Twins play the White Sox at "The Rate" tonight as they head into the last 6 weeks of the season. Last month I was at Guaranteed Rate Ballpark to see a Sox-Royals game and was pleasantly surprised at the ballpark. It was intimate with many "modern" facilities, open concourses, etc. A much more blue collar crowd than what you would find at Target Field, plus a lot of young, rowdy people. It was a fun Saturday afternoon. Interesting in that it feels like a suburban location. Ample parking, virtually no restaurants or bars in the neighborhood, view of the Interstate.
Jose Berrios up against Michael Kopech tonight. This will be the Major League debut for Kopech and Sox fans are excited. He was the key piece in the Chris Sales trade a couple of years ago and he is a 23-year old flame thrower, touching 100 mph with his fast ball (duh) relatively consistently. Apparently there is video of him hitting 110 mph on a radar gun, but some stories are that was rigged. He walks a ton too, which must be terrifying for a batter. Should be interesting to watch, the White Sox sure hope his debut is better than Gonsalves was last night.
Game at 7:10p Look for HJ in the crowd.
There goes your no-hitter!
Well, that was a missed opportunity. Sometimes it seems like that should be the Twins' slogan this year.
YDNROMS!
Both teams missed opportunities in the first inning.
A big hit by Mauer would be nice here.
Well, it would've been. At least we're getting Kopech's pitch count up.
That red dot above the box shows that Mauer knows the strike zone better than CB Bucknor (not that there was much doubt)
I thought that might well be the case, but I'm on radio and Cory didn't say anything other than that Mauer disagreed with the call. Mauer seems to get an awful lot of bad called strikes against him. I don't know why--maybe it's because he takes more close pitches than most people.
I would say it shows it as borderline, not a clearly bad call. Gameday showed it at the top of the strike zone.
We really didn't need a rain dealy tonight.
I was going to say that the delay is favoring the Twins before Berrios gave up a home run to Nicky Delmonico.
The ballpark would be nicer if you saw a
littlelot less concrete facade. Was nice that it was right at an El station.Utter failure of a hit and run, but at least Cave scored.
We gotta get Joe two runs before the end of the season
great googily moogily
What.....is happening?? Bobby Wilson is apparently the only one who knows how to play a rundown?