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Ober

Ober escaped with a sub-4.00 ERA, finishing 12-9 with a 3.98 ERA. All of the runs today came on James McCann’s homer in the fifth. Ober exited after the inning having thrown just 74 pitches. While the ERA was a bit disappointing, Ober finishes the year fifth in the majors with a 1.00 WHIP and 15th with 191 strikeouts. He definitely returned ample value based on where he was picked this spring.

Ober doesn’t really have much anything to shoot for Sunday, unless he can strike out 13 to get to 200. He’s already established new career highs in wins, strikeouts and innings. The one bad thing that could happen would be for his ERA to rise over 4.00; he’s at 3.94 right now.

It was a rather unbelievable outing for Ober, who gave up eight hits despite allowing only three hard-hit balls. He struck out seven and walked two. It was just a bad night for him to have such bad luck, and he’s now 12-8 with a 3.94 ERA for the year. He’ll likely start Sunday if the game is relevant for the Twins.

Ober gave up four hits, walked none and struck out 12. He was excellent. The 12 strikeouts were a season-high, but the Twins scored only two runs while Ober was in the game. Ober is 12-7 with a 3.84 ERA, 0.97 WHIP and 180 strikeouts in 168 2/3 innings on the year. The 29-year-old right-hander is set to face the Marlins at home next week.

It was one run through six before disaster struck in the seventh. That inning featured a triple, a squeeze bunt that produced no outs, a double and a walk. Ober was pulled with two outs and two on, and Jorge Alcala went on to give up a grand slam. Ober fell to 12-7 with a 3.90 ERA through 28 starts. He’ll face the Guardians next week.

Obert allowed one hit, walked none and struck out seven. The Twins bullpen wasted a wonderful outing by Ober by allowing four runs in the eighth inning once he was removed from the game. He’s bounced back with two excellent starts since allowing nine runs to the Braves on August 26th. Ober is 12-6 with a 3.77 ERA, 0.98 WHIP and 162 strikeouts in 155 innings this year. The 29-year-old right-hander is set to face the Reds at home next week.

Ober gave up a home run to the second batter he faced, Ernie Clement, and didn’t allow another hit for the rest of his outing. He had his usual excellent command of both his fastball and changeup and did well to mix up their usage late in counts to keep Toronto’s hitters guessing. His changeup is so wicked that he can drop it low-and-in to right-handed batters and use that to set up his slider away. It was beautiful to watch. He’s scheduled to face his arch nemeses, the Kansas City Royals, on the road next time out.

Ober gave up four runs in the first — including a three-run homer to Matt Olson — and then allowed a five-spot in the second with another two-run shot given up to Travis d’Arnaud. This breaks his streak of 11 consecutive quality starts, and goodness did it ever put an end to it. Ober will get a good chance to bounce back against the Blue Jays on Sunday.

It was one run through six innings before Jake Cronenworth doubled and Manny Machado homered to open the seventh. Ober was pulled then. It still goes down as his 11th consecutive quality start. He struck out five and went without walking a batter for the seventh time in his 24 starts on the season. He’ll face the Braves next.

The runs came in the first, which was a rare two-walk inning for a guy who had issued a total of 31 free passes in 22 starts coming in. Things got better afterwards, though Ober did wind up with just three strikeouts in what was his 10th straight quality start. He fanned 27 in his previous three outings.