Game Thread: Twins @ Rangers, 6/12/2015 7:05 p.m. CDT

[Squirrel]

I call statistics.

Pfft. If you knew me at all you'd be laughing with me at how funny that really is.

[Craig Arko]

And saved your hide.

I've never been burned at the stake before.

[Ultima Ratio]

Jebus, that is weak sauce Mauer.

[JB_Iowa]

CBU - Top of the 8th

 

DOZIER Home Run

 

Hunter flies out to Center

 

Mauer with a little liner to the pitcher.  (Was that even a liner -- not much more than a dribbler).

 

Plouffe strikes out.

 

 

2-2 in the middle of the 8th.

[Ultima Ratio]

…and Plouffe

[formerly33]

That's 8 K's for Milone, btw.

[USAFChief]

 

CBU - Top of the 8th

 

DOZIER Home Run

 

Hunter flies out to Center

 

Mauer with a little liner to the pitcher.  (Was that even a liner -- not much more than a dribbler).

 

Plouffe strikes out.

 

 

2-2 in the middle of the 8th.

more like "Mauer with a little 10 hopper back to the pitcher."

[howeda7]

Thompson? Really Gardy?

[Bark's Lounge]

Dozier holds off my depression for at least a few minutes.

[Squirrel]

Sigh.

 

I like Thompson's hair.

 

I don't like his pitching these days.

 

The latter trumps the former.

[USAFChief]

Jeebus Mauer, that was weak sauce.  New to playing first?

[David HK]

This Thompson has scared me since I first saw him.  And it's not cuz I'm jealous of his hair.  It's because he seems to suck at moments when we really need him not to suck.  You know, like walking the leadoff man kind of suck.

 

[howeda7]

Molly doing some managin'. Did Gardy trap you in a room since Wednesday? Blink twice if yes.

[USAFChief]

Sign the kid from Illinois, and have him in the pen by Sunday.

[Squirrel]

Oh major crap. Deunsing?

[USAFChief]

The only out this inning so far is one Texas gave us on purpose.

 

um..thanks!

[USAFChief]

Dick:  //disgust dripping from his voice//..."nearly hit him...2 and 1."

[Squirrel]

The only out this inning so far is one Texas gave us on purpose.

 

um..thanks!

Now, now, Chief. The inning isn't over yet.

[Winston Smith]

This is big for Duensings trade value.

[USAFChief]

 

This is big for Duensings trade value.

winner.

[David HK]

And the participants of the Klown Kar keep trotting out.  This bullpen... sheesh......  Get that new kid lefty out there- he'd surely inspire more confidence than Thompson and Dunce.

[John Kelsey]

Oh lord. 

[howeda7]

This one's on the manager.

[USAFChief]

How losing streaks are made and continued, ladies and gentlemen.

[JB_Iowa]

Aaron Thompson on the mound for the Twins in the bottom of the 8th.

 

Walks the 1st batter

Alberto bunts and is out at 1st.

Runner still on 1st.

 

Molitor pulls Thompson and brings in Ryan Pressly.

 

Pressly tries to catch a DeShields liner up the middle and may have knocked it in to CF.

 

Molitor to the mound.  Brings in the Duens.

 

Choo with a grounder to Mauer.  Out at 1st but moves the runners to 2nd and 3rd.

 

Prince Fielder walked intentionally.

 

Mitch Moreland up for the Rangers.

 

Liner to Center -- Hicks SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THAT.

 

4-2 Texas.

 

Molitor to the mound again.

 

Runners on 2nd & 3rd.

 

 

 

I'm switching to the Kindle so I won't be posting again tonight.  I hope the Twins can come back.  This one is really disheartening.  After all of Hicks' good play in Center, it just looks like he lost his concentration,

[Winston Smith]

This one's on the manager.

Any way we can blame this on the umpire?

[Blake]

Wow. Hicks has played excellent defense right up until the time when the Twins really needed him.

 

On the up side, Hicks is obviously distraught.

[David HK]

Well, that happened.   Come on, Gulfa.  Stop the bleeding.

[USAFChief]

The ticking time bomb that is the Twins bullpen has gone boom.

[stringer bell]

Oof.