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Happy Birthday–July 8
Hank O’Day (1862)
Ivey Wingo (1890)
Clint Brown (1903)
Salty Parker (1912)
Hector Lopez (1929)
Al Spangler (1933)
Darrell Brandon (1940)
Ken Sanders (1941)
Jim Ollom (1945)
Lerrin LaGrow (1948)
Alan Ashby (1951)
Terry Puhl (1956)
Bob Kipper (1964)
Jerome Walton (1965)
Bobby Ayala (1969)
Danny Ardoin (1974)
Jaime Garcia (1986)
Stephen Gonsalves (1994)
Hall of Fame umpire Hank O'Day was the home plate umpire in the first world series game in 1903. He umpired in ten World Series.
Salty Parker was a long-time minor league manager and major league coach.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to AMR’s daughter, Moss’ son, and FTLT's daughter.
Numerology
While in Scandia, I've been cleaning out scads of stuff: basement -> garage -> recycling. Today was spent cutting out SSNs and account numbers from old papers so I don't have to burn them in the Firepit (PITA).
Came across this (from an earlier family cookbook I did a while back). See how well you do with no help from the I'webs. Honestly, I couldn't even remember some of the answers. A lot are obvious. Some you'll never get. Spoiler guesses.
1. 26 = L of the A.
2. 7 = D of the W.
3. 1001 = A N.
4. 12 = S of the Z.
5. 54 = C in a D (with the J's).
6. 9 = P in the SS.
7. 88 = P K.
8. 13 = S on the A F.
9. 32 = D F at which W F.
10. 18 = H on a G C.
11. 90 = D in a R A.
12. 200 = D for P G in M.
13. 8 = S on a S S.
14. 3 = B M (S H T R).
15. 4 = Q in a G.
16. 24 = H in a D.
17. 1 = W on a U.
18. 5 = D in Z C.
19. 57 = H V.
20. 11 = P on a F B T.
21. 1000 = W that a P is W.
22. 29 = D in F in a L Y.
23. 64 = S on a C B.
24. 40 = D and N of the G F.
25. 76 = T in the B P.
26. 50 = W to L Y L.
27. 99 = B of B on the W.
28. 60 = S in a M.
29. 1 = H on a U.
30. 9 = J on the S C.
31. 7 = B for S B.
32. 21 = D on a D.
33. 7 = W of the A W.
34. 15 = M on a D M C.
35. 13 = P on a C O.
36. 0 = P E has this E N.
37. 66.5 = L of the A C.
38. 28 = B in the H F.
39. 500 = M away from H.
40. 33 = Highest D of S R of F M.
41. 16 = R in the P C.
42. 364.4 = Length of H B in S.
Random Rewind: 2018, Game Six
MINNESOTA 4, SEATTLE 2 IN MINNESOTA
Date: Thursday, April 5.
Batting stars: Eddie Rosario was 1-for-2 with a home run. Miguel Sano was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer (his third) and a walk. Mitch Garver was 1-for-3 with a home run.
Pitching stars: Kyle Gibson pitched 4.1 innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on seven hits and a walk. He threw 80 pitches. Taylor Rogers pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up only a walk. Addison Reed struck out two in a perfect inning. Fernando Rodney pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a walk and striking out one.
Opposition stars: Daniel Vogelbach was 2-for-3 with a walk. Jean Segura was 2-for-4 with a stolen base. James Paxton struck out seven in five innings, giving up two runs on four hits and a walk.
The game: The Mariners got both of their runs in the first inning. Dee Gordon and Segura opened the game with singles. With one out Mitch Haniger hit what might have been a double play ball, but a throwing error brought in a run and no one was retired. Vogelbach delivered a two-out RBI single to make it 2-0 Seattle.
Each team threatened in the second and the third, and the Mariners got a pair of one-out walks in the fifth. It was still 2-0 until the sixth, however, when Joe Mauer led off with a single and Sano followed with a two-run homer, tying the score. The Mariners put men on first and third with none out in the seventh but failed to score, so Garver was able to put the Twins on top in the bottom of the seventh with a home run.
Rosario homered in the eighth to make it 4-2 Twins. Gordon walked leading off the ninth and stole second, but the next three batters were retired and the Twins had the victory.
WP: Zach Duke (1-0). LP: Dan Altavilla (0-1). S: Rodney (1).
Notes: Ehire Adrianza was at shortstop in place of Jorge Polanco, who was suspended for the first half of the season. Sano was at third base. He was the regular third baseman when he was healthy, but he was only able to play 56 games there due to injuries. Eduardo Escobar played the most games at third with 77. Adrianza also saw substantial time at third (28 games).
Byron Buxton was in center field. Again, he would have been the regular there, but injuries limited him to 27 games in center. Jake Cave played the most games in center with 70. Max Kepler was there for 55 games and Ryan LaMarre played 34 games in center. LaMarre was in left field in this game, with Rosario given the day off. Rosario pinch-hit for LaMarre in the sixth inning and remained in the game in left field.
