Twins have Correia.
Royals have Chen.
My father-in-law's computer has a virus.
Go Twins.
Archive for game logs from previous seasons.
Twins have Correia.
Royals have Chen.
My father-in-law's computer has a virus.
Go Twins.
What a great play by Brian Dozier!
Ricky Nolasco
v
Jason Vargas
Since Nolasco did so well last time against the Royals, the schedule makers kindly arranged for him to face the Royals again. The Royals are coming off a sweep of the Astros, but anyone could do that (except the Yankees).
BR's SRS score has the Twins tops in the division with a 0.6. I'm sure it will improve greatly after the 149-game win streak finishes.
If the Twins win tonight, it will be the first time they're over .500 since May 13 last year. Honestly, I would have expected it to have been longer.
Well, that was kind of fun.
Continue reading Game Recap #14: Big-Inning Boys 7, Hitless Wonders 0
The locals lucked out with their fantastic weather and gave us to a two-spot today. Our young gun squares off against their veteran Dickey.
Toronto Blue Jays vs. Minnesota Twins
(8-6) (6-7)
Target Field
1 Twins Way
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403
1:10 PM CT
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Probable Starting Pitchers
Robert Allen Dickey
1-2, 5.30
v.
Kyle Benjamin Gibson
2-0, 1.59
I didn't see a recap yet, so I thought I'd give it a go since pretty much what I said in the game log post came true. Hughes did well early, running into that cursed 6th inning and Morrow struggled early, getting chased in the 4th. The #6pen #6pen'd.
I couldn't watch, but by the sounds of it that was for the better. I think this sums things up:
Well, its time for the first Tuesday game of the season. This should be a good time with an expected game time temperature of 36º F. (goodness, could you imagine the Pelf pitching in this stuff? brrr) This seems like a good time for some birds to come into town (not that Toronto is any warmer), so the Twins will have that going for them.
Anyway, your starting pitchers for tonight:
Morrow (1-1, 5.73) vs. Hughes (0-0, 7.20)
I would expect a decent amount of strikeouts this game as both pitchers are striking out 1+/inning. Hughes has only gone five innings in each start, though against Oakland he had that bad first inning, then four good innings. Hopefully he keeps those good innings going and continues this trend of the starters eating some innings. It would warm my heart if, by the end of the year, Hughes showed that it was that awful place in NY that was the problem.
Taking a quick look at Morrow's game logs for his first two starts shows him pitching well at the beginning of games, but losing it a bit later on. It'd be great if Twins hitters could continue this trend of taking a lot of pitches. They lead the league in that stat, taking 4.14 PPA which has also put them atop the leaderboard in walks.
It's a strange game, this baseball.
Continue reading Game Recap #12: Twins Baseball 4, Royals Baseball 3
The report of
mytheir death was greatly exaggerated.
-Samuel Clemens
A win today gets the Twins a sweep and back to .500. Kevin Correia (0-1) faces off against Jason Vargas (1-0). Another 2nd Inning like yesterday is a good way to go, IMHO.
Lineups:
KC
1. N. Aoki, RF
2. O. Infante, 2B
3. E. Hosmer, 1B
4. B. Butler, DH
5. A. Gordon, LF
6. S. Perez, C
7. M. Moustakas, 3B
8. L. Cain, CF
9. A. Escobar, SS
Min
1. B. Dozier, 2B
2. J. "Power" Mauer, 1B
3. T. Plouffe, 3B
4. C. Colabello RF
5. J. Kubel, LF
6. J. Pinto, DH
7. K. Suzuki, C
8. A. Hicks, CF
9. P. Florimon, SS