Game Thread (#2) Twins vs Angels 09/19/2015 @6:10pm CT

[ashbury]

Very tough loss in the first game. Losing streak now at 4, and could come at hardly a worse time. We need a win tonight. A few other thoughts:

 

1) Mike Pelfrey. 'Nuf said, Big Pelf's got this.

 

2) Garrett Richards. The Angels threw a competent pitcher at us in game 1, we get another one tonight. Big righty (not as big as our guy of course), eats innings, strikes out his share of batters, keeps his team in the game. He walks a few, so maybe patience at the plate will be key.

 

3) The Twins Offense. This seems like the overall key. First game today was winnable, and a single run in any number of late inning chances would have achieved that. We need sustained offense the rest of this season if we're going to have a sniff at the postseason.

 

4) Mr Teflon. Blaine Boyer does it again. He gets tagged for this afternoon's loss, but the run was unearned. So his season ERA is now a tidy 2.36. Does anybody on this planet believe this number fairly reflects the season he has had? Besides members of the Twins front office, I mean?

 

5) Age 93. My dad celebrates his birthday today. I live too far away to see him as much as I'd like, but he and his bride of 4 years seem to be getting out and about with the other retirees in his residential complex. May we all age as gracefully.

 

Lineups:

 

Angels

 

Garrett Thomas Richards, R, 6'3", 210lb, SP

 

1 SS E. Aybar (B )
2 RF K. Calhoun (L ) 
3 CF M. Trout (R ) 
4 DH A. Pujols (R )
5 LF D. Murphy (L )
6 3B D. Freese (R )
7 C C. Iannetta (R ) 
8 1B E. Navarro (L ) 
9 2B T. Featherston (R )

 

 

Twins

 

Michael Alan Pelfrey, R, 6'7", 240lb, SP

 

1 2B B. Dozier (R )
2 1B J. Mauer (L ) 
3 DH M. Sano (R )
4 3B T. Plouffe (R )
5 RF T. Hunter (R )
6 LF E. Rosario (L )
7 SS E. Nunez (R ) 
8 C C. Herrmann (L ) 
9 CF B. Buxton (R )

[DaveW]

Over/under on bunts by the twins: 2.5

 

Please please please be under.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Nunez at short, Herrmann catching, Buxton in center (at #9, so Dozier back in lead off and everyone moves up)

 

Oh yeah, Happy Birthday, Ashbury Sr.!

[drock2190]

Expect the Angels to wallop the Twins tonight.

 

They keep losing winnable games, but here comes the dagger.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Expect the Angels to wallop the Twins tonight. They keep losing winnable games, but here comes the dagger.

No, the bottle is 1/4 full, not 3/4 empty. Please, have a little faith. There's magic in the night. She ain't a beauty, but hey she's all right. Oh, that's alright with me.

[ashbury]

No, the bottle is 1/4 full, not 3/4 empty. Please, have a little faith. There's magic in the night. She ain't a beauty, but hey she's all right. Oh, that's alright with me.

At this junction in the road, we do need a little thunder.

 

[Kwak]

I  guess Escobar was deemed the goat--so he's gone!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

CRU...

 

Cedar Rapids gives up a run in the top of the 9th to go down 2-1.

 

Then starts the bottom off with a pair of doubles (a double double) to put runners on 2nd and 3rd... And brings 'em both in eventually to win the game.

[Squirrel]

Crawl vantage point for those not at Goose Island Pub:

[spinowner]

I wish it was Hicks in RF

[ashbury]

I wish it was Hicks in RF

It will be, after he pinch runs for Torii in the 8th.

[spinowner]

Good play by the lazy guy at 1B

[ashbury]

The lack of an off-season training regimen pays off!

[ashbury]

There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who do not.

[spinowner]

 

 

There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who do not.

That's me!

[Squirrel]

That's me!

Concur

[spinowner]

Concur

I know you are but what am I? Takes one to know one

[Squirrel]

I know you are but what am I? Takes one to know one

I'm rubber and you're glue ...

[spinowner]

 

I'm rubber and you're glue ...

Did you learn grammar at KMart?

[Squirrel]

Did you learn grammar at KMart?

Huh?

[Craig Arko]

Behave. You never know who might be reading.

[ashbury]

Did you learn grammar at KMart?

She left the rest of her sentence to the implied, "and your glue is no good and doesn't stick, like the kind you might buy at KMart."

[spinowner]

Did you learn grammar at KMart?

Ooh moderator queen can edit her mistakes and pretend they didn't happen

[Squirrel]

Some of the crawlers opted to watch the game from the Goose Island Pub:

 

Hint: they are the ones in the royal blue tshirts.

[ashbury]

0-0 going into the bottom of the second. CBU.

 

PS, Big Pelf's got this.

[Craig Arko]

No score, middle of 2nd.

[ashbury]

Hint: they are the ones in the royal blue tshirts.

I wore my new royal blue shirt to the bank yesterday. I figured a Pub Crawl logo would look good when conducting a transaction involving a certain degree of mutual trust, no?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

No score, middle of 2nd.

Doh!

 

I forgot weekend games are an hour earlier...

 

Glad i didn't miss as much as i might have.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Some of the crawlers opted to watch the game from the Goose Island Pub:

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Hint: they are the ones in the royal blue tshirts.

Is that another contributing factor to the shortness of the threads?

[ashbury]

Doh!

 

I forgot weekend games are an hour earlier...

 

Glad i didn't miss as much as i might have.

You didn't finish reading the CBU. It's 0-0. You didn't miss a single solitary thing.