The Twins Chris Paddack was perfect through six and two-thirds tonight in Minneapolis. He gave up his first hit, a single, then, to the rookie Christian Koss. Paddack hadn’t thrown 60 pitches. He was working on a Perfect Maddux.
This was Paddack’s first win of the season. He was in the zone. The Twins are coming off a series win at Fenway last week and sweeping the Orioles at home over the weekend. They are feeling it.
Jordan Hicks gave up a triple to Twins center fielder Byron Buxton on the first pitch of the night. He gave up a single that knocked him in and the Twins, like their pitcher all night, were up on the Giants, quickly.
Paddack got ahead in counts and finished off batters in a crisp, efficient outing.
Hicks performed admirably, scattering seven hits across six innings. It was a quality start with eight strikeouts and no walks, that took place in the shade of Paddack’s workmanlike performance, opposite.
The Giants tried to make a comeback. Chapman homered solo in the 7th to make it 3 – 1 and chase Paddack, but the Twins ‘pen was up to the task.
Kyle Harrison came in and ate the 8th and 9th scoreless. He did give up three walks. But it wasn’t a concern in the end. One was intentional. We decided to stop throwing to Buxton. ha!
Good game
To me, Fleming and Pence were unlistenable. I went with Apple TV+.
sigh. It’s why I’m calling games now. I’m a trained broadcaster. Listening to some of these ex-players being taught to do radio live during Giants games, is painful to my ears and ruins my experience. I don’t like the two grandpa coverage either.
ENOUGH! with the coverage of kids eating and parents parenting and hats and dogs. PLEASE.
There is enough happening on the diamond, between the lines to fill the even shorter games that we have now with relevant content. All this jumping to non-baseball content and a never-ending yammering of promotions and ads destroys the leisurely enjoyment of listening to the murmur of the crowd between pitches and innings.
I have grown to mute it all so often now. Your corporate entertainment schmaltz has ruined coverage of the actual game of baseball. And worse you lionize these TV guys as stars.
Hire broadcast professionals. Only allow one ex-player in a pairing, and quit with all the hyper extraneous chatty non-baseball bullshit. Please. Or, let me call a game. Or DIRECT a game.
I CAN TEACH WHOMEVER YOU WANT HOW TO DO IT. I have done that before.
Anyway, moving on. the Giants still have a chance to win this series and have a winning record on the road trip.
Game Two is on FOX tomorrow.
I might call it on GBC.
Let’s Go Giants!
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