The Twins did not have a .300 hitter unless you count Willians Astudillo, who had just 93 at-bats. Polanco and Rosario each batted .288 to lead the team. The Twins batted .250, which was sixth in the league. Boston led at .268.
Rosario led the team with 24 home runs. Kepler had 20, Brian Dozier 16, Escobar 15, Logan Morrison 15, Cave 13, and Sano 13. The Twins hit 166 home runs, twelfth in the league. New York led the league with 267.
We went through the Twins pitching staff when we did a 2018 game about a week and a half ago, so there's no need to repeat that. The Twins were ninth in ERA at 4.50--Houston led at 3.11, which was more than half a run better than the second place team (Tampa Bay, 3.74). The Twins were tenth in WHIP at 1.38--Houston led there, too, at 1.10.
As you can see, the Twins were clearly not a bomba squad yet. Still, with all four runs coming on three homers, perhaps the beginnings were there.
The losing pitcher, Dan Altavilla, was actually having a solid season out of the bullpen until he got hurt in early June and had to miss the rest of the year. He was 3-2, 2.61, 1.26 WHIP in 22 games (20.2 innings). He had a poor year in 2019, leading one to think he may not have been fully healthy. One hopes he can bounce back for 2020.
The Mariners were 2-for-17 with men in scoring position and stranded 11 runners.
It seems like more than two years ago that we had these guys: Morrison, Logan Forsythe, Bobby Wilson, Gregorio Petit, Johnny Field, Taylor Motter, Oliver Drake, Tyler Kinley, David Hale.
Record: The Twins were 4-2, in first place in the American League Central, one game ahead of Chicago. They would finish 78-84, in second place, 13 games behind Cleveland.
The Mariners were 3-3, in third place in the American League West, 2.5 games behind Houston. They would finish 89-73, in third place, 14 games behind Houston.
Random record: The Twins are 49-48 in Random Rewind games.
July 7, 2020: Hopefully It Reaches The Eyes
Does everyone still smile at people even though you're wearing a mask? I always feel a little silly when I do it, but I don't really want to stop.
Happy Birthday–July 7
George Moriarty (1885)
Double Duty Radcliffe (1902)
Satchel Paige (1906)
Billy Herman (1909)
Sammy White (1927)
John Gordon (1940)
Bill Melton (1945)
Tommy Moore (1948)
Len Barker (1955)
Dan Gladden (1957)
Glenn Hoffman (1958)
Tim Teufel (1958)
Dave Burba (1966)
Jeff Shaw (1966)
Chuck Knoblauch (1968)
Matt Mantei (1973)
Cory Provus (1978)
John Buck (1980)
Brandon McCarthy (1983)
Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe played in the Negro Leagues for many years. He got his nickname because he would sometimes catch one game of a doubleheader and pitch the other. He played professionally until 1954, when he retired at age 52. He is the oldest player to ever appear in a professional baseball game, throwing one pitch for the Schaumberg Flyers of the Northern League in 1999 when he was 96. I'm no expert on the Negro Leagues, but it seems to me that he should be in the Hall of Fame.
John Gordon was a radio broadcaster for the Twins from 1987 through 2011.
Tommy Moore was drafted by Minnesota in the twenty-eighth round in 1966, but did not sign.
Cory Provus has been a radio broadcaster for the Twins since 2012.
Nur-D – Black Wizard Wave
A little more Minnesota music. Though, technically, the last one was someone I played for the sake of a bit for the second time now. This one though, is purely on talent.
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Initial Time We Play A Game With Two Letters After A Fourth of July Break
Just in case the guy on KFAN has got his intellectual property ducks in a row with his Kickstarter thing, I will not refer to this game by the same name he has given his version. Instead, this will be the initial time I "host" a game for the second on this platform with the following rules:
1. I will give you two letters (for example, "K.P"). All the items that week will be a two-word answer in which each word begins with letter in the appropriate spot. The answer can be a person, place, thing, or other two-word phrase. For example, if "K.P." are the letters, then one answer might be Kirby Puckett. Another answer might be "Krakow, Poland." And so on.
2. I will provide six clues for each answer. The clues will be provided one-at-a-time.
3. If you believe you know the answer, make a Spoilered guess in the thread. The point will go to whomever correctly identifies the answer first. If you submit an incorrect response, then you can no longer submit for that particular answer.
4. The participant with the most correct answers at the end of the week wins. (If there is a tie, then I will have tiebreakers for only the participants in the tie.)
5. You're going to be on the honor system, but you should not be using the internet or other resources.
The letters will be revealed, and clues for the first phrase will commence at 10:00am.
July 6, 2020: Count To Ten
I hope everyone had a good long weekend. Still got all of your digits?
Random Rewind: 2007, Game One Hundred Forty-one
CHICAGO 11, MINNESOTA 10 IN CHICAGO (13 INNINGS)
Date: Friday, September 7.
