Game Thread: Day-Night Double-Header Twins v Astros, 8/11 @ 12:10pm and 6:10pm CT

[jimbo92107]

That was hilarious. Altuve smokes a ball off the CF wall, stupid throw home by the cutoff, then Centeno throws the ball about where the left fielder usually stands...

[wsnydes]

 

That was hilarious. Altuve smokes a ball off the CF wall, stupid throw home by the cutoff, then Centeno throws the ball about where the left fielder usually stands...

I'm guessing (hoping?) that that isn't how they drew it up in Spring Training.

[Mike Sixel]

that kind of play.....that kind of play begs for a conclusion that the MLB staff, and the MiLB staff are not good coaches, doesn't it?

[jimbo92107]

I would rather listen to the radio broadcast than to the Houston homies, but as soon as I connect the audio feed, it's 20 seconds earlier than the video feed, so I hear Max Kepler flies out just as I see him step to the plate. 

 

Grrrrrrrr.....

 

Back to the Houston homies.

[jimbo92107]

Astros ambushing Berrios, hitting a lot of line drives. Something other than fastballs on the first pitch, Jose?

 

Boy, they sure are hitting that Berrios slider hard.

[wsnydes]

I suddenly have a strange wish that it would rain...

[Mike Sixel]

just once it would be cool if a top prospect they drafted came up and was good from the start, and stayed good (note, I said drafted, different scouts in the US vs overseas...).

[Winston Smith]

It appears that Berrios is a bust or it could be a small sample size, take your pick.

[Craig Arko]

Wasn't everyone saying this game wouldn't start 5-0?

[jimbo92107]

I think we're beginning to see why Rosario Buxton Kepler is a better outfield than Grossman Rosario Kepler. Grossman's defense looks a lot like Oswaldo Arcia's.

[wsnydes]

 

Wasn't everyone saying this game wouldn't start 5-0?

Groundhog Day!  I'm going to go grab my umbrella.

[Danchat]

Great, we lose yesterday's 5-0 and now we're down 6-0. We could use another rain-out.

 

 

[Danchat]

 

I think we're beginning to see why Rosario Buxton Kepler is a better outfield than Grossman Rosario Kepler. Grossman's defense looks a lot like Oswaldo Arcia's.

Y'know, I've seen defensive metrics rate Grossman as the worst defender on the team - even worse than Sano in RF and 3B combined.

[wsnydes]

We're comin!!!!!!

[Mike Sixel]

OF defense doesn't matter....come on people!

[Taildragger8791]

Once again, the puzzling disconnect between MiLB and MLB performance is on display. Why can't we just have nice things?

[wavedog]

So....do we burn Albers this game, save him for the next one or have him pitch in both?  

[bluechipper]

 

Once again, the puzzling disconnect between MiLB and MLB performance is on display. Why can't we just have nice things?

Pure dominance in the minors, and pure garbage in the majors. I think I've seen that before.

[wsnydes]

 

So....do we burn Albers this game, save him for the next one or have him pitch in both?  

This isn't Albers' fault, put away the matches.

[MileHighTwinsFan]

 

Great, we lose yesterday's 5-0 and now we're down 6-0. We could use another rain-out.

 

Total buzz kill for the current winning ways. 

[Aggies7]

ugh, I honestly thought milone was starting this game when I saw the score. I thought our can't miss pitching prospect had game 2. yes it's too early to call any of these guys busts, but gotta wonder who's evaluating the talent in these guys so highly to have them come up and completely stink.

[Aggies7]

berrios might not get an out here before he's yanked. and his era will be over 10 if any of these runners score. simply brutal start to his career.

[Winston Smith]

Two things I'd like out of the new GM.

 

First: he knows more about baseball than Dave St Peter.

 

Two: he/she does a total re-do of the minor league pitching development guys.

[bluechipper]

 

ugh, I honestly thought milone was starting this game when I saw the score. I thought our can't miss pitching prospect had game 2. yes it's too early to call any of these guys busts, but gotta wonder who's evaluating the talent in these guys so highly to have them come up and completely stink.

Or how do you have a 1.5 ERA or whatever in AAA, with good stuff, and then just be awful in the majors?

[Bill]

Berrios totally shut down Correa!

[wsnydes]

 

Two things I'd like out of the new GM.

First: he knows more about baseball than Dave St Peter.

Two: he/she does a total re-do of the minor league development guys.

Fixed that for ya.

[Aggies7]

 

Or how do you have a 1.5 ERA or whatever in AAA, with good stuff, and then just be awful in the majors?

I would assume it's a mental thing, which of course it typical with young guys. But if you're going to fold like a wet newspaper in a mid august game when you're almost 20 games out, that doesn't say much for his mental toughness overall, which I would imagine is every bit as important in a scouting report as any physical trait.

[jimbo92107]

I suppose I could just mute the chuckling Houston homies and listen to something else... light jazz... I wonder if ogerish.com is still around? Photos of gruesome crash victims might cheer me up.

[wavedog]

We can hope these are growing pains but a 9.32 ERA is pretty disappointing.      Looks like we are saving Albers - no burning 

[jimbo92107]

What's with Berrios, anyway? I understand early career jitters, but did he really get to the bigs throwing pitches this flat? Major leaguers just LOVE pitches with a nice, flat trajectory. How does that translate into Berrios being a front line starter? This ledge is high, and birds seem to have no trouble... ;-)