Twins (Maeda) vs Brewers (Burnes): 8/23/23, 1:10pm

[Brewcrew82]

TT es en fuego.

[Brewcrew82]

Another one that's not even close....

[Brewcrew82]

Give me a strike zone challenge system now. 

[willie key]

Score runs for burnes.    He gives up runs.     When he doesn’t give up runs.   We can’t score.    
 

[Frisbee Slider]

Curious how Twins fans feel about Carlos Correa’s contract.

[wibadgers23]

William Contreras is so damn good.

[BruisedCrew]

Adames drives me nuts when he  tries to pull outside pitches and rolls over them. 

[willie key]

Just now, BruisedCrew said:

Adames drives me nuts when he  tries to pull outside pitches and rolls over them. 

That’s just a hitter who tries to hit everything out of the park

[BruisedCrew]

20 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Give me a strike zone challenge system now. 

Do you think in a system like that teams would routinely challenge early count pitches early in the game? If so, I’m afraid we would be back to 4 hour games.

 

[Brewcrew82]

Tigers just tied it up on a Kerry Carpenter grand slam.

[StearnsFTW]

Contreras is going to be incredible when he learns which pitches to pull.  He's already so damn good.

 

That trade still boggles the mind.

 

I get Oakland has financial issues, but they're also really dumb lately.

[StearnsFTW]

1 minute ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Tigers just tied it up on a Kerry Carpenter grand slam.

I may or may not have bet Detroit, hence the heart.

[Brewcrew82]

And he doesn't call that a strike....

[wildcat2237]

Burnes just doesnt have it today. 

At least the pen is rested. 

[BruisedCrew]

1 minute ago, willie key said:

That’s just a hitter who tries to hit everything out of the park

The maddening thing is that he has shown that he can drive the ball to the opposite field, including hitting the ball out of the park. 
 

There he had a low outside pitch well off the plate that he should have taken, but if he had to swing he could have tried to drive it to right. By trying to pull it there was almost nothing he could do but roll into an easy DP. 

[willie key]

Maybe my expectations are too high.    But burnes frustrates the hell out of me

[wildcat2237]

Woof. Burnes. 

[Frisbee Slider]

6 minutes ago, StearnsFTW said:

I may or may not have bet Detroit, hence the heart.

Betting against Tallion seems like a great idea. Was worried when he started the game without allowing any hits through 5 IP.

[duewizard]

Oh no Corbin

[Team Canada]

7 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Such a silly game, this is.

Today should be fun. Burnes is Burnes, he should be great. But in the other dugout is a revitalized Kenta Maeda, who returned from Tommy John, then a minor injury, and now has a 2.68 ERA in the ten starts since.

Don't expect a lot of scoring in this one.

Or not...

[willie key]

garbage performance from burnes today

[tmwiese55]

3 minutes ago, willie key said:

Maybe my expectations are too high.    But burnes frustrates the hell out of me

Yea of course he's a good pitcher.  But the team who's about to pay him like a Cy Young ace ace at 35 mil per year for 7-8 years is taking a huge huge risk

[willie key]

Just now, tmwiese55 said:

Yea of course he's a good pitcher.  But the team who's about to pay him like a Cy Young ace ace at 35 mil per year for 7-8 years is taking a huge huge risk

I agree with this.  

[BruisedCrew]

I’m a lot more irritated with Burnes surrendering gopher balls than the home plate umpire’s ball-strike calls. 

[markedman5]