Game Thread: Twins @ Yankees, 8/19 @ 12:05pm CT

[twinsnorth49]

May warming up to come into his  favoured spot, too late.

[Aggies7]

I assume most of you live in or near the Midwest. You are at least far enough away from the multitude of Yankees fans that surround me here in eastern PA. That's what makes losing to them, and in heartbreaking fashion seemingly every time, so very difficult. The fashion in which these games have been lost has been just astonishing. ARods 3 homer game in MN, the last two nights, the rookie hitting two homers today. After today's loss, the twins will drop to 1-5 this year against NY. They had a lead in every single one of those games. Think about how terrible that is.

 

I'm just glad we won't be making the postseason so that this embarrassment doesn't occur on a national scale like it did four times already.

[jimmer]

 

For some reason, I can't seem to dislike KC.  Might go back to George Brett and Freddy Patek.

I can't either, though them intentionally beaning batters and buzzing their heads (with the manager defending it), is starting to wear on me :-)

[Aggies7]

I almost forgot the series in NY in May 2010 where the Yankees had three walk offs in a row.

[LaBombo]

 

For some reason, I can't seem to dislike KC.  Might go back to George Brett and Freddy Patek.

 

I was able to muster up a little dislike thanks to their fake Rodney Dangerfield 'No respect' bit, the ridiculous tiff with the Jays, and a friend who is a baseball-ignorant-yet-smug KC fan.

 

But after the energy I expend disliking the Yankees, White Sox, and at times various others, there's not much left to go around.

[twinsnorth49]

Good thing Mollie didn't waste that K last night on A-Roid.

[Halsey Hall]

I'll watch one more half inning.

[gocgo]

 

I can't either, though them intentionally beaning batters and buzzing their heads (with the manager defending it), is starting to wear on me :-)

Dunno.  Starting to wish we had done that to Bird....and Aroid.

[gocgo]

The only time I remember stealing one from the Yankees was when Kubes hit a grand slam off Mo in the 9th.

[Aggies7]

 

Dunno.  Starting to wish we had done that to Bird....and Aroid.

 

I've never been one of those guys, but it's hard for me to understand how the twins pitchers don't plant one in someone's back after games like this. Just as much for a frustration release as anything else.

[LaBombo]

 

Good thing Mollie didn't waste that K last night on A-Roid.

 

Don't worry.    My ample gut tells me the rotation has a coming stretch in it that will make May's situational misuse within the pen pale in comparison to his being miscast as a reliever...

[TwinsCD]

 

I assume most of you live in or near the Midwest. You are at least far enough away from the multitude of Yankees fans that surround me here in eastern PA. That's what makes losing to them, and in heartbreaking fashion seemingly every time, so very difficult. The fashion in which these games have been lost has been just astonishing. ARods 3 homer game in MN, the last two nights, the rookie hitting two homers today. After today's loss, the twins will drop to 1-5 this year against NY. They had a lead in every single one of those games. Think about how terrible that is.

 

I'm just glad we won't be making the postseason so that this embarrassment doesn't occur on a national scale like it did four times already.

 

I grew up in PA and my brother is a Yankees fan...then when I first went to work out of college, I lived in New England where it was a mix of both annoying fanbases of Yankees and Red Sox.  I'm in Florida now and they don't care about baseball down here so I don't hear about how great the Yankees are blah blah blah as much anymore.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

blecccch.

[Danchat]

Alright... let's focus on the positives. We know we can beat the Orioles and since our bullpen didn't get used today, it'll be ready to go.

 

Just forget about this series with the Yankees... 

[Aggies7]

What an embarrassing series. The twins will never compete for a meaningful title with such mental midgets on the roster. The players and managers change, but the story is the same. When you let a guy in the majors not even two weeks and Chase Headley single handedly beat you, you are a sorry excuse for a major league club. It's all between the ears.

[jimmer]

Asked what stats he values most, Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway cited FIP and xFIP. Kluber ranks 3rd and 4th, respectively, in MLB.

[Halsey Hall]

In this one, Santana got the bird..........twice, and that was that. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Game over, man.

 

And at least we're equal opportunity. Didn't give Toronto better treatment than we did the Yankees...

 

And we got the Yankees right were we wanted 'em, sufferin' from a big case a hubris, ready be taken down a peg by the next team they face...

 

I'm gonna turn the channel to the fine little rain fallin' out back, and the deer sneakin' into the yard for the fallen apples...

 

G'day!

[Aggies7]

twins finish 1-5 against NY in 2015

 

they led in every game, 5 times in the 6th inning or later.

[LaBombo]

If playing the Yankees were a game show soundbite...

[James]

 

Game over, man.

And at least we're equal opportunity. Didn't give Toronto better treatment than we did the Yankees...

And we got the Yankees right were we wanted 'em, sufferin' from a big case a hubris, ready be taken down a peg by the next team they face...

I'm gonna turn the channel to the fine little rain fallin' out back, and the deer sneakin' into the yard for the fallen apples...

G'day!

Sure we did.  We let the Blue Jays beat us 4 times.  We only let the Yankees beat of three times. 

[Aggies7]

 

If playing the Yankees were a game show soundbite...

 

I prefer this

[gocgo]

 

I've never been one of those guys, but it's hard for me to understand how the twins pitchers don't plant one in someone's back after games like this. Just as much for a frustration release as anything else.

Perhaps that's where the term "Minnesota nice" comes from.

[jimmer]

 

I've never been one of those guys, but it's hard for me to understand how the twins pitchers don't plant one in someone's back after games like this. Just as much for a frustration release as anything else.

Which is harder to understand?  That or our team's constant need to throw completely hittable pitches on 0-2 and 1-2 counts?  Teams know our compulsive hatred for throwing balls and for walking people as a philosophy, they know there are going to keep getting hitter's pitches even on pitcher's counts.  Stops them from having to take such a defensive approach during what should be complete pitcher's counts.  Been going on for years.  That is how the ARod homer happens.

[LaBombo]

 

Game over, man.

 

 

http://www.graffitiwithpunctuation.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Hudsonimage.jpg

 

 

Looks like it.    Thanks to the fact that, NOT including the division leaders,  the Twins trail FIVE other teams in the loss column for the wildcard, they are in some real pretty s#!^ now, man.

[John Kelsey]

Hicks to the DL. 

[Platoon]

It would seem to me the Bird of Paradise flew up our nose, or if not our nose, some other orifice?

[Craig Arko]

You all seem so unhappy; here's a little cheer up ditty.

 

http://youtu.be/Z_k2GG-H_RU

[wavedog]

Referencing Baseball-reference.com and head to head matchups....

Since 2000, In the regular season the Yankees are 75-36 against Minnesota for a .676 winning percentage.   For teams played over 100 games in that timeframe,  NY has beaten only KC more than Minnesota.  Conversely, Minnesota has the worst winning percentage against NY in the same timeframe for teams played > 100 games.  The fact that KC stunk for most of that time plus Minnesota was a contender and add in the playoff losses  leads to the frustration.  Actually these losses to the Yankees have long passed the frustration line - they have moved into acceptance.   This apparently is just the way it is.  All the games merge into one composite game memory:  Twins have lead in late innings - Twins blow lead - Twins lose. 

 

 

[Jerr]

Afraid it will be the same old, same old next year when these teams play