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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-nine

MINNESOTA 9, WASHINGTON 5 IN WASHINGTON

Date:  Tuesday, July 27 (Game 2 of doubleheader).

Batting stars:  Don Mincher was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, his thirteenth).  Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-5 with a home run (his eleventh) and two runs.  Tony Oliva was 2-for-5 with three runs.

Pitching stars:  Al Worthington struck out four in three shutout innings, giving up three hits and a walk.  Dwight Siebler struck out two in a perfect inning.

Opposition stars:  Dick Nen was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring once and driving in one.  Don Lock was 2-for-3 with a walk, scoring twice and driving in one.  Doug Camilli was 1-for-3 with a double and three RBIs.

The game:  In the first, Harmon Killebrew had an RBI single and another run scored on an error to give the Twins a 2-0 lead.  Lock singled in a run in the bottom of the first, but Versalles homered in the second to get the run back and give the Twins a 3-1 lead.  The Senators started the four with two walks and an infield hit to load the bases and Camilli unloaded them with a three-run double that put Washington up 4-3.  Nen's RBI single in the sixth made it 5-3.  Earl Battey homered in the seventh and Mincher delivered a two-run shot in the eighth to give the Twins the lead back at 6-5.  The Senators threatened to tie it in the eighth, putting men on second and third with two out, but Worthington struck out pinch-hitter Jim King to end the inning.  The Twins added two more in the ninth on a Joe Nossek RBI single and an infield out.

Of note:  Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4 with a run.  Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a walk and two RBIs.  Battey was 1-for-4 with a home run, his sixth.  Jim Kaat struck out five in five innings but gave up five runs on eight hits and three walks.

Record:  The doubleheader split made the Twins 62-37 and gave them a four game lead over Baltimore.

Notes:  Hall was now hitting .305.  Battey was at an even .300...Jim Kaat made his second start in three days and his fifth in thirteen days.  Not surprisingly, he did not pitch particularly well.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-eight

WASHINGTON 10, MINNESOTA 7 IN WASHINGTON

Date:  Tuesday, July 27 (Game 1 of doubleheader).

Batting stars:  Earl Battey was 3-for-5 with a three-run homer (his fifth) and a double.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer (his twenty-first) and a walk, scoring twice.  Rich Rollins was 1-for-3 with two walks and a run.

Pitching star:  Dwight Siebler pitched two perfect innings with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Mike Brumley was 2-for-3 with two home runs and a walk, driving in three.  Don Blasingame was 1-for-3 with a triple and two walks, scoring twice and driving in one.  Pete Richert struck out eight in 6.2 innings, allowing four runs (two earned) on seven hits and four walks.

The game:  The Senators scored one in the second and two in the third, but took control of the game with a six-run fourth which put them ahead 9-0.  Don Zimmer had an RBI single, Brumley hit a two-run homer, Blasingame contributed a run-scoring triple, Willie Kirkland drove in one with a single, and a ground out finished the scoring.  The Twins got on the board in the sixth on Killebrew's two-run homer, but Washington got one of the runs back in the bottom of the sixth on a Frank Howard RBI single to make it 10-2.  In the seventh, two walks, two errors, and Battey's three-run homer (all with two out) got the Twins back into the game at 10-7.  That was as good as it got, though.  The Twins brought the tying run up to the plate with two out in the eighth, but Mike McCormick got Tony Oliva to ground out, ending the threat.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 0-for-5.  Oliva was 1-for-4 with a walk and two runs.  Jimmie Hall was used as a pinch-hitter and was 0-for-1.  Jim Perry lasted only 3.1 innings, giving up five runs on five hits and one walk with two strikeouts.

Record:  The game one loss made the Twins 61-37.  Combined with a Baltimore extra-inning win, the Twins lead over the Orioles fell to 3.5 games.

