{"id":160879,"date":"2025-07-08T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/160879\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:27:12","slug":"the-twins-almanac-for-july-8-2025-local-kids-made-good-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/160879\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twins Almanac for July 8, 2025: Local Kids Made Good &#8211; History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThielbar Gives Up First Run<br \/>In his 18th major league appearance, 26-year-old Randolph High School graduate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thielca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=twinsdaily.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-08_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Thielbar<\/a> finally gave up his first run on this date in 2013\u2014a home run to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/z\/zobribe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=twinsdaily.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-08_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Zobrist<\/a> in a 7-4 Twins loss at Tampa Bay.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe finished his rookie season 3-2 with a 1.76 ERA and 0.83 WHIP over 48 appearances (46 innings pitched). Thielbar makes his return to Target Field in a new uniform tonight, as the Cubs come to town.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWallner Hits Historically Hard Homer<br \/>Forest Lake native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wallnma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=twinsdaily.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-08_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Wallner<\/a> hit a two-run, game-tying home run measured off the bat at 116.7 MPH one year ago today. That&#8217;s the second-hardest-hit Twins homer of the Statcast era. (What do you think the exit velo was when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/killeha01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=twinsdaily.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-08_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harmon Killebrew<\/a> hit his 522-foot bomb in 1967?)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis was game 26 of a team-record 28-game home run streak, which blew out of the water the previous team record of 18 games set just one year earlier. In the year since, Wallner has still been solid, overall, batting .234\/.342\/.484 in 445 plate appearances. He was the stalwart for much of the team&#8217;s death spiral last summer and fall. Of late, though, he&#8217;s been mired in <a href=\"https:\/\/twinsdaily.com\/news-rumors\/minnesota-twins\/twins-slugger-matt-wallner-fighting-through-first-real-slump-r18676\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first real slump<\/a> of his career.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMiranda Named AL Player of the Week<br \/>After connecting for a hit in a ridiculous 12 straight at-bats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/miranjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=twinsdaily.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-08_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Miranda<\/a> was announced as American League Player of the Week on this date in 2024. What ever happened to that guy?\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JoseMirandaplayeroftheweek(1).jpeg.2e85d83e3f6cca42b04f7219d1d8ed80.jpeg\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" data-fileid=\"34139\" data-ratio=\"125.00\" width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JoseMirandaplayeroftheweek(1).jpeg.2e85d83e3f6cca42b04f7219d1d8ed80.jpeg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in Twins history? Then check out the Minnesota Twins Players Project, a community-driven project to discover and collect great information on every player to wear a Twins uniform!<\/p>\n<p>          <a class=\"ipsButton ipsButton_medium ipsButton_important\" style=\"color:white;\" href=\"https:\/\/twinsdaily.com\/minnesota-twins-players-project\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View The Players Project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thielbar Gives Up First RunIn his 18th major league appearance, 26-year-old Randolph High School graduate\u00a0Caleb Thielbar finally gave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,7581,1251,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-160879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-caleb-thielbar","10":"tag-matt-wallner","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-twins","13":"tag-minnesotatwins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114817849502310234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}