Kevin Correia faces Jose Quintana, a reasonably talented 24-year-old, on the South Side.
Here's the prediction spreadsheet.
Four Citizens currently have seven of the playoff-bound teams correct: CarterHayes, DK, Philosofer and sean.
This was the first update since around game 54 of the season, and each league had but a single change: Tampa Bay subbed in for the Yankees, and the Dodgers subbed in for Arizona.
Washington and Toronto continue to be the most-picked non-playoff-bound teams.
Any other AMRs out there can break this down further, if they see the need. We never did settle on a points system for this, so maybe I should figure one out...
Dozier's K is the Twins' 37th of this series. Good Lord.
Funny how that corresponds with the bunch of home runs the Twins have hit this series, too.
Bremer can't make sense of a team winning two of three when so many of its runs are scored via the long ball.
Everyone knows that you need sac bunts to score runs.
I'll admit to still liking the unis the Hosers are wearing today.
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good golly
Didn't look like Morneau called it, or if he did Correia didn't listen. Definitely should have been Mornie's play, but Correia still should have caught it.
Corriea with 2 strikeouts in one inning. thats gotta be a record.
YDNROJMMauer having a tough time throwing to second
I thought Garcia was out at first, but Bert was talking about pinwheel fireworks from 30 years ago so we'll just say the ump must have gotten it right.
actually, it was from 40 years ago.
The important thing is: Bert admitted to being frightened of fireworks.
Yeesh, my math skills have deteroriated. Or I can blame it on getting dumber from listening to Dick'n'Bert.
this 4 man booth needs more Hawk Harrelson.
You know, I wouldn't mind a retired player coming in every now and then and causing the conversation to totally devolve into stories of the past if that wasn't 90% of what Dick and Bert focused on already.
I nominate Kent Hrbek
Yeah. There's a good chance he'll come in semi-loaded and just hurl playful insults around. Nothing wrong with that, occasionally.
nice baserunning.
Tom Paciorek, in the booth, asked how to pronounce Sano's last name. Bremer offered that it rhymes with "Cano." Is that right? No tilde over the N?
rhymes with Cano is correct.
Whoa. That's gonna take some getting used to. I remember assuming the pronunciation of "Cuddyer" incorrectly for years, too, until I was straightened out upon his promotion to the big leagues. IIRC, the radio guys mispronounced it, which is most of the reason why I did.
They're from the same hometown, so chances were it was the same even before their confirmation on that
They are. Huh.
Yep.
KKKKKorriea!
Yeah, what's gotten into Kevin? All these strikeouts are starting to worry me.
he's been watching our batters
not baseball related, but awesome
lightning strikes as Usain Bolt crosses the finish line
it was a walk, but having Colabello on the running end of a hitnrun seems silly
HOMERDOZIER
spookied that one.
not a homer
I spookied that, too. GUYS! IT'S BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
MAUER WITH POWER!
everyone is hitting homers today
Can of Corn has enough kids to form an entire team?!
what the heck? With that many K's, it's gotta mean that the Sox batters aren't even trying.
Are they intentionally losing? Get the band back together for Eight Men Out II: The Curse of Shoeless Joe!
Say it ain't so, Konerko!
F8-7-6-4 DP in the Yankees/Tigers game. I think Brett Gardner got a concussion on the play too, or at the very least got the wind knocked out of him. Wild stuff.
Apparently, Gardner is OK after hitting a walkoff.
Heh, i like how, after reading the game log so far, i was shocked to see it was 5-0 Twins.
Ha, yeah. "Wait, spoons has gone back to spookying Twins home runs?!"
It's great that you rediscovered your gift when they're only hitting home runs.
Yeah, that's probably the one and only reason the feeling came back. The Cell is good for somethin', it turns out.
Dick Bremer dropping BABIP knowledge. wow
Those outs were much closer to the fence than I like.
Reminds me of every single Rick Reed out.
probably a good time to get Corriea out of the game
Just noticed that I, too, have correctly picked seven playoff teams so far. Well, for fun!
aw, there goes the shutout
3 of 4 in ChiTown, a winning road trip
let the good times roll!
I fell asleep in the 3rd. It was nice to wake up in the 9th to a 5-0 lead.
EVERY run in the series by homer?
So, obviously, the question needs to be asked whether the twins have ever done that before.
FSN is the first time in MLB history a team have scored 19+ runs in a series, all by HR.
lost one of our best relief pitchers
Whoa! Inter-divisional trade immediately following a game? What is that?
Well, it should ratchet up their average age quite a bit.
Not if he's replacing Miguel Tejada in the lineup.
I like it when the Twins hit home runs. I like it when our starting pitcher pitches seven shutout innings, too. We're still on track for 99-63!