Game Thread: Twins v Diamondbacks, 9/24 @ 12:10pm CT

[USAFChief]

Nuno has thrown 79 pitches through 3 innings.

 

#notpitchingtocontact

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

Hughes has been a genuine bright spot in this awful season. If the Twins can load up on more pitching this offseason and find another Hughes, it will be twice as nice to watch this team.

[USAFChief]

I blame Halsey.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

This game is moving along smartly...

[Circus Boy]

Three things...

 

1. I was singing a Milli Vanilli song in the shower this morning. Wife said I sounded as good as the original. "How do you know that?" I asked.

 

2. Yes, it's the end of another hard year. But damn it, kids, it's been a lot darker for the Boys from the Twin Cities. On this date in 2000, as talk swirled of folding our tent through contraction, the last-place Twins defeated the first-place White Sox at the Dome 6-5 in 10 innings. Down 5-0 in the 7th, we came back with 4 runs in our half as A.J. Pierzynski clubbed a 3-run shot. In the bottom of the 8th, Denny Hocking -- yes, the heir to Cesar Tovar and Nick Punto's daddy -- tied it up with a sharp single to center, scoring Torii Hunter who'd tagged a triple to lead off. We won in the 10th on Matt Lawton's 2-out, full count homer. It was our 67th win. And we went on to play winning baseball the rest of the decade.

 

Well played, Mr. Hocking. Better days are coming.

 

3. I don't remember the third thing. That is all.

[amjgt]

The only thing that matters about today's game is Hughes not giving up a walk.

 

Zero walks would give him the ALL TIME best K/BB ratio, for a season.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/strikeouts_per_base_on_balls_season.shtml

[James]

Late to the game.  Sounds like the D-backs are already on pitcher #2.

[USAFChief]

Bring it home, game threaders, end the home season with a win.

 

I have a date with my granddaughter at the zoo.  

 

I'm out.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

So far so good on that front  - he's added a few Ks.

[Circus Boy]

This game is moving along smartly...

 

Good thing, too. The first game of the series, I had two children that I know of in the 1st inning and by the 6th, I had three.

[stringer bell]

Just saw the replay on Plouffe's injury. I don't think we have to worry about error #15.

[Circus Boy]

Bring it home, game threaders, end the home season with a win.

 

I have a date with my granddaughter at the zoo.  

 

I'm out.

 

Yes. Concur. Roger that.

 

Have fun! Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo.

[James]

Ooh.  That replay of Plouffe... I don't think he'll be back for a while.

 

Update: Fractured left forearm.  He's officially done for the year.

[big dog]

Just saw the replay on Plouffe's injury. I don't think we have to worry about error #15.

Yeah, I'm listening with the sound off so I didn't hear any commentary, but I don't need to.   His reaction told it all.

[Craig Arko]

Years ago I saw a guy that looked just like that on Nicollet Island, but he was laying next to the alley holding a bottle in a brown paper bag!

Nick Nolte?

[Platoon]

Good thing, too. The first game of the series, I had two children that I know of in the 1st inning and by the 6th, I had three.

Lucky for you it only went 9 innings!

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

it's the Danny Santana show today... not a bad program, even the re-runs are good.

[Winston Smith]

Just taking up space so it gets to page 3.

[FattCrapps]

The Twins better find a way to lose...the Red Sox are only a game back.

[James]

They might just call this game... due to the fact that both teams don't care that much.

 

nothing to do with the rain.

[Circus Boy]

Just taking up space so it gets to page 3.

 

So tell us, Mr. Smith, are we at war with Eastasia or Eurasia? (Page 3, here we come!)

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

dang Hughesie is throwing another gem!

[glunn]

I am at work, but hoping that you can make it to page 3.

[amjgt]

The delay make Hughes's record basically official.

[Halsey Hall]

Gotta get Hughes one more out to reach the incentive.  Somehow get him back out there!

[Mike Frasier Law]

So if I remember right, Hughes needs 8 1/3 innings to get his bonus. He's at 8. I wonder if he's done. If he comes back and walks a batter, he needs 2 more ks to maintain the single season record for k/bb ratio.

[Mike Sixel]

I'd let him pitch one inning out of the pen later, and not today.....

 

Did they really sacrifice bunt in the first inning?

[D. Hocking]

Nick Nolte?

Little know fact, Nicolette Island is actually a blending of this two names, and is named after him.  He was a voyager in his youth and discovered it on an exploratory mission looking for beaver.  He is actually 400 years old, while many would argue he only looks 375.

[James]

I'm going to propagate the idea (correctly or incorrectly) that the Pohlads are cheap and they are calling the dugout/clubhouse now telling Gardy not to let Hughes go back out there.  

[Platoon]

Little know fact, Nicolette Island is actually a blending of this two names, and is named after him.  He was a voyager in his youth and discovered it on an exploratory mission looking for beaver.  He is actually 400 years old, while many would argue he only looks 375.

I used to look for beaver on Hennepin Ave!