28 thoughts on “Game 19 Recap: Twins 3, Orioles 1”

1. I don't see any WGOM-approved puppies or puppy-like entities in this post. That's how it would get better.

   Great win. I credit spooky's illness. We are 1-0 on thursdays when spooky is sick. You know what that means, right, spooky? Do it for the team!

   1. Depending on the means of getting sick, I'm in.

      1. i'm sure wicked hangovers would be acceptable. especially since there's lots of day games. we're going to need some surly serious benders for thursday night games though, i suppose.

         1. Coffee benders would help us all stay awake.

2. If I was Scott Baker, I would stop listening to advice from people and just pitch the way I pitch. He's a high-ball pitcher and when he's pitching well, as you saw last night, he gets a lot of outs on high pitches.

   No matter how many times people tell him to, he's never going to be a pitcher who's successful by "keeping the ball down," so he should stop trying and do it his own way. Either it'll work or it won't, but at least he'll have the satisfaction of knowing he did what he thought was right, not doing what everyone else told him to do.

   1. Like this?

   2. Well said.

   3. And Liriano should not be trying to pitch to contact, while you're at it.

      1. I'm not sure what they mean by "pitch to contact", and the Twins don't seem very consistent about it, either. Sometimes, they seem to mean he shouldn't strike so many people out, which I disagree with. Sometimes, though, they seem to just mean he needs to throw strikes. I do agree with that, although it could be said about pretty much every pitcher who ever lived.

   4. Padre, I agree with your statement, in the results it provides, wouldn't he end up being labeled like a Barlett or a Garza before him? By being willfully insubordinate he would be even further removed as from being on of "Gardy's Guys".

      Sub question, would you rather have Baker pitch well only to be traded or pitch to contact with the Twins?

      1. As long as he's not beating on Gardy's door with a baseball bat, as long as he's pitching well, I think he's in no fear of being traded.

         1. Or Gardy's daughter's door.

            In all seriousness, I agree. I just worry if being so flippant towards coaching could result in a lack of confidence from Gardy.

      2. While last night was a gem, I guess I'd choose "pitch well only to be traded." Except I don't want BS overseeing the trade.
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         hmmm. Actually (with that in mind) I take that back. I choose pitch to contact with the Twins.

      3. Look, if he doesn't succeed, he's not going to be pitching for anyone. I'd rather see him succeed as a Twin, but he's got to do what he does best if he's going to do that.

         I'm not saying that he'll be a star if he does it his own way; I have no idea if he'll succeed or not. But he is who he is, and I think he's got the best chance to succeed by being who he is, not by trying to fit a mold someone else is trying to push him into.

         1. I agree.

   5. I know announcers and other media call Baker out, but have there been reports of Gardy or Anderson trying to get Baker to change his approach?

      1. I've always assumed that Dick n' Bert were the mouthpieces for the organization.

      2. In the postgame press conference last night, Gardy said that Baker is good when he's up in the zone. It sounded like Baker had Gardy's blessing.

         1. So Bert is just being his own jerk this time, then?

            1. [picture of Bert doing something jerky]

               1. He loves to fart.

3. A pitch that tails back over the inside-middle part of the plate is what JI

   JIM THOME wakes up for in the morning.

4. Nice thread on Scotty B this morning guys. I went looking for the Pitch f/x graphing tool. Where is it again?? Was Baker in fact "keeping the ball down" last night, or pitching high in the zone, per our implications here?

   also, this may be of interest to a few, but there appears to still be a Gameday mini -- I found a link inside of the box score for last night's game (scroll all the way to the bottom).

   I don't know how to get to it during a game yet, but it seems to exist.

   1. Brooks Baseball.

      One way, I think, would be to edit the JavaScript to contain the right game ID and use that. I will experiment tonight.

   2. My eyes told me he was getting a lot of outs by pitching up. I have no data to back it up, though.

   3. more data than you can shake a stick at.

      1. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he was not spending much time low in the zone last night.

   4. Thanks for finding the mini. Once I'm back on my own PC, I'll see if I can figure out how to use that.

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