Game Thread: Twins v A's, 4/9@ 12:10pm CT

[LaBombo]

Dumbest mound charge of all time: Reggie Sanders, believing Pedro Martinez had deliberately thrown at him just five outs from a perfect game. What a tool.

[D. Hocking]

Seriously, when was the last time this team was involved in a brawl?

 

Near-brawl -- Delmon wanting to charge his teammate (Mjares?)?

[LaBombo]

Near-brawl -- Delmon wanting to charge his teammate (Mjares?)?

At least he didn't throw a bat at him...

 

[GCTF]

The hell? This thing is still going?

[DaveW]

Great walk Burton....

[LaBombo]

The hell? This thing is still going?

The game or the thread?

[Gibby]

Say goodnight Gracie.

[zchrz]

Wtf Burton

[Beezer07]

Welp, probably shoulda just won it in the bottom of the 9th.

[DaveW]

Why couldn't Perkins go two innings again?

[James]

Well, that HR just took all the fun out of this game.

[LaBombo]

So much for selling high on Burton...

[GCTF]

If it's any consolation, there was no way he was going to get Chuck out anyway.

[Winston Smith]

6. Think about Burton and 6a. think about Tonkin.

[GCTF]

The game or the thread?

 

Both.

[zchrz]

The year he was good, didn't Burton throw the "splange-up" most of the time? Why the fastball reliance the last 2 years.

[GCTF]

The year he was good, didn't Burton throw the "splange-up" most of the time? Why the fastball reliance the last 2 years.

 

Not enough contact otherwise.

[LaBombo]

Why couldn't Perkins go two innings again?

Because closer, or something...

 

Dunno. The 21 pitches and high usage to start the season probably didn't help. And Gardenhire only asked him to go two innings once last year, in the last week of the season, oddly enough. In fact he only recorded more than three outs three times last season.

[Gibby]

Twins baseball.

[Squirrel]

****.

 

That is all I have to say.

[notoriousgod71]

Why is that more acceptable than losing the ball in the roof?

[GCTF]

Note to Twins, a two man bench sucks.

[Mike Sixel]

Note to Twins, a two man bench sucks.

You can't just DL these guys right when they get hurt. That wouldn't make sense.

[GCTF]

Hopefully Joe can bloop one here to load 'em up.

[James]

Hopefully Joe can bloop one here to load 'em up.

A walk works too.

[Mike Sixel]

You can't just DL these guys right when they get hurt. That wouldn't make sense.

To be clear, you can't DL starters when they get hurt, you can DL guys that should not be on the roster at all. these unwritten rules are hard....

[Craig Arko]

6. Think about Burton and 6a. think about Tonkin.

 

Was in fact thinking it's time for the Tonkin Resolution.

[James]

And there you have it...

[thetank]

Need a grand slam. Walk off GS will be a moment in Twins history

[LaBombo]

Suspecting there's a Reussie column in the works about the loss, in which all we learn about the game is that Mauer walked in his final AB instead of homering, and is therefore an indisputably over-rated nonleader and all-around disappointment.