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This was the first time I had listened to Twins' announcers Dick Bremer and Bert Blyleven and I enjoyed the broadcast. These guys don't just say things without having to back it up as actual fact, which is, oddly enough, RARE in baseball broadcasting.
* Blyleven said Royals' starter Jeremy Guthrie had pitched 200 innings a season a number of times, and immediately I thought I bet he didn't have many and maybe not ANY. But a quick check at Baseball Reference and yes - Guthrie has five 200-inning seasons.
* Bremer said he remembered Paul Molitor stealing home a bunch of times. Again, I thought I bet it hardly ever happened. But Molitor swiped home 10 times.
I'm going to watch several more Minnesota games this spring and summer so I can listen to Bremer & Blyleven.
Blyleven did have some hilarious advice for the Twins that we need to go over:
Pre-game
"Need to pitch better and get better hits"
On Minnesota starter Mike Pelfrey
"He can not make any mistakes"
On lead off man Danny Santana
"Look for the fast ball early and make contact"
A win!
It was a great night for Pelfrey, who tossed seven shut out innings and picked up his first victory since August 20, 2013 as the Twins avoided a sweep with a 3-0 win. Pelfrey had gone 13 starts without a victory.
The Twins scored the only three runs of the game in the first, getting run-scoring singles out of Brian Dozier and Kennys Vargas, and a bases loaded hit batsman from Oswaldo Arcia.
Webb Bobo All Stars
Yohan Pino not only tossed three innings of scoreless relief, but he made the team. Congratulations, Mr. Pino.
Fan of the game
The broadcast team announced their Twins fan of the game:
The apparent criteria for being a "fan of the game" is: be wearing a Twins hat. It would've been better had it just been called We Found a Twins Fan.
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