Game 144: Padres at Twins

Nineteen games. Over 88 percent of the season is complete and the Twins still in the driver seat for a one game playoff against the Yankees. Since the Twins have hit this “easy” part of the schedule, they’ve kind of scuffled. Lose a couple here, win three in a row there. The other teams in wildcard contention are scuffling too and it seems that LAAAAAA is the only team really interested in playing the spoiler to what was considered unthinkable five months ago: The Twins could be a playoff team.

Two game series against the woeful San Diego Padres. Gibby on the mound and he’s been pretty decent of late, including a 3-0 record and a nice 1.69 ERA. Travis Wood on the mound for the Padres. He came over from the Royals so there is some familiarity there. Wood hasn’t had a lot of luck against the Twins so let’s hope this is the start of a nice winning streak. Game at 7:10p. Going to be gorgeous evening… just what you want in September: Meaningful baseball with fantastic weather in a beautiful ball park.

87 thoughts on “Game 144: Padres at Twins”

  1. I'm not saying it's a "must win" game, but San Diego is the sort of team the Twins need to beat consistently over the next three weeks if they're going to make the playoffs.

  2. I liked the Dozier who batted in the first inning better than the one who batted in the second inning.

  3. Seems to me it would've helped the Padres more had they sent their pitching coach out there before the score was 7-0.

  4. Jason Castro's last home run before tonight was on August 21. It went unremarked upon at the time, but with that home run, he set a Twins record for most home runs by a player named "Castro".

    1. Seven home runs in a game puts the Twins in a very long tie for 25th since 1913. The record is ten with one team having nine. 22 teams, including the Twins, have hit eight.

      Per Bremer relayed from their stats guy, no team has hit home runs in each of the first six innings.

      1. In the ten home run game, the Blue Jays hit home runs in six innings. They scored in seven of the eight innings (they were the home team).

  5. Angels lose 1-0. Get 1 hit in 8 innings vs. Verlander. Meanwhile, Indians get their 20th straight win in what would have been Verlander's start for Detroit. So Twins up 2 games. Thanks, Tigers.

  6. 'Twas a great game to attend. I'll never forget that one. Will also have to remember Goodrum's first hit. Don't believe I've seen one of those before (saw Prince Fielder's first HR, which was neat too).

    Also had the pleasure of running into Stick, and meeting him in person. He's taller than I realized.

    1. He's taller than I realized.

      You lobbed that one right over the plate, Michael. Home run. [Cue GOB pretending to throw a football]

    2. My recollection is that he seemed pretty ordinarily tall. Of course, my main sample there is him, me, and Bootsy.

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