He's (hopefully) opening for Sturgill at The Armory. Red Rocks is on my bucket list.
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Loading... Date: Thursday, August 29.
Batting stars: Bernie Allen was 3-for-5 with a home run (his seventh) and three RBIs. Jimmie Hall was 3-for-5 with a home run (his twenty-seventh) and two runs. Rich Rollins was 3-for-5. Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-4 with a home run (his tenth), a triple, a walk, and three runs. Earl Battey was 2-for-4. Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-5 with a two-run homer, his thirty-second.
Pitching star: Dwight Siebler pitched a complete game, giving up one run on three hits and two walks and striking out four.
Opposition stars: Don Rudolph struck out three in three shutout innings of relief, giving up two hits and a walk.
The game: Allen led off the game with a home run to put the Twins up 1-0. They later put men on second and third with none out, but left them there. It did not cost them. In the second Versalles tripled and scored on Allen's single to make it 2-0.
The Twins took control in the third. Hall opened with a home run. Don Mincher walked and went to third on two wild pitches. The next two batters went out, but Battey had an RBI single, Versalles walked, Siebler contributed a two-run single-plus-error, and Allen delivered an RBI single. It was 7-0 Twins and they were not threatened after that.
It went to 9-0 in the fourth when Killebrew hit a two-run homer and 10-0 in the fifth when Versalles homered. The lone Senators run came in the sixth. Don Rudolph walked, went to third on a single by Don Blasingame, and scored on a double play.
WP: Siebler (1-0). LP: Jim Duckworth (4-11). S: None.
Notes: This was the second game of a doubleheader. The Twins had won the first game 14-2, giving them a 24-3 margin for the day.
Despite the fact that this was the second game of a doubleheader, the only substitution from the first game to the second was that Mincher was at first base rather than Vic Power. They also didn't make a lot of substitutions during the game, even though it was a blowout. In the eighth, Jerry Zimmerman replaced Battey behind the plate and Lenny Green went to center field, with Hall moving to left and Killebrew coming out of the game. I know, but always forget, that Killebrew was the Twins' regular left fielder from 1962-1964.
This was the second game, first start, first complete game, and first win of Siebler's career. He had pitched two-thirds of an inning of relief three days earlier. We don't have pitch counts for these games. It's hard to imagine a guy making his first career start being allowed to pitch a complete game, especially in a blowout like this. Incidentally, Lee Stange threw a complete game in the first game of the doubleheader. Men were men in 1963.
Duckworth was the starter for Washington. He pitched 2.2 innings, allowing seven runs on eight hits and two walks and striking out three.
The Senators really had a woeful lineup. They had one batter with an average over .250 (Chuck Hinton, .279) and three guys with an OPS over .720. (Hinton, Blasingame, and Don Lock). Yes, it was the 1960s, and yes, they were a third-year expansion team, but that's still pretty bad. And they weren't using a bunch of scrubs because it was the second game of the doubleheader--this was pretty much their regular lineup. As they used to say, first in war, first in peace, last in the American League.
This is more like it, random.org.
Record: The Twins were 74-58, in third place in the American League, 11.5 games behind the Yankees. They would finish 91-70, in third place, thirteen games behind the Yankees.
Washington was 48-85, in tenth (last) place in the American League, thirty-eight games behind the Yankees. They would finish 56-106, in tenth (last) place, 48.5 games behind the Yankees.
Happy 50th anniversary to First Avenue. What was your first show there? Your favorite?
Smokey Joe Williams (1885)
Mickey Cochrane (1903)
Ernie Lombardi (1908)
Phil Regan (1937)
Marty Pattin (1943)
Bert Blyleven (1951)
Kenny Williams (1964)
Bret Boone (1969)
Lou Merloni (1971)
A star in the Negro Leagues, some say that Smokey Joe Williams was a better pitcher than Satchel Paige.
I haven't checked, but my guess is that four Hall-of-Famers born on the same day is the record.
1. Twins Win Their First World Series
16. Juan Rincon Induces a 4-3-5 Triple Play.
Considering the Twins won this game and the division by just one game, this turned out to a pretty important play. Mostly, I just thought it was hilarious.
2006: On May 14, just 13 days earlier, the Twins hit into a triple play against the White Sox. Luis Castillo was the batter (on a bunt pop) in the Chicago game and one of the fielders in Minnesota’s fielding trifecta. “I said, ‘We got it!'” Castillo said after turning the trick against Seattle. “Last time, they got me. Now we got the other team.” Against the Mariners, Juan Rincon entered the game to face Kenji Johjima, who hit a grounder to second on the first pitch. Castillo fielded the ball, tagged out Adrian Beltre then threw to first to get Johjima. First baseman Justin Morneau noticed Carl Everett was leaning the wrong way off third base and fired a strike to Tony Batista, the third baseman tagging out Everett to complete the triple play. Said Rincon: “Seeing this one is fun. Seeing the other one is not fun.” Johjima had perhaps the most interesting comment: “This wasn’t the first time that’s happened to me,” he said through an interpreter.”
