I'm surprised it's been five years since the last album.
2019
(2 votes, average: 6.50 out of 10)
Loading... Sorry, wanted to write an actual game log but events have conspired against me. Martín Pérez is on the mound tonight. Uhh... good luck!
Obviously many are waiting for that little comic book movie that's coming out soon. Any others you're looking forward to this summer?
And of course, what have you been watching?
Rained out.
Jimmy Kerrigan hit a two-run double in the sixth to put the Blue Wahoos up 4-3.
Batting stars: Brian Schales was 2-for-2 with a walk. Luis Arraez was 2-for-3 with a walk. Tanner English was 2-for-4 with a home run.
Pitching stars: Sean Poppen struck out four in two shutout innings, giving up one hit. Ryan Mason struck out three in two perfect innings.
Opposition star: Magneuris Sierra was 2-for-5 with two runs.
Stats: Arraez is batting .378. English is batting .300. Poppen and Mason each have ERAs of zero.
Starter Andro Cutura pitched five innings, giving up three runs on eight hits and no walks and striking out two.
Record: The Blue Wahoos are 7-3, in first place in the Southern League South, two games ahead of Biloxi.
The Miracle scored four in the third and led the rest of the way.
Batting stars: Everybody. the Miracle had twenty-one hits and each player in the lineup had at least two. Ben Rortvedt was 4-for-5 with a home run, two doubles, three runs, and three RBIs. Trevor Larnach was 3-for-5 with a walk and three RBIs. Michael Helman was 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs. Ryan Costello was 2-for-5 with a home run, scoring twice and driving in two. Travis Blankenhorn was 2-for-5 with a double. Akil Baddoo was 2-for-5 with two RBIs. Royce Lewis was 2-for-5 with two runs. Jose Miranda was 2-for-6. Lewin Diaz was 2-for-6.
Pitching stars: None.
Opposition star: Madison Stokes was 2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs.
Stats: Diaz is batting .452. Blankenhorn is batting .333. Rortvedt is batting .321.
Jacob Blank and Alex Phillips each have an ERA of zero.
Record: The Miracle is 7-4, tied for second in the Florida State League South, two games behind Palm Beach.
Alexis Olmeda hit a grand slam in the second for all the runs the Bees would need.
Batting star: Gabe Snyder was 2-for-4.
Pitching stars: Zach Neff struck out five in three shutout innings, giving up one hit and two walks. Jose Martinez pitched two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk and striking out one.
Opposition star: Olmeda was 2-for-3 with the afore-mentioned grand slam and a walk, scoring twice.
Stats: Synder is batting .400. Trey Cabbage is batting .324.
Record: The Kernels are 4-7, in eighth (last) place in the Midwest League Western, three games behind Burlington and Kane County.
5:05 Syracuse at Rochester (Justin Nicolino, 0-1, 9.00)
5:30 Fort Myers (Randy Dobnak, 0-0, 0.00) at St. Lucie (Kevin Smith, 0-1, 4.15)
6:35 Cedar Rapids (Luis Rijo, 0-1, 3.60) at Quad Cities (Shawn Dubin, 0-0, 1.50)
6:35 Pensacola (Jorge Alcala, 2-0, 1.80) at Biloxi
Date: Sunday, April 14.
Batting stars: Eddie Rosario was 3-for-4 with a home run (his third), two runs, and two RBIs. Mitch Garver was 2-for-3 with two doubles. Byron Buxton was 2-for-4 with a double. Nelson Cruz was 2-for-4. Jorge Polanco was 2-for-4. C. J. Cron was 1-for-3 with a home run.
Pitching stars: Jose Berrios struck out seven in 6.2 innings, giving up two runs on four hits and a walk. Taylor Rogers struck out two in a scoreless inning. Trevor Hildenberger struck out both batters he faced.
Opposition star: Daniel Norris pitched three innings, giving up one run on six hits and no walks and striking out two.
The game: The Tigers opened the game with back-to-back singles but did not score. The Twins got on the board in the bottom of the first. Max Kepler led off with a double and Cruz hit a one-out single, putting men on first and third. Rosario singled in a run and another scored on a ground out, giving the Twins a 2-0 lead.
