I didn't know my old science teacher was the drummer for Cheap Trick.
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Loading... Bill Thomas (1905)
Johnny Washington (1916)
John Kibler (1928)
Julio Navarro (1936)
Ralph Terry (1936)
Masaaki Mori (1937)
Al Clark (1948)
Joe Wallis (1952)
Ivan DeJesus (1953)
Otis Nixon (1959)
Stan Javier (1964)
Jay Powell (1972)
Gabriel Moya (1995)
Bill Thomas pitched in the minors from 1924-1952. He set records for games pitched (1,016), wins (383), losses (347), innings (5,995), hits allowed (6,721), and runs allowed (3,098).
Outfielder/first baseman Johnny Washington played in the Negro Leagues for nearly twenty years.
John Kibler was a National League umpire from 1963-1989.
Masaaki Mori was involved with twenty-seven pennant winners in Japan, sixteen as a player, three as a coach, and eight as a manager.
Al Clark was a long-time American League umpire.
BALTIMORE 6, MINNESOTA 5 IN MINNESOTA
Date: Saturday, July 25.
Batting stars: Tony Oliva was 3-for-4 with a home run (his fifteenth) and two runs. Frank Quilici was 2-for-3. Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a double.
Pitching star: Ron Perranoski pitched a scoreless inning, giving up two hits.
Opposition stars: Dave Johnson was 3-for-5 with a double. Brooks Robinson was 3-for-5. Boog Powell was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk. Don Buford was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer (his twelfth), a walk, and two runs. Dick Hall pitched four innings, giving up one run on four hits and striking out one.
The game: The Twins got off to a poor start. In the top of the first Buford was hit by a pitch, went to second on a wild pitch, and scored on an error. The error put Paul Blair on third base, and he scored on Powell's double to give the Orioles a 2-0 lead out of the gate.
The Twins did not get a baserunner until two out in the third, when starting pitcher Bill Zepp singled. Baltimore loaded the bases in the fourth but did not score. In the bottom of the fourth, the Twins scored four runs to take the lead. Rich Reese and Oliva singled and Killebrew followed with an RBI double. With one out, George Mitterwald was intentionally walked to load the bases. Leo Cardenas followed with a two-run single and Quilici had an RBi single, giving the Twins a 4-2 lead.
It lasted until the sixth. Frank Robinson singled, Brooks Robinson reached on an error, and Elrod Hendricks singled to load the bases with none out. Johnson singled in a run to make it 4-3, and with one out Terry Crowley delivered a pinch-hit single to tie it 4-4. Baltimore took the lead in the eighth when Dick Hall singled and Buford hit a two-run homer.
The Twins got one back in the bottom of the eighth when Oliva led off with a home run. Killebrew followed with a single, but did not get past first base (and oddly, was not pinch-run for). Jim Holt singled in the ninth but was erased on a double play to end the game.
WP: Dick Hall (8-3).
LP: Tom Hall (5-4).
S: None.
Notes: Rick Renick was in left field in place of Brant Alyea. Quilici was at second base in place of Rod Carew. Holt went to left in the ninth as part of a double switch, with Renick coming out of the game. Alyea pinch-hit for Quilici in the ninth.
Oliva was batting .323. Killebrew was batting .317. Cesar Tovar was 0-for-5 and was batting .311. Dick Woodson did not give up a run in a third of an inning and had an ERA of 2.25. Tom Hall gave up two runs in 2.2 innings and had an ERA of 2.48. Perranoski had an ERA of 1.41.
Bill Zepp started for the Twins and pitched five innings, giving up four runs (two earned) on six hits and two walks and striking out two. Jim Hardin started for the Orioles and pitched 3.1 innings, giving up four runs on six hits and a walk and striking out three.
The pitcher's spot came up for the Orioles with one out in the top of the eighth in a tie game. The pitcher, Dick Hall, had already pitched two innings. He was allowed to hit, and he got a single, eventually scoring the go-ahead run.
It's probably not that uncommon that the winning and losing pitcher had the same last name. I wonder if it's ever happened before that the name was "Hall". Not that Hall is that uncommon, but it's not Smith, either.
Record: The Twins were 60-32, in first place in the American League West, six games ahead of California.
Per yesterday's conversation, if you got a personalized license plate, what would you get?
