Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 24, 2008
Complete Control

The Angels staged a late comeback to defeat the Twins 5-3, knocking Minnesota 1/2 game behind the White Sox in the AL Central and one game behind the Red Sox in the AL Wild Card race. The Angels scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth off Reyes and Crain, lowering the Twins bullpen record to 21-17. Francisco Rodriguez reached the 50 save plateau. Thigpen in 1990 didn't reach 50 saves until September 15th.

The two teams combined to strike out twenty batters while issuing no walks. That's tied for seventh most strikeouts in a nine or more inning game in which neither team issued a walk since 1957. Mark Prior and Javier Vazquez met up in Chicago that day to combine for 26 Ks, and Luis Ayala added one in relief for 27.


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