Twins (Paddack) vs Brewers (Ross): 4/3/24, 12:10pm

[Team Canada]

A lot of these pitches look good on Gameday

[duewizard]

Feels like we'll se at least one of Viera/Bukauskas today. Especially if Ross's pitch count continues to climb.

[Brewcrew82]

Nice.

[BruisedCrew]

5 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

I'll take his career #'s.

Good grief, lighten up.

Several posters simultaneously make offhanded comments about Hopkins hitting into another DP, and of course you choose to jump on mine. 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Alright, so I'm in western Illinois and without TV access probably forever (if anyone has any hints or tips on how to get that--Bally Sports Plus only gives me access to the Cards for some inane reason--fire away) and following on Gameday.

There's this new feature where you can watch the players name cards move. It's pretty cool. Kind of a neat way to watch the game, even though I'd rather have Levering and streaming video.

Apologies if this has been brought up in another game thread. Just watching and feeling nostalgic for the 8-bit graphing calculator baseball game we used to mess around with in calc.

 

[BruisedCrew]

Good challenge. 

[wallus]

Thanks Carlos for the awful stretch at first

[Brewcrew82]

3 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

Good grief, lighten up.

Several posters simultaneously make offhanded comments about Hopkins hitting into another DP, and of course you choose to jump on mine. 

I'm not "jumping" on anyone. Just making some offhand comments myself that he does hit quite a few HRs while hitting into DPs. 

Maybe it's not me who needs to lighten up. 

[Brewcrew82]

Hopefully that IF hit can get Frelick going. Sometimes you just need to experience the feeling of getting on base.

[Team Canada]

3 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

I'm not "jumping" on anyone. Just making some offhand comments myself that he does hit quite a few HRs while hitting into DPs. 

Maybe it's not me who needs to lighten up. 

I think his point is the "I'll take his career #s" comment implied that somehow he wouldn't and was making an argument that they'll continue at this rate. Obviously historical numbers will be more instructive, it's simply an observation that he's hit into a number of DPs already.

[duewizard]

Another good, professional AB by Turang

[Team Canada]

Turang keeps on getting it done.

[Jopal78]

I thought the Brewers were going to have SP issues this year, but good golly the Mets SP wasn’t hot and now Paddack with nearly 50 pitches through 2 innings, Varland played in traffic all day yesterday and lasted 4 innings, I’m starting to think Milwaukee just might be okay in the SP department 

[Oxy]

18 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Alright, so I'm in western Illinois and without TV access probably forever (if anyone has any hints or tips on how to get that--Bally Sports Plus only gives me access to the Cards for some inane reason--fire away) and following on Gameday.

There's this new feature where you can watch the players name cards move. It's pretty cool. Kind of a neat way to watch the game, even though I'd rather have Levering and streaming video.

Apologies if this has been brought up in another game thread. Just watching and feeling nostalgic for the 8-bit graphing calculator baseball game we used to mess around with in calc.

 

My only suggestion is to get out of Western Illinois ASAP.

 

(well, get MLB.tv...that should work, same price and you get every other game too)

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

2 minutes ago, Oxy said:

My only suggestion is to get out of Western Illinois ASAP.

 

(well, get MLB.tv...that should work, same price and you get every other game too)

Ha. I wish. We're blackout territory for the Cards, Cubs, White Sox, and Brewers, for no reason I can fathom.

[BruisedCrew]

8 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

I think his point is the "I'll take his career #s" comment implied that somehow he wouldn't and was making an argument that they'll continue at this rate. Obviously historical numbers will be more instructive, it's simply an observation that he's hit into a number of DPs already.

I was simply reacting to the fact that in 4 games plus one inning, Hoskins has hit into 3 DPs, two with the bases loaded and one with runners on first and third. All frustrating rally killers.

I also recognize that he drove in 4 runs on Saturday and will likely not be hitting into 3 DPs for every HR. 
 

 

 

 

 

[BruisedCrew]

8 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

I thought the Brewers were going to have SP issues this year, but good golly the Mets SP wasn’t hot and now Paddack with nearly 50 pitches through 2 innings, Varland played in traffic all day yesterday and lasted 4 innings, I’m starting to think Milwaukee just might be okay in the SP department 

Obviously too early to draw conclusions about anything, but being OK relative to the Mets is not a lofty goal. They could be really awful, like they were last year. 

[Team Canada]

Lots of contact, little to show for it.

[Underachiever]

That home run leaderboard is looking mighty lean so far

[HarryDoyle]

1 minute ago, Team Canada said:

Lots of contact, little to show for it.

Low exit velocity. That’s the key.

[Brewcrew82]

Off day tomorrow. Poor control. Take him out after he gets through the bottom of the order. 

[markedman5]

Ross really struggling with his command 

[Brewcrew82]

Another chance for Brewer killer Kyle Farmer to do some more Brewer killing. 

[Oxy]

17 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Ha. I wish. We're blackout territory for the Cards, Cubs, White Sox, and Brewers, for no reason I can fathom.

Well then. Get out of Western Illinois ASAP.

[Oxy]

Ross is leaking oil big time...amazing 0 run performance so far...