Game Thread: Minnesota Twins @ Oakland A's 7-29 @ 8:10 PM CT

[TwinsCD]

I don't know if anything frustrates me more about this team than seeing a power hitter like Sano do that half-hearted wave at a breaking ball on strike 3.  It happens at least once every other game.  I hope he someday learns how to be more disciplined with that pitch.

[Vanimal46]

Since it's Saturday night and Van is no doubt out on a date, I'll post the lineups ... since I'm not on a date but at work:

 

TWINS

Brian Dozier 2B

Max Kepler RF

Miguel Sano 3B

Joe Mauer 1B

Eduardo Escobar SS

Eddie Rosario LF

Robbie Grossman DH

Zack Granite CF

Jason Castro C

 

Adalberto Mejia P

 

ATHLETICS

Rajai Davis RF

Marcus Semien SS

Ryon Healy DH

Khris Davis LF

Jed Lowrie 2B

Yonder Alonso 1B

Matt Chapman 3B

Ryan Lavarnway C

Jaycob Brugman CF

 

Chris Smith P

Thanks for picking up the slack Chi! We just got back and now furiously typing out the thread for tomorrow!

[70charger]

 

Thanks for picking up the slack Chi! We just got back and now furiously typing out the thread for tomorrow!

 

We?

 

The couple that game threads together stays together?

[AlwaysinModeration]

The Mejia-Nunez trade was a good one.

Nunez hit two homers for Boston tonight.

[Vanimal46]

We?

 

The couple that game threads together stays together?

Haha she has very little interest in sports... Playing them yes! But watching is a different story. I think I've watched more musicals in the past month than I have in my lifetime.

[70charger]

 

Haha she has very little interest in sports... Playing them yes! But watching is a different story. I think I've watched more musicals in the past month than I have in my lifetime.

 

Is there anything worse in this world than musical theater. I contend that, no, there is not.

[70charger]

 

Nunez hit two homers for Boston tonight.

 

Whew. Good thing we didn't trade him to Boston.

[bighat]

Hector Santiago rehab update from Toledo per Mike Bernardino: "30-pitch 1st for Hector Santiago in Toledo. Gives up a run on a sIngle, 3 BB".

[TwinsCD]

Duffey looks rather adequate tonite.

[70charger]

Great outing by Duffey.

[AlwaysinModeration]

How about the game where you had to put the five digits in order to win the car? That seemed to do a good job of making "the price is right" game.

[TwinsCD]

 

How about the game where you had to put the five digits in order to win the car? That seemed to do a good job of making "the price is right" game.

 

Are you talking 'Any Number' (the one with the secondary prize and the piggy bank) or 'One Away'?  It seemed in the last few years of the Bob Barker ones (I haven't watched a single Drew Carey episode), the last number on the car was either a 0 or a 5.

[AlwaysinModeration]

Are you talking 'Any Number' (the one with the secondary prize and the piggy bank) or 'One Away'? It seemed in the last few years of the Bob Barker ones (I haven't watched a single Drew Carey episode), the last number on the car was either a 0 or a 5.

I have no idea. Nunez with the game winning groundout in the 10th.

 

Did anyone notice there is a lot of foul territory in Oakland?

[snepp]

Wowzers. I guess if you're going to give one up, it may as well be a monster.

[snepp]

 

Did anyone notice there is a lot of foul territory in Oakland?

 

http://woofraise.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/no-way-tell-me-more.jpg

[AlwaysinModeration]

Wowzers. I guess if you're going to give one up, it may as well be a monster.

Also smart to arrange for it immediately after the DP.

[USAFChief]

That joke gets a 9 from me.

 

That's because... Skeleton walks into a bar and says give me a beer and a... mop... Is the only 10 that has ever existed.

"It was a shih tzu" is the greatest joke of all time.

[70charger]

3 walks for Mauer. 1 more and he walks for the cycle.

[glunn]

I see that the Indians won and the Royals lost.

[TwinsCD]

And now the Adventures of the 9th Inning has begun.

[glunn]

How was that not a swing?

[bighat]

Taylor Rogers. Best we got, eh? Boo, he stinks. Let's get 'em tomorrow (I guess?)

[snepp]

[Aggies7]

RIP twins 2017

[kydoty]

I second I saw Rogers come out in the 9th, I turned to my brother and said "Why is he still in the game?"

[USAFChief]

Oh FFS.

[glunn]

That was a bad ending.

[TwinsCD]

Dear Front Office, 

 

Please find bullpen help....ANYWHERE.

 

Dear Paul Molitor, 

 

Stop deviating from the norm.  Kintzler gets the 9th, no matter how interesting he always makes it.  Rogers hasn't had a professional save, why the hell did you think tonite would be different?

 

Dear Hitters, 

 

You're allowed to score after the 5th inning.  Stop pressing the dumb, incompetent bullpen.

 

 

Only consolation prize -- Jamie Hersch is on Quick Pitch on MLB tonite.  Sigh.

 

Try again tomorrow.

[70charger]

Looks like Rogers may need a few days off. He's on a bad stretch right now.

[drock2190]

Rodgers sure must be sick of some of his teammates because he's tanking quite nicely lately!