Game Thread: Twins @ Tigers 8/13/2017 AD @ 12:10pm CDT

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Alas, the Tigers came back last night:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ltlPINPn8UU

 

As you might guess, that weighs heavily in my thoughts today. Not that my thoughts are particularly heavy. Although i suppose they are for their size...

 

Other things that come back:

 

Yo-yos.

Boomerangs

Undeliverable first class mail

Salmon

TD readers, i hope.

 

But i don't expect that to shed to any light on how to prevent it in future games.

 

I would like to parody the whole "for want of a nail" sequence, but i am not thinking hard today. Feel free to add more steps.

 

For want of a pitch, the game was lost.

 

And wanting to appear helpful, but fall entertainingly short, i started thinking of "sounds like" pitch...

 

Millions of pitches, pitches for free.

Pitch me, i must be dreaming.

"But how do you know it's a pitch?" (It turned me i to a newt... I got better.)

Don't want a pitch out, Just wanna ride my...

99 problems but a pitch ain't one.

 

Er... yeah.

 

I guess 2 short 5 item lists, matches the 2 5 run leads that didn't stand yesterday?

Gives me more credit for planning than i deserve...

 

I gotta check out soon, and march.

 

Do a better job taking care of the game thread than i did introducing it!

 

Oh yeah, Ervin Santana (R )is pitching for us, Mathew Boyd (L) for them, and line ups and such will be forthcoming eventually. Supposed to be 77F and clear.

 

Have a good game!

[SwainZag]

Mauer and Kepler get the day off with lefty Boyd on the bump.  Need some of that complete game Magic out of Santana today!

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Minnesota

 

1. Brian Dozier (R ) 2B

2. Robbie Grossman (S) RF

3. Miguel Sano (R ) 1B

4. Eduardo Escobar (S) DH

5. Eddie Rosario (L) LF

6. Chris Gimenez (R ) C

7. Jorge Polanco (S) SS

8. Byron Buxton ( R) CF

9. Ehire Adrianza (S) 3B

 

Detroit

 

1. Mikie Mahtook ( R) CF

2. Alex Presley (L) RF

3. Justin Upton ( R) LF

4. Nicholas Castellanos ( R) 3B

5. John Hicks (R ) 1B

6. Victor Martinez (S) DH

7. James McCann (R ) C

8. Andrew Romine (S) 2B

9. Jose Iglesias (R ) SS

 

And i have hurried up and am now waiting.

[PDX Twin]

Pretty quiet on here today. I guess I killed everyone off with my jinxed game thread yesterday! Actually, I left for a soccer game in the middle of the 8th with a good lead. It looked like it was in the bag. Oops.

[Riverbrian]

DOZIER

[spinowner]

 

Pretty quiet on here today.

Dozier loudens it up a bit.

[PDX Twin]

1-to-nil!

[PDX Twin]

That was a nice play by Castellanos, but if Sano had made it we'd be nominating him for a Gold Glove. It's all about expectations...

[spinowner]

Torii called Escobar Mighty Mouse.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wUe5aEwHM

[Riverbrian]

 

That was a nice play by Castellanos, but if Sano had made it we'd be nominating him for a Gold Glove. It's all about expectations...

 

I nominated Sano along with 20 others. 

 

 

[PDX Twin]

Pitching around our slugging catcher even with first base occupied!

[Aggies7]

2 bunts? With the way the offense has been

Hitting? Don't like it

[mikecgrimes]

Really like those last two bunts, score a run and keep the defense honest the rest of the game, a shame neither ended up being a hit (or error)but thats how you use the bunt.

[drock2190]

Just tuned into see a lot of bunting

[PDX Twin]

 

Just tuned into see a lot of bunting

 

Just warming up for the World Series when they put the red-white-and-blue bunting out on the fences!

[spinowner]

 

Really like those last two bunts, score a run and keep the defense honest the rest of the game, a shame neither ended up being a hit (or error)but thats how you use the bunt.

If Buck can push a bunt past the pitcher on the right side of the infield he'll get on base every time. The second baseman plays a lot farther from home plate than the third baseman so it takes longer for him to get to the ball.

[notoriousgod71]

Torii and Dick about to come to blows?

[drock2190]

Let's have everyone bunt. See how that goes.

[Circus Boy]

 

If Buck can push a bunt past the pitcher on the right side of the infield he'll get on base every time. The second baseman plays a lot farther from home plate than the third baseman so it takes longer for him to get to the ball.

And it depends on the velocity off the bat and the launch angle.

[Riverbrian]

SANO

[jimbo92107]

I believe that was a curve ball that Sano just golfed into the stands. Did he guess on that?

[jimbo92107]

We are looking at Eddie Rosario's breakout. Too bad it didn't start in the first half. 

[PDX Twin]

Torii just called Rosario "Rosie." That seems on the mark right now, but there have been times when "Sorry" would be more appropriate. 

[Circus Boy]

Am at work and just told my wife that Sano bombed, and she told me I could go home and watch the game. Sweet girl.

[spinowner]

OK boys, 4-run lead. Stop scoring now!

[Circus Boy]

Nice to see Mahtook is human and doesn't get a hit every stinkin' time up.

[adorduan]

I guess Sano  didn't want Rosario to catch him in SLG percentage.

[Squirrel]

Just warming up for the World Series when they put the red-white-and-blue bunting out on the fences!

That's the kind of bunting that Brian meant some game threads a while ago, not the bird buntings.

[Squirrel]

Let's have everyone bunt. See how that goes.

Once upon a time that would have been my game strategy against CC Sabathia.

[Circus Boy]

Two men on. Danger, Will Robinson, danger!