After last night's game, Chicago ace Chris has 2 losses on the year and both of 'em have come courtesy of the Twins. Game three will decide who takes the Memorial Day weekend series.
Today's matchup features Kyle Gibson (3-3, 2.98 ERA, 1.32 WHIP) and Jose Quintana (2-4, 4.13 ERA, 1.35 WHIP).
Gibson's coming off consecutive losses for the first time this season, though the 2-1 loss against Detroit on May 12 wasn't his doing (5 hits, 1 earned run, 0 BB and 6 K's in 7 innings). He wasn't nearly that good on the 17th against Tampa (8 hits, 3 earned runs, 2 BB and 2 K's in 5 innings). Hopefully, we get a bounce-back game from Kyle.
He'll be opposed by Quintana who's coming off a string of five games where he's allowed 2 earned runs or less while averaging 6.2 innings pitched, 6.1 K's and 2 BB per game. During that stretch, he's 2-3 due to a notable lack of offense (a total of 10 runs scored in those five games). His last start against Cleveland on the 19th wasn't great, allowing 8 hits and 4 BB while only striking out 4. Hopefully, we get another game like that and the Twins can put up some runs.
Mmhm. I'll take that opening.
Aye.
Leadoff HR looking like a rally killer.
there goes the No Hitter.
They gave Mauer a hit on that? LOL
Ruled an error now.
As it should be.
all the runs!
Missed all four during my shower, BAH
They stopped scoring. Go take another.
We're going full-prune today, gang.
We are getting "good" Kyle Gibson today.
BULL DOZED
Dozier hit a home run with two men on! Is that allowed?
Streaming the game on the way home from Chicago; Mrs Runner has taken the wheel.
My White Sox fan friend has suggested I go to more ballgames. Smart ass.
Eight innings, no walks, eight strikeouts. A good game for Gibson.
Im surprised Tim Stuaffer is not pitching.
Im surprised Tim Stuaffer is
notstill pitching.ftfy
well played sir.
We're still on track for 144-18! And, we're in second place in the A. L. Central!
Gibson's day: 28 batters faced, 24 outs.
nice
8 k, 0 bb, 12 GB/1FB
very very nice
Is that your count on the FBs? The first two outs of the game were to Robinson in LF. Yahoo has the first batter as hitting a line drive, but I thought line drives were usually counted as fly balls as well.
I was just going off of mlb.com's box score.
Also, Cabrera flied out in the sixth. Looks like 1 lineout and 2 FB outs then 1 line drive single to right and the home run. Everything else was hit on the ground when they did hit it. Gibson did allow five base runners when you include the hbp.