Crazy Games

I seem to have a penchant for going to crazy Twins games at the Metrodome. I don't go to very many games, maybe a couple each year, but I was at the infamous Chuck Knoblauch game with the Yankees a few years ago when the fans in left field kept throwing things (lots of hotdogs and bottles and a few balls) onto the field at Knoblauch until Joe Torre pulled his team off of the field in the middle of the inning for their safety. Tom Kelly eventually walked all the way out to left field to get people to stop so the Twins wouldn't have to forfeit. If you go to the Chuck Knoblauch wiki page, you'll even see a short reference to this game.

I was also at the Twins game where Santana struck out 17 batters. That broke a club record, and Joe Nathan added two more strikeouts in the 9th inning. That game was a lot of fun.

Last night's game, however, was much more like the Knoblauch game than the Santana game. It started when Denard Span was hit by a pitch. Instead of getting to go to first base, the third base umpire called it a strike since he was trying to bunt. Gardenhire fumed and came out onto the field to scream at the umpire for quite awhile. He was ejected, and as he was finally leaving he drop-kicked his hat about 15 feet into the air and left it on the field. That was all the crowd needed to go crazy and start throwing their own hats onto the field. After a few minutes of that, with some baseballs being thrown onto the field, Ozzie Guillen pulled the White Sox off the field in the middle of the inning. We got the same repeated warnings saying that if people didn't stop, the Twins would have to forfeit the game. Things finally calmed down and the Twins went on to win the game.

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