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Happy Birthday–October 30

Ed Delahanty (1867)
Buck Freeman (1871)
Charlie Deal (1891)
Clyde Manion (1896)
Bill Terry (1898)
Dave Barnhill (1914)
Leon Day (1916)
Bobby Bragan (1917)
Joe Adcock (1927)
Jim Perry (1935)
Bruce Gardner (1938)
Jim Ray Hart (1941)
Mickey Rivers (1948)
Houston Jimenez (1957)
Dave Leeper (1959)
Gerald Perry (1960)
Lee Tunnell (1960)
Dave Valle (1960)
Scott Garrelts (1961)
Mark Portugal (1962)
Danny Tartabull (1962)
Marco Scutaro (1975)
Jason Bartlett (1979)
Laynce Nix (1980)
Shane Robinson (1984)

Pitcher Dave Barnhill was a four-time all-star in the Negro Leagues.

Pitcher Leon Day was a star in the Negro Leagues, primarily with the Newark Eagles.

Dave Leeper was drafted by Minnesota in the third round in 1978, but did not sign.

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Happy Birthday–October 30

Ed Delahanty (1867)
Buck Freeman (1871)
Charlie Deal (1891)
Clyde Manion (1896)
Bill Terry (1898)
Dave Barnhill (1914)
Leon Day (1916)
Bobby Bragan (1917)
Joe Adcock (1927)
Jim Perry (1935)
Bruce Gardner (1938)
Jim Ray Hart (1941)
Mickey Rivers (1948)
Houston Jimenez (1957)
Dave Leeper (1959)
Gerald Perry (1960)
Lee Tunnell (1960)
Dave Valle (1960)
Scott Garrelts (1961)
Mark Portugal (1962)
Danny Tartabull (1962)
Marco Scutaro (1975)
Jason Bartlett (1979)
Laynce Nix (1980)
Shane Robinson (1984)

Pitcher Dave Barnhill was a four-time all-star in the Negro Leagues.

Pitcher Leon Day was a star in the Negro Leagues, primarily with the Newark Eagles.

Dave Leeper was drafted by Minnesota in the third round in 1978, but did not sign.

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1970 Rewind: Game One Hundred Thirty-one

MINNESOTA 4, MILWAUKEE 0 IN MILWAUKEE (GAME 1 OF DOUBLEHEADER)

Date:  Tuesday, September 1.

Batting stars:  Tony Oliva was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.  George Mitterwald was 2-for-4 with a stolen base, his second.  Danny Thompson was 2-for-5 with a double.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a three-run homer, his thirty-ninth.

Pitching star:  Jim Perry struck out nine in a complete game shutout, giving up five hits and no walks.

Opposition stars:  Roberto Pena was 2-for-3.  John Gelnar pitched two perfect innings.

The game:  With one out in the first, Thompson singled, Oliva doubled, and Killebrew hit a three-run homer to give the Twins a 3-0 lead.  Rich Reese led off the fourth with a double and scored on a Leo Cardenas single to make it 4-0.

And that was it.  Perry was in complete control.  The Brewers only twice got a man as far as second base:  in the first, when Dave May singled and went to second on an error, and in the sixth, when Russ Snyder hit a two-out double.

WP:  Perry (20-11).

LP:  Lew Krausse (12-15).

S:  None.

Notes:  Cesar Tovar remained in left, with Jim Holt in center and Brant Alyea on the bench.  Thompson remained at second in place of Rod Carew.  Frank Quilici went to second in the seventh inning, with Thompson moving to third and Killebrew going to the bench.

Oliva raised his average to .317.  Perry had an ERA of 3.00.

August had been the Twins' worst month of the season.  It was the only month in which they had been below .500, at 14-18.  They got September off to a good start, though.

This was Perry's second-best game, by game scores, to date.  This was an 86--he'd had an 87 in August 6, when he gave up one run in eleven innings.  He would have one game in September that was better.

Record:  The Twins were 77-54, in first place in the American League West, four games ahead of California.

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1970 Rewind: Game One Hundred Twenty-six

MINNESOTA 5, BOSTON 2 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Thursday, August 27.

