now and an unusually low homer total.
Through this game he was hitting .353/.463/.382.
Unrelated but spotted while looking up the above, but he played his 1000th career game five games ago. That is, this was game 1004 for him.
wow and wow.
Killebrew was a Bonus Baby, so he had just 280 PAs in his first 113 games over his first four seasons. He then got regular playing time in 1959 and led the league in home runs with 42 at age 23, which is, you know, the same age Sano will be next year.