The A’s continued their strong push to get back to where they should be at this point in the season. The real-life A’s lost all three in Minnesota, but here, Oakland won twice. Mike Moore and Dave Stewart both won their 11th games of the season, and all three contests were decided by one run. After 78 games, the A’s are now just two wins behind pace.
sim 44-34, actual 46-32
June 26 — sim W 6-5 — actual L 3-4
June 27 — sim L 1-2 — actual L 5-11
June 27 — sim W 2-1 – actual L 0-2
June 26: Terry Steinbach gave the A’s a 1-0 lead with an RBI single in the third, and Oakland broke the game open with five runs in the fourth inning, with Rickey Henderson providing a two-run single, Dave Henderson knocking a two-run double and Dave Parker following with a run-scoring single. Kent Hrbek broke up the shutout with a solo homer in the seventh. In the bottom of the ninth, Hrbek hit a grand slam against Oakland’s bullpen to cut the deficit to one. But the A’s held on for the win.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (6) AT 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS (5)
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI
Rickey Henderson 5 1 1 2 Wally Backman 4 0 0 0
Dave Henderson 5 2 2 2 Randy Bush 3 0 0 0
Dave Parker 5 0 3 1 Kirby Puckett 3 1 0 0
Terry Steinbach 5 0 1 1 Jim Dwyer 3 1 2 0
Carney Lansford 4 0 4 0 Gary Gaetti 3 1 0 0
Mark McGwire 5 0 0 0 Kent Hrbek 4 2 2 5
Glenn Hubbard 3 1 1 0 Tim Laudner 2 0 0 0
Stan Javier 4 1 1 0 John Moses 4 0 1 0
Mike Gallego 4 1 0 0 Greg Gagne 4 0 0 0
TOTALS 40 6 13 6 TOTALS 30 5 5 5
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 001 500 000 -- 6
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 000 000 104 -- 5
LOB--1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 9, 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 4.
ERR--Wally Backman, Greg Gagne. 2B--Dave Parker, Dave
Henderson. HR--Kent Hrbek (2).
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Mike Moore AY [W] 8.00 3 1 1 3 3 1
Brian Snyder DYW 0.00 1 3 3 2 0 0
Gene Nelson BX 0.00 1 1 1 0 0 1
Rick Honeycutt AYZ [S] 1.00 0 0 0 1 1 0
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS
Shane Rawley D [L] 3.00 11 6 5 1 2 0
Juan Berenguer BX 4.00 1 0 0 1 3 0
German Gonzalez DX 2.00 1 0 0 0 2 0
June 27: The A’s got a decent start from Matt Young, but couldn’t give him much in the way of run support. The Twins got both of their runs in the sixth inning on a Kirby Puckett RBI single and a Gary Gaetti sacrifice fly. Oakland finally got on the board in the seventh when Terry Steinbach singled and later scored on Mike Gallego’s safety squeeze. That would be it for Oakland’s offense, however.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (1) AT 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS (2)
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI
Rickey Henderson 4 0 0 0 Al Newman 3 0 0 0
Tony Phillips 4 0 0 0 Greg Gagne 4 1 3 0
Dave Henderson 4 0 0 0 Kirby Puckett 4 0 1 1
Dave Parker 3 0 0 0 Gary Gaetti 3 0 0 1
Carney Lansford 4 0 1 0 Carmen Castillo 3 0 0 0
Mark McGwire 4 0 1 0 Kent Hrbek 3 0 1 0
Terry Steinbach 4 1 1 0 Brian Harper 3 0 1 0
Stan Javier 4 0 3 0 Tim Laudner 3 0 0 0
Mike Gallego 2 0 0 1 John Moses 3 1 1 0
TOTALS 33 1 6 1 TOTALS 29 2 7 2
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 000 000 100 -- 1
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 000 002 00x -- 2
LOB--1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 9, 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 5.
ERR--Gary Gaetti. 2B--Stan Javier, Greg Gagne, Kent Hrbek.
SACF--Gary Gaetti. SACB--Mike Gallego.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Matt Young DYW [L] 5.33 5 2 2 1 6 0
Jim Corsi AYZ 1.67 1 0 0 0 1 0
Bill Dawley CRZ 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS
Roy Smith CYZ [W] 7.00 6 1 1 2 7 0
Gary Wayne BY 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
Jeff Reardon CYZ [S] 1.00 0 0 0 1 1 0
June 28: Dave Stewart and Frank Viola had a strong pitching duel going for a while. The A’s struck first in the sixth inning when Stan Javier doubled and ended up scoring on a wild pitch. The Twins came back in the bottom half of the inning and tied it as Kirby Puckett and Gary Gaetti doubled. Oakland went back up in the eighth as Glenn Hubbard singled and later scored on Javier’s base hit. A two-out triple by Greg Gagne in the bottom of the ninth made things interesting, but Rick Honeycutt got the final out.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (2) AT 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS (1)
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI
Rickey Henderson 4 0 0 0 Al Newman 4 0 0 0
Tony Phillips 4 0 3 0 Wally Backman 4 0 1 0
Dave Henderson 4 0 0 0 Kirby Puckett 4 1 1 0
Terry Steinbach 4 0 0 0 Kent Hrbek 4 0 2 0
Carney Lansford 3 0 0 0 Gary Gaetti 4 0 1 1
Mark McGwire 4 0 0 0 Randy Bush 3 0 0 0
Glenn Hubbard 4 1 1 0 Jim Dwyer 4 0 0 0
Mike Gallego 2 0 0 0 Tim Laudner 4 0 1 0
Stan Javier 3 1 2 1 Greg Gagne 4 0 2 0
TOTALS 32 2 6 1 TOTALS 35 1 8 1
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 000 001 010 -- 2
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 000 001 000 -- 1
LOB--1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 5, 1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 9.
2B--Stan Javier, Gary Gaetti, Kent Hrbek, Kirby Puckett.
3B--Greg Gagne. SACB--Mike Gallego.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Dave Stewart BYZ [W] 7.00 7 1 1 2 3 0
Todd Burns AZ 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
Rick Honeycutt AYZ [S] 1.00 1 0 0 0 2 0
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS
Frank Viola CXZ [L] 8.00 6 2 2 0 5 0
Juan Berenguer BX 1.00 0 0 0 1 0 0
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