I have a feeling there will be slightly less people at Wrigley today.
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Pebbly Jack Glasscock (1857)
George Gibson (1880)
Jesse "Pop" Haines (1893)
Doc Cramer (1905)
Jungle Jim Rivera (1922)
Sparky Lyle (1944)
Bill Zepp (1946)
Cliff Johnson (1947)
George Lauzerique (1947)
Tim Johnson (1949)
Scott Sanderson (1956)
Dave Stieb (1957)
Mike Sweeney (1973)
Scot Shields (1975)
Ryan Vogelsong (1977)
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to brianS’ brother.
The pastor who took over for me in the North Sioux City church is a nephew of Jesse Haines.
Date: Friday, June 27.
Batting stars: Dan Ford was 3-for-4 with a walk and three RBIs. Jerry Terrell was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Lyman Bostock was 2-for-5 with two doubles and two runs.
Pitching star: Vic Albury pitched 4.1 innings of relief, giving up an unearned run on one hit and no walks and striking out four.
Opposition star: Roy Howell was 2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs.
The game: The Twins took the lead in the first inning. Bostock led off with a double, went to third on a pickoff error, and scored on a sacrifice fly to make it 1-0. The Twins opened the second with two singles, but a strikeout/throwout double play took them out of the inning. In the third, Glenn Borgmann led off with a triple and Bostock followed with a double. Ford delivered a two-out single to put the Twins ahead 3-0.
The Rangers got on the board in the fourth when Cesar Tovar doubled and scored on a Mike Hargrove single. Texas then took the lead in the fifth. Tom Grieve led off with a single and scored from first on Howell's double. Roy Smalley's RBI single tied it, and singles by Jim Sundberg and Mike Cubbage put the Rangers up 4-3.
The lead didn't survive the next half-inning, though. Steve Braun walked, went to second on a ground out, and scored the tying run when Terrell singled. Terrell went to second on the throw home, took third on a ground out, and scored on a wild pitch (Twins Baseball!) to give the Twins a 5-4 advantage.
Texas tied it in the seventh when Howell doubled and scored on an error. It stayed 5-5 until the ninth. With two out, Rod Carew walked, Steve Brye singled, and Eric Soderholm walked, loading the bases. Ford then delivered a two-run single and Terrell had an RBI single to make the score 8-5. The Rangers went down in order in the ninth, and in fact their last nine batters were retired.
WP: Albury (5-4). LP: Jim Umbarger (4-4). S: None.
Notes: Tom Kelly was at first base in place of John Briggs, who was out for a week or so. Briggs had come over in a trade from Milwaukee a couple of weeks earlier. Sadly, we did not hit the game in which Kelly hit his home run--he was 0-for-3. He would go back to the minors about two weeks later.
Terrell was at third base in place of Soderholm. Steve Braun, normally in left field, was the DH in place of Tony Oliva. That moved Bostock from right to left and put Brye in right.
Soderholm pinch-hit for Braun in the seventh. Danny Walton pinch-hit for Kelly in the eighth and stayed in the game at first base. Luis Gomez came in for defense in the ninth, replacing Danny Thompson at short.
Carew was batting .369. He would finish at .359. Terrell was batting .327. He would finish at .286. Braun was batting .303. He would finish at .302. Larry Hisle would bat .314 in 255 at-bats. The Twins batted .271, which was second in the league to Boston's .275.
Ford led the team with just 15 home runs. Carew was right behind at 14 and Oliva was next with 13. Soderholm, Braun, and Hisle each had 11. The Twins hit 121 home runs, which was eighth in the league. Cleveland led with 153. California was last with only 55 home runs.
Bert Blyleven led the staff, going 15-10, 3.00. Jim Hughes was 16-14, 3.82--Twins fans really thought he was going to be something. Having him throw 250 innings with 12 complete games at age 23 might not have been such a bright idea. Dave Goltz, who started this game, went 14-14, 3.67. The fourth starter spot was split between Ray Corbin and Albury, neither of whom got much accomplished. Tom Burgmeier and Bill Campbell handled closing chores, and while they did fine they didn't get much help. The Twins' team ERA was 4.05, tenth in the league. Baltimore led at 3.17. The Twins were ninth in WHIP at 1.40. Baltimore led there, too at 1.23.
As you probably noticed, there are players with connections to the Twins playing for Texas: Cesar Tovar, Mike Cubbage, Roy Smalley, and Bill Hands, who started the game for the Rangers.
The Twins lost the first game of the doubleheader 2-0. This was one of only two wins out of eleven games.
