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2022 Twins Game Logs

2022 Game Log 17 — Tigers at Twins

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So the heat generated by the Twins taking the Jaspers to the White Sox nor the smoking hot men's sports weekend wasn't enough to warm Minnesota's temperatures so we will have another chilly night at Target Field for the Tigers. I'd like to hit a game soon but could at least like something in the 60s.

Tigers in town for the first time this year with Miguel Cabrera in the 3000 hit, 500 homer club. The Tigers should start to be a little better this year although their 6-9 start isn't so nice.

LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (0-1, 5.27) for the Tigers and RHP Chris Paddack (0-2, 5.00) for the Twins. The Twins have scored exactly zero runs in games that Paddack has pitched in so hopefully that changes tonight.

First Pitch at 6:40. Bring a warm coat if you go to the game.

Twins Lineup
DH - Buxton
SS - Correa
2B - Polanco
LF - Garlick
3B - Urshela
RF - Kepler
1B - Sano
C - Jeffers
CF - Celestino

Keeping Track

Minor Details: Players of the Week: April 19-24

I don't spend a ton of time on these, so it's certainly possible that I missed someone.

ST. PAUL SAINTS

Batter:  Not a lot to choose from, but Curtis Terry was 5-for-20 with two doubles and four walks.

Pitcher:  Yennier Cano pitched three shutout innings, giving up one hit and no walks and striking out three.

WICHITA WIND SURGE

Batter:  Dennis Ortega was 11-for-23 with three doubles, a triple, and a walk.

Pitcher:  Matt Canterino pitched six shutout innings, giving up no hits and two walks and striking out nine.

CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS

Batter:  Christian Encarnacion-Strand was 10-for-25 with two doubles.

Pitcher:  Cade Povich pitched 4.2 innings, giving up one earned run on four hits and a walk and striking out nine.

FORT MYERS MIGHTY MUSSELS

Batter:  Kyler Fedco was 6-for-21 with a double, a home run, and four walks.

Pitcher:  Marco Raya pitched six shutout innings, giving up one hit and no walks and striking out ten.

WGOM Videos

OneRepublic – I Lived

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This song reminds me of my sister, Anna. As many of you might recall, she had cystic fibrosis, and passed at the age of 23. This song was released right around the time she passed, and one of the constant tributes was how fully she lived each moment of her life, full of swagger and verve. So this song was already appropriate.

Then the band went and released their official music video version and, well, just watch the first minute and tell me it wasn't perfect:

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Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–April 26

Jack Barry (1887)
Ray Caldwell (1888)
Hack Wilson (1900)
Bernard Malamud (1914)
Sal Maglie (1917)
Virgil Trucks (1917)
Ron Northey (1920)
Granny Hamner (1927)
Amos Otis (1947)
Tom Norton (1950)
Mike Scott (1955)
Steve Lombardozzi (1960)
Curtis Wilkerson (1961)
Brian Anderson (1972)
Geoff Blum (1973)
Kosuke Fukudome (1977)
Joe Crede (1978)
Alejandro Machado (1982)
Shawn Kelley (1984)
Sean Rodriguez (1985)

Bernard Malamud, of course, wrote the book "The Natural".  He probably wrote some other books as well.

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Jim Carroll (With Lou Reed) – People Who Died

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This guest DJ stint was originally scheduled a few weeks ago, but my grandmother died and I was AFK a bunch, so I pushed it to this week. It gave me the idea to do a theme week with a little tribute song each day for people in my life who have passed away. Some'll be funeral songs, some won't. And today we'll kick it off with a song that is too catchy for the subject matter, but just had to be played.

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Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–April 25

John Henry “Pop” Lloyd (1884)
George Fiall (1900)
Bill Grieve (1900)
Roy Parmelee (1907)
Bobby Estalella (1911)
Red Flaherty (1917)
Ed Vargo (1930)
Lew Krausse (1943)
Kerry Taylor (1950)
Greg Wells (1954)
Larry Pashnick (1956)
Tony Phillips (1959)
Darren Holmes (1966)
Joe Buck (1969)
Brad Clontz (1971)
Jacque Jones (1975)
J. P. Howell (1983)
Garrett Mock (1983)
Robert Andino (1984)

Shortstop Pop Lloyd was called the Black Honus Wagner.

A member of the basketball hall of fame as part of the “Renaissance Five” team, shortstop George Fiall played in the Negro Leagues from 1918-1931.

Bill Grieve was an American League umpire from 1938-1955.

Red Flaherty was an American League umpire from 1953-1973.

Ed Vargo was a National League umpire from 1960-1983 and was an umpire supervisor from 1984-1997.

Kerry Taylor played for the GCL Twins in 1968.  He then went into the Army and was killed in the Vietnam War.

The son of Hall of Famer Jack Buck, some sources say that Joe Buck is also a professional baseball broadcaster.

Garrett Mock was drafted by Minnesota in the fourteenth round in 2002, but did not sign.

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