Zack Jones had a good inning. No home teams won. Two games were decided by late big innings.
Category Archives: Keeping Track
Fall Festival: Games of 10/18
Good days for Eddie Rosario and Alex Meyer. Thank you for your indulgence as I get caught up.
Fall Festival: Games of 10/17
Two Twins pitchers do well.
Fall Festival: Games of 10/16
A solid day for Max Kepler. Can you can you call it a "pitchers' duel" when each team uses several pitchers?
Fall Festival: Games of 10/15
A big day for Eddie Rosario. Walks are prominent in deciding games.
Fall Festival: Games of 10/14
We start to catch up. Lots of Twins had good games.
Happy Birthday–October 21
Bill Lee (1909)
Bill Bevens (1916)
Whitey Ford (1928)
Johnny Goryl (1933)
Ted Uhlaender (1940)
Bill Russell (1948)
Jerry Garvin (1955)
George Bell (1959)
Franklin Stubbs (1960)
John Flaherty (1967)
Steve Holm (1979)
Zack Greinke (1983)
Casey Fien (1983)
Happy Birthday–October 20
Jigger Statz (1897)
Judy Johnson (1900)
Bruce Campbell (1909)
Mickey Mantle (1931)
Juan Marichal (1937)
Dave Collins (1952)
Keith Hernandez (1953)
Jerry Meals (1961)
Rudy Seanez (1968)
Juan Gonzalez (1969)
William Julius "Judy" Johnson was a star third baseman in the Negro Leagues.
Jerry Meals has been a major league umpire since 1998.
It appears that no players associated with the Twins were born on this day.
We also want to wish a very happy birthday to GreekHouse and to freealonzo’s mother.
Happy Birthday–October 19
Mordecai Brown (1876)
Fred Snodgrass (1887)
Bob O'Farrell (1896)
Al Brazle (1913)
Walt Bond (1937)
Sandy Alomar (1943)
Al Gallagher (1945)
Mark Davis (1960)
Tim Belcher (1961)
Dave Veres (1966)
Keith Foulke (1972)
Horacio Estrada (1975)
Michael Young (1976)
Randy Ruiz (1977)
Jose Bautista (1980)
The Twins chose Tim Belcher with the first pick of the 1983 draft, but he did not sign.
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This was written Sunday night, so it's possible some things have changed since then.