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

[jimmer]

13K per 9 IP for Chad Greene.

[Vanimal46]

Alright Molly, first big decision of your postseason career made.... Erv is staying in the game.

[Aggies7]

4 Ks in a row for the offense. We know how to take momentum and just vomit all over it

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Darn it, Mollys going to leave him in

We don't have anyone else. Maybe Berrios.

[oldguywithanitch]

20/20 hindsight. Buxton should have squeezed.

[NDagri]

Molitor has to leave Erv in the game. We cannot compete with the Yankees bullpen to bullpen. See if he has anything to start the 2nd.

[yarnivek1972]

20/20 hindsight. Buxton should have squeezed.

I suggested that at the time...

[TWINSFANINATL]

 

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?

Perhaps.  But I'd start with Molitor.  Obviously Santana was scared to death out there and pitched like it.

[LaBombo]

 

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

 

Yup. The game is on pace for 54 combined runs. One more baserunner is probably less of a setback than having to pull 8 inning of relief out of the bullpen's backside. 

Edited October 4, 2017 by LaBombo

[bighat]

 

I don't know what erv showed in the first inning that would make you think he should come back out. 

 

For me, it was taking a look at the Twins' bullpen that makes me think Erv should come back out. 

[big dog