Game Thread: Twins @ Royals, 1:15pm 4/30/2017 AD

[snepp]

California-math.

 

 

Drink.

[DrNeau]

Sano

G: 23

RBI: 23

[DrNeau]

Castro yaps at umpires a lot. 

[GCTF]

 

With that homer Sano has joined the .300/.400/.600 club.

I know the first number is pounds but I don't know what the other two mean.

[Squirrel]

California-math.

 

 

Drink.

Drink what? I've seen your chicken so I'm just a little bit afraid to ask.

[Squirrel]

Rosie with an 11-game hit streak. Keep it up!

[BoofBonser]

Tbh I'd love Dozier batting like 6th or 7th

[DrNeau]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqXdrUjEe8

 

[Blake]

Cool got the yard work done and tuned in just in time to watch the Twins fill the bases. 

[Blake]

And Sano delivers again. Boring. not.

[DrNeau]

Jeez, Sano! Have a day, why don't ya?

[GP830]

So, did the chandelier get fixed???????

it works! And the game is back on!

[spinowner]

Now pitching for the Royals, Brandon Kingsley.

[DaveW]

Sano is good at baseball.

[DrNeau]

Mauer hits into an inning-ending double play.

[drock2190]

Moss would have hit a 3 run bomb there but I jinxed him earlier

[Mike Sixel]

Will the class of Sano, Kepler, and Polanco be the best IFA class for one team, in one year, ever? And no, I have not been drinking... Yet

[ThejacKmp]

Time for Castro to bat 9th. I get playing the hot hand early in the season but that's two weeks ago. He's a real rally killer. I like having Polanco, Rosario and Buxton in a row so we have speed on the bases but they can do that as easily 6, 7, 8 as 7, 8, 9. Dozier isn't that fast, Castro won't cramp his style.

 

Also, related point, I love a Twins lineup that has no inning I'm not excited about. Kepler, Sano, Mauer? Awesome. Vargas, Castro, Polanco? Fun too. Polanco, Rosario, Buxton? Get them boys running. I don't miss Jason Tyler and Nick Punto at all.

Edited April 30, 2017 by ThejacKmp

[AlwaysinModeration]

Sano is en fuego. Can I ask, though, about the gold chain he is wearing?

[AlwaysinModeration]

Will the class of Sano, Kepler, and Polanco be the best IFA class for one team, in one year, ever? And no, I have not been drinking... Yet

Bill Smith was aggressive, you have to give him that. The Garza-Delmon trade was a disaster...but the idea of going after the best position prospect in baseball had merit.

[Circus Boy]

Can just smell the karma three states away for all the times KC has undressed us the past three years.

[ThejacKmp]

I'll take credit for that Castro single with my well-timed insult. Rosario's mom smells.

[GP830]

Sano is en fuego. Can I ask, though, about the gold chain he is wearing?

I've actually seen him endorsing it in ads on Facebook. It's a cross made of bats.

EDIT- Assuming it's the same one.

Edited April 30, 2017 by GP830

[Danchat]

Just tuning in now. Sano has been amazing so far! He's looking like an All-Star at the plate.

[GP830]

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1546/1365/products/unnamed_1.jpg?v=1485186249

[ThejacKmp]

Sano passes Pujols for most RBI. Man, that Pujols contract is brutal. 4 years $114 million after this season

[bighat]

Anyone catch the score in DC?  It's 22-5, Nats.  Rendon has a 5-for-5 day with 9 RBI at this juncture.  

[bighat]

Also, interesting to see how Robbie Grossman is slowly being replaced by Vargas here.  Buxton's not struggling anymore, Rosario's bat is hot, and Vargas has taken over the DH role against lefties. 

[Jham]

Hughes is working fast, working ahead, and using his defense...

[snepp]

 

Anyone catch the score in DC?  It's 22-5, Nats.  Rendon has a 5-for-5 day with 9 RBI at this juncture.  

 

Make that 6 for 6, just added another homer.