![]() ![]() While his brother is comfortable as a potential closer, Rogers is still figuring out the adjustment to pitching on short notice. A starter his entire career - he has made 87 minor league starts in five professional seasons - Rogers was sent to the bullpen in the majors. There used to be another big difference, too, but that one evaporated the moment Molitor realized how useful the 25-year-old Rogers can be. He scrapes his knuckles,” his brother said. The righty pitches submarine-style, “all the way down there. ![]() Their faces and body types may be identical, but their styles are completely different: The lefty comes over the top, mixing straight fastballs with a nasty curve. Taylor made it first, but Tyler, who leads the Eastern League in appearances and owns a 0.77 ERA, isn’t far behind. “That’s what we always dreamed of,” Taylor Rogers said. The brothers probably should get this same-time conflict resolved, because each appears to have a major league career ahead of him. Tyler’s outing against the Hartford Yard Goats was even worse: Two singles and a double scored the first runs he had given up all season, snapping his Richmond record 23⅔-inning scoreless streak. Taylor gave up two hits and an intentional walk to the Phillies, loading the bases before extricating himself from the jam by striking out former NL MVP Ryan Howard with a curveball. Perhaps identical twins pitching at identical times disrupts baseball karma, because neither Rogers was sharp. “They were cracking up, because we were pitching at the exact same time.”Īlas, the levity didn’t last long. “They had games on two screens, and were watching both at once,” said Taylor Rogers, the Twins lefthander and older brother - by 30 seconds - to Giants prospect Tyler Rogers, a Richmond righthander. Suddenly, Scott and Amy Rogers’ attention was divided and intensified, all at once, as they watched mirror images pitch. At the same moment 1,000 miles farther east, at a stadium in Manchester, N.H., a righthander jogged out of the bullpen to pitch the seventh inning for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, a Class AA team. A time zone away, at Target Field, Twins manager Paul Molitor trudged to the mound and signaled for a lefthanded reliever. in suburban Denver last Thursday when the craziness began. ![]()
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