Game Thread: Twins @ Brewers, 7/27/22, 1:10PM CDT (11:10AM PDT)

[PDX Twin]

Good morning/afternoon, Twins fans! Today the Womb-mates of Minneapolis finish their annual home/away series against the Makers of Beer in Milwaukee.

Nothing fancy from me today. Just a little stream of consciousness. (Warning: My consciousness sometimes goes to strange places.)

My family has just “enjoyed” three weeks of passing around the omicron virus, and this week is my turn. (I'm still testing positive, so cautious Game Thread readers may want to mask-up.) Good side: We have gotten an extra 10 days with our delightful 2-year-old granddaughter, waiting for 10-day quarantines to expire allowing them to fly home to Massachusetts. Bad side: Feeling yucky for several days, though I fully realize that I'm fortunate that it is just yucky and not life-threatening. It seems that the munchkin was patient-zero in our house; five kids from her day-care class have tested positive.

"Munchkin" is a funny word. It seems unlikely that there are a lot of cute, little people who literally like to chew on their relatives, so where does it come from? The all-knowing Google suggests that it comes from a Dutch word for “little cap.” I’ve never thought of our favorite Dutchman Mr. Blyleven as a munchkin. (It might fit the compact and lovable Mr. Arraez, though.)

Omicron is also an interesting letter/word. It is probably the only Greek letter that I’ve never used in an economic model. (It looks too much like zero.) There are two Greek letters for “O,” omicron and omega. Why? Any linguists or Greek speakers in the group who can enlighten me? Apparently, omicron is o-micron, or “Little-O,” which means presumably that omega is “Mega-O.” Personally, Little-O was plenty for me; I may never leave the house if a Mega-O variant starts circulating.

Today’s matchup features the Twins’ Chris Archer (2-4, 3.41) against Brewers’ ace Corbin Burnes (7-4, 2.20). We’ll hope that Chris will be on target and that the Twins’ bats can burn Corbin. Here are the posted lineups. Buxton returns to play a day game after a night game, but Sanó does not. And I'm OK with that!

Twins:

Arraez, 1b
Correa, ss
Buxton, dh
Polanco, 2b
Miranda, 3b
Kirilloff, rf
Garlick, lf
Gordon, cf
Sanchez, c

Brewers:

Yelich, lf
Adames, ss
Tellez, 1b
McCutchen, dh
Renfroe, rf
Wong, 2b
Urias, 3b
Caratini, c
Taylor, cf

Go, Twins!

[mnfireman]

Garlick rewarded with another start in LF. 4 games since All-Star break and Buxton (even after PRP), making only his 2nd start, is DHing again. After a big game last night, Urshela gets the day off. And the BP, after throwing a lot of bullets last night, will be called upon early again today. These are good times...  

[Jerr]

This game is on YouTube today for all of us cable cutters, or blacked out MLB TV ones.

 

[umterp23]

That fact that we have reward Garlick in LF is troubling but not as troubling as playing Sanchez once again who is hitting .140 in the month of July.  He puffed his chest out post trade saying he was the guy the Twins needed at catcher, yikes, more mouth than substance.  Career .220'ish hitter only because he had one year hitting almost .270 as a full time starter.  

What does that say about Caleb Hamilton who hasn't sniffed the field since his call up? Trade deadline, sure would be nice to get a MLB 2nd catcher vs a call up that never sees the field.  Jeffers getting hurt when hitting over .300 with broken thumb nonetheless, hurts more ways than one.

Sano, no future with Twins, so on the bench is not an issue, but sure would be nice to have him tease the other teams with a couple good games to be vital trade bait.  

Kepler out with broken toe, time to look at getting a Josh Bell type of guy for a fairly cheap type of trade.  Even Trey Mancini would be a nice fit, but he is face of O's so might take more to pry away.  Make that a package deal to get Bednar and see if O's bite.

Go Twins! 

[Mike Sixel]

I mean, it's evening here in Portugal..... One more night here, then home to Portland.....I highly recommend visiting here. Great things to see and and do, and very inexpensive. And nice people. 

[Jerr]

50 minutes ago, Jerr said:

This game is on YouTube today for all of us cable cutters, or blacked out MLB TV ones.

 

Pre-game starts at 12:30pm.

[operation mindcrime]

1 hour ago, Jerr said:

This game is on YouTube today for all of us cable cutters, or blacked out MLB TV ones.

 

Thanks man!!!!! \m/

[LVTwinsfan]

Good I don’t have to listen to Bremer, the ultimate jinx. If he knew anything about baseball as he claims he does. He would know that ball players and fans can be superstitious. For him to just piss all over that is disrespectful and wrong. He is the jinx, even though he cries that he is not.

[big dog]

It's a nice day here in Illinois. Good weather, the recent rain has eased the drought. Nice to have baseball on the radio in the afternoon. Brings me back to the 1960s, playing in the yard listening to Harmon climb up the home run list.

Go Twins!

[PDX Twin]

8 minutes ago, LVTwinsfan said:

Good I don’t have to listen to Bremer, the ultimate jinx. If he knew anything about the baseball as he claims he does. He would know that ball players and fans can be superstitious. For him to just piss all over that is disrespectful and wrong. He is the jinx, even though he cries that he is not.

Why are they spending the pregame talking to a guy in a Red Sox jersey about the Yankees' trade deadline in the build-up to a Twins-Brewers game?? This is why I hate national broadcasts. It's rarely about the teams playing and always about the big audience (NY).

[big dog]

Too bad about Druw Jones hurting his shoulder already. Maybe done for the year after what, two workouts? Shame.

[Parfigliano]

Its gonna be 100 or close to here in sunny SE New Mexico.  Better then last weeks 103-109 range I guess.

[USAFChief]

Leading off, Luis Arraez

[Parfigliano]

20 minutes ago, big dog said:

It's a nice day here in Illinois. Good weather, the recent rain has eased the drought. Nice to have baseball on the radio in the afternoon. Brings me back to the 1960s, playing in the yard listening to Harmon climb up the home run list.

Go Twins!

Whats rain?

[big dog]

2 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

Its gonna be 100 or close to here in sunny SE New Mexico.  Better then last weeks 103-109 range I guess.

Ouch, ouch, ouch.

[big dog]

Corbin Burnes is a heck of a find in the fourth round.

Let's get Correa home here.

[big dog]

Chief, what's your call on food for today?

[LVTwinsfan]

Just now, big dog said:

Chief, what's your call on food for today?

Never eat more than 4 hot dogs before a start

[PopRiveter]

Man. That clank in RF opened a door. They gotta take advantage of opportunities like that.

[Doctor Gast]

That shift was terrible. It should have been a double play ball.

[Aggies7]

Welp, we’ll always have that Detroit sweep.

stop. signing. bargain. pitchers.

[stringer bell]

It’s getting late early. 

[Jerr]

OUCH!

[Doctor Gast]

Archer doesn't seem like himself lack of emotion

[umterp23]

perfect double play ball but the analytical shift kills you

 

[big dog]

That was…not optimal. 

[stocker08]

Might have been a solo homerun if we hadn't gone with the 'leave the entire right side of the infield empty' shift for Adames.

[Aggies7]

Bullpen day. 

[stringer bell]

I think the Twins should shift only when the hitter is going to pull the ball on the ground. /s/

[LVTwinsfan]

I’m not sure Archer will get anybody out