Diamond (9-4, 2.88 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 56 Ks) Versus Peavy (8-7, 3.15 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 126 Ks)
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Go Twins!
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Francisco Liriano was probably my favorite post-Santana pitcher, Kevin Slowey excepted. If Johan brought me back to baseball after taking a couple of years off Frankie made me pretty nuts about baseball again. 2006, I think we can all agree, was just about the most magical season for the Twins since 91. No Twins team grabbed the attention of Minnesota fans and made them care like that team.
Report from Baseball-Reference.com.
Look at those numbers. Dude was incredible.
And now he plays for the White Sox.
Tonight's game is going to be probably one of the stranger games I will have watched in the past few years. Seeing Frankie dressed in those awful grey and black colors, hearing Stribbie's boo him like he was Joe Mauer, knowing that he is going to make Morneau look like Adam Everett at the plate. It is going to be weird.
Frankie, it was good to know you. If it wasn't for you in 2006 I probably wouldn't have been so nuts about this team that I would have started google-ing Twins blogs, lurking around some of them (Will Young and this new wpa stat, Seth and his access to minor league players, Gleeman doing Gleeman stuff, and Batgirl being super fun) until I found one that had all of that in one place that I just couldn't resist from posting on any longer.
Thanks again Frankie, because of you I am here. Now leave some sliders hanging for your old pals, will ya?
First Pitch - 7:10 p.m. CDT
Television - FSN
Lineups
So the Pale Hosers are leading the AL Central and the Twins are, mercifully, out of the cellar at last (thank you very much Kansas City, Cleveland with the assist). We'd all like that situation to be reversed, of course. After all, the White Sox are to the Twins as Jesus Quintana is to The Dude -- a perverse, repugnant arch-nemesis with nary a redeeming quality who nevertheless demands a miniscule measure of grudging respect. I'd like nothing better than to have the kind of starting pitching that the Sox have enjoyed this year. But sometimes you just have to roll the balls that life gives you and hope it's enough to give the pins a good stir.
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Continue reading 2012 Game 102: Chicago Quintanas at Minnesota Dudes
I'll put a quickie here because I don't know how long I'll be at the hospital today with my daughter (scorpion sting...ugh).
Ubaldo vs. The Dunce.
First Pitch - 6:10 p.m. CDT
Television: FSN
Lineups
Gentlemen, tonight we hit the century mark for the 2012 season. If you adhere to the aged adage that every team wins 50 games and loses 50 games (a truism that is paradoxically a fallacy) and it's what you do with the other 62 games that matters, the Twins have 63 games left to start mattering and they're several games in the hole. I for one am not optimistic of much more than a fourth place finish, but teams as far back as the Twins at this point have gone on to contend in the closing days (this may or may not be a true statement, but it feels comforting to say it). Continue reading 2012 Game 100: Pre-Columbian Americans @ Twins
Josh Tomlin
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Scott Diamond
Blackburn versus Peavy
Lineups:
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Pale Hose
Go Twins!
Minnesota: De Vries (2-2, 3.95 ERA)
Chicago: Quintana (4-1, 2.30 ERA)
Be afraid Chicago, be very afraid.
Liriano
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Floyd
Guthrie vs. De-duderino. Span in the lineup.