Article: Game Thread: Twins @ Padres, 8/1@9:10pm CT

[Cap'n Piranha]

Eddie Rosario OPS's .816 against righties. Zach Granite OPS's .652 against righties. Naturally, with a righty on the mound, Granite is in the lineup.

 

Also, my iPhone tried to autocorrect Zach to Zachary. Siri hates informality.

[yarnivek1972]

Smallish chance of rain? It never rains in southern California!!

 

In other irrelevant (or irreverant) news, one year ago today Max Kepler hit three 2 run HR against Cleveland. I'm going to go out on a limb and say he doesn't do that tonight at Petco.

[bighat]

 

I was planning on going to Petco, a stadium I had not seen yet and been to a ballgame at,  but after attending the Dodger series and having to watch Colon, and then watching the Twins blow the games to a last place team in Oakland, being deprived of getting to see Buxton, watching Dozier pout  ......... I have convinced myself to see Petco some other time.

 

I may still go. It is a real sickness.

 

I went to Petco 3 years ago, caught a Rockies v. Padres afternoon getaway game there. If I recall correctly, Ian Kennedy had a no-hitter through 4 but then got roughed up and we left. Great little stadium. I like San Diego, nice town. I spent a couple weeks there and was thinking about moving to that city. Rent's expensive though, and most of the apartments available for an average person are pretty ramshackle.  I figured that since I work from home, I'd prefer to live in a place where I can get a nice place for cheap. San Diego is not that place. Also - they didn't teach me this growing up in Minnesota - the water is COLD AS BALLS most of the time. There are a few months in the summer where you can go in without a wetsuit, but it's Lake Superior-esque in April, I know that! 

Edited August 2, 2017 by bighat

[Joe A. Preusser]

Why does anyone do life or death stunts? The ADRENALIN RUSH IS SO DAMN GOOD!

Says the scheduler for an orchestra...?

Edited August 2, 2017 by Joe A. Preusser

[TwinsCD]

Petco is a pretty fun ballpark.  Inside, it feels like an open-air mall when you're walking along the concourse.  Since they always have great weather, it's easier to be open like that.  There's a 'beach' behind the RF fence where the falls are cushioned by those chasing BP home runs.  Sight lines are pretty good too, though, my seat in the first row of the upper deck gave me acrophobic anxiety so it took away a little from my enjoyment of the game I went to there.  Outside, the park is located in the perfect spot downtown -- close to all the bars.

[David HK]

 

Some potentially good news to start off August with.

 

Talk about an adrenaline rush...

[LaBombo]

 

The city is great, the people not so much (from my experience anyways). 

 

Stayed in SD for a few days for a close friend's wedding there almost 20 years ago. Went out on the town with him and a bunch of his SD friends for his bachelor party and they were all great guys.

 

Probably just a coincidence that almost all of them had moved to CA for college or work from the Midwest.

Edited August 2, 2017 by LaBombo

[LaBombo]

 

Says the scheduler for an orchestra...?

 

And that's when the lady socked that man right through the internet and set off the donnybrook, officer!

[TwinsCD]

No Bremer on this broadcast?  How will I know to get excited about a routine fly to left?

[TwinsCD]

 

No Bremer on this broadcast?  How will I know to get excited about a routine fly to left?

 

Oh, wait a second...it's a national game on FS1??  (Why????)   On the big screen it goes!!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Oh, good. The game has started.

 

I must apologize. I am hitting the hay shortly, unless the game keeps me up.

 

I promised to be an all day person tomorrow, which seems to include being a morning person.

[Cap'n Piranha]

Buck a little rusty--he got 6 balls in that AB, but somehow still ground out.

[h2oface]

Buxton only walked twice that at bat.... oh wait.... he swung at them. nevermind.

 

[Mill1634]

Granite grounds into a lot of DP for how fast he is

[h2oface]

 

Eddie Rosario OPS's .816 against righties. Zach Granite OPS's .652 against righties. Naturally, with a righty on the mound, Granite is in the lineup.

Also, my iPhone tried to autocorrect Zach to Zachary. Siri hates informality.

 

It that new attention to advanced stats............ 

[Mill1634]

That curve was NASTY

[gil4]

 

Since the OP put that picture on their it's fair game.  Who in their right mind would put their head or neck in a bears mouth?  That bear could pop his head off like a champagne cork in a heart beat.  

Maybe he's a Padres fan and just doesn't are what the bear does.

[yarnivek1972]

Padres baseball.

 

Drop it.

 

More accurately: throw it away.

Edited August 2, 2017 by yarnivek1972

[Mill1634]

Myers could have used 4 days off it looks like. 

[David HK]

Well, Dozey--  you showed some heart, popping off, but didn't show much faking a bunt, and popping up.

[David HK]

Cripe, they're trying awfully hard to give us some runs; are we gonna take it, or say 'no thanks?'

[Mill1634]

The twins sure love taking ball 4/strike 3 on the corner with runners in scoring position. 

[wavedog]

Well that was ball four I believe. Close though

[David HK]

 

Cripe, they're trying awfully hard to give us some runs; are we gonna take it, or say 'no thanks?'

Welp--  I guess it's 'no thanks'

[yarnivek1972]

And that inning showed why the Twins were sellers. First and second, nobody out. Top of the order due. No runs. That's actually statistically very hard to do.

[h2oface]

This team looks like they don't give a ..........

[bighat]

Kepler's striking out with RISP like crazy lately. He seems to be in a funk since the ASB.

[wavedog]

Not even a decent hard out - pop up - strike out and tapper back to the mound.

[Riverbrian]

 

Without the humidity, rust, road construction and cold. Other than that, yeah, just like Minneapolis...

 

I want to know which Minnesota City represents Tijuana? 

[wavedog]

Nice to watch Berrios pitch!