It's also been too long since we spun some St. Vincent. Hmm, she's due for another album soon.
2014
Fun fact: I discovered this song has the perfect beat for my running gait.
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Loading... Date: Sunday, October 4.
Batting stars: Greg Gagne was 2-for-2. Kirby Puckett was 2-for-4.
Pitching stars: George Frazier pitched a perfect inning with one strikeout. Keith Atherton pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit and striking out one. Jeff Reardon pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a walk.
Opposition stars: Mark Gubicza pitched a complete game, giving up one run on eight hits and no walks with four strikeouts. Frank White was 2-for-3 with a home run (his seventeenth), scoring twice and driving in two. Kevin Seitzer was 2-for-5 with a triple, scoring twice and driving in two.
The game: The Twins basically treated this as a spring training game, using sixteen position players and seven pitchers. No pitcher went more than 1.2 innings, which was still too much for starter Joe Niekro. He got the Royals out in order in the first, but in the second he faced seven batters and retired one of them, giving up three hits and three walks. The score was 3-0 Kansas City and the bases were loaded when he left the game. Dan Schatzeder came in and gave up a single, a triple, and a single to the first three batters he faced, making the score 8-0, and it was never a game after that. The Twins' lone run came in the ninth on two singles and a wild pitch.
Notes: Puckett was used in the leadoff spot in this game, with Dan Gladden batting third...Puckett raised his average to .332, which was good for fourth in the American League. The league leader was Wade Boggs at .363...Don Baylor was used as a pinch-runner for Puckett in the ninth inning and scored the Twins' only run. People tend to forget that Baylor was a speedy guy early in his career, stealing 285 bases with a career high of 52 in 1976. One has to think, however, that it had been a long time since he had been used as a pinch-runner...Jim Eisenreich got his only stolen base of the season in this game, stealing third base in the eight-run second inning...Willie Wilson stole his fifty-ninth base of the season, leaving him one behind league leader Harold Reynolds.
Record: The Twins ended the season on a five-game losing streak, a cause of much concern at the time. Their record was 85-77, in first place by two games over Kansas City. In the East, Detroit defeated Toronto 1-0 behind a complete game shutout by Frank Tanana to clinch the division. Larry Herndon's second-inning homer was the only run of the game. That set up the American League Championship Series between Minnesota and Detroit, which would start Wednesday, October 7 in Minnesota.
Candy Nelson (1849)
Bill Holbert (1855)
Marty McManus (1900)
Jack Rothrock (1905)
Santos Amaro (1908)
Dave McKay (1950)
Butch Wynegar (1956)
Steve Lake (1957)
Jerry Willard (1960)
Kirby Puckett (1960)
Kevin Brown (1965)
Brent Gates (1970)
Matt Kata (1978)
Bobby Jenks (1981)
Santos Amaro is the father of Ruben Amaro Sr. and the grandfather of Ruben Amaro Jr. He was a star player in Cuba and in Mexico and is a member of the Salon de la Fama.
Matt Kata was drafted by Minnesota in the twentieth round in 1996, but did not sign.
(3 votes, average: 7.67 out of 10)Loading... ...in the sun, sun, sun.....
Red Dwarf on the brain. I sometimes do a post for pi day, but a nerdy reference should be enough.
I only have one Cat Power album. That should be updated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfx_81g8HkE
13 Jun 2006
(4 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading... I mean, you know how he is about Mondays.
Date: Saturday, October 3.
Batting stars: Tom Brunansky was 1-for-2 with a home run (his thirty-second) and a walk. Billy Beane was 1-for-1 with a double. Steve Lombardozzi was 1-for-3 with a double.
Pitching stars: Bert Blyleven pitched seven innings, allowing four runs (two earned) on four hits and three walks with four strikeouts. George Frazier pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a walk.
Opposition stars: Charlie Liebrandt pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on six hits and a walk with three strikeouts. Danny Tartabull was 2-for-4 with a home run (his thirty-fourth) and two runs. Kevin Seitzer was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring once and driving in one.
The game: Don Baylor's RBI single put the Twins up 1-0 in the first. Tartabull led off the second with an inside-the-park home run down the right field line, raising the issue of whether an inside-the-park home run is the result of leaving a pitch up. The Royals added two in the fourth to make it 3-1 and Seitzer had an RBI double in the fifth to go up 4-1. Brunansky led off the seventh with a home run to cut the lead to 4-2, but the Twins did not get the tying run on base at any point after that.
Notes: Al Newman was the leadoff batter, with Dan Gladden dropping to the seventh spot...Newman played third base with Gary Gaetti out of the lineup...Kirby Puckett was 0-for-4, dropping his average to .331.
Record: The Twins were 85-76, in first place by three games over Kansas City. In the East, Detroit defeated Toronto 3-2 in twelve innings to take a one-game lead in the division. I seem to remember watching that game on the Game of the Week, although I don't remember anything specific about it.
Frank "Home Run" Baker (1886)
Patsy Gharrity (1892)
Alejandro Oms (1895)
C. Arnholt Smith (1899)
Doug Harvey (1930)
Bill Dailey (1935)
Steve Barber (1948)
Randy Bass (1954)
Terry Leach (1954)
Yoshihiko Takahashi (1957)
Luis Aguayo (1959)
Mariano Duncan (1963)
Will Clark (1964)
Jorge Fabregas (1970)
Scott Sullivan (1971)
Johan Santana (1979)
Outfielder Alejandro Oms was a star in Cuba and in the Negro Leagues.
C. Arnholt Smith was the original owner of the San Diego Padres.
Doug Harvey was a National League umpire from 1962-92.
Infielder Yoshihiko Takahashi has the longest hitting streak in Japanese professional baseball.
Don't forget to set your clocks ahead an hour, folks!
