How do we solve Bailey Ober?

[Roy Firestone]

This guy is a beast. 6'9 and throws downhill and he just handcuffed us last time...I wonder if the hitters now having seen him ( he two hit us with 8 K's last time) have any kind of advantage over the pitcher who also "saw" us in his last start...Also we will have our week link Irvin going tonight too...I dont like this matchup...I figure this one is a loss..

[Frobby]

Here’s a guy who was completely overlooked by scouts.  12th round pick out of college, never on any top 100 prospect list, ranked the 23rd best prospect in the Twins’ system by Fangraphs before he graduated prospect status.   It’s amazing how often that happens.  

[Moose Milligan]

Patient approaches at the plate and try to hammer mistakes. 

[RZNJ]

Hard hit up the middle off his leg and he gets taken out.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

7 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

Hard hit up the middle off his leg and he gets taken out.

Or plant some sticky substance on Ober for the umpires to find.

[Yossarian]

 

 

[Bemorewins]

If Ober pitches anything like he did last week against us or how he has pretty much pitched all season, I don't think that there will be much "solving" of him going on.

You have to hope he makes some mistakes/misses some of his spots. Or try to keep the game close and eek one out in the later innings once he is out of the game.

Much of this will probably be on Cole Irvin to keep the Twins off the scoreboard. Not an exciting proposition I know. But at least we had yesterday's laugher thoroughly to enjoy.  

[Etch]

1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

Patient approaches at the plate and try to hammer mistakes. 

try to "hit" mistakes...fixed that for ya

[Billy F-Face3]

I don't know but I'm not feeling good about this game at all. It might be a good thing that it's on Apple TV and I have no access to watch it. I'm thinking my time will be better spent going out and doing something. McCann followed by Mateo in the lineup are 2 instant outs back to back. And I don't see how Cole Irvin keeps up with Ober.

I hope I cone back to look at the score and see that I'm wrong. 

[Billy F-Face3]

Not to mention the team will probably be tired because of the time they got into Minnesota. 

[waroriole]

Sounds like we’re getting swept to me. I’m sure of it. 

[Malike]

Try and make him work, it's really all you can do, not that the bullpen is a picnic, either. We're facing the best pitching in MLB this weekend, keep the games close and good things can happen.

[Rbiggs2525]

The last game all his strikeouts were off speed. In football terms, love the 4 yard run. When you get to 2 strikes think singles.

[24fps]

Send out Cole Irvin to outpitch him?

[Hallas]

answer: make him throw a lot of pitches and win it against their bullpen?