Article: Game Thread: Twins v Rangers, 7/1 @ 7:10pm CT

[HitInAPinch]

D Santana pinch running.  Please, for the love of Baby Jesus,  NO BUNTS!

[gil4]

I guess Plouffe plays better when his spot is threatened.  I'd say that's a good reason to keep sending Sano out there.  (There are plenty of better reasons, but we can add one more.)

[Aggies7]

Hit and run

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Hit and run

Alas, neither happened. Well, after Plouffe's at bat.

 

On to a 10th inning.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Have we run out of jokes?

 

Or should i dredge up one or two for extras?

[Aggies7]

Abad...turning into what we feared he'd be.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Welp, maybe Abad was only ever a guy to use vs lefties

[SwainZag]

Ugh.

[Craig Arko]

This bullpen looks like a good bullpen.

Or not.

[Aggies7]

That dang rule about using your best relievers only one inning at a time comes back and bites us again. Wish they'd change that.

Edited July 2, 2016 by Aggies7

[HitInAPinch]

 

I guess Plouffe plays better when his spot is threatened.  I'd say that's a good reason to keep sending Sano out there.  (There are plenty of better reasons, but we can add one more.)

As I've said elsewhere, I think there was actually a plan in the works here.  Kepler becomes a full-time RF when Sano gets hurt, Plouffe starts getting playing time at other positions while Sano is playing third at AAA.  When Sano is called up, Park goes down.  Room to rotate Plouffe at 1st, 3rd and DH.

 

Next would be sending Grossman down and bringing up Eddie Rosario. 

 

A youth movement sneaking up on us!

 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

This just in: Buxton is fast

 

And long-term, I'm not really worried about him at plate

[HitInAPinch]

 

Have we run out of jokes?

Or should i dredge up one or two for extras?

 

When in doubt, always go with a classic!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

That dang rule about using your best relievers only one inning at a time comes back and bites us again. Wish they'd change that.

Yeah texas used Matt Bush for two innings, I noticed. Oh well.

[Aggies7]

Buxtons defense is simply superb.

[HitInAPinch]

Great catch, great effort !

[gil4]

 

This just in: Buxton is fast

And long-term, I'm not really worried about him at plate

I just hope he starts learning where the wall is before he kills himself running into it.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Dear Byron,

 

Please do not look down at your right wrist and flex it like that immediately after making a great catch against the fence and bracing yourself with said right wrist.

 

It scares us.

 

Sincerely,

 

Twins Daily game thread denizens

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

When in doubt, always go with a classic!

Indeed.

 

Run away!!

[SwainZag]

 

Yeah texas used Matt Bush for two innings, I noticed. Oh well.

 

Meh.  If Rogers or Kintzler would have given it up someone would have put "why they send him out there for an another inning when you have an 8 man pen?"  or tomorrow when Rogers is unavailable because he threw 2 innings tonight you would hear, "Thanks Mollie, great job wasting him yesterday."

[SwainZag]

Der Kid leading things off!  

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Taking the axe out of his hands, I guess

[HitInAPinch]

 

This just in: Buxton is fast

And long-term, I'm not really worried about him at plate

He's been making contact lately.  The hits will start dropping in soon.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Buxton's defense is simply superb.

Hope i getto see this amid post game high lights...

[Aggies7]

Meh.  If Rogers or Kintzler would have given it up someone would have put "why they send him out there for an another inning when you have an 8 man pen?"  or tomorrow when Rogers is unavailable because he threw 2 innings tonight you would hear, "Thanks Mollie, great job wasting him yesterday."

Eh, I don't know about that. Abad pitched yesterday and poorly. One of those two guys could have gone one more. Not that it matters.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Meh.  If Rogers or Kintzler would have given it up someone would have put "why they send him out there for an another inning when you have an 8 man pen?"  or tomorrow when Rogers is unavailable because he threw 2 innings tonight you would hear, "Thanks Mollie, great job wasting him yesterday."

Totally agree

[Aggies7]

I simply cannot fathom how major league hitters cannot bunt. Although it may just be our team.

[Aggies7]

Welp if we're going to praise his defense, we have to acknowledge that was an atrocious at bat.

[Aggies7]

I don't even know how many losses this is, 50some, but God almighty that was a wretched bottom of the 10th inning. So tired of the same junk.

[gil4]

Oh well. 

 

All your chicken dinner are belong to us.