Batting stars: Michael Cuddyer was 3-for-6 with a walk and two runs. Justin Morneau was 3-for-7 with two runs and two RBIs. Jason Bartlett was 3-for-7 with two runs. Torii Hunter was 2-for-6 with a walk. Nick Punto was 2-for-6 with a double. Chris Heintz was 2-for-6. Jason Tyner was 2-for-6. Rondell White was 1-for-3 with a three-run homer, his third.
Pitching stars: Carlos Silva pitched six innings, giving up three runs on eight hits and no walks and striking out two. Pat Neshek struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up one hit. Carmen Cali pitched as scoreless inning, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Jim Thome was 3-for-6 with a home run (his twenty-fourth), a walk, and four RBIs. Luis Terrero was 2-for-2 with a walk. Alex Cintron was 2-for-4 with a home run (his second) and two runs. Jerry Owens was 2-for-4 with a double and a stolen base, his twenty-fourth. Juan Uribe was 2-for-6 with a two-run homer, his sixteenth. Josh Fields was 2-for-6 with a double and two RBIs. Darin Erstad was 2-for-6 with a double. A. J. Pierzynski was 2-for-7. Bobby Jenks struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up one hit.
The game: The Twins started the game with three singles, the last a run-scoring hit by Hunter. An RBI ground out followed, putting the Twins up 2-0. The White Sox got on the board in the bottom of the first on Thome's RBI single and took the lead in the second on Uribe's two-run homer.
The Twins got the lead back in the fourth, when RBI singles by Garrett Jones and Heintz made it 4-3. There was no more scoring until the seventh, when Cintron homered to tie it 4-4. It stayed 4-4 through eight.
The ninth inning was one of the craziest ones anyone will ever see. In the top of the inning, singles by Punto and Bartlett put men on first and third. An error gave the Twins the lead. Morneau and Cuddyer followed with RBI singles and White hit a three-run homer to put the Twins up 10-4 going to the bottom of the ninth.
With a solid lead, Ron Gardenhire brought in Julio DePaula to pitch. He gave up three consecutive singles to load the bases with none out. Fields doubled home two runs and Thome hit a three-run homer, cutting the Twins' lead to one at 10-9. Still, Joe Nathan was coming into the game, so all should be well. Not quite. Paul Konerko walked and pinch-runner Scott Podsednik stole second. He went to third on a wild pitch and Erstad doubled, tying the score.
The Twins put two on in the tenth but did not score. Neither team threatened after that until the thirteenth. Juan Rincon started the inning by walking Terrero. He was bunted to second and Thome was intentionally walked. An error loaded the bases and Pierzynski singled to bring home the deciding run.
WP: Heath Phillips (1-1). LP: Rincon (3-3). S: None.
Notes: Heintz was behind the plate in place of Joe Mauer, who missed several games due to injury. Nick Punto was at second base, as Luis Castillo had been traded to the Mets. Punto was usually on third in 2007, but Brian Buscher, who had come up in late July, manned that position in this game. Tyner was in left in place of Jason Kubel.
Jones was at DH, one of eight players with double-digit games at DH. Kubel played the most games there with 36, followed by Tyner (26), Jeff Cirillo (24), Mauer (19), White (19), Mike Redmond (18), Morneau (14), and Jones (13).
The only non-pitcher substitution was White pinch-hitting for Jones in the eighth and remaining in the game at DH.
Castillo was the only Twin to bat .300, checking in at .304. Mauer was close at .293. The Twins batted .264, which was ninth in the league. New York led at .290.
Morneau led the team in homers with 31. Hunter had 28, Cuddyer 16, and Kubel 13. The Twins hit 118 homers, next-to-last in the league. New York led there, too, at 201.
Johan Santana was the staff ace at 15-13, 3.33. Silva was 13-14, 4.19. Boof Bonser was third in starts, at 30, but went 8-12, 5.10. Others to make double-digit starts were Scott Baker (9-9, 4.26), Matt Garza, (5-7, 3.69), Kevin Slowey (4-1, 4.73), and Ramon Ortiz (4-4, 5.14).
The bullpen had three reliable pitchers. Nathan (4-2, 1.88, 37 saves) was the closer, set up by Matt Guerrier (2-4, 2.35) and Neshek (7-2, 2.94). Rounding out the bullpen were Dennys Reyes (2-1, 3.99, but with a WHIP of 1.88) and Rincon (3-3, 5.13).
The Twins were fourth in ERA at 4.15. Boston led the way at 3.87. The Twins were also fourth in WHIP at 1.34. Boston led there, too, at 1.27.
I wonder what the record is for most runs scored in the ninth inning when the score was tied going into the ninth and was still tied after it.
This was the fifth of a six-game losing streak for the Twins. It was their ninth loss in eleven games. They would win the next three, then lose four more.
Record: The Twins were 69-72, in third place in the American League Central, 12 games behind Cleveland. They would finish 79-83, in third place, 17 games behind Cleveland.
The White Sox were 60-81, in fifth (last) place in the American League Central, 21 games behind Cleveland. They would finish 72-90, in fourth place, 24 games behind Cleveland.
Random Record: The Twins are 48-48 in Random Rewind games.