Kind of hard to believe this was big just this year, feels like it's from 2011 or something
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Loading... Date: Friday, July 5.
Batting star: Mike Pagliarulo was 2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs.
Pitching star: Jack Morris pitched an eight-inning complete game, giving up four runs on seven hits and four walks and striking out four.
Opposition stars: Jack McDowell pitched 7.2 innings, giving up two runs on six hits and two walks and striking out four. Dan Pasqua was 2-for-4 with a double. Lance Johnson was 2-for-4 with a stolen base, his thirteenth. Robin Ventura was 1-for-4 with a three-run homer, his fifth.
The game: The Twins opened the second with a single and a walk, but a double play and a fly ball ended the inning. The White Sox got a pair of one-out singles in the bottom of the second, but also did not score. In the third, doubles by Pagliarulo and Chuck Knoblauch put the Twins up 1-0.
It stayed 1-0 until the sixth. Frank Thomas led off with a walk, was bunted to second, and scored on Pasqua's double to tie it 1-1. Chicago took the lead in the seventh. Scott Fletcher singled, Tim Raines drew a one-out walk, and Robin Ventura hit a three-run homer to give the White Sox a 4-1 lead.
The Twins tried to get back into the game in the eighth. Pagliarulo led off with a double and went to third on an Al Newman single. With one out, a passed ball made it 4-2 and Pedro Munoz walked, bringing the lead run up to bat. With Kirby Puckett and Kent Hrbek coming up. the Twins' chances looked good. But Puckett flied to center and Hrbek lined to center, and the inning was over.
The Twins got the tying run to bat twice in the ninth, but Brian Harper hit into a double play and Pagliarulo flied out.
WP: McDowell (10-4). LP: Morris (11-6). S: Bobby Thigpen (17).
Notes: Shane Mack was again in the lineup in left field to replace Dan Gladden. Munoz was in right. Chuck Knoblauch was the leadoff batter, with Munoz second.
Al Newman pinch-hit for Scott Leius in the eighth and singled. He stayed in the game at shortstop. Randy Bush pinch-hit for Mack in the ninth, singled, and was replaced by pinch-runner Jarvis Brown.
Harper was 1-for-4 and was batting .324. Puckett was 0-for-4 and was batting .316.
Morris threw ninety-seven pitches.
Since his four-hit game on July 1, Puckett has gone 0-for-15. His average has fallen from .332.
The Twins had now scored just twenty runs in their last ten games. They were 2-8 in those games. They had given up just thirty-five runs in those ten games.
California lost to Texas 8-0, so the Twins remained in first place. However, the win by the Rangers moved them into second place. Despite their recent poor play, they were in first place at the half-way point of the season, something no one expected when the season began.
Record: The Twins were 46-35, in first place in the American League West, one game ahead of Texas.
Count Sensenderfer (1847)
Ted Lyons (1900)
Tommy Bridges (1906)
Bill Lee (1946)
Aurelio Rodriguez (1947)
John Milner (1949)
Ray Knight (1952)
Zane Smith (1960)
Carl Willis (1960)
Benny Agbayani (1971)
Melvin Nieves (1971)
Einar Diaz (1972)
B. J. Ryan (1975)
Bill Hall (1979)
Count Sensenderfer (given name John Phillips Jenkins Sensenderfer) played for the Philadelphia Athletics in the National Association from 1871-1874. He holds the record for most at-bats without drawing a walk, 234.
Had my socks blown off last night. It’s been a long time since I attended a concert that great.
Hello!
As I mentioned in the Cup of Coffee on December 27:
Joe Posnanski is counting down his Top 100 players of all-time in 100 days. Today he posted Mariano Rivera with #91 and while the comments of course are all over the place, one person said, "If all 30 teams started drafting from history right now to make their teams, Rivera would not be taken in the first three or four rounds."
I am proposing a just-for-kicks draft where anyone who joins get a 25 man roster to fill out with any players from baseball history. The only rule is making the roster of reasonable construction (i.e. no drafting 7 catchers or 22 pitchers).
Each round of the draft will get its own post and I'll keep a spreadsheet of whose been taken. There'll be no stakes and no time limit. This is just for fun to see what people come up with and what they prioritize. I am thinking we would do a snake draft.
