2001: Gold Glove First Baseman

Friday August 10, 2001 Straight from Charlton’s Baseball Chronology In the Twins 4-3 loss to Tampa Bay‚ Minnesota 1B Doug Mientkiewicz makes all 3 outs in the bottom of the 2nd without touching first base. The Devil Rays have Toby Hall on 3B and Randy Winn on 1B with no outs in the inning when Aubrey Huff hits a weak grounder to Mientkiewicz. The first sacker crosses the diamond to chase Hall back to third then tags out Winn who had run all the way around from first. Mientkiewicz then catches Hall wandering off the base to complete an unassisted double play. The next Rays’ batter‚ Jared Sandberg‚ hits a towering foul pop-up that Mientkiewicz caught for the third out. The chronology is a day off. According to baseball-reference.com, this actually happened in the Twins’ 4-2 loss on August 10, not the 4-3 loss on August 11. Of course, those of us who were paying attention in 2001, remember this as the period of time in which the Twins slumped their way out of fir...