Английская Википедия:1968 Minnesota Twins season

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox baseball team season The 1968 Minnesota Twins season was a season in American baseball. The team finished 79–83, seventh in the American League.

Offseason

• January 27, 1968: Eric Soderholm was drafted by the Twins in the 1st round (1st pick) of the secondary phase of the 1968 Major League Baseball draft.

Regular season

Leadoff batter César Tovar sparked the offense, finishing second in the AL with 167 hits and third with 89 runs. Tony Oliva was third in the AL with a .289 batting average. Harmon Killebrew had 17 HR and 40 RBI at the All-Star break, but was injured in the game and missed the second half of the season.

It took until their eighth season for the Twins to get no-hit and then it happened profoundly, as their first opposing no-hitter was the perfect game thrown by Oakland's Jim "Catfish" Hunter on May 8 in Oakland. Hunter struck out eleven, and drove in three of his team's four runs.

A first for the Twins: on July 11, Rick Renick played his first-ever major league game, at shortstop. In his first big-league at bat, he homered. The run came off Detroit Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich. Renick is the first Twins player to accomplish the feat, later to be joined in history by Dave McKay (1975), Gary Gaetti (1981) and Andre David (1984). They all were then joined in 2015 by Eddie Rosario, who hit a homer not only in his first at bat, but on the first major-league pitch thrown to him.

Three Twins made the All-Star Game: first baseman Harmon Killebrew, second baseman Rod Carew, and outfielder Tony Oliva.

On September 22, utility player César Tovar played all nine positions, an inning each, against the Oakland Athletics. Duplicating the feat that Bert Campaneris had performed three years prior, Tovar topped Campy by starting as pitcher and allowing no hits or runs, for a 0.00 earned run average. In the inning, the first man to face Tovar was Campaneris, who fouled out. Tovar then struck out slugger Reggie Jackson.

Four Twins won 10 or more games: Dean Chance (16–16), Jim Kaat (14–12) Jim Merritt (12–16), Dave Boswell (10–13). Pitcher Jim Kaat won his seventh Gold Glove. Al Worthington led the American League with 18 saves.

1,143,257 fans attended Twins games, the fourth highest total in the American League.

Player stats

= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Шаблон:Sortname	135	380	82	.216	8	39
1B	Шаблон:Sortname	100	295	62	.210	17	40
2B	Шаблон:Sortname	127	461	126	.273	1	42
SS	Шаблон:Sortname	83	199	35	.176	2	17
3B	Шаблон:Sortname	157	613	167	.272	6	47
LF	Шаблон:Sortname	145	469	116	.247	22	52
CF	Шаблон:Sortname	140	488	138	.283	7	52
RF	Шаблон:Sortname	128	470	136	.289	18	68

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Шаблон:Sortname	126	332	86	.259	4	28
Шаблон:Sortname	97	229	56	.245	1	22
Шаблон:Sortname	104	227	42	.185	1	13
Шаблон:Sortname	93	203	49	.241	6	30
Шаблон:Sortname	59	118	29	.246	0	9
Шаблон:Sortname	63	108	26	.241	0	9
Шаблон:Sortname	70	106	22	.208	0	8
Шаблон:Sortname	42	97	21	.216	3	13
Шаблон:Sortname	22	76	17	.224	5	8
Шаблон:Sortname	24	45	5	.111	0	2
Шаблон:Sortname	12	35	4	.114	1	2
Шаблон:Sortname	11	34	7	.206	0	1

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Шаблон:Sortname	43	292.0	16	16	2.53	234
Шаблон:Sortname	38	238.1	12	16	3.25	181
Шаблон:Sortname	30	208.0	14	12	2.94	130
Шаблон:Sortname	34	190.0	10	13	3.32	143
Шаблон:Sortname	2	11.1	1	1	4.76	4
Шаблон:Sortname	1	1.0	0	0	0.00	1

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Шаблон:Sortname	32	139.0	8	6	2.27	69
Шаблон:Sortname	28	61.2	4	1	3.50	36
Шаблон:Sortname	8	29.2	2	1	2.43	18
Шаблон:Sortname	7	16.0	0	1	1.69	11
Шаблон:Sortname	3	10.2	0	1	1.69	6

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Шаблон:Sortname	54	4	5	18	2.71	57
Шаблон:Sortname	66	8	7	6	3.10	65
Шаблон:Sortname	45	0	3	2	2.74	41

Farm system

Шаблон:MLB Farm System LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Orlando, St. Cloud

References

• Player stats from www.baseball-reference.com
• Team info from www.baseball-almanac.com
• Шаблон:Cite book