Batting stars:  Tony Oliva was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.  Jim Perry was 2-for-4 with two doubles.  Jim Holt was 2-for-4 with a stolen base, his third.  George Mitterwald was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer, his thirteenth.

Pitching star:  Perry pitched a complete game, giving up two runs on seven hits and two walks and striking out two.

Opposition stars:  Billy Conigliaro was 2-for-4 with a stolen base.  Rico Petrocelli was 1-for-4 with a home run, his twenty-first.  Chuck Hartenstein struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up one hit.  Mike Nagy pitched two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk and striking out one.

The game:  In the first inning Rich Reese hit a one-out single and scored on an Oliva double, with Oliva taking third on the throw home.  Harmon Killebrew then hit a sacrifice fly, giving the Twins a 2-0 lead.  The Red Sox came right back to tie it in the second.  Petrocelli led off with a home run.  Conigliaro then got an infield single, stole second, and scored on Mike Andrews' two-out single.

Boston loaded the bases in the fourth but did not score.  In the bottom of the fourth, Holt led off with a single and Mitterwald hit a two-out two-run homer.  Perry then doubled, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a Cesar Tovar single, giving the Twins a 5-2 lead.

The Red Sox did not threaten again.  Carl Yastrzemski led off the fifth with a single but was erased on a double play.  That was the last baserunner Boston had.  Perry was in total control, and the Twins cruised to a 5-2 victory.

WP:  Perry (19-11).

LP:  Sonny Siebert (13-7).

S:  None.

Notes:  Holt was in center with Tovar in left and Brant Alyea on the bench.  Danny Thompson remained at second in place of Rod Carew.  Frank Quilici went to second in the eighth inning, with Thompson going to third and Killebrew going to the bench.

Oliva was batting .323.

Perry hit four doubles in 1970, half of them in this game.  He hit twenty-two doubles in his career.  Four was his career high in a season--he also hit four in 1966.

Perry had thirteen complete games in 1970, which was his career high.  He had 109 complete games in his career.

Billy Conigliaro had a really good year in 1970.  At age 22 he batted .271/.339/.462.  The Red Sox must have thought he would become as big a star as his brother Tony.  But he went backward in 1971, was traded to Milwaukee, and was out of baseball after the 1973 season.

Record:  The Twins were 75-51, in first place in the American League West, four games ahead of California.

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1970 Rewind: Game One Hundred Twenty-three

WASHINGTON 11, MINNESOTA 1 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Sunday, August 23.

Batting star:  Charlie Manuel was 1-for-1.

Pitching star:  Dick Woodson pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and two walks and striking out one.

Opposition stars:  Aurelio Rodriguez was 3-for-4 with a triple, a walk, a stolen base (his tenth), and two runs.  Del Unser was 2-for-3 with a three-run homer (his fifth), a walk, and two runs.  Ed Brinkman was 2-for-5.  Ed Stroud was 2-for-6 with two runs.  Frank Howard was 1-for-5 with a three-run homer, his thirty-sixth.  Dick Bosman pitched a complete game, giving up one run on six hits and no walks and striking out three.

The game:  Stroud and Unser opened the game with singles and Howard followed with a three-run homer, putting the Senators up 3-0 three batters into the game.  Washington then loaded the bases with two out, but did not score any more in the first.  In the third, however, Mike Epstein walked, Rodriguez singled, and Jim French hit a two-run triple.  A ground out scored French to make it 6-0 Senators through three.  In the sixth Bosman and Stroud singled and Unser hit a three-run homer to increase the lead to 9-0.

Meanwhile, the Twins managed just three hits, all singles, through those six innings.  They finally got on the board in the seventh.  With two out Jim Holt doubled and Leo Cardenas singled him in.  That was as good as it got, though.  With two out in the eighth Epstein walked, Rodriguez hit an RBI triple, and Brinkman had a run-scoring single to bring the final score to 11-1.

WP:  Bosman (13-9).

LP:  Jim Perry (18-11).

S:  None.

