Twins 1, Guardians 0: Bailey Ober Crushes Cleveland on Apple TV... Again

[Joey Self]

13 hours ago, darwin22 said:

Call me an old f*rt---I am-------but NOT being able to watch Ober's excellent performance, Moran and Stewart pitching well and Duran SLAMMING the door on the Guardians was disappointing.  

Paying a fair amount of $$ for MLB baseball package thr DirecTV, in my OLD MAN world should've allowed me the chance to watch the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just avoided hearing the score and watched it on the MLB package this morning.  

I watch a lot of Twins games that way--catch them the next morning without knowing what happened.  

JcS

[Nine of twelve]

6 hours ago, Blyleven2011 said:

I like it  , ( im on board with hail drago  ) , after 4 months in the league I knew arreaz was a major leaguer so I nicknamed him major leaguer , usually i take three years to evaluate a player tobknow exactly what that player will be  , but in arraez's case I knew he was special  ,,, he bat's like Gwynn and hits like Carew  ...

We've never had a player named arreaz.

[Nine of twelve]

10 hours ago, UK Twin said:

Defense. Kepler is a much more accomplished OF than those two. And I don't think either Wallner or Larnach are good enough hitters to justify them being in the line up every day ahead of Kepler. 

You may be right. Or, for all I know you may be wrong. Can you cite any statistics to support this point of view?

[ashbury]

8 hours ago, jorgenswest said:

Moran has been valuable this year. He has inherited mitre runners than any other reliever on the team and closed the door. There are three relievers who tend to come in with runners on base. Moran leads the way allowing only 1 in 15 to score.

This is really quite amazing.  He has been brought in 7 times with runners on, and has given up literally 0 hits in those appearances.  He's walked a few (one each in 4 of the games). He has stayed in the game to begin another inning several times, so his total is 8 innings of no-hit work.

Which makes his other appearances just all the more baffling.  An OPS-against of close to .000 when brought in to bail someone out; closer to .800 (corresponding to an ERA above 5, usually) in other appearances, if my back-of-the envelope math checks out.

Amazing, weird, or just a fluke of an up-and-down young pitcher?

[ashbury]

1 hour ago, Nine of twelve said:

We've never had a player named arreaz.

Nor Gwynn.

There was a chap named Carew, though.