Monthly Archives: August 2022

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–August 17

Johnny Rawlings (1892)
Rudy York (1913)
Donald Honig (1931)
Jim Davenport (1933)
John Buzhardt (1936)
Diego Segui (1937)
Boog Powell (1941)
Ron Boyer (1944)
Skip Lockwood (1946)
Butch Hobson (1951)
Alex Cole (1965)
Jorge Posada (1971)
Mike Maroth (1977)
Brett Myers (1980)
Dustin Pedroia (1983)

Author Donald Honig has written nearly forty books about baseball.

Ron Boyer is the brother of Clete Boyer and Ken Boyer. He played in the Yankees’ farm system for eight years, reaching AAA.

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2022 Twins Game Logs

2022 Game Log 115 – Royals at Twins

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It's the August of our discontent in Twins Territory. The team itself is playing lousy, not fun baseball, Emilio Pagan is still on the team, Buxton either seems to hit an epic HR or feebly strikes out. Twins have fallen 2 games back from the hardly trying Guardians and tied with the underperforming White Sox (also how did both teams end up having played two more games than the Twins?) Here at the WGOM, most game logs seem the have a "in progress" tag if they show up at all.

Hopefully nothing better to fix that than an even more lackluster Royals team. After yesterday's win, hopefully the Twins have the wind in their sails. Zach Grienke for the Royals in probably his last season. Sonny Gray up for the Twins and he's been hands down the best pitcher for the Twins this year.

Another 6:40p start on what should be a nice night. Here' hoping the Twins can build on yesterday's win and start to play some fun, winning baseball.

Twins Line Up

Keeping Track

Minor Details: The Return

I'm not going to try to go back and review all the games I missed, nor am I going to go back and choose players of the week(s).  I did think, however, that you might be interested in seeing where the teams are in the standings.  We'll resume game results tomorrow.

ST. PAUL SAINTS

The Saints are 54-55, tied for fifth place with Indianapolis in the International League West, 11.5 games behind Nashville.  They are 5-5 in their last ten games and lost their most recent game.

WICHITA WIND SURGE

The Wind Surge is 25-14, in first place in the Texas League North, five games ahead of Springfield.  They are 9-1 in their last ten games and won their last four games.

CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS

The Kernels are 20-22, in fourth place in the Midwest League West, two games behind third-place Wisconsin, five games behind South Bend.

FORT MYERS MIGHTY MUSSELS

The Mighty Mussels are 16-24, in fifth place in the Florida State League West, three games behind fourth-place Lakeland, ten games behind Bradenton.

And just for fun, I thought I'd put standings together as if all four teams were in the same league.  It proves nothing, and I'm not pretending that it does.  I just thought it would be kind of cool.

Cedar Rapids 63-45 .583  --
Wichita             60-47 .561  2.5
Fort Myers     57-47 .548  4
St. Paul             54-55 .495   9.5

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–August 16

Hick Carpenter (1855)
Baby Doll Jacobsen (1890)
Fats Fothergill (1897)
Tiny Bonham (1913)
Gene Woodling (1922)
Puddin’ Head Jones (1925)
Buck Rodgers (1938)
Gene Brabender (1941)
Mike Jorgensen (1948)
Al Holland (1952)
Nick Leyva (1953)
Rick Reed (1964)
Xavier Hernandez (1965)
Terry Shumpert (1966)
Quinton McCracken (1970)
Damian Jackson (1973)
Roger Cedeno (1974)
Ryan Hanigan (1980)
Yu Darvish (1986)
Martin Maldonado (1986)
Akil Baddoo (1998)

Nick Leyva is a long-time minor league coach and manager and major league coach.  He managed the Philadelphia Phillies from 1989-1991.

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