Game Thread, Twins @ Tigers, 9/26

[spinowner]

I say run Duffey out again in 5 days. He's almost 25 years old. I don't think we have to worry as much about him handling the work load as we do with, say, Berreios at age 21.

[Physics Guy]

Really surprised they sent Duffey out with 95 pitches. It worked out.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Dear TD,

 

Are you sitting your typing fingers, or chewing your fingernails? What is preventing you from typing. It's been 10 minutes and nobody has written anything. Thus I have taken it upon myself to fill the void with a void.

"Here we are now. Entertain us."

 

Thanks for filling the void!

 

(it takes a lot of filling... especially the void where prohibited)

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Yes, for home plate, 1B and 3B. 2B has its center at the point of the 90' square. Why it's not inside the square is beyond me.

You are much faster than i...

 

Thanks, and sorry i didn't see it while i was lookin' at my own stuff.

[drock2190]

Simon is a big boy but I think the Twins bat boy has him beat

[spinowner]

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/objectives_1.jsp

Except for 2nd base which is centered on the corner...

Weird.

But yeah, 90' is the distance from the point of the plate where foul lines intersect to the far edge on the foul line of both 3rd and 1st, and the distance from those points on 3rd and first to the center of 2nd...

Thanks for the edumication on the fine details of the lay out of the infield.

Yeah, it's one of those quirky little things about baseball. The dimensions are defined to the inch but there's no good reason that second base should be different. It would be interesting to go back in time and be a fly on the wall during the committee meeting that standardized those dimensions to see why they decided to set it up that way .

[USAFChief]

 

Really surprised they sent Duffey out with 95 pitches. It worked out.

Concur.

 

I'm guessing it has more to do with lack of faith in the pen than anything else.

[spinowner]

7th inning too early to PH for Zukes? 

[spinowner]

 

7th inning too early to PH for Zukes? 

Guess not!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Suzuki drives in the Hunter!

[Physics Guy]

Concur.

 

I'm guessing it has more to do with lack of faith in the pen than anything else.

Pretty much what I was thinking as well. Now he has the chance to get the win as well.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

The patient is still breathing!

[USAFChief]

Zuke delivers an RBI single.  3-2 good guys.

 

And no, Dickbert....almost everyone gets sent there, not just Torii Hunter.  It's a ground ball single to left.  Of course they sent him.

[USAFChief]

c'mon Escobear...big run out there on third.

[spinowner]

Wheels get us another run!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Escobar's got wheels! They are tiny tiny wheels, but they are wheels

[spinowner]

OK, Mollie, it's up to you to guess right about which relievers to bring in.

[USAFChief]

 

OK, Mollie, it's up to you to guess right about which relievers to bring in.

ha...well played sir.

 

I sure as H E double hockey sticks wouldn't want to be the one making the call.

[mickeymental]

is al worthington among the living?

[spinowner]

 

ha...well played sir.

 

I sure as H E double hockey sticks wouldn't want to be the one making the call.

Guess wrong and you've got TD nation camping outside your house with torches and pitchforks.

[spinowner]

 

is al worthington among the living?

Al was a top-notch closer before they were called closers.

[jimbo92107]

Duffey's curve actually looked better after a hundred pitches. Finally got that thing warmed up. Good outing. Good show by Boyer, too. 

[spinowner]

Loon on the pond!

[USAFChief]

In all seriousness, while I'm not above an occasional second guess about which reliever pitched to this or that batter (and sometimes, it's not a second guess, but a first guest, and sometimes it ain't all that hard to see bad matchups in advance),  my general theory is, and always has been:  "Lose late with your starter, that's on the manager.  Lose late with a reliever, that's on the reliever."

 

Anywhoo....so far so good.  "Boyer in the 7th" was a good guess, Mr Molitor.  

[USAFChief]

That pitch to Sano that he K'd on is the exact pitch Twins pitchers need to throw more often.

[Squirrel]

Dear TD,

 

Are you sitting your typing fingers, or chewing your fingernails? What is preventing you from typing. It's been 10 minutes and nobody has written anything. Thus I have taken it upon myself to fill the void with a void.

Yes

[spinowner]

Wheels!

[drock2190]

Plouffe sure seems upset these days

[jimbo92107]

Woof, just for a sec I thought Eddie got all that one. Guess it was a little off the end. Now let's see if Trevor May's back is better than Perkins's back. 

[spinowner]

 

Woof, just for a sec I thought Eddie got all that one. Guess it was a little off the end. Now let's see if Trevor May's back is better than Perkins's back. 

That's a big if.