Game 20: Reds at Twins
First pitch: 7:10 Central
Weather: Partly sunny, 44°
Opponent’s SB website: Network Reporter. Indie website: Redleg Nation
TV: Twins TV. Radio: There is no current WKRP in Cincinnati (there is a low-power WKRP radio station in Raleigh, NC)
The Reds come into city sitting at 11-8 (similar because the Twins), after ending 83-79 final yr and getting swept within the wildcard spherical. If, like me, you do not suppose a playoff collection win is a “real” collection win until it includes profitable the divisional collection, then the Twins have not accomplished it since 2002… however the Reds have not accomplished it since 1995. They did get to Game 5 within the 2012 NLDS, behind the bats of Jay Bruce, Brandon Phillipsand Joey Vottoand I’m having a tough time remembering who these guys had been. The final Reds I actually keep in mind had been Barry Larkin and Ken Griffey, Jr.
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The present squad is led by rookie tater masher Sal Stewart (7 homers) and slick-fielding SS Elly Dela Cruz (who Snoop Dogg loves).
Their beginning pitcher as we speak is Brandon Williamsona 28-year-old lefty who spent a lot of 2024/2025 on the injured listing. He throws a low-90s fastball and cutter, plus a changeup in opposition to RHB and a slider/sweeper in opposition to LHB. Those offspeed ones are his greatest pitches.
Williamson is formally One Of Us, born in Fairmont, MN. Fairmont is a south-central Minnesota city with some 10,000 residents (that is fairly huge for the area!). Its WikiRemarkable people” entry lists the Education Minnesota 2018 Teacher of the Year and a gentleman who wears a home made costume to sci-fi conventions, calling himself Tron Guy:
Hey I’ll betcha he is gotten extra readers than I ever will.
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A number of hyperlinks to your perusal:
Simeon of the Three Names had a fourth-inning meltdown last Fridayhowever a case of meals poisoning might need been partly accountable, for this Bobby Nightengale Star Tribune story.
Wood Richardson “was throwing up pregame,” supervisor Derek Shelton stated. “I mean, after the third, he wasn’t in a great spot. We were hoping to get more out of him, and it just looked like he ran out of gas.”
Woods Richardson instructed the teaching workers he may pitch after chucking up his pregame meal. The Twins already had a shorthanded bullpen, and so they had been down a reliever as a result of Cody Laweryson is headed to the 15-day injured listing.
“I think it’ll be the last day he eats Subway for a long time,” catcher Ryan Jeffers he stated.
Well, it is in all probability only one employee who did not wash their fingers correctly, it could occur at anywhere, not simply at Subway. Still, all kudos to SWR for making an attempt his greatest to assist the group. (Hopefully on Wednesday he did not eat from “Crazy Eddie’s Sushi Truck.”)
Of course, that is higher than that time in 1972 when Reds administration despatched a pitcher with a sore arm to… the dentist. The dentist yanked enamel to treatment the sore arm. It didn’t treatment the sore arm.
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By Eric Strack and Ted Schwerzler at this siteTom Pohlad acquired cranky with a fan who was carrying a “Sell The Team” hat at Sunday’s recreation, calling her “classless.” Apparently the lady did take some photos of Pohlad — I do not like having a digicam pointed at me, both — but when he was simply crabby in regards to the hat, that is a bit foolish.
Yet another story about how sports activities playing ruins lives. Yet another story about how sports activities playing firms try to subvert legal guidelines defending residents in all 50 states (and get the authorized age it’s important to be to gamble lowered). None of that is going to finish properly.
Defector‘s Diana Moskovitz on being a lady who’s a sports activities author. It’s what you’d count on when it comes to the rotten stuff. It would not make it any much less infuriating.
“Talking Points Memo” is a horrible identify for an internet site, however Peter Dreier has an good post there about how Jackie Robinson’s legacy is rather more radical than MLB tends to focus on.
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And ESPN the channel will be the all-sports-gambling, all-Screaming Bro community at this level, but the web site nonetheless has OK stuff typically, and here’s a fun piece about what gamers consider ABS thus far. Basically, they prefer it, though everybody has a unique notion of how the system may very well be improved. I like Reese McGuire‘s concept that offense and protection ought to get two challenges every. Travis d’Arnaud made a neat level I hadn’t considered earlier than; umpires like being confirmed proper. I used to be pondering extra about ego-tripping umps not eager to be confirmed improper… however for good umps who’re actually making an attempt their greatest to not be ego trippers, it should be good to know you bought a tricky name proper.
Why does that ESPN piece don’t have any writer identify? Was it compiled by a bunch of interns? Freelancers? Who is aware of. Mamas, do not let your infants develop as much as be writers, it is often not for the perfect.
