Game thread: Twins vs Brewers 6/05 @7:10CT, Milwaukee and Minnesota edition

[JB_Iowa]

CBU

 

1-0 Brewers after 1 complete

[blairpaul715]

 

Interesting factoid from Dicknbert: If Lohse is the winning pitcher tonight he will be the 13th pitcher to record a win against every major league team.

That just seems kind of a low number to me

[mnsportsgeek]

What the heck?

[spinowner]

 

Interesting factoid from Dicknbert: If Lohse is the winning pitcher tonight he will be the 13th pitcher to record a win against every major league team.

 

 

That just seems kind of a low number to me

Back in the 16-team era, and even in the 20-team era players didn't move around as much. pre-Curt Flood, you know.

[Halsey Hall]

There's two dingers given up by the Kyles. 

[formerly33]

If Kyle can figure out how to stop giving up lead-off home runs, we've got this game. If.

[stringer bell]

Here we go, in a bad way.

[blairpaul715]

Oh bouy!!!! Not good SS play lately. :/

[Craig Arko]

Oh bouy!!!! Not good SS play lately. :/

#FreeFlorimon

[blairpaul715]

To me it looks like Gibby ball is moving well, the Segura HR was just a good hit by Segura, the LeCroy HR got a little to much of the plate, but was in the lower quadrant, so not a good pitch, but not a horrible pitch either.

[blairpaul715]

 

 

#FreeFlorimon

No Thank You!!

[mnsportsgeek]

The brewers get minus 1 run because they play at Miller Park, right?

[Craig Arko]

The brewers get minus 1 run because they play at Miller Park, right?

Drink!

[stringer bell]

That just seems kind of a low number to me

Interleague play and free agency have made this a more likely occurrence. In the old days, there weren't 30 teams of course. Beyond that, without pitching for two teams in each league, a pitcher couldn't beat every team in the league.

[spinowner]

 

Interleague play and free agency have made this a more likely occurrence. In the old days, there weren't 30 teams of course. Beyond that, without pitching for two teams in each league.

And interleague play is a big factor.

[stringer bell]

#FreeFlorimon

Agreed. EE not looking like an everyday SS.

[spinowner]

 

And interleague play is a big factor.

Boy, not paying attention. Department of redundancy department.

[blairpaul715]

Cy Lohse!!!! Dammit!!!!!!

[JB_Iowa]

CBU 

 

2-0 Brewers after 2 complete

 

Gibson gives up a solo HR in each inning.

[formerly33]

Hernan Perez grounds out. This man to this man.

 

 

Gibson refrains from giving up that lead-off homer.

 

We've got this.

[Blake]

Great, I do a game thread and the Twins decide to give up a couple of runs right away.

 

I'm quite sure it's part of the master plan, though. Lull the Brew Crew to sleep and then ambush them.

[stringer bell]

This is starting out like one of those games.

[stringer bell]

Regression.

[JB_Iowa]

 

Hernan Perez grounds out. This man to this man.

 

 

 

Gibson refrains from giving up that lead-off homer.

 

We've got this.

 

 

JINX!!!!

[Halsey Hall]

And now that's 3 dingers for the Kyles.  Can we keep up the one an inning ratio?

[mnsportsgeek]

Gotta love getting creamed by a terrible team.

[stringer bell]

Ground ball single, ground ball single, long homer, line drive single.

[JB_Iowa]

 

And now that's 3 dingers for the Kyles.  Can we keep up the one an inning ratio?

 

 

Can we have some given up by the one whose last name ISN'T Gibson???

[spinowner]

spinowner, on 31 May 2015 - 09:24 AM, said:
Interesting. Several times over the years I've heard pitchers say they were too strong after extra rest (due to rainouts, all-star game breaks, etc.) and as a result they didn't pitch well. I don't know enough about pitching to explain how that makes a difference but I think there's probably a good reason that the 5-man rotation has become the standard. The Mets' situation is unique, having 3 starters on innings limits. I'd consider staying with a 5-game rotation but have 2 of the spots covered by the 3 pitchers in question, giving one of them the day off each time through. That way the other 3 pitchers are still pitching on normal rest.

 

Bert made reference to this at the beginning of the game, saying that it can especially be true for sinkerballers, and again after Gibson gave up his third home run.

[stringer bell]

Need one of those "clusters" of hits, walks and opponent's errors.