Sweepless in Seattle
I’m 100% sure I stole that headline from somewhere, but in my defense I haven’t read any of the papers this morning.
That was as close to a must win game as we’ve had all year. The white sox were playing a terrible team, so you can’t assume they will lose. Perkins didn’t look great, but he was effective and kept us in the ballgame. We got some great timely hitting late in the game, which is what has carried this team all year.
As much as I hate to say it, Gardy did a good job managing towards the end of the game. Granted, most of the moves were fairly obvious, but they all worked out. The two pinch hitters and the two pinch runners. Also, if one of those moves wasn’t made and you had Kubel in right in the 8th, that throw doesn’t get made, and the game is tied or worse.
The white sox did end up getting pounded, leaving us 1 game back in the AL central (2.5 in the WC) with 28 games to go. This is an exciting time of year to be a baseball fan. Lets stick it to the A’s this weekend.
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It’s amazing how much bigger and more important losses seem than wins this time of year.
By the way, I think more needs to be said about Span gunning that guy down at the plate in the eighth. He is really good.
I was watching sportscenter this morning and he was around #4 in the top plays, I think a womens college soccer play was ahead of him which is just stupid. The anchors made a big deal of Span seemingly being in the top plays everday. I thought that was a pretty big compliment since the folks at ESPN rarely ackowledge the existence of the Twins.
The Sportscenter guys have dubbed Span “Mr Web Gem” because of how often he makes these awesome plays. I think that’s a great nickname, and he really does pull out at least one web gem per day.
And ESPN still doesn’t really acknowledge the Twins, but they seem to mistakenly think Span and Torii Hunter are the same person, so they’ve kept a dedicated camera in our outfield. I don’t mind.
Jesse Crain is a piece of garbage. Shave your effing youk-beard and throw some more easy to hit pitches on 0-2 counts. Why the heck is this tool-box so bad at pitching (and still getting a chance every night)? I’d rather have Latino-heat Guardado, Boof Walrus or Pumpkin-Patch-Head Reyes out there every night. Dear lord let the September callups save the Twins. Is Korecky still pitching well in the minors?
Korecky continues to pitch well in AAA. I don’t have day-to-day game logs for minor league games (can someone point me to a place I can find them?), but his numbers look like this:
2.84 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 26 SV, 71 K, 21 BB, 3 HR in 71 IP.
Those are pretty good numbers, and would certainly be a step up from Crain. The worst part about it? They sent Korecky down to work on his change up, but Rochester is using him as the closer and he doesn’t have any reason/opportunity to use the change up — which means he’s staying down there indefinitely. Something needs fixing here.
It’s gotten to the point where Crain is about as reliable as Brian Bass was — meaning that if he enters the game, you can be pretty sure we’re going to end up losing it. Something needs to be fixed here too.