Article: Game Thread: Twins v White Sox, 6/20@7:10pm CT

[70charger]

Oof. More Sano home runs!

[Riverbrian]

Todd Frazier and Brian Dozier both look like players that shouldn't be power hitters but are. 

[yarnivek1972]

I think Polanco gets that.

[drock2190]

Fastball after Fastball

 

Any other pitches?

[70charger]

Escobar has looked fairly slow out there today.

[70charger]

 

Or Busenitz, which, according to Bert, is "Buzhenick." Or something.

 

And now there's apparently an "x" in his name.

[Aggies7]

Man, we stink.

[Ron Burgundy 4 President]

Twins just begging the Sux to take this game from them.

[spinowner]

 

Man, we stink.

And we're in the lead in spite of it.

[LaBombo]

 

Smart aleck

 

Yeah, but relative to the general population or to fellow Game Threaders?

[yarnivek1972]

I have no idea how that is possibly ruled a hit. An on target throw gets him. Why even have fielding stats?

 

I'm kinda curious to know- if anyone does. How do advanced fielding metrics handle that?

[Aggies7]

And we're in the lead in spite of it.

When 3/5's of the games you play are spent waiting until your two good pitchers start, and one of those pitchers gives you FIVE whole innings...

[LaBombo]

 

Where where? I always thought it was hear hear, as in an old timey vernacular for "I hear that!"

 

In North Dakota, with its population density of 0.8 persons per square mile, it's "Here! Here!". Otherwise they'd never find each other, even when it's not a blizzard whiteout.

Edited June 21, 2017 by LaBombo

[spinowner]

 

I have no idea how that is possibly ruled a hit. An on target throw gets him. Why even have fielding stats?

I'm kinda curious to know- if anyone does. How do advanced fielding metrics handle that?

Because making an on-target throw was very difficult in that situation.

[Riverbrian]

I like this Busenitz guy. 

 

He has some stuff. 

[Riverbrian]

 

In North Dakota, with its population density of 0.8 persons per square mile, it's "Here! Here!". Otherwise they'd never find each other, even when it's not a blizzard whiteout.

 

Exactly!!!

[yarnivek1972]

Because making an on-target throw was very difficult in that situation.

20 years ago that was an error.

[GCTF]

Does Boozenutz have any other pitches besides fastball with no movement?

[Cap'n Piranha]

I'm so much more interested in finding out about Busenitz than in winning this game. Here's to hoping we can do both though.

[Riverbrian]

 

20 years ago that was an error.

 

If I didn't make that play at 3B in beer league softball.. I'd be upset with myself. 

[LaBombo]

With Busenitz being a hard thrower, it's another chance for Bert to talk about pitcher velocity like an elderly Civil War veteran deriding the horseless carriage as an "infernal machine".

[Aggies7]

I like this Busenitz guy. 

 

He has some stuff.

 

Yeah, stuff alright.

[Cap'n Piranha]

Does Boozenutz have any other pitches besides fastball with no movement?

According to gameday he's thrown a handful of sliders.

[yarnivek1972]

Does Boozenutz have any other pitches besides fastball with no movement?

You mean like the curve with which he got his strikeout?

[ashbury]

off the Sears Tower? It is Chicago after all

"Be sure and tell 'em, Large Mrs O'Leary sent ya!"

[Riverbrian]

 

Yeah, stuff alright.

 

His slider is tight and his fastball has late life. 

 

He could use another pitch as a change of pace but if he locates that fastball better. He could be decent. 

 

 

[yarnivek1972]

With Busenitz being a hard thrower, it's another chance for Bert to talk about pitcher velocity like an elderly Civil War veteran deriding the horseless carriage as an "infernal machine".

He wasn't deriding velocity. Merely deriding not being able to locate velocity. Which Busenitz is not doing.

[Aggies7]

"Be sure and tell 'em, Large Mrs O'Leary sent ya!"

[LaBombo]

 

 

Does Boozenutz have any other pitches besides fastball with no movement?

 

He allegedly throws a changeup and a curve. When asked by a fan at a spring training game if Boozynuts' last pitch was a changeup or a curve, an Angels scout reportedly said "Yes".

[GCTF]

I like this Busenitz guy.

 

He has some stuff.

He can load uo those bases like nobody's bizznutz