Game Thread: Twins vs. Angels, 7/5/17 @ 7:10 PM Central

[Aggies7]

Angels can break it open here

[70charger]

I probably just jinxed it, didn't I?

[Aggies7]

What the heck was maybin doing? Could be a turning point

[70charger]

Wow, Kepler saves the day with a literal Superman move.

[spinowner]

 

What the heck was maybin doing? Could be a turning point

Either listening to his idiot third base coach or ignoring his wise third base coach.

[Aggies7]

Did we just get tricked by a little league play?

[spinowner]

Great camera work. NOT.

[PDX Twin]

 

I like them, too, because my best mate is from there.  We met teaching at a school in Guangzhou-  he grew up in Brighton, and played "Bah-sket-bawl."  He was quite good, too.  I'm a Yank who (still- against nature, lack of both size and speed, and professional medical advice) plays rugby.  We figured we must have been switched at birth.  Besides, how can you not like a team with 2 names like that-  actually 2 1/2-  "AND Hove Albion."  I like that part.

 

I think that Hove and Brighton are kind of twin cities. Anyone for Minneapolis and St. Paul Twins?

[spinowner]

 

Did we just get tricked by a little league play?

Yes.

[ashbury]

Ugh.

[Darius]

That's a bad run to give up. Story of this team for 20 years.

[LaBombo]

Wow. Twins apparently were just introduced to the concept of the double steal.

[Puckett34]

 

Did we just get tricked by a little league play?

Sure did

[70charger]

Come on, man.

[Aggies7]

That was really bad. Like really bad

[Darius]

As long as Castro can frame a pitch, rudimentary first and third plays are just gravy, apparently.

[LaBombo]

 

What the heck was maybin doing?

 

Just think how much his former managers wish they had a dollar for every time they thought that.

[ashbury]

Sometimes the stolen base is off the catcher, oftentimes it's off the pitcher. On this one, it was off the second baseman.

[Dr. Evil]

Gladden would have laid out for that foul ball if he was ball boy today.

[ashbury]

Let's get some more offense going, now that Escobar has started us.

[LaBombo]

 

Sometimes the stolen base is off the catcher, oftentimes it's off the pitcher. On this one, it was off the second baseman.

 

Yup. Twins caught with FISP - Fielders in Sleeping Position.

[Aggies7]

Parker Bridwell shutting us down tonight, folks. Parker Bridwell.

[70charger]

Still questioning the decision to sit Mauer. That squibber to end the inning with a guy on third hasn't helped me get over.

[ashbury]

Yup. Twins caught with FISP - Fielders in Sleeping Position.

You know how Dozier would have looked in a Warner Brothers cartoon, once he took that first step to chase the runner from first?

http://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/elmer-fudd21.gif

[yarnivek1972]

Hrbek would have had that.

[70charger]

Also, does it seem like Mauer would have made a couple defensive plays at first too?

[ashbury]

Also, does it seem like Mauer would have made a couple defensive plays at first too?

Sano made a very nice diving stop of a sharp grounder, earlier. But popups remain one of the weak spots in his game.

[70charger]

 

Sano made a very nice diving stop of a sharp grounder, earlier. But popups remain one of the weak spots in his game.

 

Fair enough. I've only seen about half the game so far.

[SwainZag]

I say it's time for some runs!

[Linus]

That double steal was really bad. Neither Castro or Dozier throw well enough to get a guy that fast. He didn't even have to slide. I'm thinking framing is the only thing Castro brings to the table.