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2019 Game 5: twins @ royals
Sorry if I'm stepping on any toes. I figure that we're all still getting into the swing of things here.
We're getting a bit of an "off day" lineup, with Cave, Garver, Austin, and Adrianza all in the lineup. The thing that matters most, though, is that La Tortuga is playing third.
Kyle Gibson will try to keep the momentum going on the way to hopefully continuing the bit of a breakout he experienced last season. It would be huge if he was able to do that.
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2019 Recap: Game Four
MINNESOTA 5, KANSAS CITY 4 IN KANSAS CITY (10 INNINGS)
Date: Tuesday, April 2.
Batting stars: Max Kepler was 2-for-4 with two walks. Nelson Cruz was 2-for-5 with a double, a walk, and three RBIs. Jorge Polanco was 2-for-5 with a double and a walk. C. J. Cron was 2-for-5 with a double.
Pitching stars: Jose Berrios pitched seven innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and no walks and striking out four. Blake Parker pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a walk and striking out one.
Opposition stars: Adalberto Mondesi was 3-for-5 with a home run, a double, a stolen base, and two RBIs. Martin Maldonado was 3-for-4. Ryan O'Hearn was 1-for-3 with a home run. Brad Keller pitched six innings, giving up three runs on five hits and four walks and striking out five.
The game: The Royals jumped out to a 1-0 lead within the first two batters of the game, as Whit Merrifield doubled and scored on a Mondesi single. The Twins tied it in the fourth when Eddie Rosario walked and scored from first on Cron's single.
Kansas City got the lead back in the bottom of the fourth when Chris Owings tripled and scored on a Hunter Dozier sacrifice fly. The Twins went in front in the fifth. With one out, Byron Buxton was hit by a pitch and Max Kepler walked. A fly out moved the runners to second and third and Cruz delivered a two-run double to give the Twins a 3-2 lead.
The Twins missed a chance to increase the lead in the sixth when Cron led off with a double but did not advance past second. It cost them, as O'Hearn homered in the bottom of the sixth to tie it 3-3. The Twins missed another chance in the seventh. Singles by Kepler and Polanco and a walk to Cruz loaded the bases with none out, but a strikeout, a liner to third, and another strikeout ended the inning with no runs scoring. It again cost them, as Mondesi hit an inside-the-park home run with one out in the eighth to give the Royals a 4-3 lead.
The Twins tied it in the ninth. Polanco doubled and went to third on a fly ball. Rosario then singled him in to tie the score 4-4. Kansas City put two men on with two out in the bottom of the ninth, but Trevor Hildenberger came in to strike out Billy Hamilton and send the game to an extra inning.
In the tenth Willians Astudillo, who had entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the eighth, led off with a single. He was still at first with two out, but Polanco singled to put men on first and second and Cruz singled to drive home the go-ahead run. The Royals could manage only a two-out walk in the bottom of the tenth.
WP: Hildenberger (1-0). LP: Brad Boxberger (0-1). S: Blake Parker (1).
Record: The Twins are 3-1, in first place in the American League Central, one game ahead of Cleveland, Detroit, and Kansas City.
Projected record: We're still on track for 161-1!
April 3, 2019: SSS
Only been a few games, but this is looking like a fun team.
Happy Birthday–April 3
Guy Hecker (1856)
Larry Shepard (1919)
Alex Grammas (1926)
Art Ditmar (1929)
Wally Moon (1930)
Jerry Dale (1933)
Hawk Taylor (1939)
Larry Littleton (1954)
Darrell Jackson (1956)
Gary Pettis (1958)
Doug Baker (1961)
Chris Bosio (1963)
Mark Shapiro (1967)
Mike Lansing (1968)
Ryan Doumit (1981)
Kyle Phillips (1984)
Jay Bruce (1987)
Jason Kipnis (1987)
Guy Hecker is one of three pitchers to have won over fifty games in a season. He is also the only pitcher to have won a batting title.
Larry Shepard managed Pittsburgh in 1968-1969. Coincidentally, he was replaced by Alex Grammas.
Jerry Dale was a National League umpire from 1971-85. He pitched in the minors for the Washington (now Minnesota) franchise from 1951-52.
Mark Shapiro was the general manager of the Cleveland Indians from 2001-10 and became president of that club in 2011.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Papa Pirate.
Twins 2019 Game 4 — Twins at Royals
So the Twins 2019 season has gotten off to a nice start with three strong pitching performances and taking two from the dreaded Clevelanders of Cleveland. Now the Twins travel on an extended road trip so that we can watch future games at Target Field in non-parka weather.
Jose Berrios on the mound tonight coming off a 7.2 inning, 2 hit, no run, 10k effort. More of that please. Twins play the Kansas City Royals who also won two of three at home from a division rival (White Sox). Brad Keller on the mound for the Royals who had similar numbers as Berrios in his first outing, but with half the strikeouts.
First pitch at 7:15p Central, weather should be pleasant with game time temps in the 50’s.
Twins lineup:
RF Kepler
SS Polanco
DH Cruz
LF Rosario
1B Cron
3B Gonzalez
2B Schoop
C Castro
CF Buxton
April 2, 2019: First Tuesday Election Day
Mayoral division. If we hit 50 voters all day today, I’ll be shocked.
Happy Birthday–April 2
Tommy Bond (1856)
Hughie Jennings (1869)
Bill Yancey (1904)
Luke Appling (1907)
Al Barlick (1915)
Vedie Himsl (1917)
Bobby Avila (1924)
Billy Pierce (1927)
Gordon Jones (1930)
Dick Radatz (1937)
Al Weis (1938)
Mike Kekich (1945)
Reggie Smith (1945)
Don Sutton (1945)
Daniel Okrent (1948)
Tom Johnson (1951)
Billy Sample (1955)
Hank Steinbrenner (1957)
Pete Incaviglia (1964)
Curtis Leskanic (1968)
Denny Hocking (1970)
Jon Lieber (1970)
Shortstop Bill Yancey played in the Negro Leagues for fourteen years, later becoming a manager, coach, and scout.
Al Barlick was a National League umpire from 1940-1970.
Vedie Himsl was a longtime coach and scout, primarily in the Cubs organization. While pitching for St. John's (Minnesota) University, he struck out twenty batters in a game.
Daniel Okrent was one of the creators of the first fantasy baseball league.
Hank Steinbrenner is one of the owners of the New York Yankees, inheriting the team from his father in 2010.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Lucy.
Garbage – Only Happy When It Rains
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