In spring training, when that existed, pitchers and catchers generally went to camp first. I suppose it is because your particular skills are more difficult to hone. A hitter hits a slider or fastball from billions of different pitchers; each pitcher has his own delivery and style difficult to master.
(I’m just guessing here; I have the athletic ability of a geeky Pee-Wee Herman.)
White Sox starter Lucas Giolito (sixth in the AL Cy Young vote last year) allowed four runs for the Twins in the first half of the inning. Twins starter and two-time All-Star Jose Berrios allowed four out of five. Over the radio, both pitchers were missing their catchers’ gloves all over the place. Welcome to besuboru, american edition 2020: everything will get ugly.
Max Kepler hit the first pitch of the Twins’ first semi-real game three rows to the right, and donated a second later. So he has a pace of 120, which would be nice if he wasn’t one of those euros that pretty much fools everyone like Lanz Armstrüng on the Tour Du Deutschland.
Jorge Polanco RBI-ed two runs from Giolito Evan Marshall’s replacement to make Minnesota have more points. Weird rebounds and rusty gloves / pitches led to three more Twins runs later. Hopeful bullpen players Trevor May and Tyler Duffey each shot lower, just like Tyler Clippard “let’s get a boy to get a boy” because all the things the twins are called Tyler now, and Cody Stashak who he is from New Jersey, even though “Cody” is a fully Orange County name.
Game Traps: A Terrible Deadly Disease That Ruined Spring Training Among Much Worse Things AND NO OTHER CLOTHS, THE TWINS WIN!
Studs of the game: Jorge “Tyler” Polanco, bullpen and Jesse / myjah / TJ for letting me do this, it was a joy.
Robot Roll Call:
Game thread comment: Joel Hernández with “Hello” since Joel rules
Attendance: Maybe around 7000 spiders in the square footage of the ballpark, I’m not a bug expert so I’m not sure.
