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This Date in Twins History: July 5

1965 Dave Boswell and Jim Perry are winning pitchers as the Twins sweep a doubleheader from Red Sox by scores of 6-2 and 2-0 to move into first place for good. Perry pitched a seven-hitter in the second game.
1969 Minnesota regained the American League West lead behind the pitching of Jim Perry in a 13-1 rout of Oakland at Metropolitan Stadium. Perry pitched a five-hitter. Harmon Killebrew had two home runs and six RBIs and Tony Oliva and Leo Cardenas each had four hits.
1987 Kent Hrbek hit a walkoff home run to lead off the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Twins and Bert Blyleven a 4-3 victory over the Orioles.
2002 The Twins scored eight runs in the seventh inning to down the Mariners 8-4. Torii Hunter capped off the big inning with a go-ahead grand slam off Jeff Nelson.
2004 As a gesture to honor local military personnel, the Twins gave away a G.I. Joe action figure to the first 5,000 children attending a game against the Royals. The team, in an effort to appease protesting peace groups, who see the promotion as glorifying war, asks Hasbro, the toy’s maker, to remove the customary gun from G.I. Joe’s side, but the hand grenades remained visible. Brad Radke then went out and pitched a four-hitter in a 9-0 victory over the Royals. Nick Punto added his first home run as a Twin and only the second of his career.
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3 LTEs in response to This Date in Twins History: July 5

  • Beau
    July 5, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    I vividly remember that grand slam by Torii. He hit it to right-center, and at that moment I knew we'd win the division.

    • spookymilk
      July 5, 2009 at 1:07 pm

      I remember it too...because I was at Safeco to see it. I think Milton gave up four runs in the first or first two innings, and then pitched eight scoreless innings to finish the game.

      • socaltwinsfan
        July 5, 2009 at 4:29 pm

        Click on the score for the link to the box score. Milton gave up a three-run homer to Mike Cameron in the third and a solo shot to John Olerud in the fourth.