2018 Twins Game Logs

Game 41: brewers @ twins

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Is it happening?

Experts seem to think that the AL Central could be won by a sub-500 team. That...seems possible,but it seems just as possible that the Indians could win the division by twenty if the Twins can't get it going.

Fernando Romero might be the right guy to do it. He's given up one run in three starts ,after all. I expect that this is a sustainable pace. So, I'm running the Brewers are thing to score zero runs. So that's good.

Hope the bats can beat that.

(somehow, there was not a Fernando Romero tag. I have fixed that. The first of many, hopefully.)

76 thoughts on “Game 41: brewers @ twins”

  3. So Wilson has started three of the last four games. Is he the regular catcher now?

  4. Nice to see Dozier take a walk. His walk% last year was 11.1. His career percentage is 9.4. This year its 8.1.

  5. It would be helpful to take advantage of having base runners early and actually score them sometimes.

      1. Yep. His numbers will hopefully keep climbing with Mauer out but then the narrative will be that he's better when he's playing first base, which isn't necessarily the case since he was hitting better before Mauer got hurt.

  8. Let's see if we can bring in the baserunners this time. We don't exactly have speed out there, but it'd be a good time for Cave's first RBI as a Twin.

  10. So if you challenge two things on the same play and get one of them right and one of them wrong, do you lose the challenge or not?

  15. I sure hope Wilson keeps making me look stupid. I don't expect it, but it would be perfectly all right with me.

  17. Bobby Wilson > Jackie Wilson > Brain Wilson >>>>>>>Wilson from Castaway.

  31. I like double plays a lot better when it's the other team that hits into them.

  32. It's amazing how quickly an inning can turn. Of course, double plays can do that for you. Rogers gives up a hit to a lefty to lead off the inning then falls behind the righty and is looking like he can't locate. He gets to a full count and then the batter takes a fastball pretty much down the middle to strike out. Then the next batter hits into a double play. What looked like could balloon into a big inning for Milwaukee turns into an inning that Rogers faced just 3 batters.

      1. Junior's high school team lost a one-run game in which they had 4 runners picked off first. All 4 were against the same lefty pitcher. They had rarely seen lefties so weren't used to it, but the inability to adjust in the game was really frustrating. The final pickoff came with one out in the final inning with one of their faster runners representing the tying run.

    1. If my Twins history is right, this means he will hit a grand slam later this game

  36. Lots of close games in the minor league system tonight. Rochester leads Pawtucket 2-1 in the ninth. Chattanooga and Biloxi are tied 1-1 in the seventh. Cedar Rapids leads Clinton 3-2 in the seventh. St. Lucie at Fort Myers was suspended in the third inning with the Miracle leading 2-0.

      1. Yes. Myles Jaye: 7 innings, one run, one hit, one walk. Omar Bencomo: 7 innings, one run, five hits, no walks. Bryan Sammons was the "worst" starter, going 4.2 innings, two runs, four hits, two walks.

  37. Oh, good. Another mid-inning pitching change. I was just thinking that's what this game needs because the ton of walks and deep pitch counts wasn't slowing this game down enough.

  38. Dozier’s streakiness drives me bananas.
    I don’t know why, he is what he is, but my goodness is it frustrating to watch him go from all-offensive player of the century* to replacement-level ineffective in the span of a few weeks.

    *obvious hyperbole... but you know what I mean.

    1. He's had a very strange start to the year. He'll have 3 or 4 hits in a game and you think he's starting to heat up and then go a week without a hit.

  39. Wow. That's thinking outside the box. Bringing in the closer to face the middle of the lineup in the 7th inning of a tie game on the road. Of course, if the Brewers take the lead and someone else blows the save, there'll be a lot of second-guessing. I like it though. If you fall behind now, the Twins will have their best relievers pitch the 8th and 9th.

    1. Four of Hader's last five appearances have been for two innings or longer. The Brewers don't use him the way most teams use a closer.

      1. He has the plurality of saves, but not the majority. He got their most recent save, but Jeffress earned the save in a traditional ninth the day before.

  41. Our best hope is to have a couple of guys on base when the bottom of the order comes up.

  46. WTF is going on? His stuff is 93-94 and static... is his delivery so deceptive that high-and-outside balls seem worth swinging for the fences at .... did no one on the bench watch Grossman’s at-bat?

    1. I’m not the only one!!!

      I would love to read something on how Hader gets so many strikeouts (now 56 in 27.1 IP!). He's 93-95... doesn't look like a ton of movement... Does he have some crazy spin rate, or is there just enough movement? That's incredible!— Seth Stohs (@SethTweets) May 20, 2018

  47. The Twins have really been a frustrating team to watch this year. Sometimes it seems like they haven't had much luck, but other times it seems like they always make a mistake in an important part of the game and are their own worst enemy.

  48. The ball coming out of Hader's hand must get lost in his hair and the batter cant see it.

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