Article: Game Thread: Twins @ Red Sox, 7/21 @ 6:10pm CT

[LaBombo]

Huge break for the Twins as Dancing Bear knocks the ball out of Wright's glove, but out of view of the ump. Whatever works.

[LaBombo]

 

 

Lol Vargas is possibly the slowest person alive

I knew I had seen that Vargas 'run' from third to home before, and I finally tracked it down on Youtube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFufoOgCMW8

 

Below: An opposing catcher having a quick bite as he holds the ball and waits for Vargas and a play at the plate.

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-veSEU_UNGGQ/VcaTCGShDRI/AAAAAAAAlc4/caMmCdokL1I/s1600/MontyPythonHolyGrail_181Pyxurz.jpg

Edited July 22, 2016 by LaBombo

[Aggies7]

Tonkin doing the job

[Aggies7]

Well I certainly jinxed that

[HitInAPinch]

 

Tonkin doing the job

Yeah, about that......

[LaBombo]

 

Tonkin doing the job

Doing the job, just not in the "classical sense of the word 'job' ".

Edited July 22, 2016 by LaBombo

[Aggies7]

Oh god, they're really making a tv series about the first woman to play in the majors?

 

Good thing it's not about people who play LIKE girls. You'd just have to pop in our 2016 yearbook.

 

I kid I kid

[sampleSizeOfOne]

CBU:

 

7-2 in the 6th as i return from my game thread break, which i pretend to call real life.

 

I tried to play trumpet, kinda in public... at least with other people around...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

CBU:

 

7-2 in the 6th as i return from my game thread break, which i pretend to call real life.

 

I tried to play trumpet, kinda in public... at least with other people around...

And 3 guesses who has the 2 runs...

[LaBombo]

Dick:  "The Twins' bullpen has undergone a major facelift since the start of the season".

 

True, but with the trade deadline and roster expansion, we probably haven't seen the final version yet...

 

http://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/02-botch-plastic-surgeries-donatella-versace-lifestyle-1.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=780

Edited July 22, 2016 by LaBombo

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Oh, to keep with the theme...

 

"I do not like green eggs and ham."

 

Would you eat them with a shark?

Or on a bun in Fenway park?

 

(from an early draft, i believe)

[HitInAPinch]

 

Dick:  "The Twins' bullpen has undergone a major facelift since the start of the season".

 

True, but with the trade deadline and roster expansion, we probably haven't seen the final version yet...

 

http://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/02-botch-plastic-surgeries-donatella-versace-lifestyle-1.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=780

strangely exciting?  oddly enticing?

[HitInAPinch]

Knuckleball trivia:  What team had 2 starting pitchers that threw primarily knuckleballs? 

Edited July 22, 2016 by HitInAPinch

[Aggies7]

I feel like pedroia takes a big poop on us whenever we play Boston

[Aggies7]

And Ortiz for that matter.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Bottom of the 8th down 9-2.

 

What we got here is a range war...

 

No need for concern, sir it is only natural for the more timid element to run for cover...

[Aggies7]

Yikes. Really regretting that ticket purchase for this weekend. And the hat and shirt I bought for the trip

[Aggies7]

FIVE hits for pedroia. The twins know how to take momentum and just throw it under a train.

[Winston Smith]

Since Ortiz left, the Twins have won 2 playoff games and Ortiz has won 3 World Series rings.

[Aggies7]

Pedroia has more hits than the twins tonight.

[Aggies7]

Well who saw THAT coming?!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Well who saw THAT coming?!

Ortiz? I thought he was justa slap hitter?

[Mike Sixel]

Well who saw THAT coming?!

Assuming you mean a massacre, everyone....

[Aggies7]

Since Ortiz left, the Twins have won 2 playoff games and Ortiz has won 3 World Series rings.

David Ortiz now has more hits tonight than the twins have playoff game wins since he left

[sampleSizeOfOne]

We can score 11 runs in an inning.

 

The trick is not to get out...

[USAFChief]

Among the many disappointments of the 2016 season, Trevor May ranks near the top (bottom?) for me.

 

Here he is, brought into a mopup role (for good reason), he's throwing 93-94 (instead of 98) with little command, can't throw anything else for a strike, appears disinterested, and getting shelled.

 

What happened?

[Aggies7]

Among the many disappointments of the 2016 season, Trevor May ranks near the top (bottom?) for me.

 

Here he is, brought into a mopup role (for good reason), he's throwing 93-94 (instead of 98) with little command, can't throw anything else for a strike, appears disinterested, and getting shelled.

 

What happened?

But he did a funny zubaz dance

[Platoon]

This might not be a popular answer, but I think that a guy who thought, rightfully or wrongly, that he was going to be a middle of the rotation starter, ends up in a non defined role in the BP. That's what happened. And I imagine this happening while the SP was basically the worst in baseball made it worse. May isn't blameless by any extent, but he had plenty help.

[Mr. Brooks]

Among the many disappointments of the 2016 season, Trevor May ranks near the top (bottom?) for me.

 

Here he is, brought into a mopup role (for good reason), he's throwing 93-94 (instead of 98) with little command, can't throw anything else for a strike, appears disinterested, and getting shelled.

 

What happened?

I'm afraid I have to agree.

 

It's beginning to look like there is a real chance that Span and Revere will have been traded for zero return.

 

I'd say it's time to pull the plug permanently on this May to the bullpen experiment, let him get 8 to 10 starts to close out the season and use that info going into ST next year.

[Danchat]

Pedroia had 5 hits?! Dang it, I shouldn't have left him on the bench in fantasy baseball...