Can anyone but Bob Dylan drop a nearly 17 minute song about the death of JFK almost 57 years after the fell event and not only it feel timely but also reflects on the year 2020? Also the "video" for the song is just sepia-tinged official JFK portrait.
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Sam Leever (1871)
Tommy Thomas (1899)
Jerry Koosman (1942)
Dave May (1943)
Raul Cano (1945)
Jerry Manuel (1953)
Keith Comstock (1955)
Tim Leary (1958)
Frank Eufemia (1959)
Rick White (1968)
Brad Lidge (1976)
Jesus Colome (1977)
Victor Martinez (1978)
Cody Ross (1980)
Hanley Ramirez (1983)
Tyler Robertson (1987)
Raul Cano had a long career in the Mexican League as a player, manager, and general manager.
OBREGON 9, MAZATLAN 8 IN OBREGON
Batting stars: Anthony Giansanti was 2-for-4 with a double. Hector Mora was 2-for-4 with a double. Carlos Munoz was 2-for-4. Maxwell Leon was 1-for-5 with a two-run homer, his fourth.
Pitching stars: Irwin Delgado struck out three in two innings, giving up an unearned run on no hits and two walks. Ivan Zavala pitched a perfect inning and struck out one.
Opposition stars: Carlos Sepulveda was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs. Victor Mendoza was 2-for-4. Sebastian Valle was 2-for-5 with a double. Hector Velazquez pitched three shutout innings, giving up no hits and one walk and striking out two.
The game: Obregon scored six in the third to take a 6-0 lead, but Mazatlan came back with eight in the fourth to go up 8-6. That was as good as it got, though. Obregon got one in the fifth, tied it on Sepulveda's RBI double in the eighth, and won it in the ninth on Jonathan Aranda's run-scoring double.
WP: Mario Meza (3-2). LP: Gabino Avalos (1-1). S: None.
Stats: Isaac Paredes was 1-for-3 and is batting .388. Jose Augusto Figueroa was 1-for-4 and is batting .304. Marco Antonio Rivas did not allow a run in two-thirds of an inning and has an ERA of 1.44. Roberto Espinosa allowed a run in an inning and has an ERA of 1.86. Avalos allowed a run without retiring anyone and has an ERA of 1.80.
Record: Mazatlan is 25-25, in sixth place in the Mexican League, eight games behind Obregon. They are a half game behind fifth-place Culiacan.
Next game: Mazatlan is again at Obregon today.
GIGANTES 6, TOROS 2 AT GIGANTES
Batting stars: Kelvin Gutierrez was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. Ronald Guzman was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs. Moises Sierra was 2-for-4 with a home run (his third), a double, and four RBIs. Oneil Cruz was 2-for-4. Jose Siri was 2-for-5.
Pitching stars: Scott Harkin struck out four in three shutout innings, giving up two hits and two walks. Marcos Molina struck out five in three innings, giving up a run on no hits and two walks. Yerry De Los Santos and Wily Peralta each pitched a scoreless inning.
Opposition star: Peter O'Brien was 1-for-4 with a home run, his fourth.
The game: The Gigantes scored two in the second and three in the fifth to take a 5-0 lead. Sierra hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning.
Stats: Guzman is batting .347. Gutierrez is batting .326. Alfredo Marte was 0-for-4 and is batting .300. Molina has an ERA of 2.61. De Los Santos and Peralta each has an ERA of zero.
Record: The Gigantes are 14-13, tied for third place in the Dominican League with Estrellas. They are a game and a half behind the Toros and Aguilas, which are tied for first.
Next game: The Gigantes host Estrellas for a doubleheader today.
Lara did not play yesterday. They remain 14-9, in first place in the Dominican League West, a half game ahead of Margarita. Their next game is at Caribes tonight.
Mayaguez did not play yesterday. They remain 9-3, in second place in the Puerto Rican League, two games behind Caguas. Their next game is at RA12 tonight.
Melbourne did not play yesterday. They remain 1-1, tied for second place in the Australian League with Sydney, a half game behind Perth. Their next game is at Canberra Friday afternoon.
