Game Thread: Twins @ Arizona, 6/17/22 @ 8:40pm CT

[Squirrel]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

The high temp here tomorrow is supposed to be 59. 59! Isn’t it like 110 in Arizona now?

After hitting 98 here a couple days ago, our high tomorrow will be 61 …

And my rehearsal tomorrow is now cancelled so I can watch the rest of this game ,,, woo hoo

[Aggies7]

Just now, Squirrel said:

After hitting 98 here a couple days ago, our high tomorrow will be 61 …

And my rehearsal tomorrow is now cancelled so I can watch the rest of this game ,,, woo hoo

I’m not complaining, I love it

[ashbury]

8 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Challenge accepted! 

Bob Turley gave up 10 hits and 9 walks but only 2 runs in a 9-inning complete game.  Quality!

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WS1/WS1195608080.shtml

I'll stop after this, if only because "worst" is a fuzzy term, but going back to a deader-ball era, there is this gem:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT190509080.shtml

Charlie Chech fashioned a CG 8-3 win while giving up 15 hits and 8 walks, evening his season record at 11-11.  Too bad no play-by-play log is available, to marvel at.

Quality!

[wsnydes]

10 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Challenge accepted! 

Bob Turley gave up 10 hits and 9 walks but only 2 runs in a 9-inning complete game.  Quality!

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WS1/WS1195608080.shtml

Doesn't indicate what kind of quality though, does it?

Poor is still a form of quality!

[wsnydes]

2 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

After hitting 98 here a couple days ago, our high tomorrow will be 61 …

And my rehearsal tomorrow is now cancelled so I can watch the rest of this game ,,, woo hoo

Ish to the 98.  Bring on the 61!

[Squirrel]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

I’m not complaining, I love it

 

1 minute ago, wsnydes said:

Ish to the 98.  Bring on the 61!

Lol … I like temps in the 80s … but those 90s temps this past week, the humidity was low-Ish, so it really wasn’t bad

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

3 minutes ago, ashbury said:

I'll stop after this, if only because "worst" is a fuzzy term, but going back to a deader-ball era, there is this gem:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT190509080.shtml

Charlie Chech fashioned a CG 8-3 win while giving up 15 hits and 8 walks, evening his season record at 11-11.  Too bad no play-by-play log is available, to marvel at.

Quality!

“Chech scattered 15 hits…”

[Herb Carneal voice]

[wsnydes]

Just now, Squirrel said:

 

Lol … I like temps in the 80s … but those 90s temps this past week, the humidity was low-Ish, so it really wasn’t bad

I was on the North shore earlier this week and it barely hit 60 the three days we were there.  If it hadn't been raining and windy, it would have been very pleasant.

[ashbury]

4 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

Doesn't indicate what kind of quality though, does it?

Poor is still a form of quality!

How about Quantity pitching, then?  I know I said I'd stop, but consider this:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE193207100.shtml

After the starter lasted only an inning, Eddie Rommel came in, and pitched 17 innings of relief, giving up 14 runs (to be fair, one was unearned) on 29 base hits and 9 bases on balls.  He saved his best pitching for the extra innings, as you might guess, but when his team scored 2 in the top of the 16th, he gave them right back, and the game went on!

Stathead at baseball-reference.com is a wonderful tool.

[Squirrel]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

I know I said I'd stop, but

Yeah, we never believe it when you say that. You’d disappoint us if you did, so keep it up! ?

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

How about Quantity pitching, then?  I know I said I'd stop, but consider this:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE193207100.shtml

After the starter lasted only an inning, Eddie Rommel came in, and pitched 17 innings of relief, giving up 14 runs (to be fair, one was unearned) on 29 base hits and 9 bases on balls.  He saved his best pitching for the extra innings, as you might guess, but when his team scored 2 in the top of the 16th, he gave them right back, and the game went on!

Stathead at baseball-reference.com is a wonderful tool.

Classic Eddie Rommel!

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, wsnydes said:

Classic Eddie Rommel!

Yeah.  If you had a nickel for every time Rommel gave up 29 hits, you'd have five cents!

[ashbury]

2 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Yeah, we never believe it when you say that. You’d disappoint us if you did, so keep it up! ?

IOW, me be me.

[wsnydes]

Where'd everyone go?

[ashbury]

On a night when hits are cheap, Tyler Duffey comes in and pitches a clean 8th.

[RpR]

Kirilloff batting, hold your breath he doe not throw a bean-ball.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Last chants...

Last chants, last chants, last chants, last chants!

[wsnydes]

2 minutes ago, ashbury said:

On a night when hits are cheap, Tyler Duffey comes in and pitches a clean 8th.

Quite the performance under such pressure.

[Squirrel]

But hey … all those runs and the game was still under 3 hrs 

[wsnydes]

Well, that was fun!

[wsnydes]

Just now, Squirrel said:

But hey … all those runs and the game was still under 3 hrs 

I do appreciate that.

[ashbury]

Thanks for the company, all you CDT nite owls!

[Squirrel]

Just now, ashbury said:

Thanks for the company, all you CDT nite owls!

Yeah yeah … ?

[ashbury]

Just now, Squirrel said:

Yeah yeah … ?

Or CDT problem drinkers, as the case may be.

[Squirrel]

Just now, ashbury said:

Or CDT problem drinkers, as the case may be.

??

[cheeseheadgophfan]

That scoreless inning by Duffey probably bought him a roster spot the rest of the season.....SMH

[sampleSizeOfOne]

4 hours ago, wsnydes said:

Where'd everyone go?

I was there...

I um, just got distracted.

 

Doubling efforts is exhausting.

 

Next time, can i halve my efforts?

And eat it too?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

4 hours ago, wsnydes said:

Classic Eddie Rommel!

He vultured that win, to be sure.