Notes:  Versalles had his average drop to .228...Battey brought his average back over .300 at .301...Hall fell to .306...This was the first bad start Perry had since joining the rotation at the beginning of the month...This was the first good season Pete Richert had.  After struggling with the Dodgers, he was traded with Howard and others to the Senators, went 15-12, 2.60, and made the all-star team.  He would make the all-star team again in 1966.  Traded to Baltimore during the 1967 season, he would have several good years as a reliever for the Orioles and for other teams...The two home runs Mike Brumley hit were 67% of his season total and 40% of his career total.  He had been the regular catcher for the Senators in 1964, shared the job with Doug Camilli in 1965, and was mostly in the minors through 1969.  He is the father of the Mike Brumley who was an infielder from 1987-1995.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-seven

MINNESOTA 8, BALTIMORE 2 IN BALTIMORE

Date:  Monday, July 26.

Batting stars:  Don Mincher was 2-for-4 with a three-run homer (his twelfth) and a double.  Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a home run (his twentieth) and two runs.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-3 with a walk and an RBI.

Pitching stars:  Mudcat Grant pitched 6.1 innings, giving up two runs on nine hits and two walks with four strikeouts.  Garry Roggenburk pitched 2.2 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and one walk.

Opposition stars:  Dick Brown was 2-for-4 with a home run, his third.  Brooks Robinson was 2-for-3 with a walk and an RBI.  Russ Snyder was 2-for-4 with a walk.

The game:  Mincher hit a three-run homer in the first inning to give the Twins a 3-0 lead.  Brown homered leading off the third and Robinson singled in a run later in the inning to cut the margin to 3-2.  A run scored on a passed ball in the fifth and Killebrew homered in the sixth to put the Twins up 5-2.  The Twins put it away in the seventh on an RBI single by Grant and a two-run single-plus-error by Oliva.  The Orioles had the bases loaded with two out in the seventh, but Roggenburk retired Boog Powell on a fly to center and Baltimore did not threaten again.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 0-for-5.  Jimmie Hall was 0-for-3 with a walk and a run.

Record:  The win made the Twins 61-36 and gave them a split in the four-game wraparound series with the second place Orioles.  Baltimore dropped to 4.5 games out of first.

Notes:  Hall's average dropped to .307...Garry Roggenburk came up in 1963 at age 23 and had a fine season out of the bullpen, posting 2.16 ERA in fifty innings.  He was out all of 1964, presumably due to injury.  He started 1965 in the minors but came up in late July and though he wasn't used a lot he pitched fairly well in twelve appearances.  He pitched poorly in 1966, was sold to Boston in 1967, and finished his career with Seattle in 1969...Dick Brown was in the last year of a nine-year career in which he was almost always a part-time catcher.  He was a backup for Cleveland from 1957-59, went to the White Sox for 1960, went to Detroit for 1961-62, and spent the rest of his career with Baltimore.  His one shot as a starter was 1962, when he started 122 games.  He wasn't terrible, but he wasn't particularly good, either, hitting .241 with an OPS of .631.  Bill Freehan came along in 1963, which is why Brown was traded to the Orioles.  He started the most games of anyone for Baltimore in 1965, but it was only 73, as he split time with John Orsino and Charlie Lau, with a few games going to a young Andy Etchebarren.  He likely would have played longer, but was diagnosed with a brain tumor and was forced to retire after the 1965 season.  He became a scout for the Orioles until his death in 1970.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-six

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MINNESOTA 8, BALTIMORE 5 IN BALTIMORE

Date:  Sunday, July 25.

Batting stars:  Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-4 with a triple and a walk, scoring twice and driving in three.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-3 with a home run (his fifteenth) and a walk, driving in four.  Jimmie Hall was 3-for-5 with a home run, his seventeenth.

Pitching stars:  Dick Stigman struck out four in three innings, giving up one run on one hit.  Mel Nelson struck out three in 2.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit.  Johnny Klippstein pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.

Opposition stars:  John Miller struck out seven in seven innings, allowing three runs on four hits and three walks.  Norm Siebern was 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI.  Brooks Robinson was 1-for-4 with a home run, his seventh.

