I cant say much about the team because due to working long hours and falling asleep at 8:30 most nights I have missed a lot of Twins baseball.
All I know is that the Twins are good, Milwaukee is bad and on their second manager this year. Ron Roenicke wen 7-18 and Craig Counsell hasnt done much better at 11-18.
The Twins have already won the season series, but hey, let's take one more from this supreme disappointment of a team (and division).
Tommy Milone vs. Steven Wright. Milone returned to the Twins today, as we suspected he might, and apparently the Sawks don't do well against lefties. Wright didn't make the majors until two years ago at age 29, so he has limited long-term potential, but is serviceable. His K rate has been pretty good at every stop, he makes a lot of deadpan jokes under his frizzy baldish afro, and he walks a few as well. He's thoroughly average in every other way I can see.
Alright, let's keep this unlikely season going.
Game 51: 12:35pm
Pitchers: Phil Hughs v Eduardo Rodriguez
Lineups:
Twins:
1. Dozier, 2B
2. Robinson, LF
3. Plouffe!, 1B
4. Hunter, RF
5. Suzuki, C
6. Escobar, 3B
7. Nunez, DH
8. Hicks, CF
9. Santana, SS
BoSox
1. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
2. Mookie Betts, CF
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Hanley Ramirez, LF
5. Mike Napoli, 1B
6. Brock Holt, 3B
7. Xander Bogaerts, SS
8. Sandy Leon (Who?), C
9. Rusney Castillo
Game 52: 6:10pm
Pitchers: Trevor May v. Rick Porcello
Lineups:
Twins:
1. Dozier
2. Hunter
3. Mauer
4. Plouffe!
5. Rosario
6. Escobar
7. Herrmann
8. Hicks
9. Santana
BoSox
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Big Pelf (4-1, 2.77 ERA, 4.50 xFIP) vs. Bucholz (2-6, 4.33 ERA, 3.15 xFIP)
Well this all feels pretty familiar. I feel like I just previewed this pitching match up last Tuesday. That particular contest was shockingly both a pitcher's duel and won by the Pelfster. It'd be pretty great if they Twins could just score a bunch of runs on Bucholz this time and completely avoid having to rely on a 2-1 victory.
Of course, I do see some more rain in the forecast, so who knows if this game will happen or suffer the same fate as Monday's game, the poor bastard.
Tonight's game in Boston has been postponed due to weather. The game will be made up, as part of a day-night doubleheader, on Wed. June 3rd.
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) June 1, 2015
Ricky Nolasco (5-1, 5.12 ERA, 81 ERA+, 2.86 FIP, 1.61 WHIP): A win for Ricky today ties his win total for all of last year.
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Drew Hutchison (4-1, 5.12 ERA 77 ERA+, 3.73 FIP, 1.31 WHIP): Drew has received an average of 9 runs of support this year...wow.
Other than a hiccup in Detroit, Minnesota has won every series in the month of May thus far. A win today would get them to 8 series wins out of 9 and 20 wins for the month.
LINEUPS
Twins
Blue Jays
Today, we've got a sub 4 (Aaron Sanchez, 4-4 3.98 ERA) and a sub 3 (Kyle Gibson, 4-3, 2.72 ERA) going at it. Pitcher's duel, right?
...eh
This game will start with a rain delay. Yippeeeee.
Emergency Log. Hughes vs. Someone or Other.
Bucholz (2-5, 4.58 ERA, 3.12 xFIP) vs. Big Pelf (3-1, 3.00 ERA, 4.74 xFIP)
The Twins take on the Red Sox tonight holding second place in the AL Central all by themselves. Many articles have been written about how crazy it is, and in the spirit of that craziness, the Twins turn to the Big Pelf himself to keep up his recent resurgence to help once again vanquish the Red Sox, who play in the crappy AL East.
It'd be nice if the Twins can get some early offense AND some late offense. Its nice their getting runs in bunches, but games that start out with six or seven runs just don't feel all that comfortable when they aren't adding any insurance.
