Pablo López
vs
Luis Ortiz
Tough loss last night but it was against someone (pre-2025) good. Tonight's matchup should be a bit easier. Ortiz was acquired from Pittsburgh in a three-team trade involving the Blue Jays. He has a career 4.66 FIP and 4.13 ERA. Cleveland seems to have gotten him to strike out way more batters but now he is walking nearly five per nine along with 1.4 HR/9. Expect strikeouts, walks, and fly balls. If the Twins can get them over the fence, this is a very winnable game.
A short version.
ST. PAUL SAINTS 4, COLUMBUS CLIPPERS 2 IN COLUMBUS (GAME 1)
Jonathan Rodriguez hit a two-run homer in the first, but St. Paul came back with one in the fourth and one in the fifth to tie it. Mike Ford then hit a two-run homer in the sixth for the deciding runs. Carson McCusker was 2-for-3 with a home run (his seventh) and two runs. Anthony Prato was 2-for-3 with a home run (his second). Mike Ford hit a home run, his fourth. David Festa struck out seven in six innings, giving up two runs on three hits and no walks. Richard Lovelady pitched a perfect inning, striking out one.
ST. PAUL SAINTS AT COLUMBUS CLIPPERS (GAME 2)
Rained out.
WICHITA WIND SURGE 5, FRISCO ROUGHRIDERS 4 IN FRISCO
Ricardo Olivar hit a two-run single in the seventh to break a 1-1 tie and added two more in the eighth. Frisco scored one in the eighth and two more in the ninth and had the tying run on base with two out in the ninth. Ricardo Olivar was 2-for-5 with a double, a run, and two RBIs. Christian MacLeod pitched three shutout innings, giving up no hits and two walks and striking out two. Jarret Whorff struck out three in three innings, giving up one run on one hit.
CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS 10, IOWA CUBS 4 IN CEDAR RAPIDS
Danny De Andrade hit a two-run homer in a four-run first. Iowa tied it with four in the fourth, but Khadim Diaw doubled home a run in the firth and Cedar Rapids scored five in the seventh. Gabriel Gonzalez hit a two-run homer in the inning. Gonzalez was 3-for-4 with a home run (his second), a double, a walk, two runs, and two RBIs. Danny De Andrade was 3-for-5 with a home run (his second), two runs, and two RBIs. Kyle DeBarge was 2-for-5 with a run and two RBIs. Gabriel Yanez pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, walking one and striking out one. Logan Whitaker struck out three in two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk. Paulshawn Pasqualotto pitched two shutout innings, giving up two hits and a walk.
JUPITER HAMMERHEADS 14, FORT MYERS MIGHTY MUSSELS 1 IN FORT MYERS
It was 1-1 after two, but Jupiter scored two in the third, one in the sixth, and eight in the eighth. Jay Thomason was 1-for-2 with a home run (his sixth) and two walks. Hunter Hoopes struck out two in 1.2 perfect innings.
TODAY'S TILTS
11:05 Jupiter at Fort Myers
5:35 St. Paul at Columbus
6:35 South Bend at Cedar Rapids
6:35 Wichita at Frisco
I like using bidness dinners as an excuse to try some weird drink I normally wouldn't. So, yeah, smoked Old Fashioned. Not bad.
Dave Eggler (1849)
Charley Jones (1850)
Jack Sheridan (1862)
Jumbo Brown (1907)
Chet Laabs (1912)
Ernie Tyler (1924)
Ken Retzer (1934)
Ray Miller (1945)
Phil Garner (1949)
Tracy Ringolsby (1951)
Jeff Reboulet (1964)
Ryan O'Rourke (1988)
Edouard Julien (1999)
Jack Sheridan was the first home plate umpire to crouch behind the catcher in the style that umpires do today.
Ernie Tyler was the umpires’ assistant for Baltimore Orioles home games from 1960 through 2010. He went from opening day of 1960 through July 27, 2007 without missing a game, a streak of 3,769 games. He missed two games that weekend to go to Cooperstown for the induction of Cal Ripken, Jr. into the Hall of Fame.
Ray Miller was the manager of the Twins in 1985 and 1986, replacing Billy Gardner and being replaced by Tom Kelly.
Tracy Ringolsby has been a baseball writer since 1976 and was given the Spink Award in 2005.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to Rhubarb_Runner's brother.
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Loading... Twins have a nice little four game win streak and at 13-16, have at least given some hope to the season as we exit April. Seventeen hits, 11 runs, and a nice Bailey Ober outing of 7.2 innings of one run pitching against the hated Clevelanders is also fun to see.
Chris Paddack on the mound for the Twins and one has to imagine, he's on a short lease at this point. The Twins have lost all five games he's pitched in this year with three recorded losses. There's enough ready arms in St. Paul so if we see another poor outing tonight I don't think there will be a lot of pushback if the Twins DFA his ass.
Game time 5:10 meaning you can watch before Andor or the Wild get going later in the evening.
We have three lights across the front of the house and I swapped them for color changing LEDs last holiday season. After Easter, I wasn't really sure what to change them to. Then I decided blue and white for the Timberwolves run would be appropriate. Man, what a game.
Frank Hankinson (1856)
Ernie Johnson (1888)
Mickey McDermott (1929)
Steve Ridzik (1929)
Ed Charles (1933)
Luis Aparicio (1934)
Akira Ohgi (1935)
Tom House (1947)
Rick Burleson (1951)
Bob McClure (1952)
Ron Washington (1952)
Steve Crawford (1958)
John Vander Wal (1966)
Sterling Hitchcock (1971)
Rafael Betancourt (1975)
Tony Armas (1978)
Akiri Ohgi was a long-time manager in Japan, winning nearly a thousand games.
Rick Burleson was drafted by Minnesota in the eighth round in 1969, but did not sign.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Papa MagUidhir.
(1 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading... As I used to smoke long ago, I notice these things, so I realized for the first time since I've started here (and almost surely back to the founding of the company), we weren't employing any smokers; the last one left last week. But, the tarred gods in the heavens wouldn't stand for that, so a new smoker just started today.
