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

[Foghorn Leghorn]

That is safe

[HitInAPinch]

FOOT NOT ON BAG

[jimmer]

he's safe!

[Brock Beauchamp]

If you don't feel comfortable letting a guy swing away on a 3-1 count, he shouldn't be on the MLB team.

[ScrapTheNickname]

100% he's out.

[70charger]

 

If you don't feel comfortable letting a guy swing away on a 3-1 count, he shouldn't be on the MLB team.

 

Generally agreed, but does Buxton's speed change the calculus?

[D. Hocking]

Sometimes I like Gladden - and sometimes I am not in the mood for him.  I am not in a Gladden mood today.  I need him to rest his voice for a bit.

[LaBombo]

 

Oh, rain. Pff. Luxury. We had to water our lawn with dust.

 

Lawn?   Lawn!?!    We had to get rid of a foot of topsoil with shovels and a wheelbarrow without a wheel before the Superfund cleanup crew would even set foot on it.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Twins screwed again..shocker

[jimbo92107]

I can relate to cheering for the Twins, but come on DickBert, Mauer was out.

[USAFChief]

Good call:  "out."

 

Bad call:  "let's waste an out."

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

If you don't feel comfortable letting a guy swing away on a 3-1 count, he shouldn't be on the MLB team.

yeah I would tend to agree

[Craig Arko]

Hopefully Buxton is on second shortly.

[LaBombo]

 

Better that, than Gossage inhabiting his mind.

 

Or Goose Gossage's moustache's tendrils ensnaring his soul.

[twinsnorth49]

Uhhh, win this game, k?

[USAFChief]

 

Lawn?   Lawn!    We had to get rid of a foot of topsoil with shovels and a wheelbarrow without a wheel before the Superfund cleanup crew would even set foot on it.

They let you have SHOVELS??

[ScrapTheNickname]

A failed sacrifice is indecent behavior and they should get a fundamental talking to.

[jimbo92107]

Sad part is, again if Buxton bunts it hard at the SS, everybody is safe. Problem is, he doesn't know how to do that.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Pretty horrid call by Molitor also. 3-1 you gotta swing

[Mr. Brooks]

Hopefully this will be the game that Mollie learns to stop taking his best hitter out of close games.

[USAFChief]

 

Hopefully Buxton is on second shortly.

I'd prefer he's crosses home shortly, but to each his own,I guess.

[jimbo92107]

 

now Buxton needs to steal.

Yet another hole in Buxton's game. For a guy with his speed, he's shockingly bad at stealing bases.

[twinsnorth49]

 

Lawn?   Lawn!?!    We had to get rid of a foot of topsoil with shovels and a wheelbarrow without a wheel before the Superfund cleanup crew would even set foot on it.

Yeah, but I bet your wheelbarrow had handles........luxury!

[USAFChief]

 

Sad part is, again if Buxton bunts it hard at the SS, everybody is safe. Problem is, he doesn't know how to do that.

Nobody knows how to do that.  Probably because it would often turn into a 1-6-3 DP.

[Ultima Ratio]

Best that Buxton steals second to make-up for the non-sac bunt.

[jimmer]

escobar gets a double and ends this

[Brock Beauchamp]

Hopefully this will be the game that Mollie learns to stop taking his best hitter out of close games.

Buxton ended up scoring the only run that inning. I have a hard time complaining too much about taking out one of the slower guys on the team and replacing him with one of the fastest guys in the league.

 

The Twins needed one run and they got it at least in part due to Buxton's speed.

[Pardon My Dinger]

Is Sam Mitchell running the bench today?

[twinsnorth49]

Escobear's got this.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Hopefully this will be the game that Mollie learns to stop taking his best hitter out of close games.

To me, this is the #1 takeaway from this game - again. I mean, if Sano ran like a dump truck in reverse I might feel differently.