Joe Ryan, who has 2 first names, pitches against Davis Martin, who has a last name and a first name, but in the wrong places? Or just two last names?
August 2, 2024: Inscrutable
I still have no idea how you score points in Judo.
(I do love Japan’s big, beefy boy though.)
Happy Birthday–August 2
Dummy Kihm (1873)
Pop Kelchner (1875)
War Sanders (1877)
Red Ames (1882)
John F. Kieran (1892)
Fuzzy Hufft (1901)
Tom Burgmeier (1943)
Bombo Rivera (1952)
Danny Sheaffer (1961)
Tim Wakefield (1966)
Matt Guerrier (1978)
Colby Lewis (1979)
Humberto Quintero (1979)
Grady Sizemore (1982)
Huston Street (1983)
Luke Hughes (1984)
A deaf mute, Dummy Kihm had 2,245 hits in seventeen minor league seasons.
Pop Kelchner was a scout for fifty years, most of them for the St. Louis Cardinals.
What was War good for? Absolutely nothing, at least in a baseball sense. In twelve games, War Sanders was 2-8, 5.64, 1.61 WHIP. He also was 1-for-21 at the plate.
John F. Kieran was a long-time sportswriter in New York and was a panelist on the quiz show "Information, Please".
Fuzzy Hufft had 1,400 hits over seven seasons in the Pacific Coast League and served honorably in both World Wars.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to UncleWalt’s youngest child.
Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
What's not to love about this song?!
I was quite taken with this conductor, Nicolò Foron, and it turns out that this video is from the finals of the 2023 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, which he won. Hurrah!
Minor Details: Games of July 31
ST. PAUL SAINTS 11, IOWA CUBS 0 IN IOWA
Yunior Severino hit a two-run homer in the first and a three-run homer in the second to give the Saints a 5-0 lead.
Multi-hit games: Severino was 3-for-6 with two home runs, a double, three runs, and six RBIs. DaShawn Keirsey, Jr. was 2-for-4 with a home run, two walks, and three runs. Payton Eeles was 2-for-4 with a walk. Wynton Bernard was 2-for-5 with a home run and a walk. Patrick Winkel was 2-for-6.
Home runs: Severino 2 (18); Keirsey, Jr. (11); Bernard (5).
Multi-RBI games: Severino 6 (59); Camargo 2 (31).
Stolen bases: Keirsey, Jr. (23); Diego Castillo (8); Edouard Julien (5).
Pitching prowess: Ronny Henriquez struck out six in three shutout innings, giving up two hits. Hobie Harris struck out three and walked one in two shutout innings. Scott Blewett pitched two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk. Nick Wittgren pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit and a walk. Diego Castillo pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit and striking out one.
Win: Harris (3-4).
Opposition standout: Daniel Palencia struck out three and walked one in two shutout innings.
Record: St. Paul is 14-15, tied for fifth with Gwinnett, 4.5 games behind Columbus.
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS NATURALS 9, WICHITA WIND SURGE 4 IN WICHITA
It was 4-4 after seven, but Dillon Shrum homered in the eighth and Northwest Arkansas added four in the ninth.
Multi-hit games: Ricardo Olivar was 5-for-5 with two doubles. Ben Ross was 3-for-5. Jorel Ortega was 2-for-4. Jake Rucker was 2-for-5 with a double. Wichita had sixteen hits but stranded thirteen runners.
Home runs: None.
Multi-RBI games: None.
Stolen bases: Ross (12).
Pitching prowess: Christian MacLeod struck out eight in 5.2 innings, giving up two runs on four hits and two walks.
Loss: John Stankiewicz (1-4).
Opposition standout: Tyler Tolbert was 4-for-5 with a home run, a double, two runs, and two RBIs.
Record: Wichita is 10-19, in fifth (last) place, eight games behind Springfield.
GREAT LAKES LOONS 15, CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS 3 IN CEDAR RAPIDS
Great Lakes scored five in the second inning and led the rest of the way.
