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Game Thread: Twins v Indians, 7/17 @ 1:10pm CT

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Games Past Midnight
This is the 3rd time in less than 2-weeks (even counting the All-Star break) that the Twins have played a rain delayed game past midnight. They won all three, A’s 11-4, Rangers 8-6 and last night 5-4. All three came after a previous night’s loss. The first two they won the following day…A’s 4-0, Rangers 15-5, I don’t think we be asking too much to simply keep going for continuity sake.

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Talking about rain delays and games past midnight, here are some games that might put last night’s game in perspective.

1. Aug. 12, 1990, Chicago, 7 hours, 23 minutes
Hosting the Rangers, the White Sox waited that long before finally postponing a Sunday afternoon game without a pitch being thrown.  Roughly 500 fans remained in the stands when the game was finally called off at 8:58 pm. Said White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, "The weather man kept saying it'd stop."

2. July 2, 1993, Philadelphia, 5 hours, 54 minutes

The Padres and Phillies endured nearly six hours of rain delays in this game which was, get this, the first game of a doubleheader. The game was delayed at the start by an hour and 10 minutes, by nearly two hours after the third inning and by two hours and 48 minutes after the fifth. The game started at 4:35 pm and ended at 1:03 am. Then the two teams took a 25 minute break and started the second game at 1:28. The game had no delays, but it did go 10 innings and take more than three hours to complete, finally coming to an end on a walk-off single off Padres rookie Trevor Hoffman by Phillies closer Mitch Williams. When Pete Incaviglia crossed home plate with the winning run, it was 4:40 am in Philadelphia, making the second game the latest game in major league history.

3. Milwaukee, 5 hours, 45 minutes, Oct. 3, 1999,
Note the date. The Brewers and Reds had to get this game in because the Reds were just a game behind the Astros in the National League Central and tied with the Mets for the NL wild card and this was the final day of the regular season. So, with the benefit of this being a Sunday day game, the two teams waited five hours and 45 minutes before finally getting started at 8:50 pm. Cincinnati won, 7-1, but so did Houston and New York in their respective games. The next day, the Reds and Mets played a one-game playoff for the wild-card in Cincinnati. Al Leiter threw a two-hit shutout, and the Reds lost 5-0.

4. Philadelphia, 5 hours, June 9, 1980
This Monday night affair between the Phillies and the Giants totaled five hours of separate rain delays, all in the bottom of the fourth inning. Talk about a tease. The game was first delayed for an hour and 28 minutes after the final out in the top of the fourth. After the players came back on the field, Bob Boone hit a leadoff home run for the first run of the game, but two batters later, the tarp went back on and the game was delayed for an additional three hours and 32 minutes. All the while, Steve Carlton had four perfect innings under his belt. So, when the top of the fifth came, around at 1:30 am, five and a quarter hours after throwing his last pitch in the top of the fourth, Carlton went back out there (his manager, perhaps not coincidentally, was notorious pitcher-abuser Dallas Green). The second hitter Carlton faced in the fifth doubled, but he pitched the sixth as well, holding the Giants scoreless all the while only to have Dickie Noles blow the save in the eighth as the Giants went on the win 3-1. The last out came at 3:11 am.

5. Detroit, 4 hours, 1 minute, Aug. 24, 2007
This was a real head-scratcher. Yes, this was the Yankees' last trip to Detroit this season, and with just a month left in the season, the pennant races heating up and both the Yankees and Tigers in the thick of the wild card race, this was a game that needed to be played. On the other hand, it was also a Friday night affair and the first game of a four-game set. Yet, rather than schedule a doubleheader for the weekend, the Yankees and Tigers waited until 11:06 pm to start the game, which then went 11 innings and took 4 hours and 24 minutes to play. When Carlos Guillen ended it with a two-out, three-run home run in the bottom of the 11th to give Detroit a 9-6 win, it was 3:30 in the morning on Saturday. The Tigers then followed through with the promised post-game fireworks, though they weren't the latest fireworks in major league history. Those came after the July 4, 1985 Rick Camp game, which had just two hours and 11 minutes of rain delays, but lasted 19 innings and finished at 3:55 am, after which: fireworks!

 

Lineups:

INDIANS
Carlos Santana (S) DH
Jason Kipnis (L) 2B
Francisco Lindor (S) SS
Mike Napoli [R) 1B
Jose Ramirez (S) 3B
Lonnie Chisenhall (L) RF
Tyler Naquin (L) CF
Abraham Almonte (S) LF
Yan Gomes [R) C

 

Josh Tomlin (R] P

TWINS
Eduardo Nunez [R) 3B
Robbie Grossman (S) DH
Kennys Vargas (S) 1B
Brian Dozier [R) 2B
Max Kepler (L) RF
Eddie Rosario (L) LF
Eduardo Escobar (S) SS
Kurt Suzuki [R) C
Danny Santana (S) CF

 

Kyle Gibson (R] P

 

Game-time forecast: 79 deg F, partly cloudy, 15% chance of rain, and winds at 12 mph from the W.

 

Go Twins!

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Sorry about including Gordo in yesterday's Game Thread...guess he will be honored today prior to the game.

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Sorry about including Gordo in yesterday's Game Thread...guess he will be honored today prior to the game.

Gordo deserves the mention, no big deal.

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Anyone catch Morris' entertaining story about the lengths the Cleveland Indians went to to stop him and the Tigers?

 

He claims that they watered down the ground between the plate and the mound. Otis Nixon and Bret Butler bunted to lead off the game and then he "accidentally" hit Kenny Lofton with a pitch and then they stopped dropping them down.

 

I don't think there was a single fact in the whole story - aside from the fact that he pitched in Cleveland.

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He's now 1-22 in the month of July, very impressive.

 

Awesome post! I got a good belly laugh out of this.
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He's now 1-22 in the month of July, very impressive. 

For the 30-day period starting July 17, so far, he is a perfect 1-1 plus a walk.

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Anyone catch Morris' entertaining story about the lengths the Cleveland Indians went to to stop him and the Tigers?

 

He claims that they watered down the ground between the plate and the mound. Otis Nixon and Bret Butler bunted to lead off the game and then he "accidentally" hit Kenny Lofton with a pitch and then they stopped dropping them down.

 

I don't think there was a single fact in the whole story - aside from the fact that he pitched in Cleveland.

'"Hello," he lied.'

 

/ Supposedly said of a movie agent long ago

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and we're off......................

You had me frantically hitting Refresh trying to learn how the game was going.

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Based on this lineup, it's safe to say that Molly doesn't like Gibson.

No errors from Sano at third today, so Gibby's got that going for him, which is nice.

 

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No errors from Sano at third today, so he's got that going for him, which is nice.

 

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I imagine Eddie the Stick will try to throw one away. I mean, in addition to the one he tried to throw past Kennys in the first.

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Nah, he's just tired from dragging around that lead glove he was using yesterday   ;)

I imagine it has more to do with Robbie "being due" and/or ready to show the Indians what a mistake they made in letting him walk.

 

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Nice first inning, Gibson.  8 more to go.  Don't mess it up.

Awright, let's all try to be a little more careful about our jinx posts, 'K?

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