J.A. Happ
vs
Jake Odorizzi
One more against the Yankees this year, at least until the postseason. Odorizzi won the only game in New York with six scoreless innings. The bullpen tried to blow it that time too but Parker and Rogers managed to hold on to win.
A good start. We need 15 more of them to be safe.
Very busy day at work - only just saw this - https://twitter.com/danhayesmlb/status/1154147611466711046?s=21
About
time!
Cleveland working on a no-hitter so Twins just have to win tonight.
These ESPN announcers are awful. They all think viewers like or care about them. Just terrible. All of Howard Cossell's worst fears have come true and are embodied by these 3 jack asses.
Which crew is it?
not sure and so far my google searches aren't helping.
Le sigh.......
I'm only following on GameDay and it appears Buxton is being missed
FFS, Cave. You ain’t no Aaron Hicks.
Redemption opportunity.
That’ll do for now.
Kinda hard to play catch up when it's a moving target
Im out. Ill check back in 3 hours to see if its a game in the 8th inning. Sure has the ear marks of not being competitive tonight. This is not an October ready team right now.
Not sure why they should be.
Neither are the Yankees, then. Their rotation looks wretched, and their super awesome bullpen (the type of guys you'd trade for) sure didn't look very solid last night.
Which is to say that the Astros have to be watching this series, thinking "yeah, that looks good"
There is a big difference between the NYY bullpen struggling vs one of the best offenses in the league and the Twins DFA'ing half of their bullpen and making AAA callups. This Twins team is going to be a retread of the early 2000 teams - AL Central winner - swept out of the playoffs by a superior team.
This game went south fast.
Provus is killing me with his lack of historical baseball knowledge.
He's never heard of Sal Bando?
I laughed, in a dead-inside kind of way.
Ha - nice
I thought we were cool
Why are we still pitching to Gregorius?
The Twins are going to win this game.
I agree
At least their pitcher is bad too. Nice of the Yankees to give the Twins some false hope.
Please don't add to the Yankee Inevitability Syndrome
I didn't mean to imply that, but it's hard to come back from 9-3 plus comebacks are less likely this year. I think the Syndrome would be about believing the Twins will lose even if they're winning 9-3.
That last part is certainly true
Gibson had the best start on either team all series.
And by best you mean least sucky
That is absolutely what I mean.
I'm going to say that Cruz knocks one out before this one is over.
Wheeeee!
Please say that Sano is, too
When I went to plug the players from last night into my games attended spreadsheet I learned that apparently David Hale was once a Twin and that I happened to see him pitch as a Twin. Has there ever been a less memorable Twin?
He was brought up yesterday with the radio guys
The roster churn of the final Gardy years has some "I don't remember that dude" dudes
Hale was Molitor-era
Just last year!
I’m sure there has been, but I’ve Battey’d whoever it is.
How about Vince Horsman?
Related to Bojack?
Cruz tied Jim Rice in HR. Future Hall of Famer Cruz, I've underestimated him.
You had to see Cruz to know how feared he was
Smeltzer.... is the FO just screwing with our swimsuit’n name joke?!?!
With Stashak and Smeltzer, I think they're hip to the joke.
Woo! I'm finally on the board
Effing savages.
Smeltzer and Thorpe with very positive impressions to start their careers.
Just like Andrew Albers!
He had a good 2017 with Seattle! He somehow figured out how to strike out guys.
Nice bender for the K.
Kahnle? Let's rip him for Latroy's sake.
Roy sounds like he’s out of gas.
Cave doing his best Kelly Leak impression
Okay fellas, don’t kill each other fielding the ball.
Smeltzer has impressed.
The seltzer water boy is killing it. Too bad he wasn’t with the big league club yesterday
Haven't been watching too closely, but this looks like the kind of "no quit" team I was hoping to see. I don't think the Yankees scare them.
And yet we’ll drop 2 of 3 to them anyway.
#geoff
It's baseball. It happens.
I’ve seen this movie before.
Michael Bay film with George Lucas dialog.
I’d rather watch that movie.
For fucks sake.
Dude has absolutely no legs and still punishes the twins. Why the sweet god do you throw him anything he can hit.
Padding didi’s numbers pisses me off more than anything. Between his face and Aaron Judge’s face I can’t pick which is more punchable.
I gotta go with the gap-toothed tight end.
The water boy closes out 5 innings. If only he was the starter.
No complaints at all about Smeltzer's innings.
He looked fantastic in a pressure cooker. Here’s to many more good innings for him.
Roy, it’ll take the bases loaded to have the tying run on base.
Chapman's pitches have quite a bit more zip tonight. He was topping out at 97 last night.
So new Twins pitcher Carlos Torres just followed me on Twitter.
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Joining 18 other wonderful people!