Perkins scratched; Swarzak to start
Posted on July 8th, 2009 – 2:40 PMBy La Velle
Twins pitcher Glen Perkins is running a high fever and has been scratched from tonight’s start against the Yankees. Anthony Swarzak will start in his place.
I’ll have more on this soon. Just got the heads up.
59 Responses to "Perkins scratched; Swarzak to start"
Looks like AS should be rested. He pitched 7 innings on June 28th. I don’t think he’s pitched since up here.
Hopefully he won’t be TOO rested.
If Perk is still sick tomorrow who would be available? Liriano since he pitched on Saturday?
seems like a lot of the twins feel or get sick when they play the yankees.
Perks go the trots?
Cy Swarzak on the hill tonite
I feel sick when we play the Yankees
Having a rookie pitch tonight against that line-up is making my stomach feel a little queasy too…
After watching the Yankees beat the tar out of Baker last night, it’s not surprising Perkins got “sick”.
The whole pitching staff became ill watching Baker get his best pitches fouled off last night.
Eighty-six pitches in three+ innings caused an outbreak of battle fatigue.
Maybe I can get my lawn mowed tonight….
how many balls were hit hard vs baker? it was more his lack of command and bloop hits that beat him. not getting hit hard.
BJ Ryan cut by Toronto, I’d give him a shot.
Which would you rather see on the hill, a rookie that the Yankees haven’t seen yet or one of our starters that hasn’t had any demonstrable success against them?
Crapshoot. Roll the dice and let’s see what happens.
” it was more his lack of command and bloop hits that beat him.”
Exactly!
Doinks on high pitches = bloop hits.
Doinks on low pitches = ground balls.
Shawn in Binghamton,
Yeah, the Twins could use another reliever who can’t find the plate…
Having a rookie pitch tonight against that line-up is making my stomach feel a little queasy too…
Well he was originally going to start tomorrow. So at least you don’t have to be sick at work.
Good call, Jim
Swarzak has good stuff, I just can’t help thinking that he will fall into the pattern of many other rookie MLB pitchers when they face the Yanks for the first time and wet themselves on the mound.
Swarzak vs the Yankees lineup… this should be good!
“BJ Ryan cut by Toronto, I’d give him a shot.”
I know the Twins like those veterans lefties that walk 7.5 per nine innings! That said, if they can have him for league minimum, pretty low risk.
Hope it’s not H1N1 …
At this point, I think the key to this series is more the Twins’ offense vs Yankee pitching (Specifically Burnett) than the other way around.
Twins hitters need to get Burnett out early enough to make their bullpen throw some innings tonight, that will also effect tomorrow’s chances of success. Girardi is supposedly going with “pitching by committee” tomorrow, relying on his bullpen to start and pitch all the way through. Getting a bunch of pitches on some of those arms tonight could help tomorrow.
I wonder if the Twins could pry away a workhorse pitcher like Aaron Harang from the Reds for Delmon Young and a few highrated prospects. Brandon Phillips also would look good in a Twins uniform. Proposed trade: Young, Harris, Perkins and Slama for Harang and Phillips.
Actually, Angelina Jolie also would look good in (any portion of) a Twins uniform.
Hmmm…Perk at Play pulling a Carlos Silva. I guess Silva at least pitched 6 scoreless innings before getting a tummy ache. Ah, the life of a big leaguer…
I think BJ Ryan is worth a shot. Sure he has struggled this season, but so has Henn and Duensing. At least Ryan has proven in the past he can get batters out. If you can get him for cheap, I would say it couldn’t hurt.
Jay, I don’t see the Reds cleaning house right now as they are currently only 3.5 games out of first.
We must have watched a different game last night. I’m a huge Twins fan. And I knew they were going to lose sometime during the first inning. Baker looked horrible. They weren’t bloopers, and they weren’t lucky. They were hitting him all over the place. His body language was ABSYMAL. He looked like he was running a marathon after about ten pitches. The Twins didn’t have a chance, the way he was throwing. I’d have pulled him after the first inning in a heartbeat, before too much damage was done, and put in Dickey.
