Game Thread: Red Sox @ Twins, 11:10AM PT (1:10PM CT)

[snepp]

[crapforks]

Tough inning, Some bloops and bleeders. Nothing to worry about. 

[Blake]

So, I walk in to look at the game thread, go back and the Sox now have 16 runs? 

 

I guess Haley is going to have to gut it out.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

and to think Molitor wasted his mound visit before that batter. 

 

Thanks Molly!

[GCTF]

 

Kintzler is no different than any of the garbage they throw out there anyway so to me it makes no difference. I know I can't differentiate Kintzler from Belisle from Tonkin from Guerrier.

This would have been better if you had put Guerrier 2.0 at the end or used Jeff Gray or Jim Hoey as the example.

[Aggies7]

Hard to believe we've gone this long without totally exposing the pitching staff

[GCTF]

 

I wonder how much of an idiot the Sox manager is. He would have to be dumb as a post to bring Kimbrel back for the 9th.

But but but...he can get the save lol

[DaveW]

This terrible bullpen is on the FO

 

No excuse why they couldn't have improved it AT ALL this off season.

[Riverbrian]

 

One last, then you can have the last word.

It was a curveball. Close enough to be called a strike. I'm guessing Mauer has put those in play before.

 

Last Word?

 

Mmm... Gotta think of a good one

 

"MONKEY"

 

[Kwak]

Golly Molly--It was "Tonkin Time"--but you got a rid of him...

[twinssporto]

This is the sort of thing that happens when you do absolutely nothing during the offseason or spring training to improve your bullpen.  I get the occasional blow up but this is a continuing trend.  

 

Hopefully the FO and the entire bullpen staff are embarrassed.  I'm so glad they canned Tonkin.  Can't wait to see the moves made tomorrow or tonight.

 

On a positive note. We have the pieces in place on the offensive/defensive side to be a really good ball club.

[jud6312]

Honestly, could Burdi and Melotakis, and whoever else do much worse than Belisle, Pressly and Haley?

 

This is just gross.

[DaveW]

So, I walk in to look at the game thread, go back and the Sox now have 16 runs?

 

I guess Haley is going to have to gut it out.

I turned over to NASCAR, there was a 19 car wreck. Apparently I missed an even larger wreck this 9th inning.

[snepp]

 

I turned over to NASCAR, there was a 19 car wreck. Apparently I missed an even larger wreck this 9th inning.

 

This is the wreck that just keeps on giving.

[notoriousgod71]

"Give Haley some credit."

 

 

[Bark's Lounge]

I'm done. **** baseball.

 

I am sick of suffering.

[jud6312]

No, Dick, don't give Haley credit for staying in the game. If he's still injured/re-injured he should have come out of the game. There are no heroic performances in a meltdown like this.

[Aggies7]

I have literally eaten 6 pieces of pizza since the 9th started

[Riverbrian]

It's going to be hard to come back with the pitcher hitting in the 8 spot!!!

[bighat]

Jeeezzzz'n rice.  Walked away to make dinner, expected the game to be over when I came back and the Sox drop 9 runs on us in the 9th?  Good grief this is 2 days in a row now with this BS. 

[crapforks]

 

This terrible bullpen is on the FO

No excuse why they couldn't have improved it AT ALL this off season.

I agree, but it completely collapsed almost instantaneously. Plus, many of the reinforcements are injured, or not lighting things up. Still, no additions is a puzzling decision. 

[glunn]

I just got back from a Bernie Sanders speech.  It appears that this was not a fun game to watch.

[USAFChief]

It's all circumstance and execution - SF or BB. It didn't work out, but it should have.

A walk was never going to drive in a run!!

 

All it was going to do was leave the GD job to someone else. Someone making $22.5m less than Mauer, thousands of PAs less than Mauer. Against Craig Kimbrell.

 

And that's exactly what happened. He stands there, takes strike three, and now its Keplers job, only Kepler needs a hit, not just a lazy fly ball.

 

Three pitches later, inning over.

 

If he never gets a pitch to hit...fine. He took strike two and strike three.

 

I'm ranting!,

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

oh man.

 

Looks like Duffey and Vargas had nice afternoons, in any case.

 

Back at 'em Tuesday!

[wavedog]

We are icing Kimbrel - ready for our 11 run 9th inning rally.

[yarnivek1972]

Hard to believe we've gone this long without totally exposing the pitching staff

Level of competition. Not surprised at all.

[crapforks]

C'mon Breslow. Don't let this get out of hand.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

I think it's time for a hidden ball trick

[twinsnorth49]

I just got back from a Bernie Sanders speech. It appears that this was not a fun game to watch.

Except for a 15 minute span of being burned in the eye with a red hot poker of incredibly bad pitching, it was pretty entertaining.

[GCTF]

 

Jeeezzzz'n rice.  Walked away to make dinner, expected the game to be over when I came back and the Sox drop 9 runs on us in the 9th?  Good grief this is 2 days in a row now with this BS. 

Tis but a scratch.