Sunday October 1, 1961
The 1961 season mercifully came to an end for the Twins with a loss to Detroit. While the eyes of the baseball world were on Roger Maris in New York, the Minnesota Twins dropped their 90th game in front of 15,723 fans who came for the final game of the season.
After dropping five runs in the top of the first inning, the game was somewhat anti-climactic. Starting pitcher Al Schroll did not last an inning, though he did see every batter in the Tiger order in that fraction of an inning. He was pulled after allowing five runs on four hits. Pedro Ramos was able to settle things down, but it was too late.
Bill Tuttle (5) and Ramos (3) both hit solo home runs in the losing effort.
Team Name G W L T PCT GB RS RA New York Yankees 163 109 53 1 .673 - 827 612 Detroit Tigers 163 101 61 1 .623 8.0 841 671 Baltimore Orioles 163 95 67 1 .586 14.0 691 588 Chicago White Sox 163 86 76 1 .531 23.0 765 726 Cleveland Indians 161 78 83 0 .484 30.5 737 752 Boston Red Sox 163 76 86 1 .469 33.0 729 792 Minnesota Twins 161 70 90 1 .438 38.0 707 778 Los Angeles Angels 162 70 91 1 .435 38.5 744 784 Kansas City Athletics 162 61 100 1 .379 47.5 683 863 Washington Senators 161 61 100 0 .379 47.5 618 776
Was there an uneven schedule? While all the teams with 163 games?
I don’t really have an answer. The only bizarre scheduling seemed to be the result of an inordinate number of games lost due to weather in the first few weeks of the season. One would think that would make a few teams finish with fewer than 162… not more.
I rarely leave a response, but i did some searching
and wound up here 1961 Game 161: Detroit Tigers (100-61) @ Minnesota Twins (70-89) « Coffeyville
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