Day: May 17, 2013

Kernels Video: Harrison Walkoff Single Beats Cougars

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For the second consecutive night, the Cedar Rapids Kernels won a game in dramatic fashion when third baseman Travis Harrison hit a walkoff single down the left field line in the bottom of the 12th inning to beat the Cubs affiliate in the Midwest League, the Kane County Cougars.

The video below captures Harrison’s apparent attempt to hit manager Jake Mauer with a foul ball just before driving in the winning run. Failing to do so, he settled for a single down the left field line to score Jorge Polanco with the game winning run. Polanco had walked to start the inning and advanced to second base via a sacrifice bunt by cleanup hitter Dalton Hicks.
 

GameChat – Red Sox @ Twins, 7:10pm

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So the Red Sox are in town – and we greet them with soggy, grayness. Yay.

And we face Clay Buchholz with no Mauer (out tonight with a sore back) and with Parmelee in the 2-hole. THAT’s kind of interesting.. not sure what I think about that.

At any rate, let’s see what the boys can do since I’m pretty sure that they’ll get the game in..

Boston

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 Minnesota
Ellsbury, CF Dozier, 2B
Nava, RF Parmelee, RF
Pedroia, 2B Willingham, DH
Ortiz, D, DH Morneau, 1B
Middlebrooks, 3B Doumit, C
Drew, SS Arcia, LF
Gomes, J, LF Plouffe, 3B
Carp, 1B Hicks, CF
Saltalamacchia, C Florimon, SS
  Buchholz, P   Worley, P

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Boston 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 10 0
Minnesota 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 1

I was watching an extra-inning game tonight, but it didn’t involve the Twins (at least not the current Twins), so I couldn’t begin to comment on what happened. I did note from Twitter that Vance Worley seemed to have one of his better games on the mound since joining the Twins, but it wasn’t enough to get the win. For that, your bats typically need to accumulate more than four hits. – JC