{"id":968,"date":"2017-08-29T19:38:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T03:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/?p=968"},"modified":"2017-08-29T19:38:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T03:38:17","slug":"1977-duane-kuipers-home-run-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/2017\/08\/1977-duane-kuipers-home-run-game\/","title":{"rendered":"1977: Duane Kuiper&#8217;s Home Run Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago, this happened:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z9eWcbCK7VQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I replayed this game tonight, using Payoff Pitch Baseball, the only system where I have the 1977 season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-972 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kuiper_indians.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kuiper_indians.jpg 248w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kuiper_indians-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kuiper_indians-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>August 29, 1977: White Sox @ Indians, Cleveland Stadium<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-976\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/whitesox1977.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-975\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/indians1977.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-970\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/stone_whitesox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/stone_whitesox.jpg 250w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/stone_whitesox-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/stone_whitesox-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-969\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/waits_indians.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/waits_indians.jpg 247w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/waits_indians-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/waits_indians-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Final from Cleveland Stadium:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-971\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082977_whitesoxindians.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082977_whitesoxindians.jpg 764w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082977_whitesoxindians-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/082977_whitesoxindians-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t quite turn out the same way, no home run by Duane Kuiper, but still a win for Rick Waits and the Indians.<\/p>\n<p>I rerolled Kuiper&#8217;s first at-bat about 50 times, just to see if I could get the right combo (4 on 2d6 from the pitcher&#8217;s card, followed by 1-3 on d100 from the batter&#8217;s card) but it never rolled that way.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on the 40th anniversary of the one career home run, Duane Kuiper. \u00a0That&#8217;s one more than I&#8217;ll ever hit in my lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago, this happened: I replayed this game tonight, using Payoff Pitch Baseball, the only system where I have the 1977 season. August 29, 1977: White Sox @ Indians, Cleveland Stadium Final from Cleveland Stadium: It didn&#8217;t quite turn out the same way, no home run by Duane Kuiper, but still a win for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29,14,91],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-payoff-pitch-baseball","tag-29","tag-baseball","tag-duane-kuiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}