July 06, 2007
Power Twins
The day is not over, but the Twins scored 32 runs on the day so far. In the night cap, they've hit six home runs, three by Morneau. They have the bases loaded with one out in the top of the eighth with a 12-0 lead. They've already scored the most runs in one day in the last 50 years. The St. Louis Cardinals scored 28 on 9/7/1993, the biggest one day total in the 51 seasons covered by the Day by Day Database. The AL record for runs by a team in a double header is 36, but the Twins fail to score in the top of the eighth.
Of top of the great offense, Matt Garza turns in six shutout innings, extending his streak of scoreless innings from his two relief innings earlier this week. He struck out six as well.
Correction: I had forgotten to sort the query result. The Cardinals, not the Braves had the biggest one day total in the last 51 seasons. The Braves, Astros, Orioles and Athletics all had days with 27 runs in that time frame.
Correction: The box score I looked at last night had this wrong. Morneau hit three home runs, Cuddyer one.
Posted by David Pinto at
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In point of fact, Morneau hit three HRs today, and Cuddyer one.
Also noteworthy about this game, the Twins didn't use the DH. Redmond got KO'd by a mighty Thome swing, which forced Mauer to move from DH to C, which forced the forfeit of the DH.