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Milwaukee first blood , tack on brew crew ....

Like Harry Doyle would say , he'll there's nobody listening  ....

An hour ago I said Seattle drew first blood and nobody corrected me, I just changed it to Milwaukee if anyone cares ...

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tony&rodney
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Great baseball being played and big moments taking place.  Jorge Polanco has always been tough when it mattered. Two home runs against the best pitcher in the American League is an amazing day. M

Aggies7
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What a game. Entire postseason has been largely great 

chpettit19
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It is really hard to win playoff games against big time pitching when you rely primarily on stringing together multiple hits in multiple innings to score multiple runs. It's why homers win in the play

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1 hour ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Milwaukee first blood , tack on brew crew ....

Like Harry Doyle would say , he'll there's nobody listening  ....

An hour ago I said Seattle drew first blood and nobody corrected me, I just changed it to Milwaukee if anyone cares ...

I saw it.  I was being nice.

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This is a similar storyline to Game One of the ALCS. In that game George Springer hit a leadoff home run off of Bryce Miller on the first pitch, and Miller shut out the Blue Jays from then on. Today, Jackson Chourio hit a first pitch leadoff bomb, and Yamamoto has shut out the Brewers since. 

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18 minutes ago, Permanent Twins Fan said:

Dodgers learned their lesson with Snell. Letting Yamamoto try to finish it off.

A manager can deviate from the spreadsheet? 

tony&rodney St Paul Saints

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Snell, Glasnow, and Ohtani pitched enough during the regular season to be fully tuned up and they are healthy but they didn't put much wear and tear on their arms this year. Yamamoto pitched once a week all year, starting 30 games. He threw 173 innings and was more rested than most aces. These four, with Sasaki in relief, are an enormous plus for a team. Seldom has any team gone into the postseason with better pitching. Milwaukee faces an uphill fight.

Yamamoto had everything working last night. I thought Milwaukee tried everything to get on base or push up his pitch count but when a pitcher throws two unhittable pitches to go up 0-2 in the count, baseball is very tough for the batters. The excellence of Blake Snell and Yamamoto has to be praised in those two outings.

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It is really hard to win playoff games against big time pitching when you rely primarily on stringing together multiple hits in multiple innings to score multiple runs. It's why homers win in the playoffs (despite what people want to believe). 

Snell had a WHIP of 1.26. Yamamoto was 0.99. They're about to see Glasnow and his 1.10 tomorrow. When you need to triple Cy Young quality pitcher's WHIPs to win games you're in trouble. Especially when you have to do it 4 times in a series. It's why 2 of the Brewers 3 wins included them out homering the Cubs 3 to 1. And all their losses include them being out homered. It is just really, really hard to string together lots of base runners against playoff pitching.

And, no, this isn't me saying you should build a lineup of low batting average, high slug hitters. But you need to have slug. You need all around hitters. And multiple of them. You need 2023/2024 Matt Wallners who hit .250-.260 with power. You need 2024/2025 Byron Buxton hitting .265-.280 with power. You need 2023 Royce Lewis hitting .300 with power. It's why the Twins so desperately need Jenkins to reach his potential. Why they need GG to be a 20 HR hitter. Why they need to give Wallner the chance to get his BA back above .250. You need those guys to have a legit shot in the playoffs. Because neither contact only nor power only lineups work. You need 4 or 5 guys who can beat you both ways. But you need power. You need to bash to win in the playoffs because you're not going to consistently score runs against big time pitching by having to get 5 or 6 base runners in an inning against playoff pitching. It can work in a game here or there, but you're not winning series that way.

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17 minutes ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Where's Rocco when you need him , they made Kirby work  , is he done ìf you are Wilson  ????

well done - nice to see the jays show up !!

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I tend to lean towards picking a college pitcher with the Twins early draft pick. The potentiol to have an impact starter like Misiorowski or even Yesavage for the Blue Jays up within a couple of years is too much for me to pass up. Misiorowski has elite stuff, and could very well be a generational talent.

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