That was then, this is now. POUND THE YANKEES tonight, GO TWINS !!!!!
Here is the Yankees lineup for tonight, courtesy of Peter Abraham’s blog:
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixeira 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Gardner CF
T - Sick at work at least lets me go home and play Wii or something!
i don’t think it’s H1N1 it’s the NYY strain of flu, especially deadly for twins.
Perk shut out the Yanks last year in Aug. Also pitched well until Casilla fell asleep last July in NY. The bombing he got earlier this year was hampered by “dead hand”. He can definitly give the Yanks a challenge. Go Perk tomorrow.
Does this mean that F-Bomb Liriano is going to start tomorrow morning? That’ll be interesting.
Pretty funny stuff. Perkins gets lit up at Yankee Stadium and now is trembling at the thought of facing them again. He probably went into the sauna and came out and said he has a fever.
OMG…. We Twins’ Fans are ever skeptical. Do I hear and see the vultures already??????? And yes, Chief, you will hear it more and more.
we will win the next two and all of sudden be the best team in baseball. I really wonder if some of you people understand that they play 162 games. Maybe its the Vikings fan in you that causes this mass panic after a loss.
bob..no, it’s knowing that the Twins under Gardy have a mountain to climb every time they play the Yankees. History proves this.
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Wow, tough crowd here!
Do you folks truly believe that Perkins is malingering or are you being facetious?
For the record, I’m sure that he really is sick. And I hope he gets well soon.
Excellent point, Chief. However, I don’t think it is possible for you to have a lapse in logic, since according to rule #1 you are always right.
And I hope that someone besides Chief gets to judge the bikini pics.
Doc: In your case, don’t bother sending the pics.
Please.
Well, Chief, here is why….If I sent you a pic of me in my bikini undies, trust me, it would make a mortician puke. Not a pretty sight. 
I will send bikini pics. If they are me or not is yet to be determined.
Also…piece of trivia:
Alan Embree got the win last night for the Rockies without throwing an official pitch (he picked off a runner on 1B to end the inning)
koopa troopa, through the past few years we have actually done fairly well against the yanks at home. Im not going to waste my time looking up the record, but i know its not horrible
Troopa, remember, it’s OK ’cause Gardy will see them “battle their tails off”.
Perkins likley first got sick watching Leyland completely out manage Gardy during Friday’s 16 inning game.
Dr. Don:
Please send those pictures to Jeter and A-Rod before the game.
Don’t bother bob. I already pointed that out to Koopa and he just overlooked it.
It’s what meme-regurgitators tend to do.
Icon…that would make them sick, for sure. But I might get sued.
“Please send those pictures to Jeter and A-Rod before the game.”
Same address.
They live together, now.
Here’s the Twins records for the last “few” years.
2009: 0-4
2008: 4-6
2007: 2-5
2006: 3-3
2005: 3-3
2004: 2-5
2003: 0-7
2002: 0-6
Here is the problem, sane and icon….I did a test… put on my bikini undies, laid like dead out by the road, and scared the vultures away. Only one frikking porcupine checked me out, the prick.
meme-regurgitators
PoD-worthy?
Possibly, but I have faith that will be topped before the evening’s over.
I do like that phrase, though.
It’s all just a ploy! They’re skipping him cause they’re using him in a trade for Halladay!
Yam Joeiscool, and genital warts make for good sex. 
Dont underestimate the power of fetishes DrDon
“Yam Joeiscool, and genital warts make for good sex.”
What the heck is goin on in here????
just a bunch of old wart hogs, Paul.
I must admit I am worried about this game…ESPN Accuscore predicted Joe Crede to be the Twins best hitter tonight. Sweet Georgia Brown.
I’d be sick too after wathching the Yanks take batting practice against Baker last night. Not sure this pitching staff belongs in the same league with AL East.
Your “major league” baseball team is pathetic. After the Yankees sweep the Twins in this series (I do not have precognition, just the ability to spot irreversable trends), perhaps you could recruit Michelle Bachman to pitch when you next play in the Bronx. She’s an idiot, but probably would fare better against the Yankee line-up.
