Game Thread: Twins (Ober) @ Brewers (Miley), 8/22/23 @ 7:10 CT

[stringer bell]

Regression to the mean for Ober. No one should expect him to carry a sub-3 ERA through an entire season. 

[stringer bell]

Maybe Correa's problem this year has been his bats!

[Jocko87]

Correa seeing Miley well.  Gonna need some new lumber.

[RpR]

Correa is making firewood.

[Mortimerkenny21]

Vazquez HR! As expected!

[Aggies7]

5 minutes ago, Jocko87 said:

How bout a hitter that can't maintain .400?

He hasn’t gone more than 5 innings in a month. If he’s burned out by august because of inning shortfalls over his career, then it’s another archer/bundy situation which is tough on the bullpen 

[RpR]

Vazquez ties the game, glad he is playing tonight.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

1 hour ago, wsnydes said:

That's what I thought too.  That isn't shocking to me at all.  Perhaps the timing, but I fully expected something to happen there.

Finalists for the White Sox top job: Hawk Harrelson and Tony LaRussa

[RpR]

It seems the umpire wants this to be as quick a game as possible.

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Finalists for the White Sox top job: Hawk Harrelson and Tony LaRussa

Again?!

[Jocko87]

3 minutes ago, Mortimerkenny21 said:

Vazquez HR! As expected!

He said the magic word.

[stringer bell]

I was just going to criticize Vázquez starting instead of Jeffers.

[jkcarew]

Good sign. If Miley can find the barrel of Vasquez’s bat…

[wabene]

3 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

He hasn’t gone more than 5 innings in a month. If he’s burned out by august because of inning shortfalls over his career, then it’s another archer/bundy situation which is tough on the bullpen 

The optimistic view would be that as he moves through his prime and keeps pitching incrementally more innings each year, you won't have to worry about this in future stretch runs. 

[MMMordabito]

3 minutes ago, RpR said:

It seems the umpire wants this to be as quick a game as possible.

Date with Front Row Amy?

[USAFChief]

Much better pitch mix and command that inning. Nice.

[Nine of twelve]

Dick just said Farmer was Lewis. I am serious when I say that I fear Dick is experiencing early signs of cognitive decline. There have been numerous such stumbles this season. He seems to be in full command of his understanding of the game and so forth but I worry. 

[mnfireman]

5 minutes ago, RpR said:

It seems the umpire wants this to be as quick a game as possible.

The only strike call out of the zone so far was strike 3 to Wallner, but, yes, so far everything on the edges has been called a strike.

[Aggies7]

Just now, Nine of twelve said:

Sick just said Farmer was Lewis. I am serious when I say that I fear Dick is experiencing early signs of cognitive decline. There have been numerous such stumbles this season. He seems to be in full command of his understanding of the game and so forth but I worry. 

Maybe he’s doing those left handed toasts a bit too soon 😉 

[Jocko87]

1 minute ago, Nine of twelve said:

Sick just said Farmer was Lewis. I am serious when I say that I fear Dick is experiencing early signs of cognitive decline. There have been numerous such stumbles this season. He seems to be in full command of his understanding of the game and so forth but I worry. 

Maybe sick is Dick?

[USAFChief]

7 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

Dick just said Farmer was Lewis. I am serious when I say that I fear Dick is experiencing early signs of cognitive decline. There have been numerous such stumbles this season. He seems to be in full command of his understanding of the game and so forth but I worry. 

Don't know about all that, but to me he's pretty clearly become bored with the whole thing. His heart just isn't in it. 

As I mentioned the other day, with the BSN contract up, Bremer aging, it seems to me a natural time for a change, no matter who has the Twins broadcasts next year.

[stringer bell]

Bad luck on the Yelich double compounded by a walk after being up 0-2. 

[Jocko87]

Nice throw Carlos.

[USAFChief]

Timely DP.

But Ober is shaky, to say the least. 

[MMMordabito]

Helluva throw.

[stringer bell]

Frustrating to see Ober fail to finish off all these hitters after getting ahead. 

[Aggies7]

4 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Don't know about all that, but to me he's pretty clearly become bored with the whole thing. His heart just isn't in it. 

As I mentioned the other day, with the BSN contract up, Bremer aging, it seems to me a natural time for a change, no matter who has the Twins broadcasts next year.

To be fair, the guy has had to watch some pretty mundane and frustrating baseball over the last few years. He can’t turn the game off like we can 😉 

[mrtwinsfan]

Nice turn Polo,   Julien  ???

[Nine of twelve]

Correa really has a cannon. 

[mnfireman]

Just now, stringer bell said:

Frustrating to see Ober fail to finish off all these hitters after getting ahead. 

Sort of a problem for the staff as a whole....