Game Thread Twins vs. Blue Jays 6:10pm cdt 9/16/2017 ad

[snepp]

 

Yes it was... on the East Coast.

 

 

[Puckett34]

 

Yes it was... on the East Coast.

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[USAFChief]

 

So not a 7:10 start apparently.

 

 

Looks like I missed all the fun. /ooze o' sarcasm

Aren't 6:10 starts the norm on Saturdays?  

 

So's everyone can get up early for church on Sunday?

 

HMMMMMMM????

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

No... Only B grade wisdom.

 

Which means i don't know enough to keep my trap shut.

[Puckett34]

 

Aren't 6:10 starts the norm on Saturdays?  

 

So's everyone can get up early for church on Sunday?

 

HMMMMMMM????

 

Well isn't that special.

[Danchat]

Busenitz has been lights out! Too bad the offense has gone dormant.

[snepp]

 

Nice work Busezie.

 

x2

[USAFChief]

Booze-knits.

[snepp]

 

Booze-knits.

 

[USAFChief]

Dick was not impressed with Kepler's AB.

 

His tone sounded like I sound to myself when Mauer takes two strikes in an RBI situation.

[Aggies7]

Man, Kepler has been a heap of dung recently. 10 for his last 56 since August 21

[Aggies7]

I am so sick of seeing josh Donaldson.

[h2oface]

wasn't that grounder by Donaldson exactly where a short stop would set up in a straight away normal position?

[Aggies7]

Getting worked by a last place club. Angels winning too. Looking like a good night.

[Puckett34]

So...about that Angels game

[h2oface]

Two shifts in a row that would have been two outs - the grounder maybe a double play. Instead........ 

 

Could have been out of the inning.

 

 

[PDX Twin]

Well, that two hits this inning that wouldn't have been hits if infielders had been playing where God intended!

[Aggies7]

Another should have been DP.

[snepp]

Brutal.

 

 

Looked like Kepler was doing a light jog coming in on that ball.

[h2oface]

Wow. Another failed shift. Maybe no more shifting today?

[PDX Twin]

Twins' shift looking like it shouldn't have an "f" in it.

[Jerr]

5-1, its all on those drunk pub crawlers, but there is time to turn this around or get soooo wasted they have no clue as to where they are, provided they even crawled their way into Target Field. 6-1 as I finish typing so 2 Circus Boy updates in one post...........   

[Aggies7]

Don't let this fluky inning distract you from the fact that the twins have scored 31 runs in their last 7 games, 16 came on Tuesday.

[h2oface]

Hildenberger did well. If no shifting, no runs. The manager/management did this to him. Hildenberger did what he does, and get the ground balls (well, one easy pop up for a second baseman). Another one on the manager trying to be too smart and sabr shifting.

[Aggies7]

Hildenberger did well. If no shifting, no runs. The manager/management did this to him. Hildenberger did what he does, and get the ground balls. Another one on the too smart sabr shifting.

Let's face it though, everyone in the league does it. It was bad luck, but really, 1 run in 7 innings in a playoff race against Marco Estrada ain't gonna cut it

[Aggies7]

Impressive by tonkin

[snepp]

One down, 5 to go.

[Puckett34]

Well that's one

[PDX Twin]

About shifting:

 

I assume that they base their defensive positioning and shifting on average batter tendencies. But are they taking into account the propensity and ability of the batter to change his tendency when the shift is applied? It seems like there must be players that, even though they hit to the left side most of the time, shouldn't be shifted because as soon as you shift they will hit the ball to the open position. 

 

Imagine what Rod Carew would have done to a shift...

[Aggies7]

It's hard to listen to the telecast when Dick is acting the way he is