Twins (Festa) vs Dodgers (Ohtani): 7/21/25, 9:10pm

[Randy Griffith]

11 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

1969 Willie McCovey card.

1971 Willie Stargell card was probably similar.  48 Homers that year, so his card had a lot of clean shot homers.  I learned a lot about the hitters I never saw play in person by playing Strat-o-matic with my friends.  

[IndyTwinsFan]

1 minute ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Correa missed it by that much 🤏 ...

Oh so close  , nice try ...

But as they say a little to late , they did try tonight putting runners on every inning i believe ...

And left them there in almost every inning. 

[jaimedude]

5 minutes ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Correa missed it by that much 🤏 ...

Oh so close  , nice try ...

But as they say a little to late , they did try tonight putting runners on every inning i believe ...

Earlier in evening that would have been gone. But ninth inning,  colder moist dense air. 

[S Bart]

4 minutes ago, Doc Lenz said:

Big percentage of guys playing then used including pitchers. League loved the excitement of the long ball. Lots of players in 50’s 60,s and seventies were using uppers. 

Yep...and the ones or several of them including Kody's dad did not make the Hall due to it

[alskntwnsfn]

Watching on a bit of a delay… are you f’ing kidding me!? Ugh… a foot short. Bummer. 

[knothole61]

33 minutes ago, Randy Griffith said:

No relation.  I love baseball and Rod Carew.  I lived in Mason City, Iowa as a kid and saw two games a year at the Met if I was lucky.  I listened to a lot of games on the radio and we played a lot of Strat-o-matic.  

With the meal spinner that caused endless arguments trying to determine what, exactly, it was pointing to? Nice!

[knothole61]

The odds are long that the Twins will win any of the 3 games in LA--especially the Ohtain start. The boys had a good deal of moxie late tonight though, and C4 unloaded to dead center and almost tied it. Not exactly a "hang your head" game by any means.

And here upon the turret-top the bale-fire glowers red.

The wake-lights burn and drip about our hacked, disfigured dead.

And many a broken heart is here and many a broken head;

But tomorrow,   

By the living God, we'll try the game again!

                                                                          -John Masefield

[h2oface]

1 hour ago, mnfireman said:

He didn't need it, his ego got the better of him...and he never failed a test...

 

But the size of his head told the story.

[Patzky]

7 hours ago, Sjoski said:

He walks Betts, then gets squeezed by the umpire...sometimes mlb is just hard to watch.

A strike gets called on Clemens that's clearly below the knees...Festa threw a beautiful pitch...ball 2.

That 'strike' on Correa..  well none of it will rival the Kiriloff debacle last time we were here.

[Sjoski]

8 hours ago, S Bart said:

Agree.about Mpls...but Dodgers v Padres and Dodgers v Giants are fierce...I live in SD and have seen fights...

I think the SF has the most annoying fan base. In my experience at least. 

I lived in LA for 7, SF for 3 NY for 2.

Angel fans were the most tame.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

What i miss?

 

I was listening on the radio while driving...

[RpR]

3 hours ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

What i miss?

 

I was listening on the radio while driving...

Twins pitchers giving batting practice to the Dodgers.

[Blyleven2011]

14 hours ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Needs to talk to Bert Blyleven    the record holder for giving em up  , 

During my lunch hour I just looked up the season high pitcher for most homeruns allowed and I thought it was Jose lima  at 48 , but Bert did best him by 2 for a total of 50 solo homeruns  , Bert will tell you they were mostly solo homers ...

[Sjoski]

1 hour ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Bert did best him by 2 for a total of 50 solo homeruns  ,

It's probably the main reason it took so long for him to get in the HofF.

All those Gopher balls.

I caught one of those homerun ....err...it actually bounced off my friends arms right into my hands...just a foot above the outstretched glove of Tony O.

It was the winning run in the game. 

Still have the ball....gonna see what number it was on Berts all time list.

The ball i caught was Blyleven's #39/480. 

[Blyleven2011]

34 minutes ago, Sjoski said:

It's probably the main reason it took so long for him to get in the HofF.

All those Gopher balls.

I caught one of those homerun ....err...it actually bounced off my friends arms right into my hands...just a foot above the outstretched glove of Tony O.

It was the winning run in the game. 

Still have the ball....gonna see what number it was on Berts all time list.

The ball i caught was Blyleven's #39/480. 

That was early in his career if Tony was still in right field playing ...

Jamie moyer has the history record of 522 for a career ...

Bert has the single season record of 50 homeruns allowed in 1986 , nice round number ...

[Sjoski]

45 minutes ago, Blyleven2011 said:

That was early in his career if Tony was still in right field playing ...

Yep...1972...i was just a young punk sitting in right field when Mickey Stanley launched a laser.  Just cleared the fence by a foot. 

It was Monday Night game of the week too...so national TV. 

Was wearing my green hockey practice jersey.

Twins lost 2-1 despite out hitting Detroit 11 to 6.

[Randy Griffith]

20 hours ago, knothole61 said:

With the meal spinner that caused endless arguments trying to determine what, exactly, it was pointing to? Nice!

I think that one was called All-Star Baseball; we had that one too:                                                     Strat-o-matic took 20 minutes to play a nine inning game.  Hitter's cards had columns 1, 2, and 3; pitcher's cards had columns 4, 5, and 6.  The play was determined by rolling one white die and two colored dice: