Searching the basement archives and seeing this song hasn't been played. Correcting that oversight now.
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The International Space Station will meet its end in the Pacific Ocean about a decade from now. It would be fun to be able to see it crash in.
NEW YORK 4, MINNESOTA 3 IN MINNESOTA
Date: Thursday, August 20.
Batting stars: Rich Reese was 3-for-4 with a triple. Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4. Leo Cardenas was 1-for-3 with a home run (his ninth) and two RBIs. George Mitterwald was 1-for-4 with a home run, his twelfth.
Pitching star: Ron Perranoski struck out three in two shutout innings, giving up three hits and a walk.
Opposition stars: Jim Lyttle was 2-for-4 with a double. Mel Stottlemyre pitched seven innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and a walk and striking out three.
The game: Reese tripled leading off the second and scored on a sacrifice fly, giving the Twins a 1-0 lead. The Yankees tied it in the fourth when Frank Baker walked and Bobby Murcer delivered an RBI double. The Twins took the lead back in the bottom of the fourth when Cardenas homered.
It stayed 2-1 Twins until the seventh. John Ellis led off the seventh with a double and Lyttle followed with a double, but Ellis could only reach third. A ground out scored a run to tie it. A fielder's choice with no one retired somehow put men on second and third. Stottlemyre then hit a triple, scoring both runs and putting the Yankees up 4-2.
Mitterwald homered in the bottom of the seventh to cut the lead to 4-3. The Twins got a pair of two-out singles in the eighth, but Jim Holt struck out and the Twins went down in order in the ninth.
WP: Stottlemyre (12-10).
LP: Bill Zepp (6-3).
S: Lindy McDaniel (17).
Notes: Danny Thompson remained at second base in place of Rod Carew. Holt was in center, with Cesar Tovar in left and Brant Alyea on the bench. Charlie Manuel pinch-hit for Tom Hall in the seventh and stayed in the game in left field. Rick Renick pinch-hit for Tovar in the seventh. Frank Quilici pinch-ran for Killebrew in the eighth and stayed in the game at second base, with Thompson moving to third.
Tony Oliva was 1-for-4 and was batting .321. Hall retired both men he faced and had an ERA of 2.87. Perranoski had an ERA of 2.41.
Stottlemyre hit six triples in his career. This was his second of the season, which was a career high for him. While he wasn't an awful batter for a pitcher, he wasn't particularly good, either: .160/.213/.223 in 749 at-bats.
Reese hit seventeen triples in his career. He hit five in 1970, which was also his career high.
It was Stottlemyre's bad luck to come to the Yankees just as their dynasty was ending, and to suffer a torn rotator cuff shortly before their next dynasty began. Had he played for the Yankees when they were good, and had he not gotten injured, he would almost certainly have had a much higher win total, made some post-season appearances, and possibly (who knows?) have made the Hall of Fame. As it was, he went 164-139, with a career 2.97 ERA and a 1.22 WHIP. He was an all-star five times, led the league in complete games twice, and in innings pitched once. However, because the team was bad, he twice led the league in losses, once with an ERA of 3.80 and once with an ERA of 3.22. I guess the point, if there is one, is that circumstances that you can 't control can play a significant role in the success of ballplayers, and of human beings generally.
The loss snapped the Twins' three-game winning streak. Their homestand would continue with three against Washington and three against Boston.
Record: The Twins were 72-48, in first place in the American League West, five games ahead of California.
Germany Schaefer (1876)
Eddie Ainsmith (1890)
Possum Whitted (1890)
Joe Sparma (1942)
Steve Brye (1949)
Rob Picciolo (1953)
Rusty Kuntz (1955)
Chris Bando (1956)
Dan Plesac (1962)
Chris Coste (1973)
Ben Hendrickson (1981)
Doug Fister (1984)
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Date: Wednesday, August 19.
Batting stars: Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a double. Rich Reese was 2-for-4.
Pitching stars: Jim Perry pitched a complete game shutout, giving up four hits and a walk and striking out five.
Opposition star: Fritz Peterson pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on five hits and no walks and striking out two.
The game: There was no score in the first three innings. The Yankees got men on first and third with two out in the fourth but did not score. It cost them. In the bottom of the fourth Killebrew hit a one-out single. The next batter went out, but two-out singles by Brant Alyea, Reese, and Leo Cardenas resulted in two runs. It stayed 2-0 until the eighth, when Danny Thompson singled with two out and scored on Killebrew's double.
The Yankees had some threats early. Horace Clarke walked leading off the game and reached second with two out. Jake Gibbs hit a two-out triple. Singles by Bobby Murcer and Jim Lyttle put men on first and third with two out in the fourth. But they got only one hit after that, a two-out single by Clarke in the eighth.
WP: Perry (18-10).
LP: Peterson (13-8).
S: None.
Notes: Thompson remained at second base in place of Rod Carew. Tom Tischinski was behind the plate in place of George Mitterwald. Jim Holt replaced Alyea and went to center field, with Cesar Tovar moving to left. Frank Quilici pinch-ran for Killebrew in the ninth and went to second base, with Thompson moving to third.
Tony Oliva was 0-for-3 and was batting .321. Perry had an ERA of 2.94.
Tischinski was 0-for-3 and was batting .171.
This was one of four shutouts Perry had in 1970. He had thirty-two for his career. It was one of thirteen complete games he had in 1970, the most he had in a season. He had 109 for his career.
The Twins had followed up their nine game losing streak with a three game winning streak.
Record: The Twins were 72-47, in first place in the American League West, 5.5 games ahead of California.
Looked a bit too chilly to play sports ball in St. Paul last night.
Lou Criger (1872)
Slim Sallee (1885)
Larry MacPhail (1890)
Joe Stripp (1903)
Buck Ross (1915)
Dick Tracewski (1935)
Joe Coleman (1947)
Bake McBride (1949)
Fred Lynn (1952)
Ronald Williamson (1953)
Fred Toliver (1961)
Joe Klink (1962)
Scott Klingenbeck (1971)
Skip Schumaker (1980)
B. J. Garbe (1981)
Lucas Duda (1986)
Larry MacPhail was the general manager of Cincinnati (1933-36) and Brooklyn (1938-42) and was president and part-owner of the Yankees (1946-47). His son Lee MacPhail was president of the American League and his grandson Andy MacPhail was the general manager of the Twins (1985-94) and the president of the Cubs (2000-02), the Orioles (2007-2015), and the Phillies (2015-present).
Ronald Williamson was a catcher in the Oakland organization from 1971-1973. In 1988, he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. He was cleared in 1999 through DNA testing and became the subject of John Grisham’s first non-fiction book, “The Innocent Man.” Williamson passed away from cirrhosis in 2004.
Outfielder B. J. Garbe was chosen by the Twins with the fifth pick of the 1999 draft. He was with the Twins through 2004, ended his career in 2006, and never got higher than AA.
Strong Almost Famous vibes on this Kinks cover song
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