Game Thread: Twins vs Brewers, 5/28/19, 7:10 CT

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Knobby?

Nopey.

[Mill1634]

This is insane. What a debut so far for Devin

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Christian Guzman?

No.

Hint: it was 1971 and this player only had 200 hits once.

[John Kelsey]

Makes the MVP look silly. 

[bird]

 

Who did we get Smeltzer from again? Dodgers for Dozier?

 

 

No. For two lousy, miserable MONTHS of Dozier and Luke Raley, a C+ AAA guy.

 

 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

made Yelich look like a hack on that!

[IndianaTwin]

 

No.

Hint: it was 1971 and this player only had 200 hits once.

 

Tony O?

 

[Nine of twelve]

Smeltzer's pitching performance up to this point has been just as amazing as some of the hitting displays that our boys have produced this season.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Smeltzer’s line through six:

 

6.0 3 0 0 0 6

[LVTwinsfan]

Let’s get some runs for this guy

[ScrapTheNickname]

Smeltzer!

(As Dozier continues to tank in Washington. But they're playing him every day. Maybe he'll have his classic turnaround, who knows. But I don't miss him a bit, after last year's futility).

[bird]

 

Omg the worst bremergasm I’ve ever heard

 

 

Bremergasm. So absolutely perfect!

[John Kelsey]

Smeltzer has only thrown 69 pitches. 

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

 

Tony O?

No, but he played alongside Tony O.

[jimbo92107]

Brewers hitters have NO IDEA what pitch is coming next. Smeltzer has them completely fooled. It's almost like watching a multi-inning magic act. How does he do it?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Is this one of them thar pitchers' duels?

 

Baseballs at 60'6"!

[ashbury]

Lotta offense and hard hit balls for a scoreless game...

Yeah, this might be the game to show a skeptic who you are trying to convince to be a fan.

[Nine of twelve]

 

No.

Hint: it was 1971 and this player only had 200 hits once.

Easy find on the internet, but I'll refrain from naming the name. Really good trivia question, BTW.

[ashbury]

Dick had me on that Sano non-HR. I was doing the dishes and I hear Dick yelling... for a flyball on the warning track. Stop it with the fake-outs!

I was making dinner. Ditto.

[John Kelsey]

Sano has looked pretty comfortable against Davies. 

[bird]

 

No.

Hint: it was 1971 and this player only had 200 hits once.

 

 

Has to be Marty Cordova.

[John Kelsey]

Seriously? Pulling him now?

[Dave The Dastardly]

 

Who was the last Twins player not named Puckett or Carew who had 200 hits in a season? (Hint coming if nobody gets it)

Vern Gagne?

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Easy find on the internet, but I'll refrain from naming the name. Really good trivia question, BTW.

I might as well give it away. George Mitterwald!

[ScrapTheNickname]

Just kidding, of course.

 

It was Cesar Tovar.

[notoriousgod71]

69 pitches? My God , Rocco.

[Nine of twelve]

 

I might as well give it away. George Mitterwald!

Ha!

[akmanak]

I really dont understand why you would pull him and not let him go into the 7th.

[IndianaTwin]

 

Easy find on the internet, but I'll refrain from naming the name. Really good trivia question, BTW.

 

Good one, indeed. On one hand, not surprising when I looked it up, but not one of the first dozen or so guesses I would have had. 

 

 

[bird]

What I like best about the Alka-Smeltzer story almost as much as his own victory over his cancer? It's him coming from a storied franchise where he was mired in AA as pretty much a non-prospect reliever who was given instructions and an opportunity probably for one last push.

 

He looks like a really fun guy to cheer for, and his story makes me feel even better about what's going on in this baseball organization.