The game:  Miller struck out the side in the top of the first.  Curt Blefary singled in a run in the first and the Orioles got three more in the second, two scoring on a Bob Johnson triple, to take a 4-0 lead.  Hall homered in the fourth to get the Twins on the board at 4-1, but Baltimore got the run back in the fifth when Robinson homered.  It was still 5-1 going to the eighth.  The Twins led off the eighth with singles by Frank Quilici, Sandy Valdespino, and Versalles, with Zoilo knocking in a run to make it 5-1, and the Oliva hit a three-run homer to tie it 5-5.  In the ninth, a single by Earl Battey, a bunt, and an intentional walk to Rich Rollins put two on with one out.  Versalles then hit a two-run triple and Oliva followed with a sacrifice fly to give the Twins an 8-5 advantage.  The Orioles did not get the tying run up to bat in the bottom of the ninth.

Of note:  Harmon Killebrew was 0-for-5.  Battey was 1-for-4.  Jim Kaat pitched only 1.2 innings, giving up four unearned runs on five hits and no walks with no strikeouts.

Record:  The Twins salvaged one of the three-game series against the second-place Orioles.  The win made their record 60-36 and increased their lead to 3.5 games.

Notes:  The first three batters in the Twins' lineup (Versalles, Oliva, and Hall) went 6-for-12 with two home runs, a triple, and two walks, scoring four runs and driving in all eight...Hall raised his average to .310...Battey fell below .300 for the first time since July 3 as his average dropped to .299...Kaat had his shortest start of the season and had gone six innings only once in the month of July.  In fairness to him, it was his fourth start in eleven days, as he had started on the 15th, the 18th, and the 21st.  He would start again on the 27th.  As you might have guessed, he led all of baseball in games started in 1965 with 42, meaning he started 26% of all Twins games in 1965...John Miller got cups of coffee with the Orioles in 1962 and 1963.  He came up in late June of 1965 and was a spot starter for them the rest of the season, making 16 starts.  He had a good season, going 6-4, 3.18 (although with a WHIP of 1.43.  It was the only good major league season he would have.  He was with the Orioles for all of 1966, spent most of 1967 in the minors, and was out of baseball after the 1968 season at age 27.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-five

BALTIMORE 3, MINNESOTA 1 IN BALTIMORE

Date:  Saturday, July 24.

Batting stars:  Joe Nossek was 1-for-2 with a double and a run.  Tony Oliva was 2-for-4 with a stolen base, his tenth.  Bob Allison was 1-for-3 with a walk.

Pitching star:  Camilo Pascual pitched 5.1 innings, giving up only one run despite four hits and five walks with two strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Boog Powell was 3-for-4 with a home run (his eighth) and two RBIs.  Dave McNally pitched six innings, allowing one run on five hits and one walk with two strikeouts.  Norm Siebern was 2-for-4 with a double and a run.

The game:  It was scoreless until the fifth, when Zoilo Versalles delivered a two-out RBI single to give the Twins a 1-0 lead.  Powell answered with a run-scoring single in the sixth to tie it 1-1.  The Orioles almost took the lead in the seventh, but Jimmie Hall threw out Siebern at the plate as he tried to score from second on a single.  The Twins loaded the bases with two-out in the eighth, but Sandy Valdespino, pinch-hitting for Earl Battey, grounded out to end the threat.  Powell gave Baltimore the lead in the eighth with a leadoff homer and relief pitcher Dick Hall drove in an insurance run with a two-out double to left.  The Twins went down in order in the ninth.

Of note:  Versalles was 1-for-4 with an RBI.  Rich Rollins was 0-for-4.  Harmon Killebrew was 0-for-3 with a walk.  Battey was 0-for-2 with a walk.  Hall entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the seventh and was 0-for-2.

Record:  The loss made the Twins 59-36.  They remained in first place, but their second straight loss to Baltimore cut their lead over the Orioles to 2.5 games.

Notes:  Battey's average dropped to .310...Hall fell to .305...Pinch-hitting Valdespino for Battey seems a curious move, but Valdespino was hitting .286 at the time and they did gain a platoon advantage.  There may have been other reasons for the move, too--it's hard to second-guess the manager fifty years after the fact...In my memory Boog Powell was a great slugger, and some years he was, but he was not very consistent.  He hit over thirty homers four times, but he also had five seasons of more than four hundred at-bats in which he hit fewer than twenty.  1965 was one of those seasons.  in 556 at-bats, he hit only seventeen home runs and posted a slugging average of .407.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-four

BALTIMORE 3, MINNESOTA 2 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Friday, July 23.

