Game Thread: Twins @ Cleveland 5-14 @ 12:10 CT

[jud6312]

Based solely on that EE AB, I think we've seen enough to know who the new #5 starter should be.

[Oldgoat_MN]

 

Yeah, it's pretty early, but which Twins field players can pitch an inning?

Eduardo Escobar has a career 0.00 ERA and a 1.00 WHIP for the one inning he pitched last year.

 

I think Molly will use this as an opportunity to see what Wilk, Breslow and Haley have. It is up to you to determine whether he is trying to embarrass Flavine or looking to see what is really available to him.

[Twinsoholic]

Hey, a K for Will!

[John Kelsey]

Wilk at his best is Pat Dean. 

 

At his worst is me (I throw right handed). 

[Twinsoholic]

Hey, 3 outs for Wilk!

[Oldgoat_MN]

Down by a few runs and the conversation dies out here.

Alas...

Happy Mother Day to all you Mothers!

[Twinsoholic]

New adage: do not make the third out at home (unless) you are in the field on defense)!

[Circus Boy]

Not our day.

[USAFChief]

 

New adage: do not make the third out at home (unless) you are in the field on defense)!

looked like Kepler hesitated before breaking for home.  Awful baserunning...you break on contact, thereby eliminating the chance of exactly what happened.  Either the first baseman comes home, and the hitter is safe, or he gets the out at first, and the runner scores.

 

But don't hesitate, then break for home.  Simple, basic, fundamental baseball.  

[Twinsoholic]

With a runner on Will raises his right leg then puts it down and then goes into his pitching motion and delivers the pitch. Why?

[LaBombo]

Today's game has just the fainted whiff of 'We already won this road series' to it. And I don't mean the lineup or the effort. When Kepler was thrown out at home on that very close play, his reaction was not 'SAFE!SAFE!SAFE!', it was 'Hey, man, we're in first place and we already have this road series won; if I'm out, that's cool'.

 

I'm not even down on them, I just think they're so happy about being in first and were out of this game so early that it's been sort of a '... Hey... pink bats.... groovy, man.' kind of game for them.

[jimbo92107]

Wilk does have a low, darting pitch, looks like maybe a cutter. If he keeps that low, he could be a ground ball machine. His curves are nothing special, but okay as a change of pace. 

 

There it was again, that darting pitch low in the zone. Why doesn't he throw more of those?? Wilk is an odd duck as a pitcher. Seems to have inconsistent mechanics. There, he just got a strike out with that low heater. Only 89 mph, but it's low in the zone, sinking. 

 

I guess I can see why the Twins were intrigued by Wilk. He has moments where he looks like he could dominate, but then he changes something, and the next moment he looks like he's tossing batting practice. 

 

Not reliable. 

[Twodogs]

 

I'm pretty sure those first few laser beams Wilk gave up were nerves. This is the inning where we see the real guy 

The real guy is Tommy Milone

[LaBombo]

 

Not our day.

 

Yep. It certainly wasn't Santiago's day, and then it kind of became 'not our day' for the rest of the boys.

[Twinsoholic]

Let's go Kennys!

[LaBombo]

Sano sliding into second with all the grace of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak attempting the samba on 'Dancing with the Stars'. But hey, a rally is a rally.

 

Ooh, ouch. Bremer adds the ultimate Twinsult to Chisenhall's wall collision injury on the Vargas double by calling his play "Butch Huskey - like".

 

That's gonna leave a mark.

[LaBombo]

Deficit down to six.  Two more runs in innings 7-9 and we're off to extras! 

[Twinsoholic]

Kepler looks at strike three. He needs to follow the advice of Dozier's mom: you gotta swing the bat!

[Jerr]

Ok, I'm back now time for the Twins to win this for their Moms!!!!!

PLENTY of game left to do just that!!!!!!

[Twinsoholic]

Unbelievable by Buxton!

[John Kelsey]

I was kind of hoping he wouldn't do that in a game like this. But he did it and it was amazing. 

[drock2190]

Well Buxton is out for the next 3 games now. 

 

But he made a top 10 catch

[LaBombo]

Buxton showing Chisenhall the right way to run into the center field wall with that incredible catch.

 

And Polanco knocks out Bauer. Which is too bad, in a way, since they were more likely to score off of him than the Indians bullpen. The Twins' scoreless 5th with no outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd looms large right about now.

[John Kelsey]

If Statcast has the catch percentage of that in double digits I'm never trusting them again. 

[Jerr]

Here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Circus Boy]

Plainly the Indians have failed to heed the baseball axiom that the most dangerous lead is eight runs.

[Circus Boy]

Looks like Shaw wasn't prepared mentally.

 

CBU: Scratch that. We weren't prepared mentally to hit Rosario home from 2nd.

[LaBombo]

 

I was kind of hoping he wouldn't do that in a game like this.

 

"You just don't turn it off!!!!"

 

http://s3.crackedcdn.com/articleimages/wong/rambonovel2.jpg

[LaBombo]

Brantley 0-4 for the Indians today. That's what he gets for working overtime in the mail room at Pemrose yesterday.

 

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[glunn]

Wilk did not dominate, but at least he held the line for a while.