1965 Rewind: Game One Hundred Seven

MINNESOTA 4, WASHINGTON 3 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Wednesday, August 4.

Batting stars:  Jimmie Hall was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI.  Bob Allison was 1-for-4 with a home run, his seventeenth).  Jerry Kindall was 1-for-1 with a pinch-hit home run, his fifth.

Pitching stars:  Dick Stigman struck out five in the shutout innings, giving up only a walk.  Garry Roggenburk pitched a scoreless inning, giving up two hits with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Jim King was 2-for-3 with a triple, a double, and a walk, scoring once and driving in one.  Mike Brumley was 2-for-4 with a run.  Don Lock was 1-for-3 with a walk.

The game:  It was scoreless until the fourth, when King tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly to put the Senators up 1-0.  Don Mincher hit an RBI double in the bottom of the fourth to tie it 1-1.  The Senators got the lead again in the fifth, scoring one on a sacrifice fly and another on King's double to make it 3-1.  Allison homered leading off the sixth to make it 3-2.  The Twins still trailed going into the bottom of the ninth, when Kindall opened the inning with a pinch-hit home run off Howie Koplitz.  Koplitz walked Zoilo Versalles and was replaced by Marshall Bridges.  Tony Oliva greeted Bridges with a single and was followed by Hall's RBI single to win the game.

Of note:  Oliva was 2-for-5.  Earl Battey was 0-for-3.  Starter Jim Perry pitched 4.2 innings, giving up three runs on six hits and one walk with two strikeouts.

Record:  The win made the Twins 68-39.  Baltimore swept a doubleheader from California, cutting the Twins' lead to five games.

Notes:  Oliva was hitting .303.  Hall was at .305.  Battey fell to .294...Jerry Kindall hit only forty-four career home runs, with a high of thirteen in 1962.  He would hit only six in 1965, his last season...Washington's starter was Leslie Ferdinand "Buster" Narum.  He was a rotation starter (mostly) for the Senators for two seasons, 1964-65.  In those two seasons, he went 13-27, 4.37, 1.44 WHIP.  He hit a home run in his first major league at-bat, one of three he hit in his career (one each in 1963, 1964, and 1965).  I could not find out why he was called "Buster".  Maybe it's not a very interesting story, or maybe he wasn't good enough for anyone to care.  Which is kind of a sad thought, really.

2 thoughts on “1965 Rewind: Game One Hundred Seven”

  1. That is a sad thought ... except this guy was good enough to make it to the big show, so I don't feel too bad for him.

    1. Was at the LCS* yesterday looking through a box of APBA game cards that he had, from 1971 and 1974. We only found a couple that did not have "nickname" on them, and some of the nicknames they chose to list were kind of laughable. They clearly were trying too hard.

      *local card shop

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