MINNESOTA TWINS 10, MILWAUKEE BREWERS 0 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Tuesday, April 20, 1993.

Batting stars:  Mike Pagliarulo was 2-for-2 with a triple and a walk.  Dave Winfield was 2-for-4 with a three-run homer (his third) and three runs.  Brian Harper was 2-for-4 with two RBIs.  Kirby Puckett was 2-for-4.

Pitching stars:  Willie Banks struck out seven in 6.1 scoreless innings, giving up six hits and two walks.  Pat Mahomes pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk and striking out one.  Brett Merriman pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.

Opposition stars:  Bill Spiers was 2-for-3.

The game:  The Twins scored early and often in this one.  With two out in the first, Kirby Puckett singled, Kent Hrbek walked, and Dave Winfield hit a three-run homer.  With one out in the second, Scott Leius singled in-between walks to Mike Pagliarulo and Chuck Knoblauch, loading the bases.  Gene Larkin hit a sacrifice fly and Puckett delivered an RBI single to make it 5-0. In the third, Pedro Munoz singled and scored on a Pagliarulo triple to make it 6-0.

Milwaukee got a one-out double by Robin Yount in the second and a pair of two-out walks in the fifth, but did not move a man past second base.  The Twins added to their lead in the fifth.  Kent Hrbek led off with a walk, and singles by Dave Winfield and Brian Harper produced a run.  With one out, Mike Pagliarulo singled to load the bases, Scott Leius hit a sacrifice fly, and Chuck Knoblauch hit an RBI double to make it 9-0.

The Brewers loaded the bases in the sixth with one out on singles by Bill Speirs, Greg Vaughn, and Kevin Reimer, but a pair of short fly balls ended the inning.  The Twins got one more in the bottom of the sixth when Dave Winfield reached second on an error and scored on a Brian Harper single.  Milwaukee got two more one-out singles in the seventh, by Dave Nilsson and Dickie Thon, but again nothing came of it.  That was their last threat, and the game ended 10-0.

WP:  Willie Banks (2-0).

LP:  Jaime Navarro (0-1).

S:  None.

Notes:  Scott Leius was at shortstop in place of Pat Meares.  Pedro Munoz was in left–he and Shane Mack each played 64 games there.  Gene Larkin was in right.  The Twins didn’t have a regular right fielder–it was Kirby Puckett (47), Munoz (41), David McCarty (34), Dave Winfield (31), and Larkin (25).

Kirby Puckett was batting .317.  He would finish at .296.

Willie Banks had an ERA of 0.68.  He would finish at 4.04.

Tom Brunansky was 0-for-1.  I had forgotten he had played for Milwaukee.  Of course, he was with the Twins from 1982-1988.  Mike Fetters pitched the ninth inning, striking out two in a perfect inning.  He pitched in five games for the Twins in 2003.

Scott Leius was injured most of 1993, playing in only ten games.

Most of the Twins’ runs were scored off Jaime Navarro, who allowed nine runs on eight hits and four walks in four innings.

Record:  Milwaukee was 4-6, in fifth place in the AL East, five games behind Boston.  They would finish 69-93, in seventh place, twenty-six games behind Toronto.

The Twins were 7-5, in third place in the AL West, one game behind Texas.  They would finish 71-91, tied for fifth place with California, twenty-three games behind Chicago.

Random Record:  The Random Twins have lost six in a row and are 25-26 (.490).