This is going to be quicker than a Delmon Young at-bat against Mark Buehrle.
Twins win. Cuddy jacked a donger. Blackburn wriggled for all he was worth (leadoff guy reached in 4 of his 8 innings). Nishioka returned, made some good plays (and a bad one) at SS, didn't hit much (1 for 4), but then no one did (Twins got 4 hits).
Sweeps of Chicago are always welcome.
Indianapolis at Rochester. Postponed. Will be made up as part of a doubleheader Saturday.
Altoona 3, New Britain 1 in Altoona. The Curve took a 2-1 lead after one inning. Nate Hanson singled and homered. Bobby Lanigan gave up three runs on nine hits in 7.1 innings, walking none.
Ft. Myers 4, Jupiter 1 in Jupiter. The Miracle scored two in the second to take the lead. Reggie Williams had two singles and a double. Ricky Bowen struck out five in four shutout innings, giving up one hit and two walks. The win went to Matthew Tone, who allowed an unearned run on two hits and three walks in three innings. Jhon Garcia pitched a scoreless ninth to get the save.
Beloit 7, Cedar Rapids 2 in Beloit. The Snappers scored five in the eighth to break a 2-2 tie. Lance Ray had two singles and a double. Wang-wei Lin and Michael Gonzales each singled and doubled. Adrian Salcedo struck out seven in 6.2 innings, giving up two runs on four hits and a walk. Clinton Dempster got the win with 1.1 innings of scoreless relief.
DSL Cubs1 at Twins. Postponed.
I'm almost done with my summer mix. I've got about 105 minutes and CDs are only 80 minutes long. I might do like one 60 minute disc and one 35 minute disc to cover songs with cursing (like the Weeknd and Shabazz Palaces). Then I won't have to cut so much.
When previewing some of the songs last night, CER asked me about rapping. What is rapping? How is it different from singing? &c. I didn't really know how to explain it: singing without melody but more rhythm, talking with a beat. I figured it'd be easier to show her, so I filtered my iTunes to Hip-hop*, sorted by year. The earliest I have imported is Eric B and Rakim's Paid in Full, and that's all I have for the 80's (somewhere, my Slick Rick is sitting on a shelf, waiting to be imported). So I pulled up the title track and showed her the prototypical rap flow. After that, I skipped forward to Das EFX "They Want EFX", the Pharcyde "Passing Me By", and Cypress Hill "Loco en el Coco"**.
*I'm very diligent about genres in my iTunes. I keep it under a dozen. So, no distinctions between indie rock, classic rock, country rock, lo fi rock, prog rock, punk rock, folk rock, modern rock, etc. Just rock. (Though country rock might end up in country.)
**No need to screen for lyrical content if it's in Spanish.
I'd like to share more with her, maybe with a CD I could burn, or an iPod playlist (she borrows my wife's iPod -- full of P&W and folk-rock -- from time to time). It should all be clean in lyrics and subject (so nothing like the radio edit of "I Want to Get High"). I'm not even sure if what I played was halal enough. You got any suggestions? (It doesn't need to be stuff 20 or more years old like my first few there, newer stuff is just as good, I just don't know any of it by heart enough where I can make it to the skip button about two lines before the cussing, violence, drugs, or sex begins.)
Or, if you've got nothing (Cheaptoy, Rob, Beau), just drop your own random dozen.
Yet another sweep of the White Sox. Now on to the Padres; the last(?) time the Twins hosted them, I attended a Father's Day game with Skim. Santana was not only outpitched by Peavy, I'm pretty sure Santana got ejected. Plus, some clown two rows in front of me wouldn't leave despite one of his sons screaming for about four innings straight. I'm not using the word "screaming" to color the situation. He was screaming. For four. Innings. Straight.
This is your horrorscope. \m/
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Ray Scott broadcast Minnesota Twins games from 1961-1966 and 1973-1975. However, there appear to be no players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
Now that the Bruins have brought championship pride back to Boston at long last, it seems fitting that we all celebrate. My notion is to fuel Vancouver's fires with some additional methane.
