Game Thread #67: Twins (32-35) at Brewers (35-31)
by Jeff Sackmann
on Jun 13, 2008 4:50 PM CDT
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Last year, the Brewers split the season series against the Twins, and a repeat performance would be a-ok with me. As we discovered first hand against the Red Sox, some of these AL teams are pretty good, and while the Twins probably aren't headed to the World Series this year, they're not as bad as you might expect without Johan Santana.
The matchup tonight is between Dave Bush and Kevin Slowey. Both pitchers are coming off of disappointing outings; amazingly, Slowey's last start was considerably worse than Bush's.
Game time is 7:05 CT, and here's the BR Game Preview.
Go Brewers!
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FYI
Cody Adams, our their second-round draft pick, a RHP out of SIU, signed today.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 13, 2008 5:28 PM CDT 0 recs
Cody seems to be the name of the day
"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"
by roguejim on
Jun 13, 2008 5:41 PM CDT
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Yeah, they’re both rather fond of the name.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on
Jun 13, 2008 5:51 PM CDT
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"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"
by roguejim on
Jun 13, 2008 6:11 PM CDT
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that lineup looks thin... let's hope for the best...
go get em' seth!
by Jamie in LA on Jun 13, 2008 6:25 PM CDT 0 recs
Our lineup
Includes C Hart leadoff
B Hall 2B
C Counsell SS and batting 2nd
Cameron is back in center (hitting 6th)
by PagsBrewCrew on Jun 13, 2008 6:29 PM CDT 0 recs
yeah...
i’m okay with it. I hope Kapler gets a pinch AB.
It’s at Miller Park, right? so, NL rules.
by PagsBrewCrew on
Jun 13, 2008 6:48 PM CDT
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Tuning into the cubs blue jay game wait for the crew to start
Who knew Matt Stairs was not only still alive but batting second for the Jays? Not TheJay’s softball team either :)
by dixieflatline on Jun 13, 2008 6:31 PM CDT 0 recs
He's been on one of my fantasy teams all year
Note: team is in a “gimmick” league, and my particular team is themed around players listed under 6’ tall.
Stairs is the power guy on my team—and apparently on the real Jays as well.
The pitching is dodgy. Most pitchers under 6’ appear to be lefty specialists. Yes, Shouse was on my team.
by morineko on
Jun 13, 2008 6:41 PM CDT
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I'm in a gimmick league that starts on monday
All hitters are listed as Utility. All pitchers are just listed as pitchers. 15 stat categories for each. No conventional stats.
I’m pumped.
Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Jun 13, 2008 7:17 PM CDT
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I saw that
one of the draftees from this year was described as “a Matt Stairs-like prospect” on the MLB site.
....
by PagsBrewCrew on
Jun 13, 2008 6:49 PM CDT
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Hardy not dead, but has strained rotator cuff
He’ll be fine, of course.
by jihad on Jun 13, 2008 6:35 PM CDT 0 recs
So I am strangely confident about Bush tonight
He groove way too many pitches but if there is a team you can get away with thatt it is the Twins. Also his cutter should come in handy against the lefties the Twins have.
by dixieflatline on Jun 13, 2008 7:01 PM CDT 0 recs
Nope
by dixieflatline on
Jun 13, 2008 7:27 PM CDT
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Hey what do you know
2-0 Jays on a Matt Stair homer! Speak of the devil. Anyway on to the Brewer game.
by dixieflatline on Jun 13, 2008 7:05 PM CDT 0 recs
Joe Mauer is Bill's wet dream
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 13, 2008 7:12 PM CDT 0 recs
Doesn't it seem like the Cubs are down ~3-1 almost every day?
Then Ramirez doubles, Soto homers, DeRosa doubles, etc, etc.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on
Jun 13, 2008 7:27 PM CDT
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Low strike
Nice to see.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 13, 2008 7:26 PM CDT 0 recs
Prince
Running well with his newly streamlined face.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 13, 2008 7:36 PM CDT 0 recs
Branyan has two sac bunts in his career
One was in 2005 for the Brewers. Anyone remember it?
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on
Jun 13, 2008 7:43 PM CDT
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So I am with Bob and Jim
Bob said that ball went to the track. How did Fielder not make it? Bad jump or just not going fast?
by dixieflatline on
Jun 13, 2008 7:40 PM CDT
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Air resistance
He needs someone to draft for him.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on
Jun 13, 2008 7:41 PM CDT
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Can’t tell because FSN gives us less information than you get
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 7:43 PM CDT
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And the funny thing is that Russell one handed it as he tried to hold up his swing and it goes to the warning track. Others, such as Counsell sometimes rip one and I’m thinking it could be his first homer and then the second baseman backs up a few steps and catches it.