Record: The Twins were 32-37, in fourth place in the American League West, 12.5 games behind Oakland. They would finish 76-83, in fourth place, 20.5 games behind Oakland.
The Rangers were 35-38, in third place in the American League West, 11.5 games behind Oakland. They would finish 79-83, in third place, 19 games behind Oakland.
Random record: The Twins are 59-52 in Random Rewind games.
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Johnny Evers (1881)
Howie Shanks (1890)
Moe Drabowsky (1935)
John Bateman (1940)
Denis Menke (1940)
Mike Hegan (1942)
Jim Manning (1943)
John Hart (1948)
Al Hrabosky (1949)
Mike Cubbage (1950)
Dave Henderson (1958)
Mike Bordick (1965)
Lance Painter (1967)
Kimera Bartee (1972)
Brian Buchanan (1973)
Geoff Jenkins (1974)
Willie Eyre (1978)
C. C. Sabathia (1980)
John Hart was the general manager of the Cleveland Indians from 1999-2001 and of the Texas Rangers from 2001-2005.
We now remember the brave sacrifice that Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin made when they were stranded on the moon 51 years ago.
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 about 10:00am. (Barring some sort of unforeseen incident at the dentist.)
MINNESOTA 12, BOSTON 0 IN MINNESOTA
Date: Friday, August 5.
Batting stars: Jacque Jones was 3-for-4 with a two-run homer (his seventeenth), a walk, and two runs. Matthew LeCroy was 3-for-4 with a double. Joe Mauer was 3-for-5 with a double, three runs, and three RBIs. Lewwwwww Ford was 3-for-5 with three runs.
Pitching stars: Brad Radke struck out eight in seven shutout innings, giving up four hits and a walk. Terry Mulholland struck out one in a perfect inning. Matt Guerrier struck out two in a scoreless inning.
Opposition stars: Johnny Damon was 1-for-3 with a triple. Manny Delcarmen pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up two hits and two walks and striking out one.
The game: The Twins scored all of their runs in three innings. In the first, Ford led off with a triple and scored on a ground out. The next three batters, Mauer, LeCroy, and Jones, all singled to load the bases. A two-base error then brought home all three runners and put the Twins up 4-0.
The Twins next scored in the fourth. Michael Ryan reached on an error and Ford singled to put men on first and third. Back-to-back doubles by Mauer and LeCroy plated three runs and made the score 7-0.
The Twins put on the exclamation point in the eighth. Ford, Luis Rodriguez, and Mauer all singles to bring home one run. Terry Tiffee hit a two-run double and Jones hit a two-run homer to make it 12-0.
The Red Sox' best chance to score was in the first inning, when Damon led off with a triple. Three strikeouts took them out of the inning. They got a pair of singles in the seventh and got nothing from them.
WP: Radke (7-10). LP: Bronson Arroyo (9-7). S: None.
Notes: Ryan was in left field in place of Shannon Stewart, who was given the day off. Ford was in center in place of Torii Hunter, whose season had ended on July 29.
Tiffee pinch-ran for LeCroy in the seventh. Rodriguez pinch-hit for Punto in the eighth and stayed in the game at second base.
The Twins did not have a .300 hitter unless you count Mike Redmond, who batted .311 in 148 at-bats. Mauer led the regulars in batting at .294. The Twins batted .259, which was next-to-last in the league. Boston led the league at .281.
Jones led in home runs with 23, with Justin Morneau right behind at 22. LeCroy hit 17 homers, Hunter 14, Michael Cuddyer 12 and Stewart 10. The Twins hit 134 home runs, twelfth in the league. Texas led with 260.
We went through the Twins 2005 pitching staff recently, and I have nothing to add to that.
This was only the Twins' second win in nine games.
Record: The Twins were 56-53, in third place in the American League Central, 14.5 games behind Chicago. They would finish 83-79, in third place, 16 games behind Chicago.
The Red Sox were 62-46, in first place in the American League East, 3.5 games ahead of New York. They would finish 95-67, tied for first with New York in the American League East. New York won the tiebreaker, so Boston was the wild card.
Random record: The Twins are 58-52 in Random Rewind games.
That he did.
Also, special thanks to DW for a great DJ week.
(1 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Loading... It seems our district is offering a bit of a choice this fall. Either full online classes or semi-limited in-school sessions. We've currently opted for the latter. Our state still mandates masks in pretty much all non-dining situations (which only recently started), and my neck of the woods is surprisingly compliant about it, or at least compared to what I've heard of other locales. This is one of the reasons (I'm telling myself) to hope this won't be a disaster. To their credit, the district, like our governor, is strongly warning they may switch up on a dime if the situation changes.
What are your plans looking like this fall?
