It's mowing day!
There's nothing like having the game on while mowing for a few hours. The lady of the house is planting the new rose bush, and the kids are golfing around the yard (or, in the case of the one year old, poking the club at the ball and giggling if he happens to make contact). The only thing today needs is some baseball on the radio.....and a good result to that baseball.
Enter Pablo Lopez.
As good as the rotation has been through the first half (and they've arguably been the best in the game), I'd give Lopez the slight edge as the best of them all. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he pitches back to back shutouts. No one has done that since 1884, so that would be fun.
Either way, I'll be listening, first on the mower, then on the deck looking out over my yard, basking in a beautiful day and a Twins win.
I'd like to think 1st run innings are a new thing, but it is the A's...
and a scouting scale, Hogan Harris' mustache grades an 80
MAT with a fantastic bunt
And a fantastic non bunt!
MICHAEL AWESOME TAYLOR
All the triples live in Oakland
nib's dream is quashed for now
Well heck
6 runs might not be enough
oh my goodness, defensive brain fart by Oakland
NOT TWINS BASEBALL!!
Pablo left it all at the AS Game
Atteberry and Dazzle are trying to paint Correa leading the league in double plays as a good thing.
It's not a horrible thing, necessarily, if you're also doing everything else well. Which Carlos is not.
You can certainly be a great player despite hitting into double plays, but that doesn't make hitting into them a good thing. It's sort of like strikeouts. If you do enough other things well we can live with the strikeouts and accept them, but it doesn't make striking out a good thing.
I guess it's possible to drive in a run either way, technically
Okay our bullpen cannot be taxed
KYLE FARMER
*he is on a cycle watch
double
playThere's the TWINS BASEBALL!!
helluva at bat by Buxton
Willi Castro is the new Eduardo Nunez, cant keep his helmet on
Wish the Twins put up as much of a fight when they lose as the A's have been
Never in doubt.
Cleveland lost again too.