Article: Game Thread: White Sox@Twins 4/11 3:10PM

[Aggies7]

The twins are going to have 2 less losses in one week than the golden state warriors have had all season. Can you even compute that in your brains?

[Mr. Brooks]

Because the rules of baseball dictate that all players playing in the field must also bat, except for the pitcher, unless you're playing in a national league park, in which case the pitcher must also bat.

Do the rules allow a team to substitute a player from the bench to replace the batter? A "pinch hitter", if you will.

[alskntwnsfn]

This painful to watch, but it might be the frostbite out here in section 133. Sun is starting to make its way through, so that's something I guess.

[Mike Sixel]

Seriously? More bunting? Auto correct tried to make that bungling.......

[TheLeviathan]

 

Because the rules of baseball dictate that all players playing in the field must also bat, except for the pitcher, unless you're playing in a national league park, in which case the pitcher must also bat.

 

The rules also, so far as I know, do not state that Oswaldo Arcia is prohibited from hitting.

 

So, you know, he could've hit instead.  Or Kepler.  Or freaking Brunansky for all I care.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

 

I'm really disappointed I missed the Suzuki bunt because I love bunting.

Basically it was popped straight in the air to the third base side of the pitchers mound. High into the air. A brilliant display of fundamental baseball. 

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

Bremer trying to rationalize that ridiculous decision to bunt.

 

It wasn't a ridiculous decision, just a bad idea to have Suzuki bunt.  Bring in Nunez, and then have JRM catch the rest of the game.

 

Oh wait, I forgot, if we do that, we don't have a third catcher, which means we'd have to give up our DH if Murphy were to get a sunflower seed in his eye somehow.

[Brock Beauchamp]

A suzuki bunt pop up bunt for a double play, now that is a new one I have not seen. If he was doing that on his own then OK, but if the manager called for it, big time weenie decision asking a guy that doesn't bunt much to try that.

That play is colloquially known as the Punto Special.

 

I saw Punto do it many times. Pitchers knew when the guy was going to bunt and would throw the ball neck-high. Undaunted by this unexpected challenge, Punto would bunt anyway... And pop it to the pitcher.

[jimmer]

Why do I find it so unprofessional to see people on the TVv giving news with both of their hands firmly planted in their pockets.  Looks so sloppy.

[Pardon My Dinger]

The twins are going to have 2 less losses in one week than the golden state warriors have had all season. Can you even compute that in your brains?

Can the brain talk, Aggies. Undead scottz will go on a rampage.

[jimmer]

 

Seriously? More bunting? Auto correct tried to make that bungling.......

same thing in this case.

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

Do the rules allow a team to substitute a player from the bench to replace the batter? A "pinch hitter", if you will.

 

That is a radical concept, hold on while I check the unwritten rules.

[kusko_andy]

This is so bad that I want it to get worse for my own amusement. 

[LaBombo]

 

The last few notes of take me out to the ballgame that the gentleman just played should be saved as the soundtrack of this season thus far.

 

Yeah.    That... was bad.    And that's coming from a former sax player who's had a solo not go as planned.    But that wasn't just 'not as planned' bad.    That was 'jam the mouthpiece up a goose's @ss and blow as hard as you can' bad.

 

Gotta "make something happen"

 

Paid by the move, and that cabin up north ain't gonna pay for itself.

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

The rules also, so far as I know, do not state that Oswaldo Arcia is prohibited from hitting.

 

So, you know, he could've hit instead.  Or Kepler.  Or freaking Brunansky for all I care.

 

I could be wrong, but I'm betting the rules prohibit Brunansky from hitting.  At least legally.

[Mike Sixel]

Why is Arcia not pinch hitting there? Why are they bunting, down two. I am sorry, Molitor does not understand basic strategy.

[jimmer]

 

It wasn't a ridiculous decision, just a bad idea to have Suzuki bunt.  Bring in Nunez, and then have JRM catch the rest of the game.

 

Oh wait, I forgot, if we do that, we don't have a third catcher, which means we'd have to give up our DH if Murphy were to get a sunflower seed in his eye somehow.

yeah it was a ridiculous decision, IMO

[TheLeviathan]

 

I could be wrong, but I'm betting the rules prohibit Brunansky from hitting.  At least legally.

 

Guess we could've settled for Kepler or Arcia then huh?

[Cap'n Piranha]

Danny just said Eaton plays hard.

 

Which of course is why he has to be pinch hit for in any game that lasts more than 4 hours.

[LaBombo]

 

If Escobar and Mauer aren't hitting next to each other in future lineups, I'm going to get ticked off. They are the only two getting on consistently. They have to be batting next to each other until one of them stops hitting.

 

Or until someone else starts.

 

 

 

 

 

[Pardon My Dinger]

Molly needs a full on Brazilian wax. Something weird has to be a slump buster. This is an alternate universe, there is not anyway this Twins team should be playing this poorly except that they are.

Wwwaaaaaayyyyy to early in the season for a Brazilian.

[notoriousgod71]

Dick bragging up Target Field so you know the game is lost.

 

"I would have to guess this is the most popular stadium in the American League by people that don't live here."

 

I would guess not, unless by popular you mean players enjoy coming here to get 2-3 wins a series.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Why is Arcia not pinch hitting there? Why are they bunting, down two. I am sorry, Molitor does not understand basic strategy.

At this point, I'd settle for no bunts when one guy is on base and two runs are needed. We can deal with pinch-hitting once we've mastered the bunting thing.

[Blake]

 

Basically it was popped straight in the air to the third base side of the pitchers mound. High into the air. A brilliant display of fundamental baseball. 

And that is a brilliant display of sarcasm.

[LaBombo]

 

Guess we could've settled for Kepler or Arcia then huh?

 

Kepler can't be used again until an eighth inch of dust has settled on him following his previous cameo.

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

yeah it was a ridiculous decision, IMO

 

I'm open to either opinion.  Given that Suzuki, Buxton, and Dozier are all below Mendoza, I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to assume you're not going to get 2 hits from those three.

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

Guess we could've settled for Kepler or Arcia then huh?

 

Not a fan of the wise-ass answer I see.

[Blake]

 

At this point, I'd settle for no bunts when one guy is on base and two runs are needed. We can deal with pinch-hitting once we've mastered the bunting thing.

So, you're basically saying you're confident one or both of those skills will be mastered in the near future?

[formerly33]

They're playing "Let It Be" at Target Field as consolation for the brokenhearted people.

[USAFChief]

 

Danny just said Eaton plays hard.

 

Which of course is why he has to be pinch hit for in any game that lasts more than 4 hours.

Nice.

 

edit:  As a mod, I'm forced to say "Watch it, buster."

 

but as Chief..."nice."