The A’s won another series and matched their real-life effort in taking two of three games at home against the Twins. They needed a sweep but wasted another great performance from Mike Moore in the finale. After 124 games, Oakland remains three wins behind pace.
sim 72-52, actual 75-49
August 18 — sim W 7-0 — actual L 3-4
August 19 — sim W 4-2 — actual W 5-4
August 20 — sim L 0-1 — actual W 5-0
August 18: Dave Stewart pitched a dominant eight innings to win his 16th game of the season. Only one Twin made it into scoring position. The A’s had at least one hit in every inning but one, and had multiple baserunners in every inning but two. Carney Lansford (1st), Dave Parker (3rd), Mike Gallego (4th) and Jose Canseco (7th) had RBI singles in four different innings to make it 4-0, and Gallego added a three-run homer in the eighth inning.
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS (0) AT 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (7)
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI
Wally Backman 4 0 0 0 Rickey Henderson 4 2 1 0
Dan Gladden 4 0 1 0 Carney Lansford 4 0 1 1
Kirby Puckett 4 0 1 0 Jose Canseco 4 0 2 1
Kent Hrbek 4 0 0 0 Dave Parker 4 0 2 1
Gary Gaetti 3 0 1 0 Dave Henderson 4 0 0 0
Randy Bush 3 0 1 0 Terry Steinbach 4 1 3 0
Brian Harper 3 0 0 0 Tony Phillips 2 0 0 0
Jim Dwyer 3 0 0 0 Stan Javier 2 1 1 0
Al Newman 3 0 0 0 Walt Weiss 4 1 2 0
Mike Gallego 4 2 2 4
TOTALS 31 0 4 0 TOTALS 36 7 14 7
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 000 000 000 -- 0
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 101 100 13x -- 7
LOB--1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 4, 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 6.
ERR--Wally Backman. 2B--Walt Weiss, Jose Canseco. HR--Mike
Gallego. SB--Gary Gaetti, Rickey Henderson.
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Roy Smith CYZ [L] 6.00 10 3 3 1 1 0
Gary Wayne BY 1.67 4 4 3 0 0 1
Juan Berenguer BX 0.33 0 0 0 0 1 0
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS
Dave Stewart BYZ [W] 8.00 4 0 0 0 2 0
Gene Nelson BX 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
August 19: The Twins’ 1-0 lead was erased in the sixth inning on Jose Canseco’s two-run homer. But the Oakland bullpen couldn’t hold onto the win for Storm Davis, as Kent Hrbek tied it with a home run in the eighth inning. However, the A’s came right back in the bottom of the eighth, loading the bases with two outs and getting the go-ahead runs on Rickey Henderson’s two-RBI base hit.
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS (2) AT 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (4)
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI
Wally Backman 3 0 0 0 Rickey Henderson 5 0 1 2
Dan Gladden 4 0 0 0 Carney Lansford 4 1 2 0
Kirby Puckett 4 1 2 0 Jose Canseco 4 1 2 2
Kent Hrbek 4 1 2 2 Dave Parker 4 0 2 0
Gary Gaetti 4 0 1 0 Dave Henderson 4 0 0 0
Randy Bush 4 0 1 0 Ron Hassey 3 1 3 0
Brian Harper 3 0 0 0 Mark McGwire 3 1 0 0
Jim Dwyer 4 0 0 0 Tony Phillips 3 0 0 0
Al Newman 3 0 1 0 Mike Gallego 3 0 2 0
TOTALS 33 2 7 2 TOTALS 33 4 12 4
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 000 100 010 -- 2
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 000 002 02x -- 4
LOB--1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 6, 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 10.
ERR--Mike Gallego. 2B--Kirby Puckett. HR--Kent Hrbek, Jose
Canseco. SACB--Mike Gallego.
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Rick Aguilera CXZ 6.00 7 2 2 2 5 1
Juan Berenguer BX [L] 2.00 5 2 2 2 1 0
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS
Storm Davis BY 7.00 6 1 1 2 1 0
Rick Honeycutt AYZ [W] 1.00 1 1 1 0 0 1
Dennis Eckersley ACX [S] 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
August 20: Despite another near-dominant outing, Mike Moore was another hard-luck loser. He gave up only four hits, but one of them was Wally Backman’s double to lead off the ninth inning. After a sacrifice bunt, Backman scored on Kirby Puckett’s sacrifice fly. The A’s offense was silenced by Allan Anderson, who only allowed one Oakland runner to make second base, and that was in the first inning. Moore fell to 13-9 on the season despite a 1.49 ERA.
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS (1) AT 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (0)
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI
Wally Backman 4 1 1 0 Rickey Henderson 4 0 0 0
Dan Gladden 3 0 1 0 Carney Lansford 4 0 2 0
Kirby Puckett 3 0 0 1 Jose Canseco 4 0 0 0
Kent Hrbek 4 0 1 0 Terry Steinbach 4 0 1 0
Gary Gaetti 3 0 0 0 Dave Henderson 3 0 1 0
Randy Bush 3 0 0 0 Mark McGwire 3 0 0 0
Brian Harper 3 0 0 0 Billy Beane 3 0 0 0
John Moses 3 0 0 0 Tony Phillips 3 0 0 0
Greg Gagne 3 0 1 0 Mike Gallego 3 0 0 0
TOTALS 29 1 4 1 TOTALS 31 0 4 0
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 000 000 001 -- 1
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 000 000 000 -- 0
LOB--1989 MINNESOTA TWINS 3, 1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 4.
2B--Wally Backman, Kent Hrbek. SACF--Kirby Puckett.
SACB--Dan Gladden. SB--Carney Lansford.
1989 MINNESOTA TWINS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Allan Anderson BZ [W] 8.00 3 0 0 0 3 0
Jeff Reardon CYZ [S] 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS
Mike Moore AY [L] 9.00 4 1 1 0 2 0
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