Lucas Giolito
vs
Jake Odorizzi
The Twins now have four-way tie at 244 home runs. Giolito made his contribution in July by giving up four home runs, including three to Cruz. If the Twins get two more home runs, they enter into the top ten all time. It's time for Giolito to help the Twins move up the rankings again.
*prays to the wiggle gods*
so much happening with none or one out
...and so much doink doink doink. Time for the Twins lineup to show how it's really done.
Ha! White Sox hits' exit velocity 82.6 mph
My wife is at the game today. Hope they at least make it interesting ... make Giolito throw more than 7 pitches in an inning.
I was just musing that I felt sorry for anyone attending -- it has not been a pretty game.
It was at least a gorgeous day to be sitting outside and not working for 3 or so hours...
That's what the Twins thought, too
Nicely done
yeah, that's a buck.
Thirded.
Yo, jobu, could you make a buck with a squirrel on it?
Any sense of why Eddie is out?
Boredom?
Boredom caused the tightening in his hamstring
So I'm just got here and am checking Gameday to see how the White Sox scored their runs. An error and a wild pitch led to two runs in the first. They scored one in the third when "Jose Abreu singles on a popup to second baseman Jonathan Schoop". I don't understand that, but I assume it was a misplay of some sort. In the fifth a run scored on yet another pitch to the backstop. Again, I just got here, so I could be wrong, but it looks to me like this should be a 0-0 game.
Is stated above, maybe one of the Sox' first seven hits exceeded 90mph exit velocity. I think Abreu's just cleared Schoop's head.
The radio broadcast has indicated that, too. But if you don't give the other team extra outs and free bases, those weak hits don't hurt you as much. Sometimes you contribute to your own bad luck.
Oh, Odo is a major contributor
Okay, Twins, now that I'm here, how about scoring a few runs?
Cory: "The Twins have yet to homer today."
Yeah, I'd guessed that from the zero in the runs column.
Wait, let me check your math...
Yup, okay.
Well, at least we got a guy to second.
Has the squirrel shown up today? Maybe that's our problem.
Maybe the squirrel just can't handle a day game after a night game.
apparently Twins put all yesterday's ass bats into today's bat bag
derp
someone needs to clue in the Sox' mugshot photographer to use a little natural light -- Giolito's has the same ashen hue as Buehrle did years ago.
Let's Go Mets!
I feel pretty bad for 31,389 people. Actually, quite a few more than that
Good thing my wife only likes baseball when it gets her out of the office.
Second shutout by a White Sox starter, both by Giolito. That's their fifth complete game, tied with Cleveland for first. The Twins have zero of both.
Dazzle says the long innings in the field put the Twins offense to sleep. That has to be one of the lamest excuses I've ever heard.
Giolito was really good today. I actually feel worse about the 15-hit loss on Monday. They jumped on a guy for a couple of first inning runs, who’d come in having given up 2 earned runs in like 37 innings, but just couldn’t find a way to string enough offense together to be better than Gibson’s mediocrity.
Game score v2 of 100. That's pretty good.