First pitch: 7:10 Central
Weather: Partly sunny, 44°
Opponent’s SB website: Red Reporter. Indie website: Redleg Nation
TV: Twins TV. Radio: There is no actual 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 don’t suppose a playoff collection win is a “real” collection win until it includes profitable the divisional collection, then the Twins haven’t finished it since 2002… however the Reds haven’t finished it since 1995. They did get to Game 5 within the 2012 NLDS, behind the bats of Jay Bruce, Brandon Phillips, and Joey Votto, and I’m having a tough time remembering who these guys have been. The final Reds I actually keep in mind have 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 De La Cruz (who Snoop Dogg loves).
Their beginning pitcher right this moment is Brandon Williamson, a 28-year-old lefty who spent a lot of 2024/2025 on the injured checklist. He throws a low-90s fastball and cutter, plus a change in opposition to RHB and a slider/sweeper in opposition to LHB. Those offspeed ones are his finest pitches.
Williamson is formally One Of Us, born in Fairmont, MN. Fairmont is a south-central Minnesota city with some 10,000 residents (that’s fairly large for the area!). Its Wiki “Notable 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’s gotten extra readers than I ever will.
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Just a few hyperlinks to your perusal:
Simeon of the Three Names had a fourth-inning meltdown last Friday, however a case of meals poisoning may need been partly accountable, per this Bobby Nightengale Star Tribune story.
Woods Richardson “was throwing up pregame,” supervisor Derek Shelton mentioned. “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 advised the teaching employees he might pitch after chucking up his pregame meal. The Twins already had a shorthanded bullpen, they usually have been down a reliever as a result of Cody Laweryson is headed to the 15-day injured checklist.
“I think it’ll be the last day he eats Subway for a long time,” catcher Ryan Jeffers mentioned.
Well, it’s most likely only one employee who didn’t wash their palms correctly, it will possibly occur at anyplace, not simply at Subway. Still, all kudos to SWR for attempting his finest to assist the workforce. (Hopefully on Wednesday he didn’t eat from “Crazy Eddie’s Sushi Truck.”)
Of course, that’s higher than that time in 1972 when Reds administration despatched a pitcher with a sore arm to… the dentist. The dentist yanked tooth to remedy the sore arm. It didn’t remedy the sore arm.
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Per Eric Strack and Ted Schwerzler at this site, Tom Pohlad acquired cranky with a fan who was sporting a “Sell The Team” hat at Sunday’s recreation, calling her “classless.” Apparently the girl did take some photos of Pohlad — I don’t like having a digital camera pointed at me, both — but when he was simply crabby concerning the hat, that’s a bit foolish.
Yet another story about how sports activities playing ruins lives. Yet another story about how sports activities playing corporations are attempting 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 by way of the rotten stuff. It doesn’t make it any much less infuriating.
“Talking Points Memo” is a horrible title for an internet site, however Peter Dreier has an good post there about how Jackie Robinson’s legacy is way more radical than MLB tends to spotlight.
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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 up to now. Basically, they prefer it, although everybody has a special notion of how the system might 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 proved proper. I used to be pondering extra about ego-tripping umps not eager to be proved fallacious… however for good umps who actually are attempting their finest to not be ego trippers, it should be good to know you bought a troublesome name proper.
Why does that ESPN piece don’t have any writer title? Was it compiled by a bunch of interns? Freelancers? Who is aware of. Mamas, don’t let your infants develop as much as be writers, it’s normally not for the very best.
