1964 Minnesota Twins season

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The 1964 Minnesota Twins season was the 4th season for the Minnesota Twins franchise in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, their 4th season at Metropolitan Stadium and the 64th overall in the American League. They failed to improve on their 91 game wins from the previous two seasons, and fell to 79–83, a tie for sixth with the Cleveland Indians in the American League, 20 games behind the AL champion New York Yankees.

Offseason

Regular season

On May 2, in Kansas City, Missouri, Tony Oliva, Bob Allison, Jimmie Hall and Harmon Killebrew hit consecutive 11th-inning home runs, to tie a major league record first set by the Milwaukee Braves in 1961 and duplicated by the Cleveland Indians in 1963. The Twins finished the year with 221 homers, their second-best total ever.

On July 15, new Twin Mudcat Grant allowed thirteen singles and a walk in facing the Washington Senators. None would score, and Grant pitches a shutout, 6–0.

Five Twins made the All-Star Game: first baseman Bob Allison, outfielders Harmon Killebrew, Jimmie Hall and Tony Oliva and pitcher Camilo Pascual.

Tony Oliva became the first black player in the history of the American League to win the AL Rookie of the Year award.[2] He led the major leagues in hits (217), extra base hits and total bases. He led the American League in batting average (.323), runs scored (109) and doubles.

Six Twins hit 20 or more home runs: Harmon Killebrew (49 HR, 111 RBI), Tony Oliva (32 HR, 96 RBI, 109 runs), Bob Allison (32 HR, 86 RBI), Jimmie Hall (25 HR, 75 RBI), Don Mincher (23 HR, 56 RBI), and Zoilo Versalles (20 HR, 94 runs).

Jim Kaat led the Twins with 17 wins and won his third Gold Glove; Camilo Pascual again led the Twins in strikeouts with 213.[3]

1,207,514 fans attended Twins games, the third highest total in the American League.

Season standings

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Record vs. opponents

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Notable transactions

  • June 6, 1964: Andy Kosco was signed as a free agent by the Twins.[4]
  • June 24, 1964: Rod Carew was signed as an amateur free agent by the Twins.[5]

Roster

1964 Minnesota Twins
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

Manager

Coaches

Player stats

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Batting

Starters by position

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Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
C Script error: No such module "Sort". 131 405 110 .272 12 52
1B Script error: No such module "Sort". 149 492 141 .287 32 86
2B Script error: No such module "Sort". 74 243 52 .214 6 20
3B Script error: No such module "Sort". 148 596 161 .270 12 68
SS Script error: No such module "Sort". 160 659 171 .259 20 64
LF Script error: No such module "Sort". 158 577 156 .270 49 111
CF Script error: No such module "Sort". 149 510 144 .282 25 75
RF Script error: No such module "Sort". 161 672 217 .323 32 94

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
Script error: No such module "Sort". 120 287 68 .237 23 56
Jerry Kindall 62 128 19 .148 1 6
Jerry Zimmerman 63 120 24 .200 0 12
Johnny Goryl 58 114 16 .140 0 1
Frank Kostro 59 103 28 .272 3 12
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Script error: No such module "Sort". 19 45 10 .222 0 1
Ron Henry 22 41 5 .122 2 5
Jay Ward 12 31 7 .226 0 2
Bill Bethea 10 30 5 .167 0 2
Joe McCabe 14 19 3 .158 0 2
Lenny Green 26 15 0 .000 0 0
Bud Bloomfield 7 7 1 .143 0 0
Rich Reese 10 7 0 .000 0 0
Joe Nossek 7 1 0 .000 0 0
George Banks 1 1 0 .000 0 0

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
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Script error: No such module "Sort". 26 166.0 11 9 2.82 75
Lee Stange 14 79.2 3 6 4.74 54
Script error: No such module "Sort". 4 23.1 2 0 4.24 25

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
Script error: No such module "Sort". 41 105.2 7 4 3.84 96
Jim Roland 30 94.1 2 6 4.10 63

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
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Script error: No such module "Sort". 47 4 1 4 3.91 42
Jim Perry 42 6 3 2 3.44 55
Script error: No such module "Sort". 33 0 4 2 1.97 39
Script error: No such module "Sort". 14 1 2 0 8.22 6
Garland Shifflett 10 0 2 1 4.58 8
Script error: No such module "Sort". 9 0 0 0 4.91 10
Script error: No such module "Sort". 9 0 1 0 7.36 2
Script error: No such module "Sort". 7 0 1 0 10.97 9
Bill Whitby 4 0 0 0 8.53 2
Script error: No such module "Sort". 3 0 0 0 2.08 6
Chuck Nieson 2 0 0 0 4.50 5

Farm system

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References

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External Links

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