Twins players with just one hit on their Minnesota Twins resume

The players listed below had just one hit while wearing a Minnesota Twins uniform. Most had more than one big league hit in their big league careers but for our purposes we are just looking for those players that had just one hit while wearing Minnesota Twins colors. 

As you might suspect, since this list covers players that played for the Minnesota Twins from 1961 (when pitchers still batted) through 2019 the list has a lot of pitchers on it. The right-hand column on the list shows you the positions played by that player.

Ray Moore a relief pitcher leads the list appearing in 126 games for Minnesota but he stepped up to the plate with bat in hand just 16 times and his lone Twins hit came in Baltimore off a Milt Pappas pitch. It turned out to be his last major league hit.

Jim Strickland had just the one hit in the big leagues in 6 PA’s but it was with the bases loaded and scored two insurance runs in a 9-5 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. Strickland also got his first save of the season that day.

Jim Ollom‘s only big league safety was at Met Stadium against the Washington Senators in a game he started and left after allowing 3 runs in six innings in a game the Twins ended up losing.

Juan Rincon had only big league hit and it was in his first big league at bat, he had 21 more PA’s after that and came up empty. I guess he found out that pitchers weren’t supposed to be good hitters so he fell in line.

John Sevcik a catcher by trade spent the entire 1965 season and his only big league season with the Minnesota Twins and had a total of just 12 PA’s and one hit. Sevcik was signed to one of those “bonus baby” contracts back in the day and had to spend the entire season in the big leagues or be available to be drafted by another team. If you want to learn more about John Sevcik please check out my interview with him. 

Taylor Motter has the most (21) PA’s for a Twins position player with just one hit. Ironically, Motter, an in-season pick-up in 2018 finally got his lone Twins hit in his final game as a Minnesota Twins after going 0 for 16. 

Pitcher Bobby Korecky is the only Minnesota Twin in history to have a career batting average of 1.000 after getting a hit in his first and only big league plate appearance. Korecky was also credited with the win which was also a first for him in the Twins walk-off 7-6 victory in the 12th inning over the Texas Rangers at the Metrodome. Washington Senators players Ramon Garcia (1948) and  Allie Watt (1920) also had one hit in their lone career PA.