Article: AL Wild Card Game Thread: Twins @ Yankees, 10/3@7:09pm CT

[gocgo]

Our turn.

[Craig Arko]

Y’all give up too easy.

[Aggies7]

We could have saved ourselves 50 minutes and started in the second inning!

[Vanimal46]

I hope Berrios has ice in his veins. They need 5-6 shutdown innings from him.

[big dog]

All right, if that was the obligatory ScrewTheTwins call, all it did was get it even.  We can still win this thing.

[PDX Twin]

 

All right, 8-inning game.  Here we go.  Just like it was 0-0.

 

Except they have a lights-out bullpen.

 

Win probability (adjusted for Twins/Yankees) went from 1% to 5%, and back to 1% in that inning.

[Smarterthanyou]

3 runs should have neen enough to win it, so bummed

[ashbury]

Looks like I jinxed us by coming home from the store. Fortunately I just remembered a couple of things that should have been on the shopping list. Brb.

[twinsnorth49]

Still square, disappointing after taking the lead but I'm cool with it.

 

Need to keep hitting.

[twinssouth]

Santana handed a 3 run lead and promptly gives it right back. Geez n this is 1st inning. No way should he go back out. He's all over the place.

[TWINSFANINATL]

Twins will never win a playoff game at Yankee Stadium until every single person attached to Gardenhire is gone from the organization.  Molitor included.  Gardy's fear of Yankee Stadium trickled down to all levels.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Not the way we drew it up, but I'd rather have their starter gone and the Twins starter still in after one inning.

agree. They might go with Sabathia tho

[jimmer]

This game HAS been exciting so far.

[Pardon My Dinger]

I have laughed, I have shouted and pounded my chest, I have cried, I have contemplated. What's left? I have nothing left already.

[yarnivek1972]

Our ace recorded (at least) three times as many outs as theirs.

[bighat]

Plate discipline gang. 

[Jerr]

ok, back to start, but Santana with too many pitches....but, starers coming in from the Twins bullpen...gonna be a long night....

 

[iastfan112]

Santana better not be out there next inning. This was not a case of just a few bad pitches or impressive hitting from the Yankees, Santana just looked like garbage and its not like he really settled down after the homerun.

[twinsnorth49]

I hope the players aren't feeling sorry for themselves as much as people in here.

[Blake]

 

I love this story... But I have to ask. Why go house hunting in January? In Grand Forks?!

I've been to Grand Forks in January. You have to bundle up like Ralphie in Christmas Story just to leave the house.

Uh, no, I think that's just to watch tv in the living room.

[LaBombo]

86 total pitches in the first. This one is on track to wrap up around 8:30 pm.

 

Tomorrow.

Edited October 4, 2017 by LaBombo

[Aggies7]

I don't know what erv showed in the first inning that would make you think he should come back out. At this point, pulling him out would maybe keep him available for game 1 or 2 in Cleveland

[jimmer]

1 inning, about 40 minutes

[Brock Beauchamp]

Santana better not be out there next inning. This was not a case of just a few bad pitches or impressive hitting from the Yankees, Santana just looked like garbage and its not like he really settled down after the homerun.

I disagree. Put him out there for one, maybe two, batters. Let him catch his breath and see if the yips are gone.

[yarnivek1972]

Santana better not be out there next inning. This was not a case of just a few bad pitches or impressive hitting from the Yankees, Santana just looked like garbage and its not like he really settled down after the homerun.

Sure looks like he will be.

[snap4birds]

 

Twins will never win a playoff game at Yankee Stadium until every single person attached to Gardenhire is gone from the organization.  Molitor included.  Gardy's fear of Yankee Stadium trickled down to all levels.

But are all the non-Gardenhire players/executives/ball persons/concessionaires now infected?  Don't you have to do a clean sweep to make sure?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

The Yankees mop up guy is better than most of our whole staff

[bighat]

Twins strike out 3 times in a row against this schmuck. I hate it when they start striking out in bunches. C'mon guys. 

[twinssouth]

Darn it, Mollys going to leave him in

[yarnivek1972]

Wonder how long this guy will go. He looks unhittable.