Misery.
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Frank Crosetti was a coach for the Twins from 1970-71.
136 seconds of pure pop joy.
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Date: Wednesday, April 2.
Batting stars: Corey Koskie was 2-for-3 with a double. Jacque Jones was 2-for-4 with a home run, two runs, and four RBIs. A. J. Pierzynski was 2-for-4 with a double. Torii Hunter was 2-for-5 with a triple and two RBIs. Cristian Guzman was 2-for-5 with two runs.
Pitching stars: Joe Mays pitched five innings, giving up a run on two hits and no walks and striking out four. Johan Santana struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk. Mike Fetters pitched a perfect inning. Latroy Hawkins pitched a perfect inning.
Opposition stars: Eric Munson was 1-for-3 with a home run. Wil Ledezma pitched two shutout innings, giving up a walk.
The game: The Twins took control early. In the first inning Guzman singled, went to second on a ground out, took third on a wild pitch, and scored on Koskie's single to give the Twins a 1-0 lead. In the second, Michael Cuddyer led off with a single and Jones hit a two-out two-run homer to put Minnesota up 3-0.
The Tigers got their lone run in the third when Munson led off with a home run. The Twins responded with three in the fourth. Pierzynski hit a ground-rule double with one out in the fourth and a balk moved him to third. With two out, Jones laid down an RBI bunt single. Guzman then singled and Hunter delivered a two-run triple, making the score 6-1 Twins.
Detroit never threatened after that. They had only two singles and a walk the rest of the game and never advanced anyone past first base. The Twins scored in the eighth when Cuddyer walked, went to third on Pierzynski's single, and scored on a sacrifice fly. They got their final run in the ninth when Denny Hocking scored from first on a Doug Mientkiewicz double.
WP: Mays (1-0). LP: Jeremy Bonderman (0-1). S: None.
Notes: Cuddyer was in right field. Dustan Mohr played the most games in right field, but Cuddyer was the regular for most of April.
Hocking replaced Koskie in the fourth inning. That's really early for a defensive replacement. On the other hand, Koskie played the next day, so if it was due to injury or illness it was minor.
Mays pitched really well in this game, but sadly he did not sustain it. This was his second-best game of the season by game scores. After this game, there would only be one time when his ERA was below five this season.
Bonderman lasted just four innings for the Tigers, giving up six runs on nine hits and a walk. He did strike out five.
This was one of five games Fetters would pitch as a Twin.
Record: The Twins were 2-0, tied for first in the American League Central with Kansas City.
Fred Clarke (1872)
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Jack Lamabe (1936)
Chuck Scrivener (1947)
Dave Winfield (1951)
Dennis Eckersley (1954)
Jim Joyce (1955)
Daryl Sconiers (1958)
Darrin Fletcher (1966)
Junior Felix (1967)
Wil Cordero (1971)
Eric Munson (1977)
Infielder Chuck Scrivener was drafted by the Twins in the seventeenth round in 1966, but did not sign.
Jim Joyce was a major league umpire from 1989-2016.
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Date: Monday, March 31.
Batting stars: Dustan Mohr was 2-for-3 with a two-run homer. A. J. Pierzynski was 1-for-3 with a home run.
Pitching stars: Brad Radke pitched 6.2 innings, giving up one run on three hits and one walk and striking out three. J. C. Romero pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit. Eddie Guardado pitched a perfect inning.
Opposition star: Mike Maroth pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on five hits and no walks and striking out three.
The game: Michael Cuddyer hit a one-out single in the second and Mohr hit a two-out two-run homer to give the Twins a 2-0 lead. After that, neither team got a baserunner until the fifth and neither team got a man to second until the sixth.
The Twins missed a chance to add to their lead in that sixth inning. Jacque Jones led off with a double and Cristian Guzman singled to put men on first and third. With the contact play on (my assumption), Torii Hunter grounded to third and Jones was thrown out at the plate. Matthew LeCroy then grounded into a double play and the chance was gone.
It looked like it might cost them. In the seventh, Omar Infante singled with one out. With two down, Bobby Higginson walked and Dean Palmer delivered an RBI single, cutting the lead to 2-1. The go-ahead run was on and the tying run was in scoring position, but Craig Paquette grounded out to end the threat.
In the eighth Pierzynski homered to give the Twins an insurance run. The Tigers did not get a man past first base after that.
WP: Radke (1-0). LP: Maroth (0-1). S: Guardado (1).
Notes: Michael Cuddyer was at third base in place of Corey Koskie. Cuddyer would mostly play right field when he played, but he would spend much of the season in Rochester, as we will see as this series progresses. Sorry if I should've spoilered that.
Other than that, the Twins used what would be their regular lineup for 2003. Denny Hocking went to third base in the seventh, replacing Cuddyer for defense. Chris Gomez pinch-ran for LeCroy in the ninth.
This was the year Detroit lost 119 games and Maroth lost 21 games. This one was a tough luck loss, but overall he did not pitch well in 2003--5.73 ERA, 1.45 WHIP. Still, he made 33 starts and pitched nearly 200 innings, due mostly to the fact that the Tigers had no one better to replace him with. Of the six Detroit pitchers who started ten or more times, only one had an ERA under five (Nate Cornejo) and two had ERAs over six. Remarkably, they were not last in the league in ERA--they were next to last at 5.30, but Texas was dead last at 5.67.
Maroth was actually in the Twins farm system for a time in 2010. Most of that time was spent on the disabled list. Another Tiger in this game with a Twins connection is Eric Munson, who went to spring training with the Twins in 2005.
Record: The Twins were 1-0, tied for first place in the American League Central with Kansas City.
Hurt.
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