The Better Moment
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Batting stars: Gene Larkin was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. Kirby Puckett was 1-for-3 with a home run (his fourth) and a hit-by-pitch.
Pitching stars: Willie Banks pitched 6.1 innings, giving up three runs on five hits and four walks and striking out six. Rick Aguilera struck out two in a perfect inning.
Opposition stars: Alan Trammell was 3-for-5 with a home run, a stolen base (his third), two runs, and two RBIs. Mickey Tettleton was 2-for-3 with a home run (his fifth), a double, two walks, and three runs. Kirk Gibson was 2-for-5 with a double, a hit-by-pitch, and two runs. Chad Kreuter was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer (his second) and a walk. Tony Phillips was 1-for-4 with a home run (his second), two walks, and two runs.
The game: It looked good for the Twins for a long time. Not right away--Tettleton led off the second with a home run to put the Tigers up 1-0. But it stayed 1-0 until the fourth. Then Puckett homered to tie it 1-1. In the fifth, Pedro Munoz and Larkin led off with singles. A double play followed, but Jeff Reboulet and Chuck Knoblauch walked to load the bases. Shane Mack then delivered a two-run single to make it 3-1 Twins.
The Twins added two more in the sixth. Brian Harper led off with a single. With one out, Larkin walked, Terry Jorgensen had an RBI single, Reboulet walked, and Knoblauch hit a sacrifice fly. It was 5-1 Twins through six, and things were looking good.
But the roof fell in in the seventh. Not literally--the Metrodome was still standing at the end of the game. With one out Scott Livingstone walked, and two wild pitches moved him to third. Trammell delivered an RBI single to cut the lead to 5-2. Banks came out and Mark Guthrie came in. He gave up back-to-back homers to Krueter and Phillips, tying the score. He retired Lou Whitaker, but Gibson hit a ground-rule double. That led to Guthrie going out and Brett Merriman coming in. He gave up an RBI double to Cecil Fielder, intentionally walked Tettleton, Rob Deer hit a two-run double, and Livingstone got an RBI single. It was 9-5 Tigers.
Detroit scored seven more in the eighth. No need to go into great detail about it. Milt Cuyler hit a three-run double, a couple of runs scored on wild pitches, there was a sacrifice fly, and Trammell hit a home run. Nobody got on base after that.
WP: Mark Leiter (1-1). LP: Guthrie (1-1). S: None.
Notes: Larkin was at first-base in place of Kent Hrbek. Terry Jorgensen was at third base in place of Mike Pagliarulo.
Jeff Reboulet was apparently the starting shortstop at the beginning of 1993. He was replaced by Pat Meares in early May.
The two pitchers who allowed most of the runs for the Twins were their weakest relief pitchers in 1993. Guthrie, who'd had an excellent year in 1992, was dealing with an injury in 1993 and would be done for the season in late May. Merriman would make one more appearance and then go back to the minors, not returning until the end of August.
They spoiled a solid effort by Banks, who had started 1993 really well. This was his third start--he'd given up one run in 13.1 innings in his first two starts. His ERA would be 2.66 at the end of April. By the end of May, however, it was 4.14 and he would end the season at 4.04. It was still his best season as a Twin and the best he ever had as a starter.
The Tigers had Trammell batting eighth in this game. He was coming off an injury from 1992, but he batted .329 in 1993. I suspect he did not stay in the eighth spot too long.
Yes, I'm getting tired of random.org giving us Twins losses, too. But such is randomness.
Record: The Twins were 8-9, tied for third place in the American League West, 4.5 games behind California. They would end 71-91, tied for fifth with California, twenty-three games behind Chicago.
Detroit was 12-5, in first place in the American League East, two games ahead of Boston. They would end 85-77, tied for third with Baltimore, ten games behind Toronto.
Bill Dinneen (1876)
Wid Conroy (1877)
Bill Lachemann (1934)
Ron Hansen (1938)
Rennie Stennett (1951)
Andy MacPhail (1953)
Cris Carpenter (1965)
Ross Gload (1976)
Jorge De La Rosa (1981)
John Curtiss (1993)
The brother of Rene and Marcel Lachemann, Bill Lachemann is a long-time minor league manager, coach, and scout.
Andy MacPhail, of course, was the general manager of the Twins from 1985 through 1994, a period which included both of the Twins' World Series titles. He later worked for the Chicago Cubs and the Baltimore Orioles. He is currently the President of Baseball Operations for the Philadelphia Phillies. He is the son of baseball executive Lee MacPhail and the grandson of baseball executive Larry MacPhail.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to Mrs. brianS.
One more for William Harrison Withers Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X0a_AJhOI8
1973
Algonad week is up next.
(3 votes, average: 8.67 out of 10)Loading... We put up a couple feeders on a stand in the backyard in view of the dining table. It's been nice having all the extra visitors. We just IDed our first bird (that wasn't a robin, cardinal, blue jay, etc.): a Downy Woodpecker.
Though it could be a Hairy Woodpecker too. We're new at this.
I think I can sleep in today.
