Zimmerman vs. Gibson. Both have mostly been gascans this season, so I'm expecting a scoreless tie that gets broken by Zach Granite's first major league home run in the bottom of 12th inning.
For real, though, while I don't want the front office to sell the future to beef up the rotation, it's getting a little irritating to see Gibson's name penciled in every five games.
It still sort of blows my mind that a team that had Les Straker as its number three starter won the world series.
He had +2.2 rWAR that year... despite a FIP of 5.09.
Six shutout innings in his Game 3 start (Twins lost) and a turrible 3-inning start (4 runs on 5 hits) in Game 6. And we know how that one turned out.
They should just go set Gibson's uniform on fire on the mound right now just to make sure he never wears it again.
So, who figured that inning was going to end scoreless?
I've never figured out anything with Gibson. I'm so done with him. He doesn't have very good stuff and he doesn't even use the stuff he has to the best of his ability. He's a guy that the phrase "pitch to contact" was invented for because it seems like he's trying to pitch around every batter he faces.
I think that last part is what drives me the most nuts about him. He takes nibbling to an absurd level. It's like every hitter is Barry Bonds, and he has no idea how he going to get any of them out unless they bite at something that they shouldn't.
I wonder how much of that is influenced by the Nolasco signing. He was worse to watch pitch than even Gibson has been and he was supposed to be the "veteran" that Gibson was supposed to look to as an example.
I don't follow nearly as closely as I once did, but what did Polanco do so as to have to earn his way back onto the starting roster?
Adrianza ate his peas with knife?
Bat .168/.221/.241 over his last 150 PAs while taking truly horrible at-bats flailing at everything in sight. Meanwhile, Adrianza has been hitting well and is known as a great defender and has been hitting even better than Escobar.
I'm beginning to think that Minnesota Twins shortstop is akin to defense against the dark arts.
So in this analogy, Tom Kelly is Dumbledore and Greg Gagne is...?
Salazar Slytherin, apparently.
questionable ball four but we'll take it
Blue really, really wanted to ring up Escobar.
Perkins got an inning in today!
t-30 days, hopefully.
Also,Buxton probably coming off the DL on Tuesday.
When does Joe come back?
You mean Mauer? The one playing first base today?
No, the one that could hit like the dickens
He drops by from time to time.
Usually when RISP (.311/.440/.446)
YES, THAT ONE!! HE'S BACK!!
Kind of like that?
Last year, Dozier never missed mistake pitches like that, at least not the last 4 months of the season.
*shouts down from the crow's nest*
Rally! We have rally!
Whole lotta get off my lawn in the booth tonight.
Wow, that play was spectacular . . . until the play at first.
This may be Gibby's game score high-water mark for the season
He's had a few games before where he looked to be cruising and then he kind of falls apart and can't get deep in the game. He's never finished 7 innings this season and only once gotten an out in the 7th. There's no excuse for him not finishing 7 innings today, especially after Santana's short start yesterday.
Wasn't Warwick Saupold a teacher at Hogwarts?
I thought he was one of Willow's friends.
7th inning, and still getting strikeouts?? His trade value will never be higher!
Flip him for García.
Don't tell me, tell the FO!
(Garcia hit a GS yesterday)
True true. I'll post it to Facebook and everyone like it.
Social media saves the Twins!
Gibson doing everything he can to irritate the dread pirate.
Gibson at 86 pitches through seven. He has two complete games in his career but no shutouts.
Oh good, he can be pulled now
So much for the home run killing the rally.
Holy cr@p, now he's infected Rogers
I think he was safe.
Dick, Bert, and I do, as well.
He infected Sano, too
Win probability peaked at 99.5% when Romine flied out to start this inning. Not sure what it's dropped to yet, but it was 86% when Martinez walked.
76.6% at the error but back up to 86.6%. On to the results defying Kintzler.
Alright, we need some takeback runs now.
And we need a strong 9th from Kintsler.
Iglesias had no chance.
He infected Kintzler too
oh mama. what a play.
Why the hell do people reach for balls batted into that part of the park? Haven't they heard of Steve Bartman?
Quality outing by Kintzler.
Okay, be sure to assign the AMR-code for creating a save situation for Kintzler to the appropriate pitcher.
hey, look, a soccer game.
oof, nifty move by dempsey followed by a nice pass to altidore for a goal late in the 2nd.
dempsey surgical with the free kick. goalie damn near slammed into the post. ties landon for the lead in US goals.
That was easy!