Batting stars:  Bob Allison was 1-for-2 with a home run (his fifteenth) and a walk.  Earl Battey was 1-for-3 with a home run, his fourth.  Frank Quilici was 2-for-3.

Pitching star:  Jim Perry pitched 8.1 innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on four hits and a walk with four strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Steve Barber pitched a complete game, allowing two runs on five hits and a walk with four strikeouts.  Russ Snyder was 2-for-4.  Norm Siebern was 1-for-3 with a walk and a run.

The game:  It was scoreless until the fourth, when a single, a single-plus-error, and a wild pitch plated two Orioles runs.  It looked like the lead might hold up, as the Twins had only two hits through seven innings and had fourteen consecutive batters retired after Quilici's single leading off the third.  Things changed in the eighth, however, as Allison and Battey started the inning with back-to-back home runs to tie the score.  In the Oriole ninth, a walk and a single put men on first and third with one out.  Perry was replaced by Bill Pleis, who walked Siebern to fill the bases.  Johnny Klippstein then came in and gave up a game-winning single to Brooks Robinson for the Baltimore victory.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 0-for-4.  Rich Rollins was 0-for-4.  Tony Oliva was 0-for-4.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a double.  Jimmie Hall was 0-for-3.

Record:  The loss dropped the Twins to 59-35, still in first place, but their lead over Baltimore dropped to 3.5 games.

Notes:  The Twins first three batters were 0-for-12 and their first four were 1-for-16...Hall's averaged fell to .307...Battey went up to .304...Largely forgotten now, Steve Barber was a fine pitcher for a number of years.  He made two all-star teams and twice finished in the top twenty in MVP voting.  He had a heavy workload when he was young, however, which led to arm problems and ineffectiveness.  He was a rookie in 1960, at age 21, and pitched 423 innings in his first two seasons.  He missed time in 1962, came back to pitch 258.2 innings in 1963, missed time in 1964, pitched 220.2 innings in 1965, and missed time again in 1966.  That was his last good season as a starter, but he hung around for several more years and was an effective relief pitcher for the Angels from 1972-73.  His career numbers aren't bad at all--121-106, 3.36 ERA--but one wonders what it might have been had his innings been managed more effectively.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-three

MINNESOTA 11, BOSTON 5 IN BOSTON

Date:  Thursday, July 22.

Batting stars:  Bob Allison was 2-for-4 with two home runs (his thirteenth and fourteenth) and a walk, driving in five.  Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a home run (his nineteenth) and a walk, scoring twice and driving in two.  Tony Oliva was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring once and driving in three.

Pitching star:  Mudcat Grant pitched 8.1 innings despite giving up five runs on twelve hits and three walks with three strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Carl Yastrzemski was 3-for-4 with a home run (his twelfth), a triple, and a double, driving in two.  Jim Gosger was 3-for-4 with a triple, scoring once and driving in one.  Tony Conigliaro was 1-for-3 with a walk and two runs.

The game:  It was close most of the way.  Killebrew singled in a run in the first, but Yastrzemski homered in the bottom of the first to tie it 1-1.  Boston went up 2-1 in the second, but the Twins took the lead back at 3-2 in the third.  Yastrzemski struck again in the bottom of the third, doubling home a run to tie it 3-3.  Each team scored once in the sixth, with Killebrew hitting a home run and Gosger an RBI triple, to keep the score even at 4-4.  The Twins finally took control of the game in the sixth.  An error and a walk put men on first and second with two out.  Oliva then hit a two-run double and, following an intentional walk to Killebrew, Allison hit a three-run homer to give the Twins a 9-4 advantage.  The game was never close after that.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-4 with a walk, a stolen base (his thirteenth) and three runs.  Rich Rollins was 1-for-4 with a walk and a run.  Jimmie Hall was 1-for-5 with an RBI.  Earl Battey was 0-for-2 with a walk.

Record:  The win made the Twins 59-34.  Baltimore lost 9-2 to Kansas City, increasing the Twins' lead to 4.5 games.

