From her album Live in London, recorded on her 79th birthday and the day before.
This was her first of two albums released this year, of seven released this decade. Making this her most prolific decade for solo albums.
1960s: 1
1970s: 2 + 1 soundtrack album
1980s: 1
1990s: 3
2000s: 2 + 1 live album
2010s: 6 + 1 live album
Of course, she had a day job with the Staple Singers into the 1990s.
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Justin Verlander
Before Game 1, ZiPS had the Astros at 59.7% chance of winning. After Cole losing for the first time since the Nationals were bad, now the Nationals have a 57.8% chance of winning. However, the Astros still maintain a greater than 50% chance of winning every game of the series.
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Date: Wednesday, April 24.
Batting stars: Chuck Knoblauch was 3-for-4 with a triple, a walk, a stolen base (his second) and three RBIs. Junior Ortiz was 2-for-3 with a walk. Kirby Puckett was 2-for-4 with a triple. Gene Larkin was 2-for-4.
Pitching stars: Jack Morris pitched 7.2 innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and four walks and striking out six. Rick Aguilera struck out two in 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up a walk.
Opposition stars: Harold Baines was 2-for-4 with a triple. Lance Blankenship was 1-for-2 with a walk.
The game: The Twins missed a chance in the first. With one out, Knoblauch walked and Puckett singled. With two out, Chili Davis walked to load the bases, but a fly out ended the inning. Each team put men on first and second in the fourth, but it remained scoreless until the fifth.
In the bottom of the fifth, Puckett tripled and scored on a ground out to give the Twins a 1-0 lead. The Athletics then broke through with four in the top of the sixth. Willie Wilson doubled and scored on a Jose Canseco single to tie it 1-1. Baines then tripled to give Oakland a 2-1 lead. Terry Steinbach singled him home, and singles by Mark McGwire and Blankenship plated another run, making it 4-1 Athletics.
The Twins responded in the bottom of the sixth. Mike Pagliarulo led off with a single. Singles by Larkin and Greg Gagne loaded the bases with one out. Dan Gladden singled one home, Knoblauch cleared the bases with a triple to give the Twins the lead, and Hrbek singled him home to provide an insurance run at 6-4.
Oakland did not get a hit the rest of the game. The Twins got an insurance run in the eighth when Gladden was hit by a pitch, Knoblauch singled, and Puckett hit a sacrifice fly.
WP: Morris (1-3). LP: Dave Stewart (1-2). S: Aguilera (4).
Notes: Puckett started in center, with Larkin in right. Shane Mack came in for defense in the eighth, playing center with Puckett moving to right.
Larkin raised his average to .417. Puckett went up to .322. Knoblauch raised his average to .308. Gagne was 1-for-4 and was batting .300.
Aguilera had an ERA of 1.23.
Gladden was 1-for-4 and raised his average to .120. Hrbek was 1-for-5 and was batting .157. Morris got his ERA down to 5.88.
Morris threw 124 pitches. Stewart was allowed to give up all seven runs in seven innings. giving up twelve hits and three walks while striking out six. He threw 134 pitches. Yes, men were men in those days.
There were three triples in this game. I'm sure that's nowhere near a record, but it's not exactly common, either. I would think the Oakland Mausoleum would be conducive to triples, although I didn't look it up to check.
Record: The Twins were 5-10, in seventh (last) place, five games behind the White Sox, 2.5 games behind sixth-place Kansas City.
William Hulbert (1832)
Mike Sullivan (1866)
Lena Blackburne (1886)
Rube Bressler (1894)
Billy Sullivan (1910)
Vern Stephens (1920)
Ewell Blackwell (1922)
Jim Bunning (1931)
Greg Thayer (1949)
John Castino (1954)
Dwight Lowry (1957)
Al Leiter (1965)
Todd Sears (1975)
David Riske (1976)
John Lackey (1978)
Bud Smith (1979)
Kyle Gibson (1987)
William Hulbert was one of the founders of the National League and was its president from 1877 until his death in 1882.
Infielder Lena Blackburne discovered and marketed the mud from the driver beds near the Delaware River in New Jersey that has been rubbed on every major league baseball used since the 1950s.
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(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... Game 1 of the 2019 World Series, Washington Nationals versus the Houston Astros. This one promises to be a series of excellent starting pitching on both sides and will be fun to see how each dominant starter matches up. Tonight Max Scherzer (who’s given up 1 earned run in 15 playoff innings this year) v. Gerrit Cole (who’s given up 1 earned run in 22.2 playoff innings this year). Which team will get to the pitcher first?
First pitch slated at 7:08p from Houston.
Date: Tuesday, April 23.
