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Glen Perkins had a rare multiple-inning save for the Twins last night
Posted by: Michael Rand under Target Field, Twins fans Updated: August 3, 2012 - 2:33 PM
Still, it was a rather unusual sight for the Twins to have a pitcher work at least two innings for a save. How unusual? Well, we asked Twitter and Twitter -- namely, 10-year internet/blogging veteran Aaron Gleeman (does he now have 10/5 rights?) -- delivered.
Perkins was 11th to go 2+ innings in save under Gardenhire. First since 2008.
So the 11th pitcher in what is now Ron Gardenhire's 11th season as Twins manager. One per year. And if you look at the list he joins, six of the 11 instances were three-plus inning saves in blowouts. (In case you forgot how a pitcher qualifies for a save, read this). Only one of the games looks like an actual case of the closer (Joe Nathan in 2006) coming in with no outs in the 8th inning because Gardy couldn't figure out any other way to stop the bleeding and leaving him in for a two-inning save (with 42 pitches, no less).
In any event, that's possibly more than you wanted to know about two-inning saves during the Ron Gardenhire era, but we were interested by it.
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