Notes:  Yastrzemski nearly hit for the cycle, lacking only a single...Hall's average fell to .310 and Battey dropped to .303...Jim Gosger is one of those players whose career was a lot longer than his numbers indicate it should have been.  He was at best a semi-regular outfielder, and that was only for two seasons, 1966-67.  For his career, which covered ten seasons, he hit .226/.309/.331.  Even granting that most of his career came in the 1960s, that's not very good.  Yet, he played in 705 major league games and had 1,815 big league at-bats.  One assumes teams viewed him as an excellent defender.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-two

MINNESOTA 11, BOSTON 8 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Wednesday, July 21 (Game 2 of doubleheader).

Batting stars:  Harmon Killebrew was 3-for-3 with a home run (his eighteenth) and a walk, scoring three times and driving in three.  Bob Allison was 2-for-5 with a triple, scoring twice and driving in three.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-4 with a walk, scoring three times and driving in one.

Pitching star:  Al Worthington struck out two in 2.1 scoreless innings, giving up two hits and a walk.

Opposition stars:  Rico Petrocelli was 3-for-4 with a three-run homer (his fourth) and a walk, scoring twice.  Tony Conigliaro was 2-for-5 with a home run (his seventeenth) and two runs.  Eddie Bressoud was 1-for-4 with a three-run homer (his sixth) and a walk.

The game:  The Twins scored two in the first, but Petrocelli's three-run homer capped a four-run second that put the Red Sox up 4-2.  The Twins got the four runs back in the third on only two hits, both singles, as they were aided by a walk, a hit batsman, a wild pitch, and a balk.  Conigliaro homered in the bottom of the fourth to cut the lead to 6-5, but Killebrew hit a two-run homer in the fifth to increase the margin to 8-5.  The lead held until the sixth, when Bressoud hit a three-run homer to tie it 8-8.  With two on in the ninth, Allison circled the bases on a triple-plus-error to give the Twins an 11-8 advantage.  This time it held up, as the Red Sox managed only a single in the bottom of the ninth.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-4 with a walk and a run.  Rich Rollins was 3-for-5 with two runs.  Jimmie Hall was 0-for-4 with an RBI.  Starter Dick Stigman pitched only 2.2 innings, giving up five runs on seven hits and no walks with one strikeout.

Record:  The doubleheader sweep improved the Twins to 58-34, still in first place.  Baltimore, who swept a doubleheader from Kansas City, moved into sole possession of second place, 3.5 games back.

Notes:  Hall saw his average drop to .312...Earl Battey sat out the second game of the doubleheader, with Jerry Zimmerman catching...Stigman would make only one more start this season, again as part of a doubleheader.  He was much more effective as a reliever than as a starter...Petrocelli was in his rookie year.  I don't really remember him as a power hitter, but he had a few years when he was, hitting forty in 1969, twenty-nine in 1970, and twenty-eight in 1971.  He attributed his power surge in those years to a diet and exercise program begun after the 1968 season.  Doubtless lowering the mound and shrinking the strike zone helped, too, as well as the fact that these were his age 26-28 seasons.  He would hit thirteen homers in 1965.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety-one

MINNESOTA 8, BOSTON 6 IN BOSTON

Date:  Wednesday, July 21 (Game 1 of doubleheader)

Batting stars:  Tony Oliva was 5-for-6 with a double, scoring twice and driving in one.  Harmon Killebrew was 3-for-4 with a walk, scoring three times and driving in two.  Bob Allison was 1-for-3 with a double and two walks, driving in one.

Pitching star:  Johnny Klippstein pitched 3.1 innings of relief, giving up two runs (one earned) on four hits and no walks with no strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Tony Conigliaro was 3-for-4 with a double and a run.  Bob Tillman was 2-for-3 with a walk, scoring once and driving in one.  Pitcher Earl Wilson was 1-for-1 with a two-run homer, his third.

