Its always nice to host the White Sox after a disastrous home series against a good team. Hopefully they can complete the sweep this afternoon because they head to Cleveland tomorrow with Boston right after that. It could get ugly, folks. The White Sox are pretty crappy, so they should have no problem today.
Jose Quintana (3-8, 5.07 ERA, 4.35 FIP) vs. Nik Turley (0-1, 12.46 ERA, 4.75 FIP).
Oh. Crap.
On the bright side, Turley's FIP is waaaaaaaay lower than his ERA, so maybe he's just been really unlucky in his first two starts? (also small sampe size). I'm not confident in that, so I'll go ahead and predict its going to require a good deal of runs today. Fortunately, Quintana hasn't been particularly good this year either. If you like good pitching, might want to cover your eyes for this one.
The Twins apparently really want to get this game in, having waited this long. I'd have thought this was a good chance to skip Nik Turley in the rotation, but the Twins obviously don't look at it that way.
Well, 2 outs is practically skipping his start. At least he should be able to pitch in long relief in a couple days if he's still on the roster.
The bullpen having to cover the other 25 outs wishes the game actually was skipped.
We were there and gave up. HPR has a game tonight and we felt if it would get nice enough for the Twins to play, then HPR's game would be on. So staying late enough to see the game start could make us late enough to miss HPR's game's start.
I am confident that you made a great decision.
Any word on when they might start this game?
I'm hoping they ultimately cancel it.
Both teams have off Mon 8/28 before the next Sox @Twins series. 8/29-31.
Twins are at Toronto Sunday 8/27, Sox are at home that day.
However, the teams have a 5-game series in 4 days the week before.
But putting the game on 28th means both teams will have a long string without break: 8/14 is open for both teams, 9/11 for the Twins and 9/18 for the Sox.
We just saw a glimpse of sun here in Brooklyn Park.
the twins have missed enough games that i'm guessing they're willing to wait this out a little bit.
website says they're starting to warm up.
Dick'n'bert just came on the air.
I heard that they're treating it like a rainout for ticket purposes:
I can get equal-or-lesser-value for any game starting with August 29.
Will this game even start before 7:10?
Turly is pitching BP, when does the game start.
Geez. Can you imagine waiting 5 hours at the ballpark for this?
PHIL HUGHES, WHERE ARE YOU?!
#FreeFernando
#GetGonsalves
The announcers keep saying "the Twins don't have a long reliever" as if that was just something that happened, somehow, rather than being the result of choices the Twins have made.
Oh. Crap.
That was some fine pregame analysis.
I sat in a hour meeting and flip the tv on to see its only in the 5th inning. yikes
Chris Gimenez is going to pitch this game.
Check!
Gimenez, in five innings has a better ERA than the following Twins pitchers: Randy Rosario, Nik Turley, Drew Rucinski, Jason Wheeler, Ryan Pressly, Adam Wilk.
He's within a run of the following Twins pitchers: Matt Belisle, Kyle Gibson, Michael Tonkin.
His FIP is better than Hector Santiago's. He has no strikeouts, but he hasn't walked anyone either, so he's the perfect mop-up man.
Well, it's officially a forfeit.
Also, Turley down (as opposed to shot into the sun) and Andrianza to the DL. Another pitcher will be coming up.
oh, gee...
I don't see Dillon Gee as an answer, but I do think there's a chance he can keep his ERA under sixteen.