SEATTLE MARINERS 3, MINNESOTA TWINS 1 IN MINNESOTA
Date: Saturday, August 14, 1982.
Batting star: Kent Hrbek was 3-for-3 with a walk.
Pitching star: Brad Havens pitched 7.2 innings, giving up two unearned runs on seven hits and a walk and striking out five.
Opposition stars: Dave Henderson was 2-for-4 with a double. Dave Edler was 2-for-4. Julio Cruz was 2-for-5 with a double. Mike Moore pitched 6.2 innings, giving up one run on four hits and four walks and striking out six. Bill Caudill struck out three in two perfect innings.
The game: The Twins drew three walks in the second inning, but their other three batters struck out, so they did not score. In the fourth Kent Hrbek led off with a double, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a sacrifice fly to put the Twins up 1-0.
The lead held up until the eighth. Bud Bulling reached on an error, was bunted to second, and scored on a Julio Cruz double. Cruz was thrown out trying to go to third, but singles by Dave Edler and Bruce Bochte and a walk to Richie Zisk loaded the bases, and Dave Revering hit a two-run single to give Seattle a 3-1 lead.
Tom Brunansky led off the bottom of the eighth with a walk and Kent Hrbek singled, but a strikeout and a double play ended the inning. The Twins went down in order in the ninth.
WP: Mike Stanton (2-3).
LP: Brad Havens (8-9).
S: Bill Caudill (21).
Notes: Kent Hrbek was batting .320. He would finish at .301.
Bud Bulling had played in fifteen games for the Twins in 1977.
Dave Edler played 126 games, mostly at third base, for Seattle from 1980-1983.
Bill Caudill saved 102 games over four seasons from 1982-1985. He finished seventh in Cy Young voting in 1982 and made the all-star team in 1984.
Randy Johnson played for the Twins in 1982. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the famous one. This one played in eighty-nine games, almost all of them at DH or as a pinch-hitter. He batted .248/.325/.402 with ten home runs in 234 at-bats.
The 1982 Twins were terrible, but I still have some good memories of them. They were a very young team, but many of the players were in place who would form the core of the 1987 World Championship team.
Record: Seattle was 57-58, in fourth place in the AL West, nine games behind California. They would finish 76-86, in fourth place, seventeen games behind California.
The Twins were 40-76, in seventh (last) place in the AL West, 26.5 games behind California. They would finish 60-102, in seventh place, thirty-three games behind California.
Random Record: The Random Twins are 57-54 (.514).