Notes:  Danny Thompson remained at second base in place of Rod Carew.  Holt was in center, with Cesar Tovar in left and Brant Alyea on the bench.

Paul Ratliff came in to catch in the sixth as part of a double switch, with George Mitterwald going to the bench.  Bob Allison went to left field in the seventh in place of Tovar.  Manuel went to right in the seventh in place of Tony Oliva.  Rick Renick pinch-hit for Woodson in the seventh.  Frank Quilici went to third base in place of Harmon Killebrew in the eighth.

Oliva was 1-for-3 and was batting .319.

Pete Hamm allowed three runs in three innings and had an ERA of 6.08.

Perry started but lasted just 2.1 innings, allowing six runs on six hits and three walks and striking out two.  By game scores this was his worst game of the season, and it was his second-shortest start.  He would bounce back to throw complete games in his next two starts.

Hamm would go back to AAA after this game, and would not pitch in the majors again until September 26.

Luis Tiant made his only relief appearance of the season, allowing two runs in two innings.

The Twins lost two out of three in the series and had lost five of their last six games against the last-place Senators.  They would now host Boston for three games.

Record:  The Twins were 73-50, in first place in the American League West, five games ahead of California.

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1970 Rewind: Game One Hundred Nineteen

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MINNESOTA 3, NEW YORK 0 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Wednesday, August 19.

Batting stars:  Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a double.  Rich Reese was 2-for-4.

Pitching stars:  Jim Perry pitched a complete game shutout, giving up four hits and a walk and striking out five.

Opposition star:  Fritz Peterson pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on five hits and no walks and striking out two.

The game:  There was no score in the first three innings.  The Yankees got men on first and third with two out in the fourth but did not score.  It cost them.  In the bottom of the fourth Killebrew hit a one-out single.  The next batter went out, but two-out singles by Brant Alyea, Reese, and Leo Cardenas resulted in two runs.  It stayed 2-0 until the eighth, when Danny Thompson singled with two out and scored on Killebrew's double.

The Yankees had some threats early.  Horace Clarke walked leading off the game and reached second with two out.  Jake Gibbs hit a two-out triple.  Singles by Bobby Murcer and Jim Lyttle put men on first and third with two out in the fourth.  But they got only one hit after that, a two-out single by Clarke in the eighth.

WP:  Perry (18-10).

LP:  Peterson (13-8).

S:  None.

Notes:  Thompson remained at second base in place of Rod Carew.  Tom Tischinski was behind the plate in place of George Mitterwald.  Jim Holt replaced Alyea and went to center field, with Cesar Tovar moving to left.  Frank Quilici pinch-ran for Killebrew in the ninth and went to second base, with Thompson moving to third.

Tony Oliva was 0-for-3 and was batting .321.  Perry had an ERA of 2.94.

Tischinski was 0-for-3 and was batting .171.

This was one of four shutouts Perry had in 1970.  He had thirty-two for his career.  It was one of thirteen complete games he had in 1970, the most he had in a season.  He had 109 for his career.

The Twins had followed up their nine game losing streak with a three game winning streak.

Record:  The Twins were 72-47, in first place in the American League West, 5.5 games ahead of California.

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1970 Rewind: Game Sixty-four

MILWAUKEE 4, MINNESOTA 1 IN MILWAUKEE

Date:  Thursday, June 25.

Batting star:  Rich Reese was 2-for-4.

Pitching stars:  Tom Hall struck out six in 3.2 scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk.  Bill Zepp pitched two perfect innings.  Steve Barber pitched a scoreless inning, giving up two walks.

Opposition stars:  Lew Krausse pitched a complete game, giving up one run on four hits and no walks and striking out three.  Russ Snyder was 2-for-4 with a double.

The game:  The Brewers jumped on Twins starter Jim Perry for three runs in the first inning.  With one out Snyder doubled and scored on a Dave May single.  Tito Francona walked and Bob Burda delivered an RBI single.  Another run scored on a ground out, making it 3-0 Milwaukee.  In the second Phil Roof singled and Tommy Harper drew a one-out walk, chasing Perry from the game.  Hall came in and gave up a run-scoring single to Snyder and it was 4-0 Brewers.

