“With a Shocking Twist, Cardinals Dampen Lopez’s Opening Day Hopes in a Gripping Showdown!”
The grass is cut, the sand is wet, and the lines are chalked. Let’s plays some freaking baseball! Opening Day starts tomorrow my friends and with the NCAA Tournament going on, this is where we will start with baseball for the season. I suppose we’ve already started actually and we went 1-1 in the Japan series between the Dodgers and the Cubs. Now we are going to take on the game between the Twins and the Cardinals for the kick off of the 162-game, however-many-days, 2025 MLB Season.
Minnesota and I don’t have a great relationship. When I thought they would be bad, they were actually pretty good. When I thought they would win the division last year, they didn’t even make the playoffs. I guess I just can’t get a good read on them. The reality is that the team really isn’t that great and hasn’t been great for a number of years. I think the main difference is that Kansas City and Detroit became good last season and Minnesota didn’t do much to improve from the previous year. I hate to break it to those living in the Twin Cities⦠the Twins really didn’t do that much this year in an effort to improve the club. Sure they still have Carlos Correa and Byron Buxton, but what else does the team really have going for it? This afternoon they will start Pablo Lopez, a guy that had some Cy Young hype a few times, but is really more of a #2 or really good #3 in a rotation than a true ace. Last year, Lopez went 15-10 with a 4.08 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP. Those were some of the highest numbers of his career, but he did also have the second most amount of strikeouts ever as well. He wasn’t very good on the road against last season, sporting a 4.50 ERA. He did face the Cardinals once last season and threw a gem of a seven-inning, four-hit game.
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