The game:  Jim Kaat singled in a run in the second and the Twins added two in the third to take a 3-0 lead.  Wilson's two-run homer in the the bottom of the third cut the lead to 3-2, but RBI singles by Killebrew and Earl Battey made it 5-2 in the fifth and Oliva doubled home a run in the sixth to increase the lead to 6-2.  The Red Sox wouldn't go away, as Tillman knocked in two on a single-plus-error in the sixth to narrow the margin to 6-4.  Run-scoring singles by Killebrew and Jimmie Hall made it 8-4 in the eighth, but the Red Sox again tried to come back, scoring two in the ninth and bringing the tying run up to bat with one out.  Carl Yastrzemski grounded out and Tony Horton fanned to end the game.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 0-for-5 with a walk and a run.  Rich Rollins was 2-for-6 with a double and a run.  Hall was 1-for-4 with a walk, scoring once and driving in one.  Battey was 1-for-2 with two walks and two RBIs.  Kaat pitched five innings, giving up four runs (three earned) on nine hits and two walks with three strikeouts.

Record:  The win made the Twins 57-34 and kept them in first place.  Their closest pursuers, Cleveland and Baltimore, each also played a doubleheader.  The Orioles beat Kansas City 1-0 and the Indians lost to Detroit 2-1, so Baltimore took over second place, 3.5 games behind the Twins.

Notes:  Versalles moved back up to the leadoff spot, with Frank Quilici dropping to eighth.  Neither contributed much to the offense in this game...Kaat was going through a bit of a rough stretch, as this was the fifth time in six starts he failed to go as many as six innings.  On the other hand, due to doubleheaders, it was the second time in a row he pitched on only two days' rest...Earl Wilson slugged thirty-five home runs in his career.  His season high was seven, which he hit in 1966 and again in 1968.  He wasn't a bad pitcher either, winning eighteen games in 1966 and twenty-two in 1967, most of them for Detroit.  He finished in the top fifteen in MVP voting in both of those seasons.

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1965 Rewind: Game Ninety

CALIFORNIA 9, MINNESOTA 1 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Tuesday, July 20.

Batting stars:  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-3 with a walk.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-4 with an RBI.  Frank Quilici was 0-for-3 with a walk and a run.

Pitching stars:  Mel Nelson pitched 2.2 innings, giving up one run on four hits and one walk with one strikeout.  Bill Pleis pitched two shutout innings, giving up one walk with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Marcelino Lopez pitched a complete game, allowing one run on four hits and three walks with four strikeouts.  Bobby Knoop was 4-for-5 with a double and three RBIs.  Willie Smith was 3-for-5 with a home run (his eleventh) and three runs.

The game:  An RBI groundout by Oliva gave the Twins a 1-0 lead in the first, but Knoop's run-scoring single tied it in the second.  The Angles took control of the game with four runs in the third.  A single, a lineout, and five consecutive singles gave them a 5-1 lead.  The Twins never threatened to get back into the game--they never had more than one runner on base at a time after the first and did not even get one on after Oliva's single leading off the sixth.

Of note:  Rich Rollins was 1-for-4.  Jimmie Hall was 0-for-4.  Camilo Pascual pitched 2.1 innings, giving up five runs on seven hits and no walks with no strikeouts.

Record:  The loss dropped the Twins to 56-34, still in first place by 3.5 games, but Baltimore defeated Cleveland to tie the Indians for second place.

Notes:  This was Pascual's first start since July 4.  He was obviously still hurting.  He would struggle through two more starts, then miss the entire month of August...Hall's average dropped to .316...Earl Battey did not start but was used as a pinch-hitter.  He went 0-for-1 and dropped his average to .304.  Jerry Zimmerman started in his place...Marcelino Lopez had a fine year, going 14-13, 2.93 and finishing second in the rookie of the year voting at age 21.  It was the only good year he had as a starter.  His ERA was a full run higher, 3.93, in 1966, which doesn't sound so bad now but was not very good in 1966.  He was traded to Baltimore in June of 1967 and struggled through a couple of injury-plagued years before resurfacing as a reliever.  He had a solid season for the Orioles in 1970, but it was the last good year he would have.  He made four appearances for Cleveland in 1972, his last major league appearances.  He had started having elbow problems as early as 1962, when he was eighteen, and one assumes that throwing 215.1 innings in 1965 at age twenty-one was probably not the best thing for him.