Rockies (Feltner) vs Twins (Prielipp): 6/28/26, 1:10pm CDT

[Western SD Fan]

1 minute ago, Patzky said:

Willi they be able to cool him down!

He actually had to come in and pitch.  With adding the stress of getting hot off the mound, he'll likely need a few days off to rest.

[gil4]

3 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

Yoendrys Gómez, proven closer!

2 minutes ago, Patzky said:

Not yet disproven

We can't have the glass half full answer without getting the glass half empty answer, too.  TD rules.

[Patzky]

Just now, gil4 said:

We can't have the glass half full answer without getting the glass half empty answer, too.  TD rules.

Let us down easy, that's all I ask. 🙏 

[Peter]

Gomez is our closer!!!! 💪💪💪how Banda??? Any word on him?

[Saxophone Joe]

9 minutes ago, Peter said:

Gomez is our closer!!!! 💪💪💪how Banda??? Any word on him?

Shelty just said they don’t think it’s an arm injury, for what that’s worth. His side, maybe?

[mrtwinsfan]

17 minutes ago, Saxophone Joe said:

Great read by Martin!

Banda’s injury looked bad. But so did Joe’s.

Great read by Martin!--  thats where stats help -for Positioning   ,   not  much else !!!

[mrtwinsfan]

14 minutes ago, Western SD Fan said:

He actually had to come in and pitch.  With adding the stress of getting hot off the mound, he'll likely need a few days off to rest.

With adding the stress of getting hot off---    9  pitches   i think he will be fine

[HarmonK03]

Per Gleeman

Derek Shelton said he stuck with left-hander Anthony Banda to begin the ninth inning because he wanted to keep lefty bats Jake McCarthy and Mickey Moniak on Colorado's bench.

If Shelton and Zoll are going to continue to be obsessed with the side batters hit or the arms they throw with, we will never win consistently.  In some situations it makes sense to match up, but not every situation.  There are times you go with your best option, didn't Gomez get one of those two hitters out that he was trying to avoid.  I do believe this is an organizational direction and Shelton may or may not believe it but he follows it.  It feels like he did less earlier in the season but is now following the company line.

[lecroy24fan]

Morneau said at the time that's what Shelton was doing so makes sense. I don't think it was the wrong call. They would have went LHB-LHB to start the inning if Gomez was in.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

5 hours ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

I hope we win.

I hope we won.

 

I was distracted all afternoon...

[RpR]

[HarmonK03]

10 minutes ago, lecroy24fan said:

Morneau said at the time that's what Shelton was doing so makes sense. I don't think it was the wrong call. They would have went LHB-LHB to start the inning if Gomez was in.

So do you want Banda facing RH hitters or Gomez facing LH hitters.  Banda has historically struggled with RH hitters, even though he has had more success this year.

Morneau is turning into another Bremer where he will rubber stamp whatever the Twins strategy is, so I am not sure that is a good reference point for validation.

[lecroy24fan]

28 minutes ago, karcherd said:

So do you want Banda facing RH hitters or Gomez facing LH hitters.  Banda has historically struggled with RH hitters, even though he has had more success this year.

Morneau is turning into another Bremer where he will rubber stamp whatever the Twins strategy is, so I am not sure that is a good reference point for validation.

You have Gomez on and a runner gets on you bring him in. Which is exactly what happened and it worked out.

[HarmonK03]

1 minute ago, lecroy24fan said:

You have Gomez on and a runner gets on you bring him in. Which is exactly what happened and it worked out.

Gomez is your best option to close out the 9th inning or do you want to wait until Banda gives another home run to tie it up.  This was overthinking it at its finest, there was no way Banda should have been out there to face RH hitters.

And the only reason Banda came out was because of injury.

[mrtwinsfan]

1 hour ago, lecroy24fan said:

Morneau said at the time that's what Shelton was doing so makes sense. I don't think it was the wrong call. They would have went LHB-LHB to start the inning if Gomez was in.

SO WHAT , Gomez  only ,    sick of all the  left -right  , Ballplayers win games !!!!!!!!!!!!  Morneau  is 100% a company schill !!!

[lecroy24fan]

22 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

SO WHAT , Gomez  only ,    sick of all the  left -right  , Ballplayers win games !!!!!!!!!!!!  Morneau  is 100% a company schill !!!

They don't have a set closer.

[HarmonK03]

17 minutes ago, lecroy24fan said:

They don't have a set closer.

There's your problem, make Gomez the closer until he shows he can't do it.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

They seem to do better when I'm not able to watch the game. Next two weeks will make or break the Twins and seal their fate if there will be another deadline sell off. Here's hoping they play competitive baseball, stay in the hunt and force Tom P to make good on his contender prediction.

[bean5302]

23 hours ago, karcherd said:

 

 

Read my whole post, I explained a solution to this line despite sub optimal options.

I wasn't performing an analysis of your whole post, but sure.

Defined roles for a terrible bullpen doesn't exist because you never know when a reliever will be unavailable so sometimes you have to use a reliever in a situation you'd rather not.

Banda is not a good relief pitcher. He was on a really great "results" tear there for almost 20 games after sucking so badly he probably should have been released. 18G, 16.2 IP, 0.00 ERA. Yay!!! 9.18 K/9 (meh), 3.78 BB/9 (not good), .220 BABIP (red flag), 91.3mph EV (that's bad), 4.56 xFIP (bad), LOB 94.1% (amazing luck).

The Twins currently have ZERO great relievers. Gomez might be "good" but probably not. Having a defined plan when none of your relievers is good is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.