Saints finish season-opening road trip with one victory, one defeat and a lot of injured players They barely had enough players to put on the field in the finale at Omaha.
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PAPILLION, NEB. – The St.Paul Saints soon will play their first home game as the Twins Class AAA affiliate. Hopefully by then, they will have enough healthy players to form a bench.
The Saints closed out their season-opening series with the Omaha Storm Chasers by splitting two games Sunday, making it through to the end despite being down so many players that they had to bat their pitcher twice.
WASECA, MINN. – Gene Glynn will be back where he was three decades earlier, coaching high school lads in basketball in Minnesota s mid-south, when practice commences for the St. Clair Cyclones 2021-22 season in November.
It has been a winding trail from Mankato Loyola s Crusaders to the Cyclones for Glynn, remembered by most Minnesota sports followers for being a baseball man, remembered by many fewer as the first winner of the state s Mr. Basketball award for Waseca in 1975.
Glynn followed that with basketball and baseball stardom for what was then Mankato State from 1975 to 1979. He was signed out of college for the Montreal Expos by Bob Gebhard, the pride of Lamberton, Minn.
On Tuesday in Omaha, the St. Paul Saints will play their first game as a Minnesota Twins farm club. On May 11, the Saints will play their first home game as the Twins AAA affiliate, at CHS Field.
The franchise known for pigs delivering baseballs to home plate and nuns giving massages or is it the other way around? is becoming part of the machine it once took delight in raging against.
Can the Saints do the serious work of developing prospects for a big-league team while honoring their longtime slogan, Fun is Good ? I think the change will make us both better, said Saints president and co-owner Mike Veeck. Left to our own devices, I think we can monetize things and introduce things that will make sense to all of Major League Baseball.
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Alex Kirilloff doesn t like to show off, always seems to deflect attention for his supernatural hitting ability. But he couldn t pass up this chance.
It came at Orioles FanFest one January in Baltimore, where Kirilloff and his dad happened across a batting cage where fans could take a few cuts against a pitching machine lobbing civilian fastballs, lower velocity but still with some zip. David Kirilloff didn t want to stop, but Alex begged him. Finally I said OK. He grabbed a bat and just started hitting. Contact after contact, the proud father recalled. People were stopping to watch. What? Come look at this.
Detroit was at Target Field for five games in four days over Labor Day weekend. Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire ran into a bout of food poisoning and still wasn t feeling well 10 days later.
The Tigers were in the middle of a four-game home series vs. Cleveland. General Manager Al Avila came for a meeting with Gardenhire and heard this: I said to Al, I m done, Gardenhire said. He was great, as always, talking about the end of the season, and I said, No, Al, I m done right now. I can t do this for another game. I feel terrible. I m afraid I might have a heart attack.