Batting stars: Brian Harper was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Greg Gagne was 2-for-4 with a home run (his second) and two runs. Dan Gladden was 1-for-5 with a two-run homer.
Pitching star: Terry Leach pitched two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk.
Opposition stars: Jose Canseco was 2-for-3 with two walks, two stolen bases, (his third and fourth), and two runs. Dave Henderson was 2-for-5 with two doubles. Willie Wilson was 2-for-5 with a triple. Lance Blankenship was 2-for-5. Terry Steinbach was 1-for-4 with a three-run homer, a hit-by-pitch, and two runs. Kirk Dressendorfer pitched 5.1 innings, giving up two runs on six hits and three walks and striking out two. Steve Chitren pitched two shutout innings, giving up a hit and striking out one.
The game: The Athletics jumped on Twins starter Mark Guthrie for three runs in the first inning. With one out, Henderson doubled, Canseco walked, and Steinbach hit a three-run homer to put Oakland ahead 3-0. The Twins had a good chance in the second. Chili Davis drew a one-out walk and Harper singled. Mike Pagliarulo delivered a single, but Davis was thrown out at the plate. Randy Bush was caught looking and the inning was over.
The Athletics added to their lead in the third. Canseco singled, stole second, and went to third on a wild pitch. Mark McGwire walked, and with two out McGwire and Canseco pulled off a double steal of second and home. The baserunning gave Oakland a 4-0 lead. It went to 6-0 in the fourth, as Fred Manrique singled, Wilson tripled, and Henderson doubled.
The Twins got on the board in the fourth. With one out, Kent Hrbek and Davis walked and Harper had an RBI single. The Twins still had men on first and third with one out. Pagliarulo hit a fly to left on which Harper somehow took second without Davis scoring. Perhaps, having been thrown out at the plate once, Davis (or third base coach Ron Gardenhire) did not want to risk having it happen again. At any rate, Bush then grounded out to end the inning with the score 6-1.
The teams exchanged runs, with Harper singling one home in the sixth and the Athletics answering with a Blankenship RBI single in the seventh. The Twins tried to get back into it in the bottom of the seventh. Gagne singled and Gladden homered to cut the lead to 7-4. Gagne led off the ninth with a homer to make it 7-5, but that was as good as it would get for the Twins.
WP: Dressendorfer (2-1). LP: Guthrie (0-2). S: Dennis Eckersley (5).
Notes: Bush again started in right field, with Kirby Puckett in center. Shane Mack pinch-hit for Bush in the sixth and stayed in the game in center, with Puckett moving to right. Gene Larkin pinch-hit for Mack in the eighth and stayed in the game in right, with Puckett moving back to center.
Larkin was 0-for-1 and was batting .375. Harper raised his average to .343. Puckett was 0-for-5 and was batting .309. Gagne raised his average to .306.
Gladden raised his average to .109. Mack was 0-for-1 and was batting .133. Bush was 0-for-2 and was batting .143. Hrbek was 1-for-3 with a walk and was batting .152. Scott Leius was 1-for-2 and was batting .176.
Guthrie lasted just 2.1 innings, allowing four runs on four hits and three walks and striking out one. His ERA was 18.00. Carl Willis saved the bullpen by pitched 4.2 innings of relief. He gave up three runs on seven hits and a walk and struck out two. His ERA was 5.79. Terry Leach lowered his ERA to 5.40.
The 4.2 innings of relief were not the most Willis would pitch in 1991. Twice he pitched five innings of relief. He also had a 4.1 inning appearance and three appearances of four innings. We can safely say he was used as a long reliever. For the season, he pitched 89 innings over 40 games. He was very good, posting an ERA of 2.63 and a WHIP of 1.07.
The Twins winning streak ended at just two.
This was Steve Chitren's only full season in the majors. He had gotten a September call-up in 1990. He started 1991 very well, not giving up a run in his first eleven appearances (11 innings). He had nowhere to go but down, and he did. He had only one month other than April in which he posted an ERA below 4.00, and he had an awful August (9.39). For the season, he had an ERA of 4.33 with a WHIP of 1.51. He was born in Tokyo, but appears to have been raised in the United States. There's a Steve Chitren of about the right age who was on the run from the law for numerous theft charges in Las Vegas. He apparently had done the thefts to provide money for a gambling addiction. No article mentions that he was a former big league ballplayer, though, and one would expect that to be something they would mention, so it may well be a different Steve Chitren.
Record: The Twins were 4-10, in seventh (last) place in the American League West, six games behind the White Sox. They were 2.5 games behind sixth-place Kansas City.
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Keith Osik (1968)
Hector Carrasco (1969)
Ichiro Suzuki (1973)
Michael Barrett (1976)
Brad Thomas (1977)
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