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 7:45 PM CDT
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Man Hall still has an OBP under .300
.289 right now. That is unaceptable especially if you are going to make as many errors as he has.
by dixieflatline on Jun 13, 2008 7:49 PM CDT 0 recs
It took me awhile to process this, but his OBP really sucks because he hardly ever gets hit by pitches
Three this year already ties his career high, which was set last year; before that it was one (!). He has a bad walk rate, but not an abysmal one, but the lack of HBPs always makes his OBP lower than it seems like it should be.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on
Jun 13, 2008 7:58 PM CDT
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So I was looking through the traffic logs
We got a hit from someone searching Yahoo for “mat gamel jewish”. I love it.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 13, 2008 7:59 PM CDT 0 recs
Minor league goings-on
Michael Brantley with another homer for Huntsville, and Wisconsin native RJ Seidel having his best start of the year for West Virginia.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 13, 2008 8:03 PM CDT 0 recs
Start activity? This must be part of Melvin’s culture of winning.
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 8:16 PM CDT
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DeFelice is up.. I guess the white flag is already waiving.
by SgtClueLs on
Jun 13, 2008 8:18 PM CDT
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Maybe
We can change interleague rivals from the Twins to the Timber Rattlers.
Coffee is for closers
by drezdn on Jun 13, 2008 8:20 PM CDT 0 recs
this season
is making me become a baseball purist
by keephopealive on
Jun 13, 2008 8:26 PM CDT
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Branyan with a double
The fourth true outcome?
Coffee is for closers
by drezdn on Jun 13, 2008 8:23 PM CDT 0 recs
Bases clogged and Jenks up to bat as Phils are slapping the Cards around. Wellemeyer out of game in 4th.
by ol Pete on Jun 13, 2008 8:27 PM CDT 0 recs
Slowey just doubled
Come on, Dave. That’s at least the second Twins SP to get a double for his first career hit in the first game he ever batted in; Liriano did it two years ago.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 13, 2008 8:31 PM CDT 0 recs
err...
i don’t think it’s the first game he’s batted in this season
he’s hitting .200 and is 1 for 3 today. so he had 2 ABs elsewhere
by PagsBrewCrew on
Jun 13, 2008 8:36 PM CDT
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You're right
Still his first hit, though
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on
Jun 13, 2008 8:38 PM CDT
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followed by Ryan and his “iron glove” trying to keep Bulldog’s ERA under 6
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 8:36 PM CDT
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Dillard in
the guy who was furiously warming up yesterday, but the guy warming up today isn’t. Someone help me understand, or does it take a Vulcan mind probe.
by ol Pete on Jun 13, 2008 8:46 PM CDT 0 recs
You've got to be kidding me
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 13, 2008 8:54 PM CDT 0 recs
Jesus..
2 Hits / 2 RBIs for an AL pitcher?
Guess the lack of DH hurts more then an AL pitcher hacking so ar…
by SgtClueLs on Jun 13, 2008 8:55 PM CDT 0 recs
Yeah it is
by dixieflatline on
Jun 13, 2008 9:00 PM CDT
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I hope so..
I’ll be at the game.. promptly tailgating at 3pm.
The only bright spot I can say, is that Slowly really helped my AL Fantasy team today. Good game for him.
by SgtClueLs on
Jun 13, 2008 9:05 PM CDT
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For those of you that want some laughs
Go to the MLB gameday for the cubs game. Micheal Wuetz throwing right, and left, handed. That is the worst camera system in the league.
by dixieflatline on Jun 13, 2008 9:01 PM CDT 0 recs
or look at the Cards score 14-1
oh wait, we’re being pasted by the Twins as well
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 9:06 PM CDT
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Maybe Wuetz rolled around in nuclear waste before he got to the park today. Grew an extra pitching arm.
by SgtClueLs on
Jun 13, 2008 9:07 PM CDT
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Bill Hall's contribution
negative 6 runs.
put Ibrarren in the next game at second please and DFA Hall.
by PagsBrewCrew on Jun 13, 2008 9:07 PM CDT 0 recs
Hall is coming up
by dixieflatline on
Jun 13, 2008 9:08 PM CDT
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any chance
he’s just trying to hose the team completely?
by PagsBrewCrew on
Jun 13, 2008 9:14 PM CDT
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Billy’s got a lot of talent, but man he is scuffling.
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 9:15 PM CDT
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Fly the flag..
At least we don’t LOSE ground right?
Trying to stay positive..
by SgtClueLs on Jun 13, 2008 9:19 PM CDT 0 recs
Cards game is only the 6th
14-1, I wonder if the end up using a position player to pitch
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 9:22 PM CDT
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I’d rather see a DiFelice start than ever see another Bush one.
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 9:19 PM CDT
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yeah if ever he was going to pitch well tonight was it
by dixieflatline on
Jun 13, 2008 9:22 PM CDT
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Those guys were just back footing it and banging the ball.
by ol Pete on
Jun 13, 2008 9:25 PM CDT
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