Brewers (Priester) vs Twins (Festa): 6/22/25, 1:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

It's fine to lose to a good team like the Brewers. It's not okay to be outplayed by magnitudes in every possible way.

[thelanges5]

Hard for me to get excited and be optimistic about this game. Hopefully the Twins are better at flushing and moving on than I am. 🚽💩

Go Twins, even the season series!

[LakesPibble]

Vegas is weirdly optimistic about the Twins chances, about every game.

[thelanges5]

Trying new things?

Matthew Leach:
Coulombe listed as Twins starter for today. Festa listed among available relievers so my guess is he’s an opener. But working to find out more.

[Patzky]

2 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

Trying new things?

Matthew Leach:
Coulombe listed as Twins starter for today. Festa listed among available relievers so my guess is he’s an opener. But working to find out more.

 

I mentioned this strategy for Sim yesterday with Coulombe to start. Hard to believe they are reading the forum for ideas.. hey I have lots of ideas..

[Patzky]

Updated lineup change including Keirsey excluding Willi now. Hmm.

[mnfireman]

57 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

Trying new things?

Matthew Leach:
Coulombe listed as Twins starter for today. Festa listed among available relievers so my guess is he’s an opener. But working to find out more.

Frelick, batting lead-off and Yelich in the three-hole, are both LH, imagine Rocco wants a clean inning from Coulombe and Festa comes in to start the 2nd against Contreras. 

[thelanges5]

21 minutes ago, Patzky said:

Updated lineup change including Keirsey excluding Willi now. Hmm.

Wrist soreness is what I read. Don’t know any more than that. 

[Patzky]

5 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

Wrist soreness is what I read. Don’t know any more than that. 

I was thinking trade.. thanks 

[Aggies7]

Opener? Bullpen game? Just what we needed. YUCK

[HarmonK03]

I have never understood the opener concept, so you have Coulombe pitch the first inning instead of the 5th inning.  And you take the starter out of his routine.  The Twins need to develop starters, stop limiting them in the minors so they are ready to pitch reasonable innings and pitch counts when they come up.  And stop with the opener nonsense.

[adjacent]

14 minutes ago, karcherd said:

I have never understood the opener concept, so you have Coulombe pitch the first inning instead of the 5th inning.  And you take the starter out of his routine.  The Twins need to develop starters, stop limiting them in the minors so they are ready to pitch reasonable innings and pitch counts when they come up.  And stop with the opener nonsense.

I think in this case it makes sense because their best left-handed hitters start the game 1st and 3rd in the order. So you want them to face your best lefty. NOw, in general the concept not always work,

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, adjacent said:

I think in this case it makes sense because their best left-handed hitters start the game 1st and 3rd in the order. So you want them to face your best lefty. NOw, in general the concept not always work,

So long as Wentz doesn't pop up in the third (or God forbid later in the first) to face them again.

[HarmonK03]

2 minutes ago, adjacent said:

I think in this case it makes sense because their best left-handed hitters start the game 1st and 3rd in the order. So you want them to face your best lefty. NOw, in general the concept not always work,

Then Yelich comes later in the game let's say the 6th or 7th inning with runners on, who are you going bring in.  If you don't have quality starters to get players out in the beginning of the game, either develop better or acquire better players.  This is the same as they have done on the hitting side the last few years, pull your LH hitter early in the game then they are not available later and you end up with a weaker match up.  At some point you have to construct your roster with players that can produce, you are not going to match up for every situation due to the roster size.

[AceWrigley]

Lineup changes? After the last 2 games, maybe a few cases of the 3.2 flu.

[ziggy]

plenty of good seats still available.

[jkcarew]

Twin Citians have to choose which really bad team to watch today in 96-degree heat and 70% humidity. Twins or Saints. Tough call.

[Sjoski]

39 minutes ago, karcherd said:

I have never understood the opener concept, so you have Coulombe pitch the first inning

I believe the theory is to let the opener polish off the first 3 hitters...then your starter begins his day by pitching to the weaker heart of the order...the 4-9 guys.

Then, when the 1-3 guys see your starter...it's their first look. 

Is their any advantage to this strategy?

Slight if any. Few teams do it.

 

 

 

[Parfigliano]

Keirsey and his .109 BA starting.   3 maybe 4 ABs and I bet we see it under .100 and maybe then the DFA.

[ziggy]

Coulombe opening strategy just took a turn against the numbers on the stat sheet.

[USAFChief]

Contreras starts at catcher all 3 games for the Brewers.

Rocco and the Twins consider filing a complaint with the NLRB.

[S Bart]

2 hours ago, mnfireman said:

Frelick, batting lead-off and Yelich in the three-hole, are both LH, imagine Rocco wants a clean inning from Coulombe and Festa comes in to start the 2nd against Contreras. 

No clean inning for Rocco

[jkcarew]

3 minutes ago, jkcarew said:

Twin Citians have to choose which really bad team to watch today in 96-degree heat and 70% humidity. Twins or Saints. Tough call.

And remember: if you want to see Raya pitch in St Paul…you need to have left your house about 30 minutes ago.

[mrtwinsfan]

Hey Rocco,  how did todays strategy working out ?   Ugly is Ugly .   inning dont matter

[HarmonK03]

Rocco the brilliant strategist just outsmarted the Brewers again!

 

[IndyTwinsFan]

5 minutes ago, Sjoski said:

I believe the theory is to let the opener polish off the first 3 hitters...then your starter begins his day by pitching to the weaker heart of the order...the 4-9 guys.

Then, when the 1-3 guys see your starter...it's their first look. 

Is their any advantage to this strategy?

Slight if any. Few teams do it.

 

 

 

Well, that theory definitely didn't work today.  Pretty much as I expected to be the case.

[USAFChief]

5 minutes ago, Sjoski said:

I believe the theory is to let the opener polish off the first 3 hitters...then your starter begins his day by pitching to the weaker heart of the order...the 4-9 guys.

Then, when the 1-3 guys see your starter...it's their first look. 

Is their any advantage to this strategy?

Slight if any. Few teams do it.

 

 

 

Bonus! Festa gets to start with the 6-9 hitters!

[Parfigliano]

3 hours ago, thelanges5 said:

Trying new things?

Matthew Leach:
Coulombe listed as Twins starter for today. Festa listed among available relievers so my guess is he’s an opener. But working to find out more.

The opener pitching plan worked.  They only scored 1

[ziggy]

2 minutes ago, jkcarew said:

And remember: if you want to see Raya pitch in St Paul…you need to have left your house about 30 minutes ago.

I saw him in Cedar Rapids, I did not see what the hype is all about. 

[mrtwinsfan]

Trying to be creative because Mgmt cant come up with TALENT ,  Whats next ?