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Cap'n John Clinger

Balls, Bats and Bases: St. Paul Saints Style

Dobnak Sets Strikeout Record, but Saints Also Whiff, 9-3 2023 Season: Game 139-144 Recaps – Game Dates September 12-17, 2023 By CAP’N JOHN CLINGER Note: The Saints began the week four games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 12 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Des Moines against the Iowa Cubs. Remaining game times against Iowa are 7:08 Friday, 6:08 Saturday, and 1:08 Sunday. Cubs 9, Saints 3 Thursday, Sept. 14 The Saint
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Cap'n John Clinger

Balls, Bats and Bases: St. Paul Saints Style

I-Cubs Nip Saints, 4-3, Spoil SWR’s One-Run Outing 2023 Season: Game 139-144 Recaps – Game Dates September 12-17, 2023 By CAP’N JOHN CLINGER Note: The Saints began the week four games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 12 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Des Moines against the Iowa Cubs. Remaining game times against Iowa are 12:08 p.m. Thursday, 7:08 Friday, 6:08 Saturday, and 1:08 Sunday. Cubs 4, Saints 3 Wednesday, Sept. 1
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Cap'n John Clinger

Balls, Bats and Bases: St. Paul Saints Style

Pitching Committee Back in Session; Saints Win, 4-1 2023 Season: Game 139-144 Recaps – Game Dates September 12-17, 2023 By CAP’N JOHN CLINGER Note: The Saints began the week four games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 12 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Des Moines against the Iowa Cubs. Remaining game times against Iowa are 12:08 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 7:08 Friday, 6:08 Saturday, and 1:08 Sunday. Saints 4, Cubs 1 Tuesday
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Cap'n John Clinger

Balls, Bats and Bases: St. Paul Saints Style

Saints’ Hopes for Playoff Spot Waning after Loss 2023 Season: Game 133-138 Recaps – Game Dates September 5-10, 2023 By CAP’N JOHN CLINGER Note: The Saints began the week three games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 18 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Louisville against the Bats. Game times this week are 5:35 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 12:05 p.m. Sunday. Louisville Bats 3, St. Paul Saint
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Cap'n John Clinger

Balls, Bats and Bases: St. Paul Saints Style

Bats Go Cold; The Bats Edge Saints, 4-3 2023 Season: Game 133-138 Recaps – Game Dates September 5-10, 2023 By CAP’N JOHN CLINGER Note: The Saints began the week three games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 18 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Louisville against the Bats. Game times this week are 5:35 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 12:05 p.m. Sunday. Louisville Bats 4, St. Paul Saints 3 Sat
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Cap'n John Clinger

Balls, Bats and Bases: St. Paul Saints Style

Saints Win Fourth Straight over Bats, 7-6; Still Two Games Back in Playoffs Chase 2023 Season: Game 133-138 Recaps – Game Dates September 5-10, 2023 By CAP’N JOHN CLINGER Note: The Saints began the week three games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 18 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Louisville against the Bats. Game times this week are 5:35 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 12:05 p.m. Sunday.
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Balls, Bats and Bases: St. Paul Saints Style

Not Grand, But Still Great, Home Run Night Lifts Saints, 10-3 2023 Season: Game 133-138 Recaps – Game Dates September 5-10, 2023 By CAP’N JOHN CLINGER Note: The Saints began the week three games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 18 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Louisville against the Bats. Game times this week are 5:35 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 12:05 p.m. Sunday. St. Paul Saints 10,
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Balls, Bats and Bases: St. Paul Saints Style

Another Day, Another Slam in Saints’ Trip to Louisville 2023 Season: Game 133-138 Recaps – Game Dates September 5-10, 2023 By CAP’N JOHN CLINGER Note: The Saints began the week three games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 18 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Louisville against the Bats. Game times this week are 5:35 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 12:05 p.m. Sunday. St. Paul Saints 13, Louisv
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Brandon Peddycoart

Columbus Exploded in the 10th, Defeated Saints 14-6, Roster Update

Saint Paul, Minnesota - Books Lee tied the game in the bottom of the ninth with a solo home run; however, the 10th did not go as planned for the Saints. Columbus plated eight runs in the 10th and defeated the St. Paul Saints 14-6 on Sunday evening in front of 6,528. The Saints fell to 75-56 on the season and 32-25 in the second half.  Coming into play Columbus was tied with the Syracuse Mets for the worst batting average in the International League. Prior to the game, Columbus posted a batt
Brandon Peddycoart

Cantillo Helped Clippers Defeat Saints 4-1

Saint Paul, Minnesota - Joey Cantillo kept the Saints offensive quiet most of the night. Cantillo only made a single mistake, which was a solo home run hit by Alex Kirilloff. Columbus collected nine hits in a 4-1 win over the Saints in front of 6,605 on Saturday night. The Saints improved to 75-55 on the season and 32-24 in the second half.  In the second, Zack Collins hit his 15th home run of the season. This went to left-center field and gave Columbus a 1-0 lead.  In the fourth, Geor
Brandon Peddycoart

Buxton Update, Columbus Defeated St. Paul 8-5 in 11

Saint Paul, Minnesota - For the third time this week the Saints and Columbus Clippers needed extra innings to decide the outcome. Earlier in the week the extra-inning games went the Saints way; however, on Saturday night Columbus finished on top with an 8-5 win over the Saints in 11 innings. The Saints fell to 75-54 on the season.  The Saints got on the board first. In the first, DaShawn Keirsey Jr. singled. Next, Keirsey Jr. stole second base. Columbus catcher Bryan Lavastida made a throwi
Brandon Peddycoart

