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1964 Minnesota Twins season

Field	Value
name	Minnesota Twins
season	1964
league	American League
ballpark	Metropolitan Stadium
city	Bloomington, Minnesota
record
divisional_place	6th
owners	Calvin Griffith (majority owner, with Thelma Griffith Haynes)
general_managers	Calvin Griffith
managers	Sam Mele
television	WTCN-TV
radio	830 WCCO AM
(Ray Scott, Herb Carneal, Halsey Hall)

(Ray Scott, Herb Carneal, Halsey Hall) |}}

The **1964 Minnesota Twins season **was the 4th season for the Minnesota Twins franchise in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, their 4th season at Metropolitan Stadium and the 64th overall in the American League. They failed to improve from the previous two seasons both with 91 wins, and fell to 79–83, a tie for sixth with the Cleveland Indians in the American League, 20 games behind the AL champion New York Yankees.

Offseason

December 2, 1963: Rudy May was drafted from the Twins by the Chicago White Sox in the 1963 first-year draft.

Regular season

On May 2, in Kansas City, Missouri, Tony Oliva, Bob Allison, Jimmie Hall and Harmon Killebrew hit consecutive 11th-inning home runs, to tie a major league record first set by the Milwaukee Braves in 1961 and duplicated by the Cleveland Indians in 1963. The Twins finished the year with 221 homers, their second-best total ever.

On July 15, new Twin Mudcat Grant allowed thirteen singles and a walk in facing the Washington Senators. None would score, and Grant pitches a shutout, 6–0.

Five Twins made the All-Star Game: first baseman Bob Allison, outfielders Harmon Killebrew, Jimmie Hall and Tony Oliva and pitcher Camilo Pascual.

Tony Oliva became the first black player in the history of the American League to win the AL Rookie of the Year award. He led the major leagues in hits (217), extra base hits and total bases. He led the American League in batting average (.323), runs scored (109) and doubles.

Six Twins hit 20 or more home runs: Harmon Killebrew (49 HR, 111 RBI), Tony Oliva (32 HR, 96 RBI, 109 runs), Bob Allison (32 HR, 86 RBI), Jimmie Hall (25 HR, 75 RBI), Don Mincher (23 HR, 56 RBI), and Zoilo Versalles (20 HR, 94 runs).

Jim Kaat led the Twins with 17 wins and won his third Gold Glove; Camilo Pascual again led the Twins in strikeouts with 213.

1,207,514 fans attended Twins games, the third highest total in the American League.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

June 6, 1964: Andy Kosco was signed as a free agent by the Twins.
June 24, 1964: Rod Carew was signed as an amateur free agent by the Twins.

Roster

1964 Minnesota Twins
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	131	405	110	.272	12	52
1B	149	492	141	.287	32	86
2B	74	243	52	.214	6	20
3B	148	596	161	.270	12	68
SS	160	659	171	.259	20	64
LF	158	577	156	.270	49	111
CF	149	510	144	.282	25	75
RF	161	672	217	.323	32	94

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	120	287	68	.237	23	56
Jerry Kindall	62	128	19	.148	1	6
Jerry Zimmerman	63	120	24	.200	0	12
Johnny Goryl	58	114	16	.140	0	1
Frank Kostro	59	103	28	.272	3	12
	26	71	11	.155	1	9
	19	45	10	.222	0	1
Ron Henry	22	41	5	.122	2	5
Jay Ward	12	31	7	.226	0	2
Bill Bethea	10	30	5	.167	0	2
Joe McCabe	14	19	3	.158	0	2
Lenny Green	26	15	0	.000	0	0
Bud Bloomfield	7	7	1	.143	0	0
Rich Reese	10	7	0	.000	0	0
Joe Nossek	7	1	0	.000	0	0
George Banks	1	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	36	267.1	15	12	3.30	213
	36	243.0	17	11	3.22	171
	32	190.0	6	15	4.03	159
	26	166.0	11	9	2.82	75
Lee Stange	14	79.2	3	6	4.74	54
	4	23.1	2	0	4.24	25

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	41	105.2	7	4	3.84	96
Jim Roland	30	94.1	2	6	4.10	63

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	41	5	6	14	1.37	59
	47	4	1	4	3.91	42
Jim Perry	42	6	3	2	3.44	55
	33	0	4	2	1.97	39
	14	1	2	0	8.22	6
Garland Shifflett	10	0	2	1	4.58	8
	9	0	0	0	4.91	10
	9	0	1	0	7.36	2
	7	0	1	0	10.97	9
Bill Whitby	4	0	0	0	8.53	2
	3	0	0	0	2.08	6
Chuck Nieson	2	0	0	0	4.50	5

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Melbourne

References

"Rudy May".
Nemec, David. (2008). "Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Firsts". SIGNET.
"1964 Minnesota Twins Statistics".
"Andy Kosco".
"Rod Carew".

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