2014 Twins Game Logs

2014 Game 57: Brewers at Twins

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Marco Estrada vs. Ricky Nolasco.

The two teams venture just a bit west to continue the four-game set as the Twins continue their season-long attempt to reach .500. There's still a glut in the Central as the four non-Tiger teams sit a half-game from each other, all still reasonably close to first for their respective fans to stay engaged. Nolasco will keep trying to regress to the mean while facing Marco Estrada, who serves up a lot of homers but takes control by striking out nearly a dude an inning. I'll be at work, probably watching this as I wander aimlessly waiting for customers. Bring it home, dudes.

83 thoughts on “2014 Game 57: Brewers at Twins”

  6. Speaking of the Brewers, my AZ bro is a neighbor of Ben Oglivie and visits with him frequently. Also Greg Minton, although he apparently had knee surgery so he hasn't been out and about lately. Bro tells me Minton is the source of the "night before sprinkler rainout" that was copied in Bull Durham.

  19. Gardy doing a review (not a challenge). God I hope they add this excitement to the World Cup.

    BTW BRA vs. CRO on 6/12/14 at 5 bells. Hope we are doing Gamelogs on the Big Matches.

    1. My favorite memory of him will be Pedro wondering why an old guy was trying to fight him and the sympathy band aid Zimmer put on afterward.

    2. Jeremy Schaap ‏@JeremySchaap
      Zimmer played for Casey Stengel and managed Greg Maddux.

    3. His roommate during his time with the St. Paul Saints was a young lefty with poor control named Dick McCoy.

      When McCoy gave up baseball, he returned home to Omerha to join the fire department. He and my gramps became best friends and still get together frequently. Oh, and McCoy's mother is still alive!

  28. For those of you in Minnesota: Is the Twins/Brewers rivalry really that big of a deal? I don't remember it being that huge even when they played in the same league.

    1. Get ready on the Stillwater bridge for when we need to form squares and attack their Colby cheese factories.

      1. I've been hoping the riots give me a chance to raid one of their liquor stores.

        Actually, its more like, Oh, the big Packers/Badgers fans in the office also have a slight preference for the Brewers. We could make this a friendly rivalry if ever both teams were good at the same time.
        It really does seem to be a bleeding over of NFL/College rivalries.

    2. It seemed like the games had more crowd energy when they were played on the weekends.

      but since the Twins stink, I think there have zero rivals. Even the games with the White Sox seem blah.

    3. I don't ever recall there being a rivalry, but with the exception of 1994-1997, they were never even in the same division, and they both were terrible during that time.

    4. No, but their fans were really annoying the years that I went to the series at Miller Park. They get really drunk before/during/after the game. And regretfully so do many of the Twins fans visiting.

      1. A row of cheeseheads (yes, they were wearing them) sat behind me at an NLDS playoff game at Chase Field a couple of years ago, and this checks out. They were cartoonishly dickish.

  29. Dick, I'd be quite happy if the Twins stay in the glut of teams around the .500 mark.

  34. What was Black Jack saying? When he got to be a veteran, he didn't get beat late because he wouldn't tolerate it? What kind of nonsense is that?

      1. He usually doesn't use pinch runners until at least the 8th inning since the player usually won't get another at-bat (barring extras of course).

    1. I think he was sick of seeing men from second base scored and wanted to hold Plouffe to one base.

    1. that's one of the reasons I never got into fantasy baseball. I never wanted my team to get in the way of my rooting interests

        1. Mauer on the roster as well...lose/lose.
          I like to play because I don't have cable and it helps keep me at least marginally in tune with the rest of the league.

        2. Agree. Rooting interests always trump for me, but fantasy consolation is nice too.

  44. Seems like the whole "inherited runner" thing requires some context. There's a big difference allowing a man to score from third with none out and allowing a man to score from first with two out.

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