Baker

[KMR85]

Yikes

[IFallsRon]

He should have stayed south for another month.

[KMR85]

Disappointing first game of a double header.

[fishersofmen]

And he is supposed to be our new ace!!

[SledNeck]

RA should start in his place

[fishin58]

Have to get him the patented Radke neck brace.

[UdeLakeTom]

It started in spring training, and he tried to say, "don't worry", I'll be better once the season starts....

[PikeBayCommanche]

Wow just got drilled. Ouchie.

[Neighbor_guy]

My little girl calls him "Baker, Baker, the bomb maker"

[crothmeier]

back to trip A. Our bullpen isnt much better.

Who's up for having Perkins start every game?

[Willy]

Baker and Liriano have been great batting practice pitchers so far. They were supposed to be the 2 studs at the top of the rotation. Baker is probably still injured. Liriano looks fine out there, but grooves a fastball down the pipe at least once each at bat and it is getting drilled by the good hitting teams.

Perk and Blackie are the best we got right now.

[mrklean]

dont worry after the all star break the twinks will turn it around, thats what they do if they would have got off to a fast start that might make me worried

[fishersofmen]

Rick Anderson was on the radio today and said Baker is feeling great. Arm isn't tired at all and no soreness......Sounds like it is a confidence thing.

[mike morris]

dont worry after the all star break the twinks will turn it around, thats what they do if they would have got off to a fast start that might make me worried

Shouldn't have to wait that long! Shoot it's only been two and a half weeks.

[KMR85]

Baker pitched well today and 10Ks is a good sign...Then again, they were playing Cleveland. Hopefully he takes this into his next start.

[PierBridge]

I'm not or have I been that worried about Baker. Pitchers go through these types of things.

He'll be fine IMO!

[zamboni]

Perk and Blackie are the best we got right now.

Sloweys 8-1

[crothmeier]

Nice game last night, Gardy should have known better than to let him throw the 8th. Although a shutout complete game is nice, you could definitly tell he was gassed. if we scored 10 runs every game we could afford some of the 5 run innings we seem to give up so often.

[KMR85]

Good to see Baker on a roll lately.

[blue_healer_guy]

100 plus in 5 innings and only 1 run to me means a terrible day at the plate for the royals.

[Quackaddict9]

So many 3-2 pitches! but the Twins pull it out with 2-1 win!

[pegleg]

Kansas City plays a lot like the Twins - work the pitchers deep into the counts - foul off a lot of pitchs until they get their pitch - try to get the starter out of of there early so they can get to the Twins bullpen. Fortunately, the Twins bullpen held up last night and Nathan is nasty like always.

[Jarrod32]

Yeah...Baker kind of struggled last night, but yet got through five and only gave up one run. When a pitcher can do that on a night without his best stuff, it is good.

Baker and Slowey have come around nicely. If Liriano can get a bit more consistent, and Blackburn and Perkins can be decent at the back of the rotation, the Twins can make a run here in the second half.

But they could still use some bullpen help...

[UdeLakeTom]

The new guy Keppel sure looks good. Hopefully he can take some of the innings and save the 8th inning boys.

[fishersofmen]

If he keeps pitching the way he did last night that would be fine by me!! Or for the last month and a half for that matter.....