Game Thread: Twins @ Giants 6-11 @ 3:05 PM CT

[h2oface]

I wonder why Buxton was pulled? Perhaps for striking out on horrible pitches the last two at bats? Hurt? No need for anymore defense this game?

[Danchat]

Man, it seems like the bullpen has to implode once per week.

[Jerr]

Sorry that's enough for me today, with the earlier storm here and then this not-Twins storm here 

[Vanimal46]

Good lord.

[h2oface]

This feels like 2016 again.

[John Kelsey]

Feels like one of the Houston games. 

[snepp]

[notoriousgod71]

 

This has the looks of another game where the bullpen gives up eight runs.

 

 

Looks like I was wrong again as they give up nine and counting.

[GardyParty]

well at least we can look forward to tomorrows draft

 

Rube chat is dead! Good bye to that abomination of its former self

[drjim]

Belisle pitched yesterday. Why in heaven's name do you just let him blow a game like that?

 

There is no defending Molitor here. Much like when he had two fresh arms brought up SPECIFICALLY because he had a spent pen, and then let the spent pen **** away a 6 run lead.

 

He doesn't have good options, agreed. That's not his fault, but it makes it even more critical he uses what he has wisely.

 

Today was not wise.

Today and that previous game are both very defensible considering the options he has to work with.

 

I don't blame Molitor for any of this. In fact, I give him great credit for managing this terrible bullpen as well as he has all season. The moves are going to blow up on occasion because the pitchers are so bad.

[h2oface]

Breslow's thought cloud........ "Damn, there goes my ERA now, too. I knew I shouldn't have intentionally walked Hundley. What was Molitor thinking! I could have gotten him out!"

[Vanimal46]

well at least we can look forward to tomorrows draft

 

Rube chat is dead! Good bye to that abomination of its former self

Welcome aboard! You chose a hell of a game to join this site.

[David HK]

Can you imagine the reaction from other teams/fans when the Twins trot out a guy with a ERA above 8 to protect a one-run lead in the 7th or 8th inning?

 

They have to be equal parts baffled and giddy.

A sigh of'relief'...

[Craig Arko]

Gimenez time?

[Vanimal46]

Just in case we forgot, the Giants are 14 games under .500. They look like an offensive juggernaut this game.

[wsnydes]

Strategery question: you have a lineup with no lefties. You have a reliever that allows a opposing BA of .280 in the bullpen. Do you A) never even get him up off of the bench, or bring him in to face nothing but right handed batters?

[h2oface]

 

Today and that previous game are both very defensible considering the options he has to work with.

I don't blame Molitor for any of this. In fact, I give him great credit for managing this terrible bullpen as well as he has all season. The moves are going to blow up on occasion because the pitchers are so bad.

 

Poor poor Molitor. 

[twins_89]

So the Twins are down to 4 relievers on their 40 man roster who have an ERA under 4, and one of those is Boshers. 

[drjim]

Strategery question: you have a lineup with no lefties. You have a reliever that allows a opposing BA of .280 in the bullpen. Do you A) never even get him up off of the bench, or bring him in to face nothing but right handed batters?

I think you do what you can to get through the game and save your only three competent relievers for another game.

[Vanimal46]

Hey! Sam Dyson. The Twins could have traded for this guy.

[DH_11]

Wow, what a shot by Sano

[twins_89]

 

Hey! Sam Dyson. The Twins could have traded for this guy.

 

I wonder if the Twins offered Belisle and the Rangers chose PTBNL instead.

[Craig Arko]

Just in case we forgot, the Giants are 14 games under .500. They look like an offensive juggernaut this game.

Maybe they were just due.

[Puckett34]

[Craig Arko]

Sano scares the shortstop...

[wsnydes]

I think you do what you can to get through the game and save your only three competent relievers for another game.

Giminez not available?

[GardyParty]

Dyson looks to be less than stellar

[Roaddog]

I see little reason to hold back Curtiss. Something has to be done.

[David HK]

Could Dyson be the Giants' Belisle?

[h2oface]

Here we go........!!!!!!