Can't find any good Way We Get By videos although that was the reason I thought of Spoon in the first place...
(3 votes, average: 7.67 out of 10)
Loading... Due to the schedule irregularities this time of year, we have another Sunday game with Jose Berrios starting for the Twins. In three starts he's compiled a 1-1 record, a 2.18 ERA and 21 strikeouts. He has a 0.726 WHIP and 2.94 FIP. His ERA+ is 203, and he has a WAR of 0.8. He's pretty much everything we hoped he would become. It's nice to see a young man with great talent and skill in the early years of his career. But I have to admit that my attention today will be divided as I watch an older man try to reclaim some of the accolades from the glory days of his career by winning another major tournament and another green jacket. Play ball!
1972
(5 votes, average: 8.40 out of 10)Loading... Down 2-0 after two and a half. Unlucky inning for Pineda full of bloops and a potential DP ricocheting (Dazzle word!) off an umpire.
(2 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading... From the Private Interests’ FB page:
"Last night Private Interests lost our brother Trevor Engelbrektson. When we started as four friends in a basement he was our bass player, our arranger, our detail man, our curmudgeon, the big sweaty beard scratch hugs guy, the guy with all the stories about his kids and the only guy that really understood how most of the equipment worked. We had a lot of fun together and made some music which we think was truly great. Trevor had a unique ear for pacing, a quick turn or twist in a song and the eagle eye focus to materialize it from the creative ether. Upon reflection it seems his aim was mainly to make music he truly found exciting for himself and it shows. And so we played music and told bad jokes and drank reasonably priced beer. We drove around in a shitty van. And so time passed and with that Trevor himself passed and left a huge hole in the fabric of our world. As time goes on the rest of us will also pass and leave the fabric looking like Swiss cheese, like tattered carhartt trousers, like well worn leatherette van seats full of the cigarette burns where he used to be. And so new fabrics will be woven and new people will come and go in their own stead, they’ll play their own songs and tell their own jokes and have their own kids and grow their own prodigious beards and maybe, just maybe, one of these young new people could, in just the right light, at just the right moment, remind you of what we had seen and known in Trevor. This is not something to fight, we knew him as a man who lived for beauty, truth and great art. We knew him as a man who pushed forth and supported creativity not as a labor of love but as a natural function as common as breathing. Someday soon our fabric, our Swiss cheese, our tattered carhartt trousers will be gone, we can only count ourselves lucky to have had our world be painted by an artist as colorful as Trevor. We love you brother."
Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for everything, Trevroc. Gonna miss you so fucking much.
(5 votes, average: 9.60 out of 10)Loading... Date: Wednesday, April 10.
Batting stars: Jonathan Schoop was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs. Mitch Garver was 2-for-4 with a home run (his third) and two runs. Max Kepler was 2-for-4.
Pitching star: Trevor May struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up a walk.
Opposition stars: Jeff McNeil was 2-for-4. Michael Conforto was 1-for-3 with a walk and three RBIs.
The game: It started out as a pitchers' duel. Neither team even got a baserunner in the first two innings. In the third, Schoop led off with an infield single, went to second on a sacrifice bunt, and scored on Kepler's two-out single to give the Twins a 1-0 lead.
It was still 1-0 going to the bottom of the fifth and Twins starter Jake Odorizzi appeared to be cruising. Then, suddenly, the roof fell in. With one out, McNeil singled and Amed Rosario and J. D. Davis both walked, loading the bases. Odorizzi then threw one to the backstop, but McNeil was thrown out trying to score and it appeared the Twins might get out of the inning. It was not to be. Mets starter Noah Syndergaard walked to re-load the bases. Odorizzi came out of the game, and Rocco Baldelli chose to bring in Andrew Vasquez, just up from AAA and the most recent fresh arm for the bullpen. Vasquez hit Brandon Nimmo with a pitch, forcing in the tying run, and walked Pete Alonso and Robinson Cano, handing the Mets a 3-1 lead. Trevor Hildenberger then came in and walked Conforto, forcing home another run, and gave up a two-run single to Wilson Ramos. It was a six-run inning for the Mets in which they got just two hits, but it made the difference in the game.
The Mets added three more in the seventh, again aided by the base on balls. Nimmo led off with a single, and again Alonso and Cano walked, loading the bases. Conforto delivered a two-run single and McNeil singled home another run. New York had a 9-1 lead and it appeared the game was over.
To the Twins' credit, though, they battled to get back into the game. Garver led off the eighth with a single, went to second on a passed ball, and scored on a Schoop double. Byron Buxton tripled and Jake Cave singled, making the score 9-4. Kepler doubled and Jorge Polanco walked, loading the bases with still none out. It looked like the Twins might make a game of it, but Willians Astudillo hit into a double play and Eddie Rosario grounded out, ending the inning with the Twins still trailing 9-5.
The Twins still weren't done. Garver homered with one out in the ninth to cut the lead to 9-6 and Schoop followed with a single. But Byron Buxton and pinch-hitter Ehire Adrianza each struck out and the game was over.
WP: Syndergaard (1-1). LP: Odorizzi (0-2). S: None.
Notes: We discussed the move to Vasquez extensively in the game log, and I see no reason to repeat that. I did not hear the post-game press conference, so I don't know if Baldelli explained the decision or what his reasons might have been. I assume he had reasons--despite our criticisms, managers rarely just make moves at random. But at this time, it still makes no sense to me that you bring in the AAA guy with the game on the line. I get saving guys for later in the game, but the plan was to use Martin Perez for multiple innings, so what are you saving those guys for? Yes, many of them had pitched the game before, but most for less than an inning, so they surely could have pitched again. If/when I hear what Baldelli's reasons were I'll consider them, but right now it still strikes me as a bad move.
I also don't understand sending Adrianza to bat to make the last out with Nelson Cruz on the bench. Yes, it would've been nice to send Cruz up to represent the tying run, but that chance ended when Buxton struck out. At this point you need at least two consecutive batters to come through to have a chance. What's better: Adrianza and then, if he gets on, Cruz, or Cruz and then, if he gets on, Kepler? The latter seems better to me, and it doesn't seem all that close. Again, if/when I hear Baldelli's reasons I'll consider them, but this just again seems like a clearly bad move.
Just for completeness, some stats:
Odorizzi pitched 4.2 innings, giving up three runs on one hit and four walks and striking out three. Syndergaard pitched seven innings, giving up four runs on five hits and no walks and striking out seven.
Garver is batting .474. Polanco was 0-for-3 and is batting .375. Astudillo was 0-for-4 and is batting .348. Schoop raised his average to .313. Hildenberger and May continue to have ERAs of zero.
The Twins out-hit the Mets 9-5. It is not easy to score nine runs on five hits, but the Twins allowed the Mets to do it.
Record: The Twins are 6-4, in third place in the American League Central, one game behind Detroit.
Projected record: We'll just have to settle for 158-4!
Trevor’s wonderful wife Marvel (the fronting force of the fabulous Southside Desire) consoled me a couple times this week. Both times I told her I was supposed to be the one consoling her.
(3 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10)Loading... Jake Odorizzi
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Noah Syndergaard
Both pitchers are coming off a loss. Syndergaard however gave up two runs over his six innings instead of five without finishing the first inning. This is Syndergaard's first appearance against the Twins in his career. Yesterday was also deGrom's first appearance against the Twins. Time for a repeat performance.
Yesterday was a hell of a send off.
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