2012 Game 151: Minnesota Twins at Detroit Tigers

Deduno v Porcello

The Twins need one more win in the remaining twelve games in order to match last year’s win total. They could top 70 wins if they actually finish well, but that’s just not going to happen.

2012 Game 146: White Sox at Twins

Liriano v Deduno

Dick’n’Bert talked about how great it is that the Twins have their own park and not having to play early games on Saturday. So the Twins then play.. and early game on Saturday.

2012 Game 145: Chicago White Sox at Minnesota Twins

Chris Sale v Esmerling Vasquez

2012 Game 142: Royals at Twins

Will Smith v Scott Diamond

2012 Game 138: Cleveland Indians at Minnesota Twins

Jeanmar Gomez v Liam Hendriks

The Twins passed Colorado and are now ranked third in MLB. Cleveland, however, is right behind the Twins in the Race For #1. Personally, I like their chances better.

The Twins have a respectable 20-32 record in the second half, but aren’t getting it done in the division with a [...]

2012 Game 125: Minnesota Twins at Texas Rangers

Deduno v Harrison

2012 Game 118: Minnesota Twins vs Not Felix Hernandez

Nick Blackburn v Hisashi Iwakuma

2012 Game 116: Tigers at Twins

Doug Fister v Brian Duensing

FSN talking about the internal debate about whether Duensing should start or relieve. Bert then talks about how his last three starts are good evidence he should start. Yes, clearly just those three starts matter. I really need to avoid tuning in until the last possible minute.

2012 Game 114: Rays at Twins

Shields v Diamond

2012 Game 112: Tampa Bay Rays at Minnesota Twins

Hellickson v De Vries

Assorted notes:

The Twins are 0.01 runs/game above league average on offense. The Twins are 0.001 runs/game behind Cleveland for pitching. They have already given up five fewer runs than Cleveland, but played one less game. If they give up one less run than the Indians today, they will no longer [...]

2012 Game 106: Minnesota Twins at Boston Red Sox

Duensing v Doubront

From mlb.com:

Duensing had less than 24 hours notice of his last start vs. Cleveland on July 29 because of the Francisco Liriano trade a day earlier. But he responded with his best start of the year, holding the Indians to one run on five hits over a six innings.

Maybe he [...]

2012 Game 99: Cleveland Indians at Minnesota Twins

Josh Tomlin v Scott Diamond

2012 Game 96: Win One For Twayn

Liriano v Floyd

2012 Game 93: Minnesota Twins at Kansas City Royals

Bad news guys, (a) Jeremy is back. The good news is that he’s not scheduled to start against the Twins during this series. Unfortunately, Blackburn is also back and scheduled to start.

Nick Blackburn v Luke Hochever

Blackburn started for Rochester four times, pitched 21 innings, and have up eight runs (six earned). He also [...]

2012 Game 91: Baltimore Orioles at Minnesota Twins

Tommy Hunter v Francisco Liriano

Third (Almost) Monday Movie Day

I haven’t actually seen any movies recently, but I’m guessing others may have. I just wanted an excuse to laugh at translations of domestic movie titles.

Oh, I also heard Breaking Bad is back, so maybe some people want to discuss that. It certainly did well in ratings, breaking its previous high of something with [...]

2012 Game 86: Oakland Athletics at Minnesota Twins (Cities)

A.J. Griffen v Francisco Liriano

Griffen makes his fourth career start tonight. He’s pitched 18 innings and has a 2.00 ERA, but no win thanks to the A’s offense.

The Twins have company at the bottom of the AL: the Mariners. They’re tied at 36 wins but the Mariners are ahead in losses: 51-49. Along [...]

2012 Game 83: Minnesota Twins at Texas Rangers

Liriano v Perez

I was thinking about the general good vibes about this season’s team. In April they were awful, managing a meager six wins. May was a big improvement, with the Twins tripling their win total. June was helped by Interleague and the Twins finished 13-12 for the month. Comparing through 82 games last [...]

2012 Game 78: Royals at Twins

Chen v Liriano

Final home game before the All-Star break and the Twins have a good chance to win another series. Right now, they’re right behind Seattle for getting out of the AL basement.

2012 Game 76: Royals at Twins, Game 1

Sanchez v Diamond

Sanchez has been quite terrible this year. Diamond has been quite awesome this year. Piece of cake.