Article: Game Thread: Twins v Brewers, 4/18 @ 7:10pm CT

[D. Hocking]

 

A Twins win tonight means God has blessed the return of Ron Gardenhire. 

 

I have heard the Sisters of Battle your Tales Off have been really worked  their rosaries like crazy to make this happen.  Coincidentally the Mother Superiorsie is Punto's aunt.

 

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[David HK]

Wow- the Wild fight for a comeback win, the Cubs down the Cards, the White Sox lose, the Red Sox lose on Patriots Day, how can so many good things happen on one day?

 

Now, if they don't call this one, do you think Molly will send Phil back out to the mound?   

[DiscGolfer]

I'm guessing the rain isn't going to let up any time soon.  At what point do they call the game?  It's past 5 innings so it should be an official game and not have to be completed.  Probably going to wait as long as possible to see if it stops but don't get your hopes up.

[howeda7]

Why can't they just call this already? 

[howeda7]

It seems like MLB has gotten very unreasonable in calling games the last 5-7 years. It used to be common to have 2-3 rain shortened games a year, IIRC. Now you rarely have one. 

[Zachary]

I'd like to see the bullpen close it out and earn the win outright, but I wouldn't be OVERLY upset if they called it. Would ironically work out in our favor after last night. 

[Jham]

Buxton - 10.75 seconds home to third on his RBI triple.  Fastest triple this season, and 2nd to Kiermaier in the last 2 years.  Kiermaier has the Statcast record.  I'm sure there are stop watch records out there. 

 

http://m.twins.mlb.com/news/article/173124474/twins-byron-buxton-hustles-out-triple

FTW on USA Today has Neon Deion Sanders at around 10.5 and Hamilton as fast as 10.13.  Those two were from the left side though.  But I bet Buxton can break 10.5 this season.

 

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/billy-hamilton-deion-sanders-very-fast-cincinnati-reds-mlb

Edited April 19, 2016 by Jham

[TwinsCD]

 

Buxton - 10.75 seconds home to third on his RBI triple.  Fastest triple this season, and 2nd to Kiermaier in the last 2 years.  Kiermaier has the Statcast record.  I'm sure there are stop watch records out there. 

 

http://m.twins.mlb.com/news/article/173124474/twins-byron-buxton-hustles-out-triple

FTW on USA Today has Neon Deion Sanders at around 10.5 and Hamilton as fast as 10.13.  Those two were from the left side though.  But I bet Buxton can break 10.5 this season.

 

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/billy-hamilton-deion-sanders-very-fast-cincinnati-reds-mlb

 

Hopefully he can get another hit to try to break that timing mark.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Seriously now give us this win..

[howeda7]

Edit: Umps finally concede to common sense. Twins win. 

Edited April 19, 2016 by howeda7

[DiscGolfer]

Winnah!!!!!

[glunn]

Game called!  We win.

[TwinsCD]

Well done everyone.  Let's do it again in 13 hours.

[jimbo92107]

Game finally called after over 2 hours. Hughes gets a 6-inning complete game win!!!

[diehardtwinsfan]

So the moral is that the weather is a more effective member of the bullpen?

[twinsnorth49]

http://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2014/04/rain-reaction-gif.gif?gs=a

[CampQ]

An off day for the bullpen. Sweet.

[mickeymental]

four straight after that 0-9 hole oughta make terry ryan the early leader for exec of the year, right?

Edited April 19, 2016 by mickeymental

[Squirrel]

Good news to wake up to. Winnah, winnah, chicken breakfast!