It's been cloudy for days here unfortunately. I guess I can tune into Proxima Centauri.
Date: Tuesday, July 1.
Batting stars: Cristian Guzman was 2-for-4 with a double. Matthew LeCroy was 1-for-4 with a home run, his seventh.
PItching stars: J. C. Romero struck out three in a perfect inning.
Opposition stars: Mark Buehrle pitched eight innings, giving up one run on eight hits and no walks and striking out five. Frank Thomas was 2-for-4 with a home run (his eighteenth), a double, and three RBIs. Brian Daubach was 2-for-4 with a home run, his third. Sandy Alomar was 1-for-3 with a home run, his second.
The game: Willie Harris led off the game with a single and Thomas hit a one-out two-run homer in the first inning. With two out Daubach hit a home run to make it 3-0 White Sox after one. Alomar homered in the second to make it 4-0.
The Twins opened the third with a pair of singles, but a double play took them out of the inning. Neither team really threatened after that until the sixth, when ground-rule doubles by Magglio Ordonez and Joe Crede increased the Chicago lead to 5-0. Thomas doubled home a run in the seventh to make it 6-0.
The Twins got their lone run in the ninth when LeCroy led off with a home run.
WP: Buehrle (6-10). LP: Brad Radke (5-8). S: None.
Notes: Dustan Mohr was in left field in place of Jacque Jones. Bobby Kielty was in right. Jones would not return to the lineup until July 17.
Corey Koskie was 1-for-4 and was batting .308.
As often happened, Radke did well after the first inning. Still, his line was 5.2 innings, five runs, eight hits, no walks, and five strikeouts. His ERA went up to 5.76.
Johan Santana allowed a run in 1.1 innings to raise his ERA to 2.51.
This was the second time in five days Buehrle had shut down the Twins. After scoring ten runs off him in 3.1 innings on May 16, the Twins had managed just two runs in 17 innings.
Radke's ERA in the first inning in 2003 was 6.00. Overall it was 4.49. For his career, his ERA in the first inning was 5.05. Overall it was 4.22.
Record: The Twins were 43-39, in second place in the American League Central, a half game behind Kansas City.
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I don't have much 2020-wise, but I did find this to be my favorite track off of Plini's most recent album "Impulse Voices"
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Tom Underwood (1953)
Ken Landreaux (1954)
Lonnie Smith (1955)
Glenn Wilson (1958)
George Wright (1958)
Jeff A (1958)
Andy Allanson (1961)
Mike Jackson (1964)
Jason Lane (1976)
Zack Britton (1987)
Second baseman Hiroyuki Yamazaki was a five-time all-star in Japan over a twenty-year career.
Charley Taylor was a minor-league pitching coach for over thirty years in the Houston Astros organization.
Steve Garvey was drafted by Minnesota in the third round in 1966, but did not sign.
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 9:00am.
Shorter, AP-style recaps today:
Saturday
NAVOJOA 7, MAZATLAN 3 IN NAVOJOA
A three-run third gave Navojoa a lead they would not give up. They had a hit batsman and four singles in the inning. Anthony Giansanti was 2-for-3 with a walk. Isaac Paredes was 2-for-4 with two doubles. Ignacio Marrujo struck out four in 2.1 scoreless innings.
Sunday
MAZATLAN 4, NAVOJOA 0 IN NAVOJOA
Mazatlan scored single runs in the first, third, seventh, and ninth. Juan Augusto Figueroa was 2-for-4. Alejandro Soto pitched five shutout innings, giving two hits and one walk and striking out three.
Record: Mazatlan is 25-24, tied for fifth with Culiacan in the Mexican League, seven games behind Obregon. They are 1.5 games behind fourth-place Jalisco.
Next game: Mazatlan is at Obregon this afternoon.