Would like at least ten participants, and of course the more the better!
What kind of draft should we do?
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Date: Thursday, July 4.
Batting stars: Pedro Munoz was 2-for-4 with a double. Chuck Knoblauch was 2-for-4 with a double.
Pitching stars: David West pitched seven shutout innings, giving up two hits and a walk and striking out five. Steve Bedrosian pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit and striking out one. Rick Aguilera pitched a perfect inning.
Opposition stars: Jimmy Key pitched 7.1 innings, giving up one run on seven hits and a walk and striking out three. Derek Bell was 1-for-2 with a walk.
The game: Knoblauch doubled with one out in the first, but only got to third base. In the second, Munoz and Shane Mack started the inning with singles, putting men on first and third. Junior Ortiz then hit into a forceout, bringing in a run and putting the Twins up 1-0.
Munoz got a one-out double in the fourth but stayed at second. Joe Carter got a one-out double in the fourth but stayed at second. The Twins got men on first and second in the fifth but did nothing with them. In the seventh, Bell singled and went to second on a wild pitch with one out, but only got as far as third. Devon White got a two-out double in the eighth. But neither team scored, and the Twins took a 1-0 victory.
WP: West (1-0). LP: Key (10-4). S: Aguilera (21).
Notes: Al Newman and his .493 OPS replaced Kent Hrbek at first base. He batted first. Hrbek came into the game for defense in the eighth, with Newman moving to third and Scott Leius coming out of the game. Munoz was in right and Mack was in left, replacing Dan Gladden. Randy Bush pinch-hit for Mack in the ninth and Jarvis Brown went to left field. Ortiz was behind the plate in place of Brian Harper.
Puckett was 0-for-4 and was batting .320. Aguilera lowered his ERA to 2.84.
Bush was 0-for-1 and was batting .197.
This was the only time in his career that Newman would play first base.
This was West's first game for the Twins in 1991 and was the best start he would have all season. He was supposed to be the key player in the Frank Viola trade. A can't-miss prospect, he mostly missed, although he had a couple of good seasons with Philadelphia (1993-1994). 1991 was the best season he had as a Twin: 4-4, 4.54, 1.32 WHIP in 71.1 innings (15 games, 12 starts). He would remain in the Twins' rotation through early September.
The win was the Twins' second in nine games. The bats remained quiet, however. The Twins had scored just nineteen runs in their last nine games. The only two wins they had in that span were shutouts.
The win moved the Twins back into first place. Could they stay there?
Record: The Twins were 46-34, in first place in the American League West, one game ahead of California.
Jim Tobin (1912)
Phil Gagliano (1941)
Roy White (1943)
Craig Reynolds (1952)
Jim Leyritz (1963)
Dean Palmer (1968)
Jeff D’Amico (1975)
Jason Repko (1980)
David Aardsma (1981)
Michael Bourn (1982)
Chris Gimenez (1982)
Cole Hamels (1983)
Rick Porcello (1988)
Addison Reed (1988)
Tyler Duffey (1990)
Stuart Turner (1991)
This going to screw with my head.
My Best of 2019 is without question Otoboke Beaver. In fact, they should be hitting the stage about the same time this video posts.
(4 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading... Morgan Bulkeley (1837)
Dad A (1922)
Stu Miller (1927)
Al Jackson (1935)
Wayne Causey (1936)
Ray Sadecki (1940)
Carlton Fisk (1947)
Chris Chambliss (1948)
Dave Rader (1948)
Mario Mendoza (1950)
Ozzie Smith (1954)
Mike Sodders (1958)
Storm Davis (1961)
Jeff King (1964)
Esteban Beltre (1967)
Omar Infante (1981)
Yohan Pino (1983)
Morgan Bulkeley was the first president of the National League.
Mike Sodders was a first-round draft choice for the Twins in 1981. A star third baseman at Arizona State, he never could adjust to wooden bats, never hit, and never made the major leagues.
Dad A was a Twins fan since the team started, and was a baseball fan before that. He coached, he ran the public address system, and he was on the board of the local baseball association. One of the many gifts he gave me is a love of baseball. He would've been ninety-seven today. Rest in peace, Dad.
