Monthly Archives: June 2022

Keeping Track

Minor Details: Players of the Week: June 21-27

ST. PAUL SAINTS

Batter:  Jake Cave was 7-for-20 with a home run, a triple, and three walks.

Pitcher:  Josh Winder pitched four innings, giving up one run on one hit and two walks and striking out three.

WICHITA WIND SURGE

Batter:  Matt Wallner was 9-for-21 with three home runs, two doubles, and four walks.

Pitcher:  Sawyer Gipson-Long pitched ten innings over two starts, giving up four runs on nine hits and one walk and striking out eight.

CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS

Batter:  Kennie Taylor was 6-for-12.

Pitcher:  Aaron Rozek pitched five shutout innings, giving up one hit and two walks and striking out four.

FORT MYERS MIGHTY MUSSELS

Batter:  Noah Cardenas was 4-for-12 with four walks and a double.

Pitcher:  Mike Paredes pitched 4.1 perfect innings, allowing no runs and no hits and striking out two.

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–June 28

Ken Williams (1890)
Haruyasu Nakajima (1910)
A. Ray Smith (1915)
Oscar Rodriguez (1931)
Fred Gladding (1936)
Ron Luciano (1937)
Al Downing (1941)
Fred Talbot (1941)
Don Baylor (1949)
Chris Speier (1950)
Joe Sambito (1952)
Clay Christiansen (1958)
John Elway (1960)
Jay Schroeder (1961)
Mark Grace (1964)
Ron Mahay (1971)
Corey Koskie (1973)
Richard Hidalgo (1975)
Brandon Phillips (1981)

Haruyasu Nakajima is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

A. Ray Smith owned minor league baseball teams from 1961-1986.

Oscar Rodriguez is in the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ron Luciano was an American League umpire from 1969-1979.

NFL quarterbacks John Elway and Jay Schroeder each played minor league baseball.  Elway hit .318 in 151 at-bats as an outfielder for Class A Oneonta in 1982.  Schroeder was primarily an outfielder for four years in the Toronto system, never getting higher than Class A.  He hit .213 with 36 homers in 1,304 minor league at-bats.

Mark Grace was drafted by Minnesota in the fifteenth round of the January draft in 1984, but did not sign.

We would also like to wish a happy birthday to Philosofer's youngest child.

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2022 Twins Game Logs

2022 Game Log 75: Minnesota Twins at Cleveland Spiders

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Not sure who thought Minnesota and Cleveland would be duking it out for first place of the division, but here we are. Don't have too much time to go into the importance of these games, but I don't think I have to either.

Sonny Gray* takes the mound against the youngster McKenzie. Hopefully the Twins left their assbats at home. Here's to a good series!

(*Whenever I hear the name Sonny Gray, I sign it to the tune of "Nite And Grey".)

Oh, MLB's free game today for those not in the blackout.

Cup of Coffee

June 27, 2022: Four Out Of Five

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A question for the Wordlers. You're completely not expecting it, but you guess and 4 out of a consecutive 5 tiles turn green. Is it more frustrating to have the black tile at the beginning or the end? See, just missing that last square is sure annoying because you were that close. However, I feel when the first tile is black and the rest turn green, at first you're like, huh, well that was unexpected, but okay! Then it starts to eat at you a bit because you could have had it. Greens then black is a more immediate pain, but black then greens simmers, I feel.

Which is more annoying?

  • Black then greens (60%, 6 Votes)
  • Greens then black (40%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 10

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Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–June 27

Rube Benton (1890)
Fred Saigh (1905)
Dick Terwilliger (1906)
Wendell Smith (1914)
Lou Kretlow (1921)
Gus Zernial (1923)
Wayne Terwilliger (1925)
Charles Bronfman (1931)
Chuck Coles (1931)
Eddie Kasko (1931)
Rico Petrocelli (1943)
Takashi Nishimoto (1956)
Jeff Conine (1966)
Jim Edmonds (1970)
Daryle Ward (1975)
Chris Woodward (1976)
Luis Rodriguez (1980)
Jim Johnson (1983)

Fred Saigh was the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals from 1947-1953, selling to Anheuser-Busch.

Wendell Smith was an African-American sportswriter who was influential in the choice of Jackie Robinson as the first African-American major league player.

Charles Bronfman was the owner of the Montreal Expos from 1969-1991.

Takashi Nishimoto was a star pitcher in Japan from 1977-1993.

Daryle Ward is the son of ex-Twin Gary Ward.

We would also like to wish a happy anniversary to MagUidhir's brother.

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