Multi-hit games: Misael Urbina was 2-for-3 with a walk.
Home runs: None.
Multi-RBI games: None.
Stolen bases: Walker Jenkins (1).
Pitching prowess: Jacob Wosinski struck out three in 2.2 innings, giving up an unearned run on one walk. Juan Mendez struck out two and walked two in two shutout innings.
Loss: Jeremy Lee (1-4).
Opposition standout: Jake Gelof was 3-for-6 with a home run, a double, three runs, and two RBIs.
Record: Cedar Rapids is 18-14, in second place, 2.5 games behind Wisconsin.
ST. LUCIE METS 8, FORT MYERS MIGHTY MUSSELS 6 IN FORT MYERS
It was 6-6 through five, but St. Lucie scored single runs in the sixth and eighth.
Multi-hit games: Brandon Winokur was 2-for-5 with two RBIs. Poncho Ruiz was 2-for-5.
Home runs: None.
Multi-RBI games: Winokur 2 (37).
Stolen bases: Maddux Houghton (16).
Pitching prowess: Samuel Perez struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.
Loss: Kyle Bloor (1-1).
Opposition standout: Ronald Hernandez was 3-for-5.
Record: Fort Myers is 19-11, in first place, 1.5 games ahead of Lakeland.
TODAY'S TILTS
10:00 DSL Mets Blue at DSL Twins
6:05 St. Lucie at Fort Myers (Tanner Hall, 2-0, 5.61)
6:35 Great Lakes at Cedar Rapids (Darren Bowen, 2-5, 5.94)
6:38 St. Paul (Adam Plutko, 5-1, 3.93) at Iowa
7:05 Northwest Arkansas at Wichita (Andrew Morris, 5-2, 1.28)
August 1, 2024: Wrung Out
Okay, I’m good on wandering around for hours in the humid 100 degree heat.
André Jolivet – Fantasie-Caprice
I know the question on everyone's minds has been . . . will Pepper play anything under 10 minutes this week? You are in luck, because this twentieth century flute piece, which my high school self was quite taken with, comes in well under that mark.
Hélène Boulègue, flute
François Dumont, piano
Happy Birthday–August 1
Frank Grant (1865)
Joe Shaute (1899)
George Sisler, Jr. (1917)
George Bamberger (1923)
Masaichi Kaneda (1933)
Pedro Cisneros (1939)
Tony Muser (1947)
Milt May (1950)
Pete Mackanin (1951)
Greg Gross (1952)
Dave Anderson (1960)
Gregg Jefferies (1967)
Brian Bohanon (1968)
Shigetoshi Hasegawa (1968)
Kevin Jarvis (1969)
Brandon Kintzler (1984)
Adam Jones (1985)
Madison Bumgarner (1989)
Kennys Vargas (1990)
Infielder Ulysses Franklin "Frank" Grant is considered one of the best African-American baseball players of the nineteenth century.
The son of the Hall of Famer, George Sisler, Jr. was a long-time minor league executive, winning the Minor League Executive of the Year award three times. He served as International League president from 1965-1976 and is a member of the International League Hall of Fame.
Masaichi Kaneda won four hundred games over a twenty-year career in Japan.
Pedro Cisneros was commissioner of the Mexican League from 1982-99 and was the editor of the first Mexican League Encyclopedia.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to brianS' sister-in-law.
2024 Game 107: Minnesota Twins at New York Mets
Pablo López
vs
Luis Severino
Another Wednesday day game.
After a forgettable opener, a lackluster deadline, followed by a lackluster performance by the bats again last night, I'm instead thankful for the blackout rules preventing me from watching any New York games.
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir – Metacosmos
I was taken with another Þorvaldsdóttir composition recently that doesn't seem to exist as a live video anywhere, but my searching led me to this one.
January 31, 2019
Fun fact: I got to visit Harpa Concert Hall ever so briefly on my first day in Iceland.
And here's a trailer for the piece I'd wanted to play: