Game Thread: Indians@Twins 8/21 12:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Well, it's time to wrap up a pretty ugly series against Cleveland. I'm not going to try to emulate RB's excellent game thread introductions so here's the skinny:

 

- The Good: Phil Hughes is pitching.

 

- The Bad: The Twins are facing Corey Kluber.

 

- The Ugly: The Twins have not scored a run in their last 17 innings.

 

Lineups:

Twins:

Danny Santana - SS
Brian Dozier - 2B
Joe Mauer - 1B
Kennys Vargas - DH
Oswaldo Arcia -  RF
Trevor Plouffe -  3B
Kurt Suzuki - C
Chris Parmelee - LF
Jordan Schafer - CF

 

Cleveland:

Michael Bourn - CF
Mike Aviles - SS
Michael Brantley - LF
Carlos Santana - 1B
Jason Kipnis - 2B
Yan Gomes - C
Lonnie Chisenhall - 3B
Zach Walters - DH
Chris Dickerson - RF

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Well, it's time to wrap up a pretty ugly series against Cleveland. I'm not going to try to emulate RB's excellent game thread introductions so here's the skinny:

 

Skinny is good.  Leastwise, it isn't inherently bad.

 

Here's to running circles around 'em!

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

Mauer's average and OBP is climbing this month - I hope he makes it all the way back to .300/.400/.400 levels by season's end. He's back up to .278/.353/.371 as of today...

 

And how about another homer for Arcia?

[Danchat]

Whoa... I just woke up... the Twins are already playing?

[Otto von Ballpark]

Whoa... I just woke up... the Twins are already playing?

I read all of your posts as Matthew LeCroy talking into that phone.  This one works especially well in that context.

[Otto von Ballpark]

How is it that, in 2014, FSN doesn't carry this game?  I mean, I am sure that weekday afternoon ratings won't be very good, but they are bound to be better than whatever else they show (in this case, a replay of last night's game, which is very confusing to say the least).

 

I wonder, since FSN declined to carry it, would the game be available locally for MLB.TV subscribers?

[Thegrin]

No TV. Anybody know how to filter out Dan Gladden ?

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

Hughes seems to be sharp out there -  4 Ks in the first three innings... 

[JB_Iowa]

How is it that, in 2014, FSN doesn't carry this game?  I mean, I am sure that weekday afternoon ratings won't be very good, but they are bound to be better than whatever else they show (in this case, a replay of last night's game, which is very confusing to say the least).

 

I wonder, since FSN declined to carry it, would the game be available locally for MLB.TV subscribers?

 

I'm thinking of it as a "random act of kindness" by FSN.

[D. Hocking]

No TV. Anybody know how to filter out Dan Gladden ?

There is a mullet removal filter you can get at Radio Shack.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Matching goose eggs halfway through the fourth...  (Well, the fourth has yet to be matched.)

 

Good little pitchers duel so far.

[Ben B]

I have MLB.TV, and they have the Cleveland feed available. It's blacked out in Minnesota still, but I get around it with a VPN. 

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

Take that, pitcher's duel!

[Thegrin]

Vargas is a keeper. I've penciled him in for the next 17 years

[big dog]

Wait, we have a lead? We're WINNING???  I like this.  Let's hope Hughesie can make one run hold up.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

_dang.

[big dog]

Wait, we have a lead? We're WINNING???  I like this.  Let's hope Hughesie can make one run hold up.

Yup, that's right.  I jinxed it.  Now banning myself.

[Danchat]

Wait, we have a lead? We're WINNING???  I like this.  Let's hope Hughesie can make one run hold up.

Looks like it took about 3 minutes for the Twins to lose the lead after you said this.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Did i just see what i thought i saw?

 

A strike out on a foul tip, where the glove fell off Suzuki's hand.

 

(Oh, and a tie game on another solo dinger... an offset fence post, rather than strictly matching.

Why can't we have nice things?)

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

I - what? Kurt Suzuki caught stealing? This is perhaps why we can't have nice things...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Suzuki on base with a strange demonstration of conservation of momentum:

 

Ball off his elbow, into the catcher's mask.  Catcher's mask flies off, and ball drops to the ground.

 

And then Suzuki gets thrown out at second, presumably on a take and run call?

 

Oh well.

[Thegrin]

_dang.

dinger

[clank2000]

I - what? Kurt Suzuki caught stealing? This is perhaps why we can't have nice things...

 

what in Sam Hill....?

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

C'mon Danny-ie!

[Thegrin]

no hopes. no expectations. willing to be pleasantly surprised

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

_sigh.

 

Well, there's always next inning.

[Shack L Ford]

Great effort guys! Maybe next inning.

[Winston Smith]

Doing the little things, Twins baseball.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

Huh. ESPN only let Cleveland have two outs in that last inning. 

 

was the third out on the bases somewhere?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Huh. ESPN only let Cleveland have two outs in that last inning. 

 

was the third out on the bases somewhere?

Yup.

 

Quick throw from Arcia in Right to Santana at 2nd base was called safe originally, but overturned after a challenge.