It didn't last long. In the top of the second, Ronny Rodriguez doubled and Gordon Beckham hit a two-run homer, tying the score 2-2. The tie didn't last long either, though. In the bottom of the second, Garver and Buxton doubled to put the Twins up 3-2. In the third, Rosario doubled and Cron hit a two-run homer to make it 5-2 Twins.
It stayed there until the seventh. The Twins threatened in the fourth, but a double play prevented them from scoring despite getting three singles. Rosario led off the seventh with a home run, increasing the lead to 6-2.
The Tigers got back into it in the eighth. Jeimer Candelario singled, Miguel Cabrera walked, and Christin Stewart doubled, making the score 6-3 and bringing the tying run up to bat with none out. John Hicks struck out, but Grayson Greiner singled to make the score 6-4. A hit batsman loaded the bases, but a popup and a ground up kept the score at 6-4 Twins.
The Tigers threatened again in the ninth. JaCoby Jones led off with an infield single and Candelario walked. Miguel Cabrera struck out, but Stewart walked to load the bases. Hildenberger then came in to strike out Hicks and Greiner to preserve the victory for the Twins.
WP: Berrios (2-1). LP: Jordan Zimmerman (0-2). S: Hildenberger (1).
Notes: Garver is batting .500. Polanco is batting .383. Buxton is batting .324. Cruz is batting .320.
Berrios has an ERA of 2.30. Trevor May, despite allowing two runs in a third of an inning today, has an ERA of 2.84. Rogers has an ERA of 1.17. Blake Parker is at 1.69. Hildeberger has an ERA of zero.
Hicks struck out five times in today's game. Is that the Platinum Sombrero? It's not good, whatever it is. I understand that the only other player to strike out five times in a game against the Twins is Reggie Jackson. Normally being on a list with Reggie Jackson would be a good thing, but not this time.
Despite Rocco Baldelli's statement that there are not defined roles, it's clear that he's using Parker as the closer. I'm fine with him not making that announcement. If you never say he's The Closer, then you don't have to explain why he's not the closer if the need arises to take him out of that role, which it appears that it might. As to why Parker is the closer, I really don't have much of a clue, but for the most part the Twins have gotten away with it.
Hildenberger's role seems to be The Guy Who Comes In To Pitch With The Bases Loaded. That would seem to me to be a much more difficult role than The Closer. If I recall correctly, he's succeeded at it three out of four times, which strikes me as pretty darn good. He sure came through with a couple of clutch strikeouts in this game. I know Hicks and Greiner aren't exactly Ruth and Gehrig, but in a situation where just a bloop single ties the game, those are some big strikeouts to get.
The Twins made a number of excellent defensive plays in this game. There's not much more to say about that, other than that it sure is fun to be watching a good defensive team again. Berrios benefited from that excellent defense. He didn't appear to be sharp early, and was bailed out by his defense a couple of times, but of course still pitched a fine game.
Record: The Twins are 8-4, in first place in the American League Central, 1.5 games ahead of Cleveland and Detroit.
Projected Record: We're still on track for 158-4!
Get those taxes in, y'all*.
*This is more a reminder to myself
Can't find any good Way We Get By videos although that was the reason I thought of Spoon in the first place...
(3 votes, average: 7.67 out of 10)Loading... Jim Creighton (1841)
Ed Abbaticchio (1877)
Ed Bailey (1931)
Willie Davis (1940)
Ted Sizemore (1945)
Jeromy Burnitz (1969)
Milton Bradley (1978)
John Danks (1985)
Chris Tillman (1988)
Jim Creighton was a star pitcher from 1857-1862, before the National League was created. He passed away from a ruptured hernia in 1862 at the age of twenty-one.
Until Henry Aaron came along, Ed Abbaticchio held the “first in the alphabet” record. Now, of course, David Aardsma has them both beat.
There do not appear to be any major league players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
Due to the schedule irregularities this time of year, we have another Sunday game with Jose Berrios starting for the Twins. In three starts he's compiled a 1-1 record, a 2.18 ERA and 21 strikeouts. He has a 0.726 WHIP and 2.94 FIP. His ERA+ is 203, and he has a WAR of 0.8. He's pretty much everything we hoped he would become. It's nice to see a young man with great talent and skill in the early years of his career. But I have to admit that my attention today will be divided as I watch an older man try to reclaim some of the accolades from the glory days of his career by winning another major tournament and another green jacket. Play ball!
1972
(5 votes, average: 8.40 out of 10)Loading... 
