Six of those swinging strikes came on the curveball, which Garver said was especially good - including most notably on a strike to Ryan Goins in the fifth inning. Over his 94 pitches, he had 16 swinging strikes - tied for the third most he’s had in a start this season and the most he’s had since posting 16 in his start on Sept. He averaged 94.1 mph on his four-seam fastball - touching 95 - and sat at 93 mph with his two-seamer. That single plated Gonzalez and Wade, and capped the scoring for the night for the Twins, who slashed their magic number to eight and bumped their division lead to five games with Cleveland idle on Monday evening.įirst of all, the velocity looked crisp for the righty. It was just a very unusual ball off the bat.” Moncada’s a good defender over there and to see him move in that direction and then to have to try to go back and make that play. “When he hit that ball, I don’t think anybody realized it was going to do that, us included. The more baseball you watch, the more you kind of see those right off the bat and you know there’s a chance it might happen. You get used to seeing those foul balls that are kind of cued off the end of the bat that occasionally will roll back fair. “You do see something new every day when you show up to the field,” Baldelli said. Luis Arraez out there defying physics □ (r /2WINcOO9Q2 The rookie second baseman hit a cue shot toward Moncada - who was also picked off in the sixth - at third, and as the defender moved laterally to his right, the ball did the opposite, sneaking through the infield as though it was possessed by some sort of magnetic force field or something of the sort. It’s hard to truly explain with words how Arraez singled both runners home. Wade doubled over the head of Jimenez in left field to move Gonzalez to third and bring Luis Arraez to the plate. The Twins drew even with a pair of runs in the second and went ahead with one in the fifth, but it was in the sixth where things got a little squirrelly. It started inner half and just ended up down the middle.” “If it’s down at the bottom of the zone, (McCann) can hit it,” Garver said. The reality is, I didn’t locate that pitch and he hit it.”Ĭatcher Mitch Garver said it wasn’t so much the pitch selection, but rather the location. “He’s a good hitter and he’s putting good numbers up against me. “I obviously have to tip my cap,” Berrios said. Coming into Monday night’s game, McCann was 7-for-21 with three home runs and a 1.190 OPS against Berrios. It came on the first pitch of the second, and from that point on, Berrios was absolutely incredible.Įven Berrios had to chuckle about how well McCann has hit him over his career. In the second, catcher James McCann wasted no time taking Berrios deep to left field. It’s very, very encouraging seeing a guy that’s missed that amount of time with that kind of injury cause you know guys don’t always come back, even when they’re physically good, their confidence isn’t always there because those are odd injuries and it takes guys a little while sometimes and it didn’t seem like it took him a very long time.” “I thought he looked really, really good. He sees everything on the field very, very well and his at-bats were good. He has really good feel for what’s going on. He cuts the ball off and gets the out at third base to allow us to shorten that inning up. If he waits back on that, even just a little bit, that play can get a little ugly. He picked the ball up, tagged the runner out. “It was actually a really nice night for Marwin,” said Baldelli. Berrios followed by striking out Eloy Jimenez to limit the damage to just one run. Moncada attempted to take third on the play, but a perfect throw from Gonzalez to Miguel Sano got the out for an unconventional 8-3-5 double play. (Mandatory Credit: Bruce Kluckhohn, USA Today Sports) made the catch and hit the cutoff man - Marwin Gonzalez, who was playing first in his first game since Aug. With nobody out and two in scoring position, Jose Abreu lifted a fly ball fairly deep to center field. Leury Garcia singled to right to start the game and was chased to third base on a double by Yoan Moncada, who wound up having an extremely strange evening. Things were, however, a little dicey from the start. “He wanted to keep pitching and normally when a guy’s thinking like that at that point in the game, he’s feeling good physically and it was a good day.”īerrios allowed single runs in the first and second innings, but was on cruise control from that point on. I think his confidence level, the way he felt, the way he was going about his business, what he was saying when he would come back to the dugout, he just seemed to have an air of confidence about everything that he was doing. “Even early on, I thought he looked really good. “I thought he was really sharp, even from the beginning,” said manager Rocco Baldelli.
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