The Twins meet the Jays once more after a week or so of moving in opposite directions. Scott Diamond goes for the Twins, and I sure as heckfire do hope he's not ruined after his injury. The Jays start something called Todd Redmond, who has four appearances in his life, and just one start (not this year). He was mildly serviceable as a starter in AAA, having two meh years in 09-10, a nice year in 11 and an okay year in 12. I can't imagine he projects to be a long-term starter in the majors, but hey, I'll root for him starting after this game.
Go Twins! We're now double-digit games under .500. Let's fix that.
dozier on 3rd no outs, Twins go 0-3. bleck
Diamond pitching a lucky game so far. Lots of hard hit balls (all of them maybe?), no runs plated.
I didn't figure for this one to be scoreless after even just two and a half innings.
Todd 'not Mark' Redmond no hitter alert
Blue Jays have a guest in the booth who's extolling the virtues of old-school scouting and essentially saying that numbers can lie. This "debate" they're having is so low-level it's hilarious. "Well, I think you want your best player coming up with as many people on base as possible. In the end, what you really want is to score runs."
Not that it's Buck Martinez's fault for working where he can, but I really don't like the overlap between broadcasters and coaches, and how often one becomes the other.
I actually like it, for the insights they can provide on the game. Of course, they have to be decent announcers, too.
I suppose announcers aren't too bad (provided they are decent at it), it's more the studio analyst that bothers me. You can't necessarily provide analysis that may critique someone harshly if you're worried about interviewing for a mangerial/GM position later. I always wonder how much is being left unsaid in their self-interest. I'd prefer a more independent broadcasting system. ESPN is the worst for this, not so much the RSNs.
I have thought about that part of it, yes. It has to be a real tightrope walk, there.
it seems like this situation happens more in basketball than baseball. looks at Flip Saunders. Fired from Washington, hired by ESPN, then by the Wolves in the span of like 4 months.
meatball sandwich
Oh, for dumb. Rasmus, right there, was the first time I had the Spooky Feeling all season. Well...at least it still works.
Is the wall here already?
no hitter watch has been lifted
HICKSIE
Aaaaaand they score in the few minutes I'm out of the room. This is the running gag this season.
Of course, I was glued to the TV for the Reyes jack.
Jays show a graphic of Diamond's climbing ERA - first half of '12, second half of '12, and '13. "That's probably just hitters getting to know him a little better." Yep, gotta be that. Gooooooootta be that.
It certainly doesn't look good:
Third time through the order means bad things for Diamond:
And yet, every time Diamond is hit hard the third time through the order, Gardy seems to get caught by surprise.
I think Gardy needs to watch via the Twins broadcast.
yuck
the Twins could use a hit to the outfield
welp, an almostdoubleplay scores a run. weee
The Jays feed showed the slo-mo replay and they still tried to sell it as a possible blown call. They now keep showing the first base umpire to try to villainize him.
its was such a bangbang play, could have been called either way really.
It does not appear I missed too much whilst in the shower.
Twitter has informed me of a Fielder/Cabrera double steal on a Peralta K. I can only assume the ball got away from the catcher.
They were going on a 3-2 count and the catcher didn't come up clean with the ball.
The Twins pitched 16 consecutive scoreless innings against the Jays and still lost the series while allowing 15 runs in 25 innings.
I don't know what's been going on with the Twins the last week or so, but I know what's going to happen from here on in. We'll just have to settle for 114-48!