Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Orioles edge Twins, ticket punched to Fall Classic



Boog Powell smacked two homers to account for the offense and Mike Cuellar provided 7-1/3 innings of shutout pitching to avenge last season's upset by the Twins as the Orioles take the ALCS 3-1 with a 2-1 win over Minnesota.


Strat-O-Matic Report






BOXSCORE: 1970 Minnesota Twins At 1970 Baltimore Orioles 10/7/1970

Twins AB R H RBI AVG Orioles AB R H RBI AVG
C.Tovar CF 4 0 3 0 .467 D.Buford LF 4 0 1 0 .200
D.Thompson 2B 3 0 0 0 .133 E-M.Rettenmund LF 0 0 0 0 .600
B-B.Allison PH 0 0 0 0 .000 P.Blair CF 4 0 0 0 .118
C-C.Manuel PH 1 0 0 0 .000 B.Powell 1B 3 2 2 2 .250
S.Williams P 0 0 0 0 ---- F.Robinson RF 3 0 0 0 .250
T.Oliva RF 4 0 1 0 .125 B.Robinson 3B 3 0 2 0 .357
H.Killebrew 3B 2 1 1 1 .273 E.Hendricks C 3 0 0 0 .286
B.Alyea LF 4 0 0 0 .273 D.Johnson 2B 3 0 0 0 .000
R.Reese 1B 4 0 0 0 .182 M.Belanger SS 3 0 0 0 .000
L.Cardenas SS 3 0 0 0 .200 M.Cuellar P 2 0 0 0 .400
G.Mitterwald C 3 0 0 0 .000 D.Hall P 0 0 0 0 ----
J.Perry P 2 0 0 0 .400 D-B.Grich PH 1 0 0 0 .000
A-R.Carew PH,2B 1 0 1 0 .500 P.Richert P 0 0 0 0 ----
E.Watt P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 31 1 6 1 Totals 29 2 5 2

A-Pinch Hit For Perry In 8th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Thompson In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Allison In 8th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Hall In 8th Inning
E-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Buford In 9th Inning

Twins........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 6 1
Orioles......... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 2 5 0

Twins (1-3) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Perry LOSS(0-2) 7 5 2 2 0 1 2 97 5.93
S.Williams 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 3.00
Totals 8 5 2 2 0 1 2

Orioles (3-1) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
M.Cuellar WIN(2-0) 7 1/3 5 0 0 2 7 0 95 2.57
D.Hall HOLD(1st) 0 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
P.Richert HOLD(2nd) 0 1/3 1 1 1 0 0 1 8 3.86
E.Watt SAVE(3rd) 0 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 0.00
Totals 9 6 1 1 2 8 1

ATTENDANCE- 29,782 DATE- Wednesday, October 7th 1970 TIME- Day WEATHER- Average
T- 1:45
LEFT ON BASE- Twins: 5 Orioles: 3
DOUBLE PLAYS- Twins: 0 Orioles: 2
ERRORS- D.Thompson
DOUBLES- C.Tovar(1st), D.Buford(1st), B.Robinson(1st)
TRIPLES- C.Tovar(2nd)
HOME RUNS- H.Killebrew(1st), B.Powell-2(2nd)
WALKS- H.Killebrew-2
STRIKE OUTS- D.Thompson, B.Alyea-2, R.Reese, L.Cardenas, G.Mitterwald-2,
J.Perry, M.Cuellar
GIDP- C.Manuel, R.Reese
WEB GEMS- Bot 5th: Leo Cardenas robbed Mark Belanger of a base hit.

Boog Powell slammed 2 homeruns as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Minnesota
Twins by a score of 2 to 1 at Memorial Stadium.

Baltimore set the tone of the game in the first inning scoring one runner.
Minnesota threatened in the 9th but their rally came up short.

The win went to Mike Cuellar(2-0) who allowed no runs in 7 and 1/3 innings.
Eddie Watt was credited with his 3rd save. Jim Perry(0-2) took the loss. He
pitched 7 innings giving up only 5 hits and no walks.








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