Article: Game Thread: Twins v Padres, 9/12 @ 7:10pm CT

[jimmer]

 

It was also a 2-0 game.  Why leave Gibby in during a blowout like this?

Plus it's Kluber.

[snepp]

http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-runs-in-consecutive-innings.html

[TwinsCD]

It's an Oprah Christmas show...

 

YOU GET A HOMER

YOU GET A HOMER

ANNNNNNND

YOU GET A HOMER!!

 

 

Nice to see Captain Morgan get his first hit finally.

[Blake]

 

Bring in Goodrum. I think even he could get a hit against this pitching staff.

You called that one.

[USAFChief]

Ell.  Oh.  Ell.

[PDX Twin]

 

http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-runs-in-consecutive-innings.html

 

Yup. Tied the ML record and set a new AL record!

Edited September 13, 2017 by PDX Twin

[notoriousgod71]

I hope Bartolo pinch hits in the eighth and hits one out.

[Blake]

 

Ell.  Oh.  Ell.

Meanwhile, the little fact that Gibson pitched 6 shutout innings will be lost.

 

I really hope this means Gibson has turned the corner. He's turned in some dandy starts the last few times out.

[LaBombo]

So I was on the way home with the game on and the sound turned down so that I could see the score on the station crawl but have it quiet in the car so the voices in my head could talk to each other.  Have the Padres been pitching, or are the Twins using a batting tee?

[snepp]

 

So I was on the way home with the game on and the sound turned down so that I could see the score on the station crawl but have it quiet in the car so the voices in my head could talk to each other.  Have the Padres been pitching, or are the Twins using a batting tee?

 

Yes.

[notoriousgod71]

 

Meanwhile, the little fact that Gibson pitched 6 shutout innings will be lost.

 

I really hope this means Gibson has turned the corner. He's turned in some dandy starts the last few times out.

 

Gibby should start the play in game if they make it as the Twins score roughly 37 runs per game for him.

[TwinsCD]

If you count Sunday's 9th inning, that's the 8th consecutive inning with a Twins HR

[Puckett34]

 

I hope Bartolo pinch hits in the eighth and hits one out.

I hadn't thought of this.  Now I need it to happen.

[USAFChief]

Buxton catches that.

[snepp]

 

Buxton catches that.

 

http://worldofdtcmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1349431952_einstein-duh.jpg

[h2oface]

This is the same Padres that just took 2 of 3 from Arizona, and swept the Dodgers, who swept us..... but then, everyone is sweeping them now.

[Shaitan]

 

Gibby is in serious danger of lowering his ERA below 5 for the year.

For a while, I though Gibson, Pressley, and Colon all had a shot at that feat.

[yarnivek1972]

This is the same Padres that just took 2 of 3 from Arizona, and swept the Dodgers, who swept us..... but then, everyone is sweeping them now.

idk, Twins made D-Backs look pretty bad.

[h2oface]

Tonkin looks like a tall Opie Taylor with a beard.

[yarnivek1972]

Not sure I see the point of Gimenez playing LF, but whatever I guess.

[h2oface]

 

idk, Twins made D-Backs look pretty bad.

 

idk, I guess one should just discount that they are 83-61 overall.

Edited September 13, 2017 by h2oface

[yarnivek1972]

Does anyone know if Moya is in uniform tonight? If so, I'd have to think he would pitch the 9th.

[h2oface]

Garver..... I call Garver going yard in the 8th.

[yarnivek1972]

idk, I guess one should just discount that they are 83-61 overall.

They play the Giants and Padres 38 times this year.

[ashbury]

Does anyone know if Moya is in uniform tonight? If so, I'd have to think he would pitch the 9th.

I will be surprised. My memory is that Molitor likes to ease rookies into the major league environment. With expanded rosters, there is no rush to provide respite for the rest of the bullpen, and I expect Moya will be allowed to look around his new environment for a couple days before being asked to take part.

 

They keep track of these things, so someone can and probably will check whether I'm just imagining things. But I think Granite for instance was handled this way.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

If you win 20 in a row in September you're guaranteed a WS championship.

 

-Dave Cameron.

Didn't the Rockies do something like that and not win it all?

 

Or was some of their 20ish wins to end the season that year in October?

[jimmer]

 

They play the Giants and Padres 38 times this year.

And Colorado, and the Dodgers

 

And they have a winning record against all of them

Edited September 13, 2017 by jimmer

[snepp]

 

They play the Giants and Padres 38 times this year.

 

11-8 against the Dodgers and 9-7 against the Rockies, so it's not just the dregs of the NL West.

[snepp]

No homers, no runs.

 

 

Boo, season over.

[Shaitan]

bums