Monthly Archives: August 2023

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–August 29

Pep Young (1907)
Joe Schultz (1918)
Billy Cox (1919)
Orval Grove (1919)
Dave Nicholson (1939)
Doug DeCinces (1950)
Bill Latham (1960)
Jeff Kellogg (1961)
Henry Blanco (1971)
Aaron Rowand (1977)
Roy Oswalt (1977)
Anthony Recker (1983)
Mark Rzepczynski (1985)
Noah Syndergaard (1992)

Bill Nicholson is the one nicknamed "Swish", but Dave deserved the nickname more.  In the one season in which he played more than a hundred games (126 in 1963), he struck out 175 times.  He did hit 22 homers.  In 1964 he had 294 at-bats and struck out 126 times while hitting 13 homers.

Jeff Kellogg was a major league umpire from 1993-2019.

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2023 Twins Game Logs

2023 Game Log 132: Cleveland Indians at Minnesota Twins

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After the improbable win against the Rangers yesterday, the Cleveland Guardians of the Galaxy come to town for a three game series to close out the month. The Twins currently have a 6.0 game lead in the division, so hopefully they use this opportunity to pull away. Curry is on the mound for the Guards (I think I know, but I'll let you try to pronounce his first game). He's only made a few starts this year, but has been decent enough. Most likely should be plenty to put away this lineup.

We hit the road after this (to play the Rangers... and the Guardians?) so let's get some wins!

Keeping Track

Minor Details: Games of August 27

STORM CHASERS 5, SAINTS 3 IN OMAHA

Bubba Thompson and Nate Eaton homered in a four-run first for Omaha.

Austin Martin was 2-for-2 with a double and a walk.
DaShawn Keirsey, Jr. hit a home run, his second.

Michael Boyle, normally a reliever, pitched three innings, allowing four runs on two hits and two walks.
Francis Peguero pitched a scoreless inning, walking one and striking out one.
Andrew Bechtold pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit and two walks and striking out one.
Jovani Moran pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit and three walks.
Ronny Henriquez pitched a perfect inning.

WIND SURGE 6, TRAVELERS 5 IN ARKANSAS

With the score 6-2, Robert Perez hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth, but Arkansas did not get the tying run on base.

Aaron Sabato was 3-for-4 with a home run, his ninth.
Yoyner Fajardo was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, his eighth.
Patrick Winkel hit a home run, his ninth.

Travis Adams pitched five innings, giving up one run on five hits and two walks and striking out four.
Taylor Floyd pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up two hits and striking out one.

KERNELS 7, CUBS 1 IN SOUTH BEND

Cedar Rapids scored three in the first and led all the way.

Noah Miller was 3-for-5 with a double.
Kyler Fedco was 2-for-3 with a home run (his fifth), a walk, and two runs.
Andrew Cossetti was 2-for-5 with a triple.

Kyle Jones struck out seven in six innings, giving up one run on four hits and a walk.
Malik Barrington struck out two in two perfect inning.
A. J. Labas pitched a scoreless inning.

MIGHTY MUSSELS 6, TORTUGAS 4 IN FORT MYERS (10 INNINGS)

Ricardo Olivar hit a walkoff two-run homer.

Rubel Cespedes was 2-for-4 with a home run (his twelfth) and three RBIs.
Maddux Houghton was 2-for-4 with a double.
Olivar was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, his tenth.
Walker Jenkins was 2-for-5 with two runs.

Juan Mercedes pitched four innings, giving up three runs on five hits and a walk and striking out two.
Xander Hamilton struck out two in 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and three walks.*
Juan Mendez pitched a perfect inning.
Wilker Reyes pitched two innings, giving up an unearned run on a hit and a walk and striking out one.
Ricardo Velez pitched a perfect inning.

*His first appearance in Class A.

TODAY'S TILTS

No games scheduled.

TUESDAY'S TILTS**

5:30  Fort Myers at Clearwater
6:35  Lake County at Cedar Rapids
7:05  San Antonio at Wichita
7:07  Columbus at St. Paul

**No starting pitchers are listed on milb.com at this time.

Cup of Coffee

August 28, 2023: Opt Out

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This occasionally happens, and it always amuses me. I was having a really stressful dream. Not like a nightmare or anything, just events of the dream were causing massive stress to me in the dream. Then, at its fever pitch, and outside thought popped in my head of, "hey, I think this is just a dream? Should we wake up?" to which me in the dream replied, "uh, sure!". And then I woke up and the stress immediately melted away.

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–August 28

Joe Yeager (1875)
Dode Paskert (1881)
Aaron Ward (1896)
Charlie Grimm (1898)
Paul Bowa (1918)
Tony Gonzalez (1936)
Tom Satriano (1940)
Lou Piniella (1943)
Mike Torrez (1946)
Ron Guidry (1950)
Joel Youngblood (1951)
Darren Lewis (1967)
Jay Witasick (1972)
Tom Shearn (1977)
Ryan Madson (1980)
Carlos Quentin (1982)
Will Harris (1984)

Paul Bowa is the father of Larry Bowa and the grandfather of Nick Johnson.  He was a minor league infielder who reached as high as AAA, and later became a minor league manager in the St.  Louis Cardinals’ organization.

We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to bhiggum.

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