Game 60 - Twins vs Phightin' Phils - 6/12/12

[Parker Hageman]

I highly encourage all of you to put on your Thome Is My Homey t-shirts right now. Today's Twins starting lineup brought to you by Joe Christensen:

 

#Twins vs. RH Kendrick: Span 8, Revere 9, Mauer 2, Willingham 7, Morneau 3, Doumit DH, Plouffe 5, Dozier 6, Carroll 4 (Blackburn P)

 

By the way, in the past 14 days, Trevor Plouffe's .800 slugging percentage is the fourth-highest in baseball. In that time Plouffe (.371 BA) and Ben Revere (.370 BA) have been hotter than hell. I'm considering borrowing the line from Major League II "Black Hammer and White Lightening" when referring to them.

 

 

Help me make this so.

[J-Dog Dungan]

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[James]

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Agreed. It may be a reference to second favorite major league movie, but the "Black Hammer, White Lightning" was well played.

[Scheherezade]

What's Parmelee doing in the majors?

[Thrylos]

So Plouffe has governor potential?

[Chance]

nice leadoff homerun from Span!!

[snepp]

Blacksie's arm must be sufficiently tired tonight, groundballs o' plenty.

[Chance]

Blacksie's arm must be sufficiently tired tonight, groundballs o' plenty.

Love it. They say he needs his arm to be tired to pitch better. Why not let him go to 120 if hes pitching well?

[Chance]

Plouffe!!!!!!!

[striker_86]

What has gotten into Plouffe lately? I love it. I was skeptical of Gardy leaving him in the lineup every night. But clearly this kid has some serious major league power.

[striker_86]

Okay Mauer, lets blow this game open with a double..

[Chance]

not a double but got a hit. I'm so excited that this team is playing up to its potential. Mostly Plouffe, I have gotten so much grief for being a big Plouffe backer for the last 3 years. Happy I didn't lose hope or back off my opinion. hes making me look smart.

[glunn]

not a double but got a hit. I'm so excited that this team is playing up to its potential. Mostly Plouffe, I have gotten so much grief for being a big Plouffe backer for the last 3 years. Happy I didn't lose hope or back off my opinion. hes making me look smart.

There are a number of us Plouffetists here, including our founding member, Bark's Lounge.

[glunn]

I would be nice to wear out the Phils starter and bullpen tonight so that they have a thin bullpen for the rest of this series.

[Chance]

Well I'm happy to be one of you!

 

Well Kendrick has thrown 47 pitches but id be nice to take on another 2 runs and get him out of there

[striker_86]

Especially with Blanton going on Thursday. Might be tough to know Hammels out tomorrow....

[snepp]

Plouffe hit the piss out of that ball too.

[Chance]

Minor league update

 

Rochester losing 2-0 in the 7th. Valencia and Wilkin Ramirez 2 singles each.

NB postponed

Ft. Myers up 5-3 in the 7th. Danny Rams grand slam

Beloit losing 3-1 in the 4th. Matthew Koch double and a run scored.

[Nick Nelson]

Do the Twins trade Valencia at the deadline? And do they get more for him than they got for, say, Delmon?

[Chance]

Is Blackie falling apart?

[glunn]

Phils seem to be figuring Blackburn out in the 4th -- we really need an out here.

[Chance]

Do the Twins trade Valencia at the deadline? And do they get more for him than they got for, say, Delmon?

If Plouffe continues to play this well I think that they trade either Valencia or Span. Span will draw more but be harder to part with. They might go that route if they value Valencia more than other GMs might. I say either one because they could move revere to center and Plouffe to right.

 

The Delmon trade isnt looking bad. Cole Nelson looks like he could be a very solid starter with K potential. And Oliveros could be a future closer.

[Chance]

this game got uncomfortable in the last five minutes

[glunn]

This is getting bad.-- Blackburn can't seem to get that one out that we needed.

[stringer bell]

Nick "BP" Blackburn. Willingham for DH?

[Guest USAFChief]

The Blackburn era can't end quick enough for me.

[snepp]

The Blackburn era can't end quick enough for me.

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[NorthwestTwinsFan]

Twins need to send Blackburn and his neck beard packing asap.

[glunn]

The Blackburn era can't end quick enough for me.

He started well tonight -- just seems unable to sustain.

[glunn]

Span needs to get on base -- we need more runs.