Michael Pineda v. Adrian Houser
It's been over 600 days since Michael Pineda took the loss in one of his starts (July 16, 2019 vs. the Mets). You can argue that number is inflated by the general lack of games over that time period, but that wouldn't be any fun.
But in a general sense, Pineda has been incredibly consistently good as a Twin. In his last 20 starts here's the distribution of runs allowed:
- 0 starts with 0 runs allowed
- 8 starts with 1 run allowed
- 5 starts with 2 runs allowed
- 5 starts with 3 runs allowed
- 1 start with 4 runs allowed
- 1 start with 5 runs allowed
His record is 9-2 in those 20 starts and he's got a 3.17 ERA. Perhaps more importantly the Twins record in those games is 16-4.
Adrian Houser had trouble missing bats last season, and all the projection systems at FanGraphs seem to anticipate that he will be almost perfectly average (4.30 ERA/FIP, 8.0 K/9, 3.0 BB/9).
It's almost like Luis was made for leading off
Bux managing the 3 hole nicely too.
Cave 0 for 7, 5 strikeouts.
Not super exciting numbers there.
Provus has Garver & Jeffers at 0-8, 6 SO.
If defense is supposed to be a strength of this team, it sure hasn’t been evident thus far.
There is some good defense!
Buxton out now?! Gahh
Any news on what happened to Buxton?
See below. "Non-covid illness".
Pinch hitting for Buxton. That's not good.
Oh man. Not Buck, not already.
Who is in charge of replay challenges? Just cost them a base runner.
Shelton was in 2019. I don’t know who has those duties now. Dammann?
So is the plan that someone gets hurt every other game, or is it two games out of three?
Are we counting Bucknor?
In that case, it's every game. And that doesn't even take the Brewers' trainer into consideration.
Oh dang, right. Any word what that was about?
TV guys said the trainer was severely dehydrated
In Milwaukee?? Unlikely
I felt pretty dehydrated the last time I woke up in Milwaukee.....
I vaguely remember something similar.
Last time I was in Milwaukee Glen Perkins ignored me, probably wisely.
I vaguely remember something similar.
One of the better blowout moments I've seen.
Actually, highly likely since alcohol is a diuretic. A lot of hangover symptoms come from dehydration.
ibid.
Thanks for explaining the joke away
Saucy!
Could I get a little Sauce with that, please?
wiggle wiggle
Having runners on 2nd and 3rd is a good way to defeat the shift
Who are these guys?!?
!?!
More of that from Sano, please.
Oppo field home runs are cool
"Non-covid illness" - the new "flu-like symptoms"
I'll happily take hangover over injury
Sounds like Buxton might have been scoring too many runs.
"Yeah, I heard CH say he had the runs."
yikes!
at least he didn't get the Morneau special....
The bats giveth and the pen taketh away.
Stashak looked pretty good after that at least.
5 innings, one run, leave with the Twins in position to win.
Pretty standard Pineda start here.
Welp. I'm off to tend to the gumbo on the stove top. Bring this one home, folks.
Wait, I walked away and cave gets on base?!?
That was a sweet slide
"Piling on, Ace - piling on."
Cruz hit that one hard — 109 mph. Too bad about the location.
I love Arraez.
It would appear he would prefer to not be the super utility guy.
This Alcala guy seems pretty cool
Real cool
Dazzle, Pineda's pitching performance wasn't "tonight" :/
In fairness to Dazzle, I hear a lot of announcers say "tonight" during day games. Since most of the games are at night, I guess it just becomes a habit.
Well, Atteberry did it as well.
It would have made more sense in the Metrodome.
Hammer ran the numbers and said Nellie's SF would have been out with last year's baseball
Twins win a series on the road and never had one at-bat when trailing. If Colome just threw to first base in the opener, the Twins would have a dominating three-game road sweep of an expected playoff team. That would have been extremely impressive with no DH and Donaldson getting only one at-bat. When Buxton is healthy, I'd really like to see him batting second with Donaldson out.