Game Thread: Twins vs Cleveland 11:10 PT (1:10 PM CT)

[wavedog]

This has all the makings of a lost weekend.

[PDX Twin]

Why is it that we never buzz guys inside and back them off the plate after they hit the first home run? Instead we give them another batting practice pitch right down the middle.

[Don Walcott]

Why is it that we never buzz guys inside and back them off the plate after they hit the first home run? Instead we give them another batting practice pitch right down the middle.

Because we have terrible pitchers?

[Aggies7]

I want to thank the offense for showing up all weekend. A record setting day not even a week ago and they sleep walked through this whole series.

[twinsbaby]

How many times did Indians bunt single to Sano?

[Aggies7]

And the meltdown is just about complete for Gibby Gibby gibbons

[mikecgrimes]

 

How many times did Indians bunt single to Sano?

 

I wonder if Molitor stopped paying attention to Falvey.  Molitor shouldn't last the season.

[Aggies7]

Wiggled out of it

[Aggies7]

Bauer and his 5.40 era making it look easy

[LaBombo]

 

This has all the makings of a lost weekend.

 

Agreed.

 

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The Twins' hefty negative run differential and the lack of either pitcher from their  two man rotation were spoilers for this series' negative outcome, but there's still the balancing fact that Twins have played nearly half a season of relevant baseball following a year in which they lost 103 games.

[drock2190]

Looking like the 1st shutout of the Twins this year

[twinsbaby]

Twins hitters did it again. Why FO didn't DFA Polanco?

[PDX Twin]

The last couple of weeks this team has reminded me of last year: coming out onto the field asking "How are we going to lose today?" They just don't seem to have the confidence and swagger they had earlier in the year that they can get a lead, hold a lead, or overcome a deficit.

 

Is there a clubhouse leader who can somehow change the negative thinking? Was there such a person earlier when we seemed to be able to overcome adversity and bounce back for a come-from-behind win or a big win to stop a losing streak?

[USAFChief]

Kipnis not too proud to run to first base on a dropped strike three.

 

Rosario couldn't be bothered.

 

 

[Aggies7]

The last couple of weeks this team has reminded me of last year: coming out onto the field asking "How are we going to lose today?" They just don't seem to have the confidence and swagger they had earlier in the year that they can get a lead, hold a lead, or overcome a deficit.

 

Is there a clubhouse leader who can somehow change the negative thinking? Was there such a person earlier when we seemed to be able to overcome adversity and bounce back for a come-from-behind win or a big win to stop a losing streak?

The big problem lately has been falling behind early. Opponent has scored first far too often recently.

[Aggies7]

Kipnis not too proud to run to first base on a dropped strike three.

 

Rosario couldn't be bothered.

I guess that doesn't warrant a fine any more.

[mikecgrimes]

Are Sano and Vargas just laying in the dirt like I do when I'm to tired to play catch with the kids?

[Aggies7]

Just keep pitching to encarnacion. He's only driven in every single Indians run. What a stupid team we are sometimes.

[PDX Twin]

Giminez barely tried for that one. "Eff" for effort today all around.

[USAFChief]

 

I guess that doesn't warrant a fine any more.

Or it does, and he doesn't care, because he doesn't care.

[Circus Boy]

Dang, no one's happy anymore. Even my wife picks up on my dark mood. "Twins losing?" "Again."

[LaBombo]

 

The last couple of weeks this team has reminded me of last year: coming out onto the field asking "How are we going to lose today?" They just don't seem to have the confidence and swagger they had earlier in the year that they can get a lead, hold a lead, or overcome a deficit.

 

 

 

The bullpen is still cause for heartburn, but the non-Santana/Berrios starting pitching resembling their Golden Age of Twins AAAA Pitching circa 2012-2014 is the more vexing problem now.

[Aggies7]

Dang, no one's happy anymore. Even my wife picks up on my dark mood. "Twins losing?" "Again."

It's tough because we've done acceptably well all year, it's easy to forget how horrendously bad pretty much this same roster was last season.

[mickeymental]

 

Someone needs to get drilled, right now.  

maybe. but isn't taking quality at-bats, stringing some hits together and taking the lead a better response?

[Aggies7]

Another sano-for for the leading vote getter

[yarnivek1972]

Seriously, Rosario is the most brain dead baserunner in MLB. Escobar was going to score easy there.

[Aggies7]

Oh, Eddie.

[Blake]

Rosario, really?

 

Molitor needs to get these guys under control.

[LaBombo]

Better late than never, but three baserunners in six innings vs Bauer was a little disappointing. The Kepler play at the plate looms larger than ever now.

[Blake]

 

Better late than never, but three baserunners in six innings vs Bauer was a little disappointing. The Kepler play at the plate looms larger than ever now.

Saved the challenge, though. They add up over the course of a season. Hmm, what's that? They can't be saved, like in a bank? 

 

Never mind, then.