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Loading... Date: Wednesday, September 24.
Batting stars: Rick Renick was 2-for-4 with a home run (his fourth) and two runs. Ted Uhlaender was 2-for-5.
Pitching stars: Jim Perry pitched 7.1 innings, giving up one run on six hits and three walks and striking out five. Dick Woodson pitched 1.2 innings, giving up two hits. Ron Perranoski pitched a perfect inning.
Opposition stars: Dick Drago pitched a ten-inning complete game, giving up two runs on nine hits and a walk and striking out four. Ed Kirkpatrick was 2-for-5 with a double. Mike Fiore was 2-for-5.
The game: It was quite a pitchers' duel. The Royals had men on first and second with one out in the first, as Fiore and Kirkpatrick singles, but Lou Piniella hit into a double play. There really was not another threat until the sixth, when Perry tripled. A ground out and a line out left him at third base.
The Royals had a major threat in the seventh. Piniella and Joe Foy opened the inning with walks. A bunt/force out left runners at first and second, with Foy on second and Jerry Adair at first. Paul Schaal singled to right, but Tony Oliva gunned down Foy at the plate. Runners were still on second and third with two down. Eliseo Rodriguez was intentionally walked to load the bases. Manager Joe Gordon elected to allow Drago to bat. He struck out and the threat was over.
The Twins finally got on the board in the eighth when Renick led off with a home run. Kansas City got the run back in the bottom of the eighth. Fiore singled and Kirkpatrick doubled, putting men on second and third with one out. Piniella hit a grounder to short, but the throw home was too late and Fiore scored to tie it 1-1. In the ninth, Rodriguez doubled with two out, but Drago again was allowed to bat and he fouled out to end the inning.
The Twins took the lead in the tenth. With one out, Renick, George Mitterwald, and Graig Nettles hit consecutive singles to make the score 2-1. Kansas City went down in order in the bottom of the tenth.
WP: Woodson (7-5). LP: Drago (10-13). S: Perranoski (29).
Notes: Uhlaender was again in center, with Charlie Manuel in left and Cesar Tovar on the bench. Tovar was used as a pinch-runner in the tenth. Mitterwald was again behind the plate in place of Johnny Roseboro.
Rod Carew was 1-for-4 and was batting .333. Rich Reese was 1-for-4 and was batting .320. Oliva was 0-for-4 and was batting .310. Perry lowered his ERA to 2.85. Perranoski lowered his ERA to 2.23.
You have to wonder about Drago batting for himself twice in run-scoring situations. I can understand the seventh--Drago was pitching well, there were still two innings (at least) to play, and of course pitch counts weren't a thing back then. But in the ninth? When a base hit wins the game? It's not like Drago was a good hitter, even for a pitcher--in 1969 he was 3-for-52 (.058), and for his career he batted .077. Not that the Royals had a lot of great hitter on their bench, but almost anyone would do better than .058. And it's not like they didn't have anyone who could pitch out of the bullpen--Moe Drabowsky had a fine year in 1969. As we've said before, second-guessing a manager fifty years after the fact is tricky--there are all kinds of things that we don't know and have no way to know. But on the face of it, this does not make much sense to me.
Record: The Twins were 94-61, in first place in the American League West, eleven games ahead of Oakland. The Twins had already clinched the division.
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Bobby Winkles (1930)
Dock Ellis (1945)
Cesar Geronimo (1948)
Phil Bradley (1959)
Bryan Oelkers (1961)
Steve Reed (1965)
Salomon Torres (1972)
Bobby Abreu (1974)
Rich Hill (1980)
Dan Uggla (1980)
Frank Mata (1984)
Bobby Winkles was the head baseball coach at Arizona State from 1959-1971, winning three College World Series titles. He also managed and coached in the major leagues.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Zack.
I went back and listen to My Woman again, and yup, it still bangs.
(2 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading... Date: Tuesday, September 23.
Batting stars: Rich Reese was 2-for-4 with three RBIs. Rod Carew was 2-for-5 with a stolen base, his nineteenth. Tony Oliva was 2-for-5.
Pitching stars: Dave Boswell pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on four hits and four walks and striking out six. Tom Hall pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit. Ron Perranoski pitched a perfect inning.
Opposition star: Mike Hedlund pitched seven innings, giving up four runs (three earned) on eight hits and a walk and striking out three.
The game: The runs came in pairs. The Twins started it by getting two in the first inning. Ted Uhlaender reached on an error and Oliva hit a one-out single. Harmon Killebrew walked to load the bases and Reese delivered a two-run single to make it 2-0.
Kansas City drew a pair of one-out walks in the second but did not score. In the third, Carew singled and reached third on a stolen base-plus-error with none out, but did not score. in the bottom of the third, the Royals tied it. Alcaraz and Fiore started the inning with singles and runners were at first and third with one out. A ground out scored one and a Joe Foy single made the score 2-2.
The Twins got the lead back in the sixth. Oliva, Killebrew, and Reese all singled to make the score 3-2. With two out, Rick Renick hit another single to make it 4-2. Kansas City did not get a man past first base after the third inning. In the ninth, Rick Dempsey singled and Renick walked. An error brought home one run and Uhlaender's sacrifice fly rounded out the scoring.
WP: Boswell (19-11). LP: Hedlund (3-6). S: Perranoski (28).
Notes: Uhlaender was in center field, with Cesar Tovar on the bench. Graig Nettles played left field. Renick was at shortstop, with Leo Cardenas on the bench.
Carew was batting .334. Reese was batting .321. Oliva was battine .312. Perranoski's ERA was 2.25.
This was the major league debut for Rick Dempsey, who went 1-for-2. He would appear in five games in 1969, going 3-for-6 with a double and a walk. He would ultimately appear in 1765 major league games over twenty-four seasons.
Boswell had nineteen wins with one, possibly two, starts remaining. Would he get number twenty? We will see.
Record: The Twins were 93-61, in first place in the American League West, ten games ahead of Oakland. They had clinched first place in the division.
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Greg Pavlick (1950)
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Greg Pavlick was a coach in the Mets organization for 26 years and is currently the rehabilitation pitching instructor for the Yankees.
One thing I've taken to doing lately if the boy is using LEGOs or something, is instead of just putting on music, I'll pull up whole concerts on YT. It's not as attention grabbing as a TV show, but if he hears a particularly interesting part, he can look up and see exactly what's going on.
Yesterday I asked him if he wanted jazz or classical. He said funky. Curtis Mayfield it was.
Congratulations to Wade Boggs who unanimously was selected and I'm sure had some fried chicken to celebrate. Jim Abbott and Darryl Strawberry each garnered two votes and the rest were shut out.
Random.org has selected the cast of players that are going to be on next year's HOF ballot. Which is good because I know you're all dying to vote for Jetes!
For fun I included one of our dear friends on the ballot, who almost has as much career WAR as Adam Dunn (who I did not put on the ballot) despite hitting 443 fewer homers.
Who belongs in the Half-Baked Hall?
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