The Twins have 55 wins and 35 games remaining. How many will they win?
How many games will the Twins win?
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Loading ...Tonight, the Twins get to take on somebody their own size for a change. The O's are a sad 47-77, on pace for 101 losses per coolstandings.com.
Pitching matchup:
Zach Jeremy Britton for the O's (scheduled; he's coming off the 15-day DL, although it was for a strain in his non-pitching shoulder)
Carl Pavanostache for the Twins.
Bal'more is tied with Minnesota and Seattle for having used the most position players this season (35 different players have had PA), but they've gotten much better offensive production out of all that deck-chair shuffling (team OPS+ of 99, compared to 85 for the Twinkies).
On the bright side, the O's pitching staff leads the AL in HR allowed by a wide margin (157; Twins are tied for second at 130) and is last in the AL in "defensive efficiency" according to b-r (Twins are two rungs higher). So I'm rooting for a slugfest. How long has it been since Jimbo had a three-HR game??
(oh, and that Wieters guy? He's hitting 261/319/404 with 12 HRs and 69:32 K:BB in 426 PA, compared to Joe's 288/350/352, 1 HR and 33:23 in 277; so I suppose you could say that the moniker kind of fits this season)
If you like to cook but don't own Mr. Bittman's book How to Cook Everything I highly recommend purchasing a copy. Bittman's writing style is clear, not overly overwhelmingly pretentious, and the directions are a simple to follow as you'll find in any cook book. In the introduction, Mark Bittman states that at any given time less than half of the adult population in the US know how to cook. At one time the extent of my culinary knowledge included how to make blue box mac'n'cheese and Schwan's frozen chicken patties. At some point I decided that I needed to expand my horizons, and started trying to cook things that I enjoyed eating out. I was mostly a blind man walking in the forest until I stole a copy of the better homes and gardens cook book from my ma and pa, and from there learned that once I knew how basic ingredients worked together I could adapt and change recipes on the fly. Over the course of the next year I'm setting out to make a big Sunday dinner from How to Cook Everything, and yesterday I made Puerto Rican Adobo Pork Roast, roasted potatoes, and green beans. Recipe after the jump.
ROCHESTER
Saturday--Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 6, Rochester 4 in Rochester. Dustin Martin singled and doubled. Brandon Roberts, Brian Dinkelman, and Chase Lambin each had two hits. Scott Diamond allowed six runs (five earned) on eight hits and no walks in five innings. Lester Oliveros struck out three in two shutout innings.
Sunday--Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 0, Rochester 0 in Rochester (Suspended in top of third). Liam Hendriks worked 2.2 innings, giving up one hit.
NEW BRITIAN
Saturday--New Britain 5, New Hampshire 4 in New Britain. The Rock Cats scored four in the sixth to overcome a 4-1 deficit. Brian Dozier hit two home runs and raised his average to .320. Joe Benson had two hits. Dakota Watts got the win in relief, giving up one run on two hits in three innings.
Sunday--New Britain 8, New Hampshire 5 in New Britain. Brian Dozier and Deibinson Romero each hit two doubles, with Dozier raising his average to .321. Danny Lehmann singled and doubled. Joe Benson homered, his fourteenth. Matt Schuld got the win in relief despite allowing two runs on three hits and a walk in two innings. The Rock Cats are a game out of the last playoff spot.
FT. MYERS
Saturday--Charlotte 6, Ft. Myers 2 in Charlotte. Pat Dean surrendered six runs on ten hits and a walk in four innings. Ricky Bowen struck out two in two shutout innings.
Sunday--Ft. Myers 1, Charlotte 1 in Charlotte (suspended in bottom of seventh). Daniel Rohlfing had three hits. Tom Stuifbergen gave up one run on three hits and a walk in 5.2 innings.
BELOIT
Saturday--Beloit 7, Quad Cities 5 in Quad Cities. Tobias Streich had three hits. Tyler Grimes hit two homer runs and drove in three. Jairo Perez singled and hit his fourteenth homer, raising his average to .338. Blayne Weller got the win, giving up two runs on four hits and a walk in 5.1 innings.
Sunday--Quad Cities 4, Beloit 3 in Quad Cities. The River Bandits scored one in the seventh to tie and one in the eighth to win. Jon Goncalves and Daniel Ortiz each singled and doubled. Pedro Guerra struck out six in five innings, giving up two runs on four hits and two walks. Nelvin Fuentes pitched the eighth and took the loss.
ELIZABETHTON
Saturday--Greeneville 6, Elizabethton 0 in Greeneville. Niko Goodrum had two hits. David Hurlbut took the loss, giving up two runs on five hits and a walk in four innings.
Sunday--Elizabethton 14, Greeneville 3 in Greeneville. The Twins trailed 3-2 after six. Eddie Rosario had two singles and his sixteenth homer, driving in three. Adam Pettersen and Matt Parker each had three hits. Tim Shibuya got the win, giving up three runs (two earned) on five hits and no walks, striking out seven in seven innings. The Twins are one game ahead of Kingsport for the last playoff spot.
GCL TWINS
Saturday--Twins 5, Red Sox 4 at Red Sox. Joshua Hendricks singled and tripled. Phillip Chapman singled and doubled. Aderlin Mejia and Candido Pimentel each had two hits. Tyler Herr worked two shutout innings to get the win.
Sunday--No game scheduled.
DSL Twins
Saturday--Twins at Orioles. Cancelled.
The DSL Season has come to an end. The Twins finished 42-26, second in the B. C. B. C., three games behind the Orioles, and did not make the playoffs.
For the second installment of the Brew Day Melee, I decided to make an American Amber Ale. I'm running low with both my kegs, so I'll need something that can be turned around fairly quickly to get one filled back up. It will serve a far greater purpose as I plan to wash its yeast after primary fermentation for use in this year's barleywine.
I'll get to the recipe after the jump...
No more Yankees for 2011, unless you watch all of the playoffs. Like I do. Sigh.
Ned Hanlon (1857)
Howie Camnitz (1881)
Wally Schang (1889)
Urban Shocker (1890)
Happy Felsch (1891)
Carl Yastrzemski (1939)
Doug Bair (1949)
Ray Burris (1950)
Paul Molitor (1956)
Darrin Jackson (1962)
Mike Everitt (1964)
Gary Scott (1968)
Hipolito Pichardo (1969)
Steve Kline (1972)
Jeff Weaver (1976)
Randy Wolf (1976)
We would also like to wish a very happy anniversary to Grandma and Grandpa S.
Per request from our pal, Mags.
httpv://youtu.be/1qlYIQgvC-k
This kid was born in 1986. Today, we can all feel old. Thanks a lot, Mags.
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