Saturday
GIGANTES 10, TOROS 1 AT GIGANTES
Moises Sierra and Alfredo Marte homered in a three-run first for the Gigantes. Juan Francisco hit a three-run homer in the sixth to put an exclamation point on it. Jose Siri was 2-for-3 with a walk, two runs, and two RBIs. Luis Marte was 2-for-4. Abiatal Avelino also homered. Dustin Crenshaw pitched five innings, giving up one run on four hits and two walks with no strikeouts.
Sunday
GIGANTES 3, ESTRELLAS 2 AT ESTRELLAS (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)
Alfredo Marte's two-run homer in the sixth turned a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 victory. It was Marte's third homer. Ronald Guzman was 2-for-3.
ESTRELLAS 7, GIGANTES 4 AT ESTRELLAS (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)
The Gigantes led 4-1 after four, but Estrellas scored six in the fifth to take the game. Ex-Twin Lewin Diaz had a two-run single and Jeremy Pena had a three-run single in the inning. Ronald Guzman was 2-for-3. Juan Francisco hit a two-run homer, his seventh.
Record: The Gigantes are 13-13, tied for third with Estrellas in the Dominican League, two games behind Este. They are 1.5 games behind second-place Aguilas.
Next game: The Gigantes host the Toros tonight.
Saturday
MARGARITA 13, LARA 6 IN MARGARITA (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)
Lara led 5-0 going to the bottom of the third, but Margarita scored six in the third, four in the fourth, and three in the fifth. Margarita had just eleven hits, but benefited from seven walks and three errors. Carlos Rivero led Lara, going 3-for-4 with two home runs (his third and fourth), three runs, and three RBIs. Yordanys Linares was 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
LARA 12, MARGARITA 4 IN MARGARITA (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)
Lara scored five in the second to break a 1-1 tie and got four in the seventh to put it out of reach. Gorkys Hernandez was 3-for-4 with a walk, four runs, and two RBIs. Osman Marval was 3-for-5 with two RBIs. Ildemaro Vargas, Carlos Rivero, and Rene Reyes were each 2-for-4. Yordanys Linares was 2-for-5.
Sunday
LARA 14, CARACAS 5 IN LARA
Lara scored eight runs in the third to take a 9-0 lead. Gorkys Hernandez hit a three-run triple in the inning. Gabriel Moreno was 4-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs. Carlos Rivero was 2-for-3 with a home run, his fifth. Hernandez was 2-for-4 and had four RBIs. Rene Reyes hit a home run. Raul Rivero struck out five in five innings, giving up one run on four hits and two walks.
Record: Lara is 14-9, in first place in the Venezuelan League West, a half game ahead of Margarita.
Next game: Lara is at Caribes Tuesday.
Saturday
MAYAGUEZ 3, MANATI 2 AT MAYAGUEZ (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)
Mayaguez led 3-0 after four and held on. Ex-Twin Kennys Vargas homered in the first inning to give Mayaguez the lead. Hector Hernandez struck out five in five innings, giving up two runs on four hits and a walk.
MAYAGUEZ 3, MANATI 1 AT MANATI (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)
T. J. Rivera's RBI double in the sixth broke a 1-1 tie. Ex-Twin Kennys Vargas singled home an insurance run in the seventh. Rivera was 2-for-3. Antonio Velez pitched five innings, giving up one run on four hits and no walks and striking out two.
Sunday
MANATI 12, MAYAGUEZ 2 AT MANATI
Leading 4-2, Manati scored eight runs in the eighth to put it away. They hit four home runs in the inning: Jan Hernandez, Roy Morales, Irving Falu, and ex-Twin Juan Centeno all homered, with Centeno's being a three-run homer. Ex-Twin Danny Ortiz was 2-for-4 for Mayaguez. Eric Stout struck out five in five innings, giving up one run on four hits and a walk.
Record: Manati is 9-3, in second place in the Puerto Rican League, two games behind Caguas.
Next game: Mayaguez is at RA12 Tuesday.
The Australian League is dealing with COVID-related complications to its schedule. There were no games played over the weekend. Melbourne remains 1-1, tied for second place with Sydney, a half game behind Perth. The Australian League only plays on weekends, so Melbourne's next scheduled game is Friday in Canberra.
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