Article: Game Thread: Twins v Yankees, 7/17@7:10pm CT

[Suicide Skweez]

This is how leaving RISP costs you games. You just have to find a way to get guys in from 2nd and 3rd. Luckily, Mejia is doing a very good job at keeping the good guys in front for the time being.

Edited July 18, 2017 by Suicide Skweez

[DocBauer]

I need some Mejia cervesa?

[70charger]

 

What the hell? Stop giving up hits to Garrett Goddamn Cooper.

 

Wait.

 

I mean, I'm happy for him. Or whatever.

 

Shut up.

[yarnivek1972]

An awful lot of hard contact that inning. Gives me concern about Mejia going through this Yankee lineup a third time.

[70charger]

 

This is how leaving RISP costs you games. You just have to find a way to get guys in from 2nd and 3rd. Luckily, Mejia is doing a very good job at keeping the good guys in front for the time being.

 

Seriously. You're not going to beat the Yankees most days with 2 runs. When you've got bases loaded with zero outs you expect more than one.

 

This should be a much more lopsided game than it is, and unfortunately I think we might need it to be later on.

[DocBauer]

All I can come up with. Offered up everything in my portfolio with the "legal" post.

[DocBauer]

Wait...that doesn't leave me open for my first ever warning points does it?

[jimbo92107]

 

I agree it appears he was but technically the rule is the catcher can't block the "pathway"
of the runner,without the ball. Dozier clearly had a lane to the plate.

A lane to the plate? You mean through the catcher's shoe? Dozier had to reach over and past the catcher's shoe in order to touch the plate. That is why he was "out." Maybe a "lane" means the catcher can't line up like an offensive lineman blocking the plate. If that's the rule, I claim the foul. 

Edited July 18, 2017 by jimbo92107

[mikecgrimes]

 

Seriously. You're not going to beat the Yankees most days with 2 runs. When you've got bases loaded with zero outs you expect more than one.

 

This should be a much more lopsided game than it is, and unfortunately I think we might need it to be later on.

 

If we were striking out and popping I'd get this post but between lining out with runners on 2nd and third and Sano's hard hit that turned into a double play what more do you want.  Lightly hit dribblers that find a hole?

[Puckett34]

 

Post of the Night

I rest my case

[DocBauer]

Wonder if Molitor didn't challenge considering the intent of the rule? Right or not, may have been too close to call and risk losing the challenge later.

 

I still think he was safe...but soooooo close

[ashbury]

I can tell you, in all seriousness, that the moderators are most assuredly not. A few TD members have already been given a word to the wise.

 

A good Colon joke is a terrible thing to waist.

Phase 2 will be where we work our way down the list of not-wise.

[twinsnorth49]

 

A lane to the plate? You mean through the catcher's shoe? Dozier had to reach over and past the catcher's shoe in order to touch the plate. That is why he was "out." Maybe a "lane" means the catcher can't line up like an offensive lineman blocking the plate. If that's the rule, I claim the foul. 

The rule is completely open to interpretation and is at the umpire's discretion, in situations like that it's never going to get called. I get why they did it but it's pretty much a  non rule.

[twinsnorth49]

Sano not exactly working any counts tonight, I was less than impressed with his 1 swing AB with the bases loaded a couple of innings ago, especially after Mauer walked on 5 pitches.

[Aggies7]

As long as the twins continue to leave men ISP, expect the slide to continue. The pitching actually hasn't been that bad to be fair.

[70charger]

 

If we were striking out and popping I'd get this post but between lining out with runners on 2nd and third and Sano's hard hit that turned into a double play what more do you want.  Lightly hit dribblers that find a hole?

 

Even if the outs weren't given cheaply, I don't possibly see how you can argue against the position that, when you have the bases loaded with zero outs, you expect more than one run.

 

I also don't see how you could possible argue against the idea that we might need more than what we have to beat the Yankees.

Edited July 18, 2017 by 70charger

[ashbury]

I may have mentioned this once or twice on Sunday but Grossman didn't yesterday. 

I missed that.

 

So, apparently, did Grossman.

[ashbury]

So, just argumentative? Or what? Don't like math?

Easy there, big guy.

[Aggies7]

Only 75 pitches for mehjia, but the contact is getting harder and harder

[USAFChief]

It always baffles me when I read RBI aren't a valuable way to measure offensive production. Getting a pitch to hit, and often doing something with it, is absolutely a skill, and an important one.

[Aggies7]

Wow I'm actually shocked mejia is given the hook. Don't like it.

[70charger]

 

Easy there, big guy.

 

Maybe it's the beer. I apologize if I'm being mean, but specifically to the poster I replied to.

 

That said, I looked it up in the interim. The expected number of runs with bases loaded and no outs is about 2.25. We got literally less than half of that.

 

Very hard to argue against the idea that you expect more than one in that situation.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/library/misc/re24/

[ashbury]

Didn't we already do these puns from 1991 to about 2005

Yeah, but we didn't really do them justice.

[Aggies7]

I hate the move if the alternative is Duffey. Prove me wrong paul

[Danchat]

Wait, we're going to trust Duffey in this situation? Wait WHAT?!

 

Mejia was giving up some hard contact, but I would have given him some more rope...

[ashbury]

OK, that was a major league SS play by Ay-Ray. And a big grin.

[70charger]

Wow, what a snag by Adrianza. That's the glove that was advertised.

[Riverbrian]

[Aggies7]

And I'm gladly proven wrong

[twinsnorth49]

 

It always baffles me when I read RBI aren't a valuable way to measure offensive production. Getting a pitch to hit, and often doing something with it, is absolutely a skill, and an important one.

Take it outside bub.