The Indians beat the Twins 5-2 earlier Thursday afternoon, Cleveland winning their 100th game of the season. Their magic number to clinch home field in the AL playoffs is two, as they hold the tie-breaker against the Astros.
The Twins did not score until the ninth inning when Mitch Garver drove in two runs with a triple. I wondered if this was Garver’s first MLB triple, and I was surprised to see it was his third. Garver has nine hits in 44 at bats, and three of those hits are triples. He listed as a catcher, but started in leftfield. I wondered if he had some speed, but looking at his minor league numbers, he appears to run like a catcher. He gets caught too much when he tries to steal, and only knocked out four triples in his 1819 minor league at bats. The triple gods were blessing Garver in his first big league season.
Ned Garver, a pitcher from the 1950s and the only other Garver to play in the majors, also had three career triples.
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