Article: Game Thread: Twins v Rockies, 5/16 @ 7:10pm CT

[Sam Morley]

Hughes got crushed tonight. Rockies could have double digit run total easily. His lack of velocity is hurting. Rockies hitters were hitting low outside fastballs deep in the count for base hits. Those pitches should be fouled off at best, but with the high 80s fastball they have enough time to poke it in play.

[rghrbek]

I am trying to catch up on here...did I see that Buxton sacrificed, in the 2nd with a man on 2nd and nobody out?  No chance of a force out, but we sacrifice in the 2nd?  Same guy who his next at bat hits a bomb?

 

Also threw Hughes back out in the 6th, when his numbers against teams seeing him for the 3rd time are awful (well there are not a lot of those numbers as he rarely gets outs).

 

Also, Grossman has one bobble for an extra base (possible), and later kicked a ball for an error/run?

 

I guess a positive is both Buck and Castro got a hit in the same game.

[jimmer]

 

 

 

I know getting into math is verboten in these parts, but the biggest reason IMO hughes hasn't been a disaster is that, in his 8 starts, he left with his team ahead by 1 or 2 runs FIVE times. All this while only pitching more than 6 innings once. The bullpen has been his biggest savior this year. HAD been, anyway.

Edit: he pitched into the7th against boston

It's helps that, going into today, he has gotten almost 5 runs a game of support (4.88 to be exact, which is slightly less than he's given up a game). Only 14 qualifying starters in baseball have gotten more.

 

He's been horrible, regardless of how well the team around him has played in order to keep themselves in the game.

Edited May 17, 2017 by jimmer

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Sorry, I was throwing out a pile of numbers

Spring cleanin', eh?

 

Mind if i take a few?

[Sam Morley]

I didn't like the buxton bunt in the second either, esp not to the right side. I guess he always has the chance to get a hit out it though. A buxton bunt is never truly a sacrifice. The polanco bunt attempt in the 7th was far worse.

[snepp]

 

A room full of people who think they are the funniest guy they know yet I've laughed at nothing so far tonight.

 

Not funny, and I would know.

[TwinsCD]

Analytics weren't that prevalent in 1995 when Hawkins came up.  So how the heck did they come up with that pie graph illustrating his percentages over 10,000 career pitches?  Who got stuck with that job?

[Aggies7]

It's helps that, going into today, he has gotten almost 5 runs a game of support (4.88 to be exact, which is slightly less than he's given up a game). Only 14 qualifying starters in baseball have gotten more.

 

He's been horrible, regardless of how well the team around him has played in order to keep themselves in the game.

I wouldn't say horrible, I'd say teetering on the verge of disaster every start. But horrible, no. Not at least what has qualified as horrible around here the better part of the last six years

[Squirrel]

Where were/are you?

 

New Haven, CT

[rghrbek]

 

I didn't like the buxton bunt in the second either, esp not to the right side. I guess he always has the chance to get a hit out it though. A buxton bunt is never truly a sacrifice. The polanco bunt attempt in the 7th was far worse.

I'd rather have Polonco swinging as well, but c'mon Molly, you have a duck on the pond you let your young player drive him in...in no scenario should buxton be bunting in that situation, especially in the 2nd inning.  Molly will probably say it was his choice.  Well then Paul I hope you told him that was not the right spot, and take a crack at driving him in

[Oldgoat_MN]

Hawkins has relaxed. It's also nice to hear a pitcher who has some humility.

I like him OK. 

[Squirrel]

Not funny, and I would know.

I wasn't trying to be nor was I claiming to be.

[Aggies7]

New Haven, CT

[Riverbrian]

 

New Haven, CT

Try the White Clam Pizza. 

 

I didn't get a chance to. 

 

You'll have to be my proxy. 

[Squirrel]

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Well, not exactly. I was listening to a dissertation lecture: Rare-event searches in liquid xenon with the LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN detectors

[Blake]

 

Phil just does NOT have a pitch that can get a swing and miss.

Sure he does...as long as the major league ball players he faces have as much experience with a fastball as I do....

[Squirrel]

Try the White Clam Pizza. 

 

I didn't get a chance to. 

 

You'll have to be my proxy.

 

I'm allergic to clams. But I did have some New Haven pizza so next time we get into a Nee York vs Chicago pizza discussion I'm going with Nee Haven pizza.

[Aggies7]

Well, not exactly. I was listening to a dissertation lecture: Rare-event searches in liquid xenon with the LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN detectors

Oh.

 

I simply saw the words new haven and had nothing to add except the only thing I know about the town.

[Blake]

 

Well, not exactly. I was listening to a dissertation lecture: Rare-event searches in liquid xenon with the LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN detectors

Sounds suspiciously like math... 

[snepp]

 

I wasn't trying to be nor was I claiming to be.

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/tDinUY0.png

[Blake]

 

Imagine Grossman trying to play an infield position

Man, that's just evil!

[Squirrel]

Sounds suspiciously like math...

 

Well, tbh, I didn't understand any of it so if there was math in it, I missed it, but I suspect there was

[Aggies7]

Safe to say the ol' ballclub decided to pack it in sometime in the 6th inning?

[Squirrel]

http://i.imgur.com/tDinUY0.png

Yes, wise I will claim.

[Riverbrian]

 

I'm allergic to clams. But I did have some New Haven pizza so next time we get into a Nee York vs Chicago pizza discussion I'm going with Nee Haven pizza.

 

If you have to be allergic to something. Clams have to be near the top of list of best choices.

 

There is very little chance of those things sneaking up on you or floating in the air. 

 

[USAFChief]

 

Safe to say the ol' ballclub decided to pack it in sometime in the 6th inning?

Sure seems like some indifferent ABs, doesn't it?

[Sam Morley]

Hawkins calling Dick "Richard" instead of Dick is by far the best part of this broadcast.

[Blake]

 

Well, tbh, I didn't understand any of it so if there was math in it, I missed it, but I suspect there was

You had me at "liquid xenon." I'll bet that stuff is very cool and very dangerous.

[Aggies7]

Sure seems like some indifferent ABs, doesn't it?

Lethargic at best.

[twinssporto]

I run around all evening doing errands listening to the Twins on the radio.  I get home and the score is 4 to 3 Twins.  End up doing some chores, fix the washing machine, let the dog out all the while thinking it will be nice to sit down finally and watch the game and banter with my TD friends....Just turned on the tv and it's now 7-3 Rockies.

 

Listen, if you guys can't do a better job of keeping the score close while I'm not watching we're gonna have to have a little sit down conversation about perseverance, jinxes, etc.

 

And please don't blame the bullpen...