Perez and Saints Walked-off Columbus 8-7 in 10

Saint Paul, Minnesota - For the second time this week nine innings was not enough to decide the game between the Saints and Columbus Clippers. On Thursday it took ten. In the 10th Hernan Perez delivered a walk-off single for the Saints in an 8-7 win in front of 6,066 fans. The Saints improved to 75-53 on the season.  The Saints fell behind early. In the first, Jose Tena hit a solo home run, which gave Columbus a 1-0 lead. Later in the inning, Johnathan Rodriguez was hit-by-the-pitch. Next,
Brandon Peddycoart

Festa Triple-A Debut, Kirilloff and Buxton Rehab

Saint Paul, Minnesota - David Festa made his Triple-A debut on Wednesday night. If a prediction were to be made one could say Bryon Buxton and Alex Kirilloff, who were both on MLB Rehab Assignments would have been the stars of the show. However, it was five strong innings from Festa that led the Saints past the Columbus Clippers 6-1 in front of 5,814. The Saints improved to 74-53 on the season. Kyle Garlick and Anthony Prato singled in the second. With two outs, Jair Camargo hit an RBI sing
Fantasy GM

Go watch Buxton rehab in CF TONIGHT!!!

OK this is less of a blog and more of a thread,   BUT... Tonight's Saints game should be a super fun game to go to!!! Buxton playing 7 innings of CF. Plus with the Twins having a Nooner today, there is a great chance you can catch a good number of Twins players attending the game to watch and support Buxton!! Great photo/autograph opportunities tonight in St Paul  
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Brandon Peddycoart

Saints 5-4 Winners over Clippers

Saint Paul, Minnesota - The Saints and Columbus Clippers (Cleveland Guardians) started a six-game series on Tuesday night. For the first time since June 16th, nine innings was not enough to decide the game. The Saints hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 11th inning to get past the Clippers 5-4 in front of 6,530. The Saints improved to 73-53 on the season, which is first place in the International League West.  In the first, Brayan Rocchio led off with a double. Next, David Fry
Fantasy GM

Could Ohtani UCL open the door for the Twins?

OK, so the obvious... or at least INITIAL knee jerk reaction is NO!!  BUT... lets take a deeper look at the affordability and the functionality of Ohtani on the Twins. First off the affordability.  Ohtani is incredibly affordable at ANY price. Ohtani is the unique player that almost pays for himself.  The increased revenue he brings to ANY team will offset a good chunk, if not all, of his salary.   Secondly the Twins can have some decent salaries coming of the books. Using 2022 salarie
LA Vikes Fan

Lewis Up to Replace Luplow (or Gallo)? Makes Sense for 2023 and Really Makes Sense For 2024

We need a CF for 2024 and a better RH hitting OF for 2023. I think our highest and best hope in 2024 should be that Buxton plays 80ish games in the OF next year and another 50 at DH. That means we will need another player to be a half to 2/3 time starting CF. I frankly think we have that guy in Max Kepler which would really open things up for OFs because it's easier to find corner OFs that a decent CF. Unfortunately, Kepler apparently doesn't want to play CF on any sort of regular basis. Maybe w
A Look Back

Understatement of the Year

Today on Power Alley (MLB Radio), the announcers were discussing the Twins-Brewers game tonight (Wed, Aug 23).  Corbin Burnes is the Milwaukee pitcher and he has been striking out batters at a very high rate  One announcer said that it would be an interesting matchup because: "The Twins have been a little prone to striking out lately." A little prone?  Lately?
Twins Talk

Corn Crop in Cedar Rapids is looking good.

It was baseball road trip BONUS time this past weekend with buddies Steve-O & TJ as the Cedar Rapids Kernels wrapped up their series with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Sunday, August 20.   During our intitial road trip to Cedar Rapids at the end of June, one of our games was suspended due to rain after three innings.  Despite seeing the completion of said game the following day, followed by the regularly scheduled contest, we were told we could exchange the suspended game tickets for anot
Arby58

Greatest Twins Individual Offensive Season Ever?

The Twins arrived in Minnesota in 1960, and I have been a close follower since about 1967.  As a kid, I was a huge Harmon Killebrew fan and attended many games where his home runs were the highlight of the day. I also got to see one of the great on-base hitting machines of that era, Rod Carew. They were far different players, but they produced, in my opinion, the two greatest offensive seasons in Twins history, and both were named American League MVP for them - Killebrew in 1969, and Carew in 19
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Brandon Peddycoart

Severino Leads Saints Past Indianapolis 7-6, Split Series, Roster Update

Saint Paul, Minnesota - Yunior Severino continued his massive week at the plate going 3-for-4. The Saints had two triples in the sixth inning that helped the Saints to overcome the Indianapolis Guardians by a score of 7-6 and split the six-game series. The Saints improved to 69-50 on the season, which is second place in the International League West.  Andrew Stevenson walked to lead off the first for the Saints. Next, he stole second base, which was his 40th stolen base of the season. Steve
Brandon Peddycoart

Saints Comeback Falls Short in 5-4 loss to Indianapolis

Saint Paul, Minnesota - A monster home run by Yunior Severino was not enough to lift the Saints past the Indianapolis Guardians on Saturday night. Indianapolis defeated the Saints by a score of 5-4 in front of 6,188. The Saints fell to 68-50 on the season and 25-19 in the second half.    In the third, Woods Richardson got the first two outs quickly. With two outs, Vinny Capra tripled. That was his first triple of the season. Next, Domingo Leyba hit his fifth home run of the season. Indi
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