(2 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... Walker Cooper (1915)
Jim Busby (1927)
Gene Freese (1934)
Reno Bertoia (1935)
Bruce Sutter (1953)
Ramon Romero (1959)
Randy Ready (1960)
Brian Boehringer (1969)
Jason Giambi (1971)
Mike Cameron (1973)
Carl Pavano (1976)
Jeff Francis (1981)
Jeff Francoeur (1984)
Three players named Jeff were born on this day. In addition to the two listed above, this is also the birthday of Jeff Hoffman of the Colorado Rockies.
Alright, Wild, LFG!
Nate Mercereau has played sessions with Jay-Z, but I think this one-ups his list of famous collaborators.
The sounds Bay Area residents have described as nuisance noise equivalent to sonic torture are produced by the a new set of railing slats installed on the Golden Gate to retrofit it to withstand sustained winds above 70 mph. The sounds struck Mercereau differently, as Nature itself playing “the largest wind instrument in the world.” Adding an interesting natural wrinkle to a musical controversy, the Golden Gate often sounds an A440 (Hz) concert pitch.
Armed with field recorders, Mercereau & a couple friends captured the sounds from the Marin Highlands, which make up the other half of his album Duets | Golden Gate Bridge. The song performed in this video is a track from Mercereau’s other 2021 album, Sundays.
In response to complaints, the Golden Gate Bridge District is developing engineering adjustments to silence the bridge.
(3 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... MINNESOTA 8, BALTIMORE 0 IN MINNESOTA
Date: Friday, July 24.
Batting stars: Frank Quilici was 2-for-3 with a walk. Rick Renick was 2-for-4 with a home run, his seventh. Leo Cardenas was 2-for-4 with a triple and a double. Cesar Tovar was 2-for-5 with a double and two runs. Rich Reese was 2-for-5. Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-3 with a home run (his thirtieth), a walk, and two runs. Tony Oliva was 1-for-4 with a three-run homer (his fourteenth) and two runs.
Pitching stars: Jim Kaat pitched a complete game shutout, giving up seven hits and a walk and striking out five.
Opposition star: Andy Etchebarren was 2-for-4.
The game: Tovar led off the bottom of the first with a double and scored on a Reese single to give the Twins a 1-0 lead. Renick led off the second with a homer to make it 2-0.
Neither team threatened again until the fifth, when Quilici singled, was bunted to second, and scored on a Tovar single. Killebrew walked and Oliva followed with a three-run homer to make the score 6-0 Twins. The Twins added two more in the seventh. Killebrew led off with a home run. Oliva reached on an error, Renick singled, and George Mitterwald singled to bring the score to 8-0.
Despite getting seven hits and a walk, the Orioles only once had a man in scoring position. That was in the eighth, when Don Buford hit a one-out single and Paul Blair followed with a walk. But the next two batters went out and it remained 8-0.
WP: Kaat (9-7).
LP: Mike Cuellar (13-6).
S: None.
Notes: Renick was in left field in place of Brant Alyea. Quilici was at second base in place of Rod Carew. Jim Holt pinch-ran for Renick in the seventh and stayed in the game in left field. Danny Thompson replaced Killebrew at third base in the eighth.
Oliva was batting .319. Tovar was batting .316. Killebrew was batting .315.
The Twins continued to have success against Cuellar. He had pitched a complete game victory against them eight days earlier. Other than that game, though, he had posted game scores of fifty-one and forty-five, and in this game his score was twenty-seven. For the season against the Twins he was 2-2, 4.88, 1.41 WHIP. Against the entire league, Cuellar was 24-8, 3.48, 1.15 WHIP.
This was the only shutout for Kaat in 1970.
The Twins scored more runs in this game than they had in their previous three.
Record: The Twins were 60-31, in first place in the American League West, six games ahead of California. That's the biggest lead the Twins have had so far--they were also six games up on July 11.
Kitty Bransfield (1875)
Al Todd (1902)
Johnny McCarthy (1910)
Johnny Mize (1913)
Alvin Dark (1922)
Dick Schofield (1935)
Jim Hannan (1940)
Jim Lefebvre (1942)
Tony Conigliaro (1945)
Joe Keough (1946)
Ross Grimsley (1950)
Bob Gorinski (1952)
Jeff Montgomery (1962)
Craig Shipley (1963)
Allan Anderson (1964)
Rob Radlosky (1974)
Alfonso Soriano (1976)
Eric Gagne (1976)
Brayan Pena (1982)
Francisco Rodriguez (1982)
Edwin Encarnacion (1983)
Jon Lester (1984)
Jhoulys Chacin (1988)