So, today's legume recipe is for a version of dal makhani. Traditionally, this is made with black urad dal (Vigna mungo), but, in a slight nod to the admittedly delicious Madras Lentils from Tasty Bite (which I've bought numerous times at Costco), I use plain ol' brown lentils.
My recipe goes a step further in that it is vegan, in recognition of my daughter's continued culinary crusade. The dish is better with the addition of some dairy (butter and/or cream), but is pretty good as-is too.
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Morning baseball (morning here, anyway). Yesterday, the Twins did what they do, beating the White Sox at home. Well, recently, they've beaten them everywhere. How do we feel about today?
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrly 6-4, 86.2 IP, 3.95 ERA, 3.74 FIP, 4.29 xFIP, 1.5 WAR
Nick Blackburn 5-4, 83 IP, 3.47 ERA, 4.60 FIP, 3.77 xFIP, 0.5 WAR
Buehrle, in his twelfth season with the White Sox, doesn't show signs of being a different pitcher at all. His numbers are totally stable this year in comparison to recent years, so the Buehrle you know is the one that's pitching today.
Blackburn's K/9 is all the way up to 4.99, which might help to explain why he's been so much more successful this year than last. His GB% is a tick up from last year, too, which was up from the year before, which was up from the year before. I never trusted the guy, but it seems like he might turn out to be a good pitcher by sheer force of will. For those playing at home, Aaron Gleeman once made a bet with someone that Blackburn would never get 75 Wins as a major leaguer (I agreed). As of today, his next one will put him over 50% of the way there. I still don't know if he gets there, but I'll say I'm definitely not rooting for him to start failing today.
Rochester—No games scheduled.
Altoona 11, New Britain 10 in Altoona (10 innings). The Rock Cats led by 6-1, 8-5, and 10-8, but could not hold those leads. The Curve scored three runs in the bottom of the tenth on one hit, three walks, a hit batsman, and two sacrifice flies to win the game. Mark Dolenc had four hits. Chris Herrmann and Nate Hanson each had two singles and a homer, with Herrmann driving in three. Deibinson Romero had two singles and a double. Chris Parmelee singled and doubled and Danny Rohlfing had two hits. Liam Hendriks allowed four runs on eight hits and a walk in five innings. Tyler Robertson struck out three in 2.1 scoreless innings of relief. Blake Martin gave up a hit, two walks, and a hit batsman in a third of an inning to take the loss. The Rock Cats made four errors.
Jupiter 3, Ft. Myers 2 in Jupiter. Matt Hauser walked in the winning run in the ninth, one of three walks he issued in the inning. Tom Stuifbergen went seven strong innings, giving up two runs on seven hits and a walk while striking out six in seven innings. Jon Goncalves had two hits.
Beloit 6, Cedar Rapids 5 in Beloit. The Snappers led 6-1 after eight and held on for the win. Jairo Perez singled and homered, raising his average to .308. B. J. Hermsen got the win, giving up just one run on seven hits and no walks in seven innings. Jose Gonzalez allowed two hits but no runs in two-thirds of an inning to get the save.
DSL Twins 6, Orioles 2 at Twins (Game 1—Scheduled 7 innings). A three-run third gave the Twins all the runs they needed. Javier Pimentel homered to lead the Twins. Yorman Landa allowed two unearned runs on two hits and a walk in four innings. Francisco Nunez got the win with three perfect innings of relief, striking out seven of the nine batters he faced. Nunez has yet to allow an earned run, striking out 21 in 12.2 innings this season.
DSL Twins 11, Orioles 1 at Orioles (Game 2—Scheduled 7 innings). The Twins scored seven in the second and four in the sixth. They had only nine hits but received eleven walks. Adonis Pacheco singled and tripled, driving in four. Joel Polanco singled and doubled. Melcaides De La Cruz gave up a run on four hits in four innings. Jose Vasquez pitched two perfect innings and was credited with the win.
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The Bob Miller born today, although a pitcher, is not the Bob Miller who pitched for the Twins.
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