Game Thread: Angels vs Twins, 4/17 @ 1:10 CT

[Craig Arko]

With the minor detail of starting 0 and 9 and the first nine games, this has been a fun season.

Are we not entertained?

[LaBombo]

Extra innings,   and bullpen depth and timely hitting with RISP decide the winner.

 

Your 2016 Minnesota Twins want you to know:

 

 

[Bark's Lounge]

May took care of business. Let's drop the bomb on the MFer Angels. Strike now or be disappointed. This game is ours!!!

[Squirrel]

Just wait for it y'all ... I can't wait to see the reactions when this game is over.

 

Meanwhile, I just ordered my dinner. I really like GrubHub.

[Craig Arko]

Walk it off, guys.

[Pardon My Dinger]

Is the insignia raised on our helmets? Never noticed that.

[jimbo92107]

May pitches best when he hits the four corners with fastballs, like Nathan used to do. Like the big Z from Zorro. Corner 1 (high left), corner 2 (high right), corner 3 (low left), and corner 4 (low right). If you can do that, and mix in a decent off-speed pitch or two, you can look great as a reliever or a closer. 

 

This was a good example. May hit the high right corner, then finished with the low right corner. Very few hitters can deal with fastballs to the four corners. 

[formerly33]

 

Walk it off, guys.

four walks and we win this.

[ashbury]

Meanwhile, I just ordered my dinner. I really like GrubHub.

That's the site where you bid on other diners' leftovers?

[Brock Beauchamp]

four walks and we win this.

Only if they come in the same inning.

[LaBombo]

 

Walk it off, guys.

 

 

Yup.    Rub some dirt on it too.

 

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[jimbo92107]

Arcia didn't get cheated on that swing. Trying to hit it 600 feet.

[Dozier's Glorious Hair]

Damn it, Bremer.

[70charger]

Got really hopeful with the crack of that bat. 

[diehardtwinsfan]

almost Park...

[Craig Arko]

Close but no hookah.

[LaBombo]

Only Dick can work the phrase '..robs him of the home run!'   into the call on a ball caught two steps short of the warning track.

[ashbury]

TWINS WI... oops, Bremer again premature.

[Guest]

Is Tonkin coming in to pitch to Trout and Pujols (peeking through my fingers)?

[Craig Arko]

Oh, oh, Plouffe is hurt.

[jimbo92107]

This team is still a long way from looking good at the plate. 

[Bark's Lounge]

We need this one. Rally Roger comin' atch ya!

[Pardon My Dinger]

May had better be sick or dying or something! Me no likey Tonkin vs Trout.

[Pardon My Dinger]

I retract my candor.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Did that just happen

[Craig Arko]

May had better be sick or dying or something! Me no likey Tonkin vs Trout.

He heard you.

[twinsnorth49]

 

May had better be sick or dying or something! Me no likey Tonkin vs Trout.

Me likey!

[Pardon My Dinger]

I've always been a huge Tonkin guy. Love that guy.

[70charger]

 

Is Tonkin coming in to pitch to Trout and Pujols (peeking through my fingers)?

 

Shoulda watched!

[TwinsCD]

When Plouffe got the walk, I immediately thought of a pinch runner and figured Escobar was the last one eligible on the bench.  Might as well put him in to run and then he can play 3rd or short in the 11th if it gets there and Nunez can move over or stay put.  Figured our best chance would be to get Esco to steal 2nd and take our chances from there.  And now we come back from commercial and Plouffe is hurt and Esco is in the game anyway.  Soooooo, does anyone on that bench know how to handle a late-inning strategy situation?