Article: Game Thread: Twins v Rays, 6/2 @ 7:10pm CT

[Aggies7]

I.  SWEAR.  TO.  GOD.

 

How can you be a major-leaguer, especially someone like Bux, with speed to burn, 

 

AND NOT KNOW HOW TO GET A BUNT DOWN.

 

What is going on in those minor leagues, or spring training?  Why in the heck are the skills just so bad all the way across the board???

Has the element of surprise with the buxton bunt completely and totally gone yet?

 

What are you thinking Suzuki?

[jimmer]

 

Can we call that a double?

why not?  

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Good gracious, Suzuki got a hit

Is it Buxton time yet?

[David HK]

Y'know, on the other hand, maybe it's a good thing every single one of the Twins suck at bunting.

[Aggies7]

Ut oh

[USAFChief]

A H&R with Zuke on first and Buxton at the plate...and it works.

 

Sometimes you hit on 18 and catch a 3.

[David HK]

Heh... does this Ramirez look like the right handed version of Everyday Eddie out there?

[Aggies7]

Gotta love IBB the guy in front of the guy who homered in his last AB

[jimmer]

 

Y'know, on the other hand, maybe it's a good thing every single one of the Twins suck at bunting.

most major leaguers do.  Read an article on that awhile ago about how incredibly hard to is to actually do at that level.  I'll try to find it.  It was written in response to why batters don't just bunt when they get incredible shifts placed against them.

[Aggies7]

Heh... does this Ramirez look like the right handed version of Everyday Eddie out there?

I was thinking dennys reyes

[jimmer]

 

Gotta love IBB the guy in front of the guy who homered in his last AB

sets up double play and gets you to face a much inferior batter.

[operation mindcrime]

That's what leaders do they take one for the team!

[Aggies7]

Jack: "how does dozier NOT get hit by that pitch?"

[David HK]

Heh---- I love Dick's confidence--  "Plouffe a chance to break the game open-- at least for the time being..."

[Aggies7]

sets up double play and gets you to face a much inferior batter.

I know,I was just poking fun at dozier. Not often do you walk the 2 hitter to face the 3

[jimmer]

 

Jack: "how does dozier NOT get hit by that pitch?"

you know, because he's a pull hitter...something new to hear from Jack :-)

[operation mindcrime]

Trade Plouffe!

[jimmer]

 

I know,I was just poking fun at dozier. Not often do you walk the 2 hitter to face the 3

teams outright laughing at the idea Dozier bats third.

[Aggies7]

I mean, who saw THAT coming?

[John Kelsey]

It's gone under the radar how terrible Plouffe has been lately. 

[Danchat]

Of course... the Twins load the bases and get their only run off a HBP... well, at least they didn't get no runs.

 

So, who's betting that the Rays score next inning?

[Aggies7]

It's gone under the radar how terrible Plouffe has been lately.

 

Not my radar

[David HK]

Well, he Plouffed that one.  At least Dozier beat the shift for a change.

 

Now, is it too much to ask for a zero from Taylor Rogers?

 

Come on, come on.....

[ashbury]

Sometimes you hit on 18 and catch a 3.

True story?

[Mauerpower]

Nice to see zuke hustling. Scared the hell outa me though!

[Foghorn Leghorn]

 

Not my radar

Not mine either. 

[Aggies7]

Not mine either.

 

"He hasn't had a hit in EVER!"

[gil4]

 

A H&R with Zuke on first and Buxton at the plate...and it works.

 

Sometimes you hit on 18 and catch a 3.

Just as long as it doesn't convince you it's good strategy rather than luck.

[Blake]

 

It's gone under the radar how terrible Plouffe has been lately. 

When you're a minnow swimming in a sea of terrible, it's hard to get noticed.

[operation mindcrime]

Pressly almost breaks his leg!