Game Thread, Twins vs. Rangers, 8/13 @ 12:10pm CT

[twinsnorth49]

 

What the **F** is Glynn doing sending Robinson there with Dozier and Mauer coming up next?  Come on, man...that's just dumb baseball.

Agreed, bottom 6, #2 hitter up next, I like aggressive base running but that was ill advised.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

 

What the **F** is Glynn doing sending Robinson there with Dozier and Mauer coming up next?  Come on, man...that's just dumb baseball.

Glynn doesn't seem to grade out very well as a third base coach. (I don't know this for a fact, but it appears that he SUCKS.)

[70charger]

Hey all. Interesting game so far. Nice to see Hicks is looking clutch again. I really like it when he hits.

[Gibby]

Saweet!

[Ultima Ratio]

I love this Rosario kid!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Looks like Rosario has installed sites.

 

Er... sights, i mean.

[70charger]

Damn, Rosario threw a fireball there. And it's not like he was throwing out a lumbering bear like Prince Fielder either.

 

Well done!

[JB_Iowa]

Great Throw!  Great Catch!  Good Tag!

[jimbo92107]

This is why you don't get rid of Eddie Rosario. That bat, that arm, that speed. Even better, the mind of a baseball player.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Great Throw!  Great Catch!  Good Tag!

And thank you to the woman in Costa Rica who stitched the ball together!

[twinsnorth49]

Good grief Rosario has a bazooka!

[twinsnorth49]

Duensing's got this.....

[Gibby]

 

 

Good grief Rosario has a bazooka!

 

  He has a really good arm too.

[70charger]

Duensing only faced two batters to get three outs. No wonder he's the number-one sought after trade asset that the Twins have.

[mickeymental]

 

An aside, Brian Duensing writes right handed. I was at spring training three years ago and the fans were having "Brian" sign, I figured it must be Dozier (who I didn't recognize then).

true story: back in junior high, a kid moved into town who quarterbacked righty and pitched lefty. was actually pretty good at both (but he tore up his knee in the ancient days before miracle surgery and never played in high school).

[ScrapTheNickname]

I don't dislike Dozier by any means, but he will make a good beer-bellied slowpitch softball player one day, judging by the way he pulls ... every ... single ... ball ... pitched ... to ... him.

[twinsnorth49]

Told ya.

[ScrapTheNickname]

If you're old enough to have seen Killebrew play

 

When Sano comes up to the plate the same edge of your seat anticipation

 

Comes along every 50 years? Enjoy it, enjoy now before he signs that 10 year contract with

 

Planet New York, California, or Texas

[Cap'n Piranha]

So I listen to the Twins race out to a 4-0 lead, and then head off to a meeting.

 

I return the Twins trailing 5-4, and the first play I hear upon resuming the feed is Hicks' RBI single.

 

Fear not Twins faithful, no more meetings for me today.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

 

Dozier needs to take some lessons from Sano about using the whole field and working counts.

He is not very good at the plate right now, early season heroics not withstanding.

He doesn't look very good at the plate the last two weeks. a little snake bit yes but also a little to pull happy.

He is fundamentally Pull Happy.

I wonder if anything can be done about it?

Forever Pull Happy probably.

Or Molitor gets in his head next year.

[ScrapTheNickname]

Hmmm.

 

Just saw that today is International Left-Handers Day.

 

Duensing has to know this, and therefore he knows that he representing all those who were turned into righties by nuns and he KNOWS he has to pitch great today.

 

Ah, he's out of the game. Forget it.

 

[TwinsCD]

 

The catcher was illegally blocking the path to the plate, so if Robinson had run straight to the plate he would have collided with the catcher and he would have been ruled safe. Why, this year, no controversy? While last year, so much controversy? Boring.

 

 

The throw took the catcher into the basepath so all of those new convoluted rules go out the window but the runner still has to find a way to avoid hitting the catcher.

[rghrbek]

 

What the **F** is Glynn doing sending Robinson there with Dozier and Mauer coming up next?  Come on, man...that's just dumb baseball.

With the way Dozier and Mauer have been hitting in the 2nd half, maybe it wasn't that bad a move?   I could not see how far he was out by, since I was at work, although.

[twinsnorth49]

 

Dozier needs to take some lessons from Sano about using the whole field and working counts.

He is not very good at the plate right now, early season heroics not withstanding.

He doesn't look very good at the plate the last two weeks. a little snake bit yes but also a little to pull happy.

2 doubles last night, he's pull happy but he also continues to prove he'll punish mistakes. Dozier's just in an adjustment period, he's getting pitched away a lot and he's still trying to yank them, he'll figure it out.

[twinsnorth49]

Fien's got this....

[RichardMcBeef]

I thought we had Jepsen for situations like this?

[70charger]

So I see the bullpen is trying to give the game away again. Lovely.

 

Well, I'm off to dinner. Best to the Twins (and the fans!)

[twinsnorth49]

Well, can't say I haven't seen this movie before......lovely.

[Cap'n Piranha]

Danny Gladden just said the Rangers shouldn't suicide squeeze because "Casey Fien has too many pitches you swing and miss at".  Which of course is why he strikes out 5 per 9, because his stuff is so good.

[USAFChief]

I can't even begin to express how happy I am they're going to get ~50 pitches out of Trevor May tomorrow so that Fien can pitch in a tie game today.