As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

September 20, 2016 – Tigers 8, Twins 1 – Target Field


 
Attendance: 23,395
Game Time: 2:46
Weather: 73 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 7 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Adrian Johnson, First Base - Gary Cederstrom, Second Base - Eric Cooper, Third Base - Ryan Blakney
Seventh-inning stretch song: Little Red Corvette – Prince
Kiss Cam song: Passionate Kisses – Mary Chapin Carpenter
 
Section 115, Row 17, Seat 1 – lower level behind home plate, with several rows of premium seats in front of the section
 
Highlights (Twins) – Brian Dozier singled to lead off the bottom of the first (extending his hitting streak to 23 games) and promptly stole second, but failed to advance any farther … Byron Buxton robbed Jose Iglesias with a highlight-reel catch in the top of the seventh … Robbie Grossman homered for the Twins’ only run in the bottom of the frame … starter Hector Santiago pitched effectively for the first two innings
 
Highlights (Tigers) – Matt Boyd efficiently shut down the home team on 99 pitches through 8 innings, allowing only 4 baserunners and retiring 14 straight Twins at one point … Detroit reached Santiago for single runs in the 3rd and 4th and put the game away with 4 in the 6th, punctuated by a 3-run James McCann HR … Miguel Cabrera added insult to injury with a 2-run shot the next inning off Michael Tonkin
 
Other – Twins manager Paul Molitor disappointed those of us who hung around waiting for one more Dozier at-bat, pinch-hitting for him in the bottom of the ninth … Tom Lehman threw out the first pitch on Ryder Cup night … had a chicken tikka bowl ($11.00), something that you can’t find at a ballpark every day … quite a bit of information available on the various electronic scoreboards, including pitches in the current at-bat, an in-game box score shown periodically, a baseball headline ticker, and the names of winning and losing pitchers for completed out-of-town games

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