Onelki García against Kyle Gibson
We're headed into the home stretch now. We've all talked about managing expectations this season, but with this soft schedule and the flawed teams in the race, I will be very disappointed if the Twins don't come away with the chance to play the play-in game. Continue reading Game 135: royals @ twins
Well, Big Sexy pitched a solid game yesterday. What do we have as a followup?
Kyle Gibson? Meh.
I don't know what the featured image is, but it was the result when I searched for images with "fail", and that seems appropriate for a Gibson.
Previously, on Twins Baseball...
Chief Balfour: You're a loose cannon, Molitor! You can't put Mejia on the case. He's inconsistent as a damn one eyed owl!
Molitor: He's inconsistent, like a fox. I like the kid. I believe in him.
Okay, I'm not sure what to type here. My last game log, I went off on an ill-advised bout of pessimism, and since then the Twins have continued playing some fairly decent ball. Obviously there's issues abound (like the starting pitching staff), but it's been nice to watch games and have a reasonable expectation that they might actually win.
Anyway, I still don't know how I should feel about this lteam. As AG noted today, the Twins have been in first place a total of 18 days this year. Between 2011-2016 they were in first place a combined 13 days. So, again, I'm not sure just exactly how I should be taking this team in, but for now I'll stop asking too many questions and just enjoy it.
Back to the game at hand: the Twins open up a 3-game series on Bawlmore before heading back home. Speaking of questionable starting pitching, Kyle Gibson lugs his giant ERA back to the majors as Hughes is put on the shelf with "right arm soreness". Gibby wasn't able to win any games down on the farm either, but it appears he pitched a little better than when he was last up. The O's counter with Ubaldo Jimenez who, while generally struggling over the past few years, has never really had any problems smacking the Twins around (2.49 ERA and 75 strikeouts over 11 appearances).
Oh, and Escobar is DHing again for some reason.
Continue reading 2017 Game 41: Minnesota Twins vs. Baltimore Orioles
The Twins travel to Kansas City for a weekend series. The weather tonight looks fine for baseball, but rain chances Saturday and Sunday.
Is the the last stand for Kyle Gibson? LaVelle E Neal III seems to think so.
Maybe Gibson need a change of scenery? Or maybe he would be better suited for a bullpen role since he can't seem to make it twice through a batting order (Gibson's career slash line for 2nd time through the order: .296/.356/.472/.827 yikes!)
The Royals have Ian Kennedy starting. They are scuffling right now, going 2-8 in their last 10 games.
Baseball is getting closer and closer every day. Pitchers are already doing... uh, whatever this is:
The return of the Gibson.
Half bakef game logs for everyone!
Already in progress!
With thirty games left to go, the Twins one game out of the second playoff spot, chasing Texas. If they were to succeed and otherwise things stand, the Twins would be in a one-game playoff with, naturally, the New York Yankees.
Kyle Gibson faces Jeff Samardzija, who's had his own good news-bad news Kyle Gibson sort of year.
Miguel Sano doesn't appear to be in the starting lineup, which bums me out because our DirecTV is still down at work and I haven't gotten to see as much of this team as I'd like. Win one for me, Twins.
Time for the hometown 9 to hrlp their playoff chances and hurt Baltimore's.
I was going to make an actual post, with Twins on Leaderboards and whatnot, but the little one has to decided to do the opposite of napping for the past few hours, so instead you get some half-baked goodness.
Gibson vs. Tillman. Go Kyle.
