2012 Game Logs: Cowtown @ Wolves

The Wolves were up by 18 points late in the third quarter Saturday night before the Hawks went on a 24-2 run as Minnesota grabbed defeat from the clutches of victory. Love and Co. look to rebound tonight against a Kings team that looked seriously awful on Saturday night-- Sacramento scored 23 points in the first half Saturday, for real.

Minnesota is a 7.5 point favorite at home, let's see if DeMarcus Cousins is ready to make the Timberwolves pay for drafting Wesley Johnson ahead of him in the 2010 draft. Hopefully he will go easy on Minnesota as Wes himself seems to have taken the lead on punishing the Wolves.

Spanning the Globe

DOMINICAN LEAGUE

Saturday

Escogido 10, Cibao 6 in Escogido.  Pedro Florimon was 0-for-2 with two walks for Escogido.  Francisco Liriano started for Escogido and pitched two-thirds of an inning, surrendering three runs on four hits and two walks.

Sunday

Aguilas 3, Escogido 2 in Aguilas.  Pedro Florimon was 0-for-3 for Escogido.

Licey 3, Cibao 2 in Licey (10 innings).  Alexi Casilla was 2-for-6 with a run and an RBI for Cibao.

PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE

Saturday

Mayaguez 10, Caguas 1 in Mayaguez.  Daniel Ortiz was 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs for Mayaguez.  Eddie Rosario pitch hit and struck out for Mayaguez.

Sunday

Caguas 4, Mayaguez 0 in Mayaguez.  Aaron Bates was 0-for-4 for Caguas.  Daniel Ortiz was 1-for-3 for Mayaguez.  Nelvin Fuentes gave up a hit but no runs in two-thirds of an inning for Mayaguez.

VENEZUELAN LEAGUE

Saturday

Magallanes 11, Zulia 10 in Magallanes.  The score was 6-1 after eight; Zulia scored nine in the top of the ninth and Magallanes scored five in the bottom of the ninth.  Pedro Guerra struck out four in 1.2 scoreless innings for Magallanes, giving up a hit and a walk.

Aragua 5, Anzoategui 2 in Anzoategui.  Lester Oliveros allowed an unearned run on a hit and a walk while striking out one in one inning.

Sunday

Aragua 5, Anzoategui 3 in Anzoategui.  Lester Oliveros worked a perfect inning for Anzoategui.

AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE

Saturday

Perth 8, Canberra 7 in Canberra (Game 1—11 innings).  Luke Hughes was 1-for-1 with a walk as a reserve for Perth.

Brisbane 9, Melbourne 3 in Brisbane.  Sam Gibbons struck out one in a scoreless inning for Melbourne, giving up a hit and a walk.

Sunday

Sydney 6, Adelaide 4 in Sydney.  Jacob Younis was 3-for-4 and scored once for Sydney.  Todd Van Steensel struck out three in two perfect innings for Sydney.

Canberra 3, Perth 2 in Canberra.  Tim Atherton struck out five in five shutout innings, giving up just two hits for Canberra.

Happy Birthday–January 16

Jimmy Macullar (1855)
Art Whitney (1858)
Jimmy Collins (1870)
Ferdie Schupp (1891)
Buck Jordan (1907)
Dizzy Dean (1910)
Jim Owens (1934)
Ron Herbel (1938)
Joe Bonikowski (1941)
Tsuneo Horiuchi (1948)
Dave Stapleton (1954)
Steve Balboni (1957)
Marty Castillo (1957)
Dave Jauss (1957)
Jack McDowell (1966)
Ron Villone (1970)
Jack Cust (1979)
Albert Pujols (1980)
Jeff Manship (1985)

Jimmy Macullar holds the career record for most games by a left-handed-throwing shortstop (325). Oddly, he batted right-handed.

Marty Castillo was drafted by Minnesota in the twenty-first round in 1975, but did not sign.

Continue reading Happy Birthday–January 16

2012 Game Logs: Game 12 Timberwolves @ Atlanta

Minnesota did their best to do a 2010-11 Timberwolves impression last night in giving away a 4th quarter lead. The main problem for the Wolves last night was Emeka Okafor being unguarded by Anthony Randolph for much of the game last night. Thankfully, Al Horford is going to be out for (likely) the rest of the season leaving Zaza Pachulia as Atlanta's starting center.

Here is a weird gambling fact about tonight's game:

Road team is 9-1-1 ATS in the last 11 meetings.

The Wolves are 7.5 point dogs tonight against a Al Horford-less Hawks team. I appreciate these teams having their better players injured to give the Wolves a chance while Beasley is out. It is mighty sporting of them.

Remodeled basement. Same half-baked taste.