The Twins did not get a hit until the fifth, when Reese hit a one-out single.  They got on the board in the seventh when, with one out, Tony Oliva doubled, Harmon Killebrew singled, and Reese drove in a run with a single.  That brought the tying run up to bat, but a pair of fly outs ended the inning.  The Twins got only one more baserunner, when George Mitterwald reached on an error in the eighth.

WP:  Krausse (5-10).

LP:  Perry (10-6).

S:  None.

Notes:  Danny Thompson made his major league debut in this game, playing second base.  Jim Holt was in left in place of Brant Alyea.  Herman Hill and Paul Ratliff were used as pinch-hitter for pitchers.

Oliva was 1-for-4 and was batting .320.  Killebrew was 1-for-4 and was batting .301.  Hall had an ERA of 2.41.  Zepp had an ERA of 2.75.  Barber had an ERA of 2.70.

Mitterwald was 0-for-3 and was batting .199.

Perry lasted only 1.1 innings, allowing four runs on four hits and two walks and striking out one.  It seems like a really quick hook for that era--I wonder if he was battling an injury or illness.  If so, it was minor, because he made his next start and did well.

Krausse had a few good years and also some not-very-good years.  This was one of the not-very-good ones, as he went 13-18, 4.75, 1.40 WHIP.  His game score of 82 in this game was his second-highest of the season, topped only by a shutout of the White Sox on July 7.  He did have eight complete games in 1970, his career high.

This game was a make-up of a rained out game on May 15.

Record:  The Twins were 41-23, in first place in the American League West, three games behind California.

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Happy Birthday–October 30

Ed Delahanty (1867)
Buck Freeman (1871)
Charlie Deal (1891)
Clyde Manion (1896)
Bill Terry (1898)
Dave Barnhill (1914)
Leon Day (1916)
Bobby Bragan (1917)
Joe Adcock (1927)
Jim Perry (1935)
Bruce Gardner (1938)
Jim Ray Hart (1941)
Mickey Rivers (1948)
Houston Jimenez (1957)
Dave Leeper (1959)
Gerald Perry (1960)
Lee Tunnell (1960)
Dave Valle (1960)
Scott Garrelts (1961)
Mark Portugal (1962)
Danny Tartabull (1962)
Marco Scutaro (1975)
Jason Bartlett (1979)
Laynce Nix (1980)
Shane Robinson (1984)

Pitcher Dave Barnhill was a four-time all-star in the Negro Leagues.

Pitcher Leon Day was a star in the Negro Leagues, primarily with the Newark Eagles.

Dave Leeper was drafted by Minnesota in the third round in 1978, but did not sign.

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Happy Birthday–October 30

Ed Delahanty (1867)
Buck Freeman (1871)
Charlie Deal (1891)
Clyde Manion (1896)
Bill Terry (1898)
Dave Barnhill (1914)
Leon Day (1916)
Bobby Bragan (1917)
Joe Adcock (1927)
Jim Perry (1935)
Bruce Gardner (1938)
Jim Ray Hart (1941)
Mickey Rivers (1948)
Houston Jimenez (1957)
Dave Leeper (1959)
Gerald Perry (1960)
Lee Tunnell (1960)
Dave Valle (1960)
Scott Garrelts (1961)
Mark Portugal (1962)
Danny Tartabull (1962)
Marco Scutaro (1975)
Jason Bartlett (1979)
Laynce Nix (1980)
Shane Robinson (1984)

Pitcher Dave Barnhill was a four-time all-star in the Negro Leagues.

Pitcher Leon Day was a star in the Negro Leagues, primarily with the Newark Eagles.

Dave Leeper was drafted by Minnesota in the third round in 1978, but did not sign.

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Random Rewind: 1970, Game One Hundred Thirty-three

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MILWAUKEE 8, MINNESOTA 3 IN MILWAUKEE

Date:  Thursday, September 3.

Batting stars:  Cesar Tovar was 3-for-4 with a triple.  Brant Alyea was 1-for-1 with a two-run homer, his twelfth.

Pitching stars:  None.

Opposition stars:  Roberto Pena was 3-for-4 with a home run (his third), a double, two runs, and three RBIs.  Mike Hegan was 2-for-2 with a double, a stolen base (his eighth), two walks, and three runs.  Dave May was 2-for-4.  Phil Roof was 1-for-2 with a three-run homer (his tenth) and two walks.  Marty Pattin pitched 7.1 innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and a walk and striking out three.

The game:  With one out in the second Hegan singled, Pena doubled, and Roof walked to load the bases,  Ted Kubiak singled in one run, but Twins starter Bill Zepp was able to get out of the inning with no further damage.  It stayed 1-0 through four.

In the fifth, however, the Brewers broke the game open.  Tommy Harper walked and was bunted to second.  May singled him in and went to second on the throw home.  A ground out gave the Twins hope of getting out of the inning.  Hegan was intentionally walked, but the strategy backfired as Pena had an RBI single and Roof hit a three-run homer, putting Milwaukee ahead 6-0.

The Twins tried to get back into it.  In the sixth, Tovar tripled and scored on a ground out to get the Twins on the board.  In the seventh Rich Reese singled and Alyea hit a two-out two-run homer to cut the margin to 6-3.  In the bottom of the seventh, however, Hegan hit a two-out double and Pena followed with a two-run homer to make it 8-3.  The Twins threatened in the eighth with a pair of one-out singles, but that was as much as they could do.

WP:  Pattin (11-11).  LP:  Zepp (7-4).  S:  None.

Notes:  Steve Brye started in left field in place of Alyea.  Other than that, it was the standard 1970 lineup.

The Twins made a double switch in the fifth.  I don't remember that happening before in a Random Rewind game, although it certainly may have.  Stan Williams came in to pitch and Jim Holt came in to play center, with Tovar moving from center to left and Brye coming out of the game.  The Twins used two pinch-hitters for pitchers, with Alyea batting in the seventh and Charlie Manuel in the ninth.

Tony Oliva was batting .311.  He would finish at .325, leading the team.  Tovar was batting .289 and would finish at .300.  Rod Carew batted .366 but he missed much of the season, getting just 191 at-bats.  The Twins batted .262, which was tied for first in the league with Boston.

Harmon Killebrew, of course, led the team in homers with 41.  Oliva hit 23.  Alyea had 16, George Mitterwald 15, Leo Cardenas 11, and Reese and Tovar 10 each.  The Twins hit 153 home runs, which was fifth in the league.  Boston led with 203.

Jim Perry was the ace of the staff, going 24-12, 3.04 in 40 starts with 13 complete games.  Jim Kaat was 14-10, 3.56 with 34 starts and 11 relief appearances, including one in this game.  Bert Blyleven, who came up in early June, went 10-9, 3.18.  Luis Tiant pitched well when he was able to pitch, going 7-3, 3.40 in 16 starts.  Ron Perranoski was the closer, going 7-8, 2.43 with 34 saves, but Stan Williams was probably the best reliever, going 10-1, 1.99 with 15 saves and a 1.03 WHIP.  Tom Hall had a fine year, going 11-6, 2.55 in 52 games (11 starts).  Zepp contributed as well, going 9-4, 3.22 in 43 games (20 starts).  The Twins were second in ERA with 3.23, with Baltimore leading at 3.15.  The Twins were fourth in WHIP at 1.25, with Baltimore also leading there at 1.21.

The Twins were in a stretch where they would win seven of eight and eleven of thirteen.  Unfortunately, random.org gave us the rare loss.

Record:  The Twins were 78-55, in first place in the American League West, three games ahead of California.  They would finish 98-64, in first place, nine games ahead of Oakland.

The Brewers were 51-85, in fifth place in the American League West, 28.5 games behind Minnesota.  They would finish 65-97, tied for fourth with Kansas City, 33 games behind Minnesota.  You may remember that the Brewers were in the West until 1972, when they moved to the East and the Texas Rangers, moved from Washington, went to the West.

Random Record:  The Twins are 55-52 in Random Rewind games.