David Festa
vs
Jordan Montgomery
Afternoon game alert! Top pitching prospect debut alert!
True first half of the season ends today and David Festa makes his long awaited debut. Festa should make two or three more starts until Paddack comes off the IL so I'm really curious how these few games will go.
Happy David Festa day.
TWINS BASEBALL!!!!
Thanks for covering, sean. I'm juggling two EOD deadlines and got pulled into an unscheduled fire drill meeting.
Well, that was quick.
Hopefully Festa can finish five innings today.
Twins need to score one more run to make this the worst start of the season for Montgomery. He gave up eight to end May against the Mets.
How did his pitch com fare that time?
4Bux
3Bux!
+1Bux
I was thinking in terms of runs rather than bases but yes.
A fair point.
I don't know all that much about David Festa, but I believe he can hold this lead.
Yeah, its not like he's on the White Sox, or something like that.
11 runs seems like a good way to take the pressure off a guy's first start.
Unless he gets cold from waiting so long, twice.
They're in Arizona, how cold could he get?
Let me check the current Phoenix temperature.. 106 °F. Gameday says 78 °F so the AC must be busy.
It's 106 degrees and sunny in Phoenix today.
I need to refresh more often.
Temperatures that ridiculous deserve repeating.
Our 103F Tuesday set a record :/
Forecast for here:
Sun: 99
Mon: 105
Tue: 110
Wed: 111
We leave for a week in Seattle on Saturday, conveniently.
Twins have 10 more hits that AZ (he says, obliquely)
Jinxed.
I'm good that way, it seems.
The ERA is ugly, but Festa's ducks are lined up for his first win.
Correa's ankle may be glass but his arm is like steel.
45-36 through 81 games would be a 90-win season. That's three more wins than last year even with the lackluster offseason.
There's a couple easy low-stress upgrades that could be made right now, too
But Cleveland is on a pace to win more than 100 games, so we're probably looking at a wild card berth if anything this year. I don't see them collapsing unless they get hit with some unfortunate injuries.