Sean Burroughs is hitting .344 in Venezuela.
Category Archives: Keeping Track
Falling for Baseball: Games of 10/24
Not much good happened for Twins.
Happy Birthday–October 25
Jack Doyle (1869)
Smoky Joe Wood (1889)
Jack Kent Cooke (1912)
Lee McPhail (1917)
Russ Meyer (1923)
Bobby Thomson (1923)
Bobby Brown (1924)
Roy Hartsfield (1925)
Chuck Schilling (1937)
Al Cowens (1951)
Roy Smalley (1952)
Rowland Office (1952)
Tito Landrum (1954)
Danny Darwin (1955)
Andy McGaffigan (1956)
Steve Decker (1965)
Keith Garagozzo (1969)
Pedro Martinez (1971)
Wilkin Ramirez (1985)
Dominican Digest: Games of 10/23
Twins players get after it and do the little things.
Mexican Matchups: Games of 10/23
A tough day for Chris Colabello.
Venezuelan View: Games of October 23
Oswaldo Arcia perhaps breaks out of his slump.
Falling for Baseball: Games of 10/23
Another good day for Kyle Gibson.
Happy Birthday–October 24
Ned Williamson (1857)
Bill Kuehne (1858)
Lou Sockalexis (1871)
Ossie Bluege (1900)
Jack Russell (1905)
Jim Brosnan (1929)
Rawly Eastwick (1950)
Omar Moreno (1952)
Gary Serum (1956)
Ron Gardenhire (1957)
Junior Ortiz (1959)
Danny Clay (1961)
Rafael Belliard (1961)
Gene Larkin (1962)
Arthur Rhodes (1969)
Rafael Furcal (1977)
Third baseman Ossie Bluege played for the franchise in Washington for eighteen years and remained in the organization for many years after that. He is credited as being the first third baseman to guard the lines in the late innings. He is also credited as the scout who discovered Harmon Killebrew.
Venezuelan View: Game of 10/22
A forgettable day for Eduardo Escobar.
Falling for Baseball: Games of 10/22
A pair of relievers do well.