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1965 Rewind: Game Three

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MINNESOTA 3, CLEVELAND 0 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Saturday, April 17.

Batting stars:  Bob Allison was 2-for-4 with a home run.  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring once.  Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4 with a triple and an RBI.

Pitching star:  Jim Kaat pitched a complete game shutout, giving up seven hits and one walk with no strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Sonny Siebert struck out three in three shutout innings of relief, allowing two hits.  Joe Azcue was 2-for-3.  Max Alvis was 2-for-4.

The game:  In the first inning, Versalles doubled, Harmon Killebrew had a two-out RBI single, and Hall followed with a triple to put the Twins up 2-0.  Allison led off the fourth with a home run to make it 3-0.  The Indians only once got a man as far as third base, in the second inning.

Of note:  Rich Rollins was 0-for-4.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-4.  Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI.  Kaat was 1-for-3.

Record:  The win made the Twins 2-1, tied for second with Boston, a half game behind Detroit.

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–October 8

Doc Crandall (1887)
Donie Bush (1887)
Ping Bodie (1887)
Wally Moses (1910)
Danny Murtaugh (1917)
Catfish Metkovich (1920)
Ed Kirkpatrick (1924)
Don Pepper (1943)
Paul Splittorff (1946)
Rick Stelmaszek (1948)
Enos Cabell (1949)
Jerry Reed (1955)
Mike Morgan (1959)
J. T. Bruett (1967)
Olmedo Saenz (1970)
Antoan Richardson (1983)
Cody Eppley (1985)

Right-hander Jerry Reed was drafted by the Twins in the eleventh round in 1973, but did not sign.

We would also like to wish E-6 a very happy birthday, and a very happy anniversary to Rhu_Ru's parents.

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Happy Birthday–September 7

Fleet Walker (1856)
Brickyard Kennedy (1867)
Bill Walker (1903)
Chuck Klein (1904)
Frank Baumholtz (1918)
Grady Hatton (1922)
Bud Daley (1932)
Phil Ortega (1939)
Jose Cardenal (1943)
Rich DeLucia (1964)
Evan Longoria (1985)

Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker is credited as the first African-American to play major league baseball.  A catcher, he appeared in forty-two games for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association in 1884, until rival owners and players demanded that he be removed from the roster.  In those forty-two games, he batted .263/.325/.316.

There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Twins born on this day.  I keep thinking that Bud Daley was a Twin, but apparently I get him confused in my mind with Bill Dailey.

Keeping Track

1965 Rewind: Game Two

DETROIT 6, MINNESOTA 4 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  April 15.

Batting stars:  Bob Allison was 2-for-4 with a stolen base and two RBIs.  Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-5 with a double and a run.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI.

Pitching stars:  None.

Opposition stars:  Norm Cash was 2-for-4 with a three-run homer.  Al Kaline was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer, a walk, and a stolen base.  Dave Wickersham pitched a complete game, allowing four runs on nine hits and one walk with four strikeouts.

The game:  Allison had a two-run single in a four-run third that put the Twins ahead 4-1.  In the fifth, Cash hit a three-run homer off Camilo Pascual to tie it up.  In the seventh, Kaline hit a two-run homer off Jerry Fosnow to give the Tigers the lead.  The Twins had only two hits after the third inning.  Both came in the ninth, but a double play meant they did not get a man past first.

Of note:  Cesar Tovar was 1-for-4 with a run.  Tony Oliva was 0-for-4.  Earl Battey was 1-for-2 with an RBI.  Camilo Pascual pitched five innings, giving up four runs on six hits and three walks with four strikeouts.

Record:  The loss put the Twins at 1-1, tied for third, a game and a half behind Detroit.