Its been a few weeks since I remembered to put up a Tuesday game log, so here's to remembering!
Gibson (8-8, 4.19 ERA) vs. Shields (9-5, 3.58 ERA)
Will we get good Gibson or bad Gibson tonight? No idea, but I haven't really paid much attention lately with all the travel and such going on in my life. I'm going to guess it'll be bad Gibson so that this start will either meet my expectations or exceed. Gotta stay positive.
Let's start this game log off right:
THE MINNESOTA TWINS ARE GOING TO WIN THIS BASE BALL GAME!!!!!
Good call Padre!
Hey! We've played half an inning, and we're still tied!
Still tied after one!
We should get one-fourth of a run for each base we get. But hey, we're still tied after an inning and a half!
Runner on third, no outs. No runs scored. TWINS BASEBALL!!!
Awesome.
So we wait a couple months and then schedule the TJ surgery.
Seriously, this injury thing can stop anytime now.
PiPress' Berardino describes it as shoulder tightness. Sounds the same as Stewart. I'm thinking surgery is less likely but a shoulder injury can be worse than elbow.
Still tied after two!
And the tie is broken...
So Provus has gone from "the ball hit the ground" to "that's a catch" to "the ball hit the ground" in about forty-five seconds.
Anyone watching? What do you think? Catch or not?
I thought not.
The fact that Provus kept going back and forth leads me to believe that, at most, there was not convincing evidence that the call of out was wrong.
It was very close, but it looked like the ball hit the ground after hitting Gordon's glove.
Gardy was spot on right. When a manager loses a challenge, he can ask for an explanation. He can't argue. This was definitely a #GardyToss he can be proud of. I hope the umpire gets fined by MLB.
That'll teach you to get a hit off Kyle Gibson!
Time for this one to go home. Hold the lead, guys.
Just got home and pulled up MLB at bat and got a nice 5 minute discussion about interference and wth was happening. Interesting game so far. ..
I thought this was an Onion article, but its the the Associate Press!
'Out of nowhere': Twins add undrafted 24-year-old, 100 mph pitcher from the Prune Packers
Is that from today? Wow!
That's a cool article, but the part I found most interesting was:
Poulson turned up and insisted on sprinting. He hadn't warmed up and was wearing only socks.
"I had cold legs," he said. "Maybe I would have run it faster."
If he'd been around a few years ago, he could've thrown batting practice to Mike Redmond.
Here's a much better feature on they guy by Jeff Passan. The Twins now have three relievers in their minor leagues that throw 100+: Poulson, Nick Burdi and Michael Cederoth. Poulson and Cederoth will both be at Elizabethton.
Cool. So, so cool. I hope he figures it out.
I'm excited by the fact that he's a pitcher who hasn't thrown a bazillion innings in his life. New arm!
Gibbsies is pitching his tail off
K. Gibson tonight, not Kyle.
Is K a looker, or a swinger?
How much are the Royals paying to like what Ibanez does "inside the clubhouse," Dazz?
Royals are the anti-true outcomes offense. Last in HRs, last in BBs, 2nd to last in Ks (if I heard Dazz right).
Joe Pos posted on this just last week.
You could easily substitute "Twins" for "Royals" in so much of that piece, and so many of the comments.
So Royals offense == Twins pitching?
got that out of his system, I hope.
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