Article: Game Thread: Twins @ A’s, 7/28@9:05pm CT

[amjgt]

I don't think the third base coach has came back from the All Star break yet...

Is there a sign for "run at full speed"

[Winston Smith]

 

Rosario was going at about 80% speed there. Wtf

He seems to do a lot of that kind of stuff.

[drock2190]

Khris Davis has the worst arm in the majors but at least he threw home unlike someone we know

[amjgt]

Whichever Davis is playing in left field I'm pretty sure had the worst arm in MLB history. He's got to be jealous of Revere

[h2oface]

Cuzzi... a name a Twins fan will never forget.

[Aggies7]

Cuzzi... a name a Twins fan will never forget.

I haven't forgotten. And I see he's sporting a truly horrific hairstyle

[amjgt]

Hahhahahaha. That strike 3 was 6" outside

[Aggies7]

I know strike 3 was a BS call, but Brian has developed into one of the least clutch hitters on the team. Yes I know he came through the other day, but still

Edited July 29, 2017 by Aggies7

[drock2190]

Dozier sure has been getting screwed at the plate lately

[h2oface]

Dozier screwed on that one. Once more.... time for tech to call balls and strikes. It affects every game played. Should be bases loaded. Instead .... side out. Not a game goes by that isn't compromised by the wrong calls behind the plate. Not a one.

[drock2190]

 

I know strike 3 was a BS call, but Brian has developed into one of the least clutch hitters on the team. Yes I know he came through the other day, but still

 

He's batting .284 with RISP. So not really

[Winston Smith]

 

Dozier screwed on that one. Once more.... time for tech to call balls and strikes. It affects every game played. Should be bases loaded. Instead .... side out. Not a game goes by that isn't compromised by the wrong calls behind the plate. Not a one.

And they all go against the Twins.

[spinowner]

 

I know strike 3 was a BS call, but Brian has developed into one of the least clutch hitters on the team. Yes I know he came through the other day, but still

I don't think it's a good idea for our batters to be swinging at that pitch, even with 2 strikes. It shouldn't be called a strike, but whether it would be or not it's not an easy pitch to hit.

[Aggies7]

He's batting .284 with RISP. So not really

That's very surprising and I'll gladly eat my hat. Seems he's up with guys on base very often and fails to drive in runs.

[Aggies7]

Someone must have told garcia that he is indeed a member of the twins staff and we simply cannot be having 1-2-3 innings like he did in the first

[h2oface]

 

And they all go against the Twins.

 

Really? Not what I see. I know you are trying to minimalize what I said, but I don't like any of the wrong calls, even when they go in my teams favor. I hate them all. I don't like the "they all even out" acceptance. Because they don't. They all change every game and produce a different result than what a good eye or pitch earned. They are all cheating the game. 

Edited July 29, 2017 by h2oface

[Aggies7]

Really? Not what I see. I know you are trying to minimalize what I said, but I don't like any of the wrong calls, even when they go in the my teams favor. I hate them all. I don't like the "they all even out" acceptance. Because they don't. They all change every game and produce a different result than what a good eye or pitch earned. They are all cheating the game.

 

We don't need computers calling balls and strikes. The best teams almost always win the game, the division, etc in the end. we got jobbed more by a fast guy running home at 80% speed than a bad strike 3 call Edited July 29, 2017 by Aggies7

[Aggies7]

Houdini act by Garcia. A's being twins like there

[sftwinsfan]

I didn't see him getting out of that inning without any damage, nice surprise.

[Mill1634]

Way to get out of that, Jaime!

[Winston Smith]

 

Really? Not what I see. I know you are trying to minimalize what I said, but I don't like any of the wrong calls, even when they go in my teams favor. I hate them all. I don't like the "they all even out" acceptance. Because they don't. They all change every game and produce a different result than what a good eye or pitch earned. They are all cheating the game. 

Yep the game of baseball has been screwed up for 150 years.

[Aggies7]

Good god, the A's broadcast has a gentleman rapper by the name of G-eazy in their booth. Sometimes dick and Bert ain't that bad

[h2oface]

 

We don't need computers calling balls and strikes. The best teams almost always win the game, the division, etc in the end. we got jobbed more by a fast guy running home at 80% speed than a bad strike 3 call

 

Not the point. And there is no evidence to back your statement. None at all, because one will never know how the games would have turned out if they were called correctly. It is going to happen. And it will improve the game to have a true strike zone, like the game was designed to have. 

Edited July 29, 2017 by h2oface

[howeda7]

Sano got robbed there

[Riverbrian]

Credit due

 

 

Hell of a play by Chapman

 

Here's to hoping that doesn't happen again. 

[h2oface]

 

Yep the game of baseball has been screwed up for 150 years.

 

Yup. Should have never moved on from black and white TV. I get it.

[Aggies7]

Not the point. And there is no evidence to back you statement. None at all, Because one will never know how the games would have turned out if they were called correctly. It is going to happen. And it will improve the game to have a true strike zone, like the game was designed to have.

 

The thing is that, if you watch all the games, you know the twins have gotten plenty of ball/strike calls in their favor as well as ones that didn't go in their favor. There's no evidence to show that one team is jobbed any more than another on balls/strikes. The other things, like dogging it around the bases or throwing it to first when the tying run is scoring are the REAL things that change a game.

[drock2190]

Sano the anti chapman

[h2oface]

 

The thing is that, if you watch all the games, you know the twins have gotten plenty of ball/strike calls in their favor as well as ones that didn't go in their favor. There's no evidence to show that one team is jobbed any more than another on balls/strikes. The other things, like dogging it around the bases or throwing it to first when the tying run is scoring are the REAL things that change a game.

 

I totally agree that your tangent is true. It doesn't change that players with a good eye at the plate or the perfect pitch have to be screwed forever. They earned the right call. We only had umpires guessing because we had no other instantaneous option that was better. We do now. 

Edited July 29, 2017 by h2oface

[Aggies7]

Can the A's just move already? Nothing against their fans, but it doesn't seem like anyone cares, their stadium is a morgue and they've been talking about g-easy for an entire inning