The Twins and Yankees squared off Tuesday (6/23) evening under bright sunny skies at A-Diamond. Starting pitchers; for the Twins, Wayne Nicholsen; for the Yankees, Lex Herlett.

Top of the first Craig Tynan led off with a booming double down the left-field line. Jeff Whitehead then following with a single to left and as Tynan raced to home to try and give the Twins a quick lead, a perfect relay throw got Tynan sliding into home. The next 2 Twins batters hit long hard-hit fly outs to LF and CF to end the inning, stranding Whitehead on second. In the bottom of the inning, Nicholsen retired the Yankees 1-2-3.

The Twin went 1-2-3 in the top of the 2nd inning, however in the bottom of the inning the Yankees did not, plating 2 runs on a HBP (Eric Duemler) followed by 3 singles (Jack Griffin, Mark Marshal, Doug Edick 2 RBI) to take a 2-0 lead.

The Twins rallied to take the lead in the top of the 3rd inning. Following another booming fly ball out, a Stefan Koutsakis singled and a Terry McCarthy double put the tying runs on 2nd and 3rd. Alex Marin then hit a ground ball to short, and JJ Janetsky made a perfect throw to the plate to get Koutsakis. Frank Owens followed with an RBI single (McCarthy scored), putting runners on 1st and 2nd. Craig Tynan then crushed another double score Marin and Owens. Jeff Whitehead followed with a single to plate Tynan to give the Twins a 4-2 lead before the next batter grounded into a FC 6-4 out. The Yankees did not score in the bottom of the inning.

While Herlett kept the Twins scoreless in innings 4-5-6 on only 2 hits, Nicholsen limited the Yankees to 1 run over the same span, while allowing only 3 hits. After 6 innings the score was Twins 4, Yankees 3.

In the top of the 7th, the Twins tacked on an insurance run on a single by Jeff Cohen and a long double by Rick Saidenberg before Herlett retired the side. With the Twins up 5-3, the Yankees mounted their rally. Griffin led off with a walk. Nicholsen signaled to the bullpen (Koutsakis relieved Nicholsen). Griffin then stole second base before a Marshall walk. With runners on 1B and 2B, Edick laid down a 1-3 Sac Bunt moving the runners up. Koutsakis plunked the next batter Tim Burns to load the bases. Paul Post followed with a single to LF scoring Griffin. Dave Smitherman followed with a ground ball to 3B for a 5U out, however the throw home was off the mark with Marshall scoring the tying run. With runners at 2B and 3B, an intentional pass was given to Chad Bowman to load the bases. The next batter grounded into 5U to end the inning and leave the score tied at 5 after 7 innings of play.

In the top of 8th, the Twins did not score, despite a one out walk. In the bottom of the inning, Bob Altobelli led off with an end of the bat soft liner into LF, then a stolen base. The next batter, Janetsky was intentionally walked. Eric Duemler then roped a hard single to LF to score Altobelli and give the Yankees a come-from-behind 6-5 victory in one of the best, well played, errorless games of the year.

Twins 5-11-0
Yankees 6-10-0

Multiple hit leaders: Craig Tynan 2-2 (2 doubles), Jeff Whitehead 2-3, Frank Owens 2-3 (Double), Jack Griffin 2-2, Doug Edick 2-3.


-- Edited by spakids03 on Friday 26th of June 2026 03:04:44 PM