Paul Molitor said Lance Lynn has been "inconsistent". If only. Inconsistent would be an improvement.
But it's a new game, the score starts 0-0, and maybe this is the day the Twins turn things around. It's possible, isn't it?
Estrada v. Gibson. Go Twins!
I'd really like to see Good Gibson 2 starts in a row. So far, so good, but I'm not holding my breath.
Well, we got through the top of the first inning, at least!
A good start, but Lynn got through the first on 8 pitches yesterday. I'd sure like to see a first inning run (or 8).
Well, there's one!
No infielders were on the left side at all for the Twins against Smoak (after strike one at least). One thing I haven't seen mentioned is what happens when the batter pops it up. Smoak popped one foul on the left side (in the seats), and as soon as it was up in the air, Gibson was sprinting over because he knew there were no infielders on that side.
MAUER POWER!!!!!!
WOOT! So far this May, he's matched his start to May of 2009, his MVP year.
Not that that's a small sample size or anything 🙂
Well, he's dropped off the pace now. He doubled in his second AB in '09. He was 3-for-4 with a HR and a double in that game, so Joe can still match it.
A ringing double by Rosario!
These long innings where the pitcher is struggling to throw strikes and has given up multiple runs are so much more fun to watch when your team is on offense.
In his 2018 AAA debut, Stephen Gonsalves pitched 7.2 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and one walk and striking out five. He threw ninety-two pitches.
Was he called up to replace Romero?
It looks that way, but he was doing very well in Chattanooga (he was my pitcher of the month for April) and deserved the call-up anyway.
Certainly. It just makes the decision to call up Romero even better since it allowed Gonsalves to move up to AAA at the same time.
Now for the all important shutdown inning (if you believe in momentum).
It took some wiggling, but we got through the top of the second!
Wasn't pretty, but I'll take it, especially since it looked like the ump missed a couple calls.
I guess Estrada knows how to wiggle, too.
Pitcher's best friend!
We got through the top of the third!
Before today, Twins are batting .185 with a .560 OPS with 2 outs & RISP. Opponents are batting .295 with a .941 OPS for the same split.
I have this odd feeling that two runs aren't going to be enough.
It rarely is.
I enjoy hearing old ballplayers tell their stories.
We got through the top of the fourth!
Solo home runs don't hurt you.
If I have this right, Kepler still hasn't swung and missed for 17 PAs.
And promptly misses on the first pitch of the next PA.
Berardino had it at 22 PAs.
No way Sano gets to that ball. Great play, Eddie!
Here's the game Dick mentioned. Ellis his the first three batters, walked the fourth, and according to him, pulled after two pitches to the fifth batter.
Kind of got through the top of the fifth. Still tied, anyway!
Grossman is 0-for-3 despite hitting 2 hard line drives, both while leading off an inning. The Twins have been bad in this stretch, but they've had very little luck as well.
Two hard line drives to open the inning third time through the order and yet 2 outs and nobody on base.
Followed by the first bad AB by Kepler in quite sometime. Swung at 2 pitches out of the zone and took a curve on the inside corner for strike 3.
Twins killer Morales. ugh
10 career HRs at Target Field . 0 as a Twins
ROSARIO!!
ROSARIO!!!!!
With our bullpen, a one-run lead should be plenty, right?
3 strikeouts and 6 walks. Crazy no-hitter.
Sounds like a typical 9th inning from the Fernando Rodney Project.
Fairly impressive how each player, no matter how well he has been playing, is managing to have a bad outing the one time everyone else is doing alright.
TWINS BASEBALL!!
jeepers
Yup. Time to watch something else.
mercy
clownshoes
Send in the clowns...
Okay, who gets called up when Curtiss gets sent down later tonight.
A tee.
Good joke. However, officially, it's Romero who replaces Curtiss with the tee moving to the bullpen.
there it is:
So who's the top prospect in the 2019 draft?
Does it matter? He won't get here till 2022.
It's unbelievable how much every pitcher on this staff has contributed to this streak. All starters have been bad at times and every reliever has taken losses or blown saves (or both) in this streak. Even Addison Reed, our supposed best reliever, took a walk-off loss in TB and blew the save tonight. As much as everyone wants to blame Curtiss and Garver and everything that went on in the 10th, it was Reed that blew it in the 8th and made it possible for the game to continue. Duke was terrible early in the year but has probably been the best reliever in this bad stretch and was great tonight. He did take a loss in TB on an unearned run.
I think the term for that is "total system failure".
and here I was going to say that we should have retired the blue screen of death banner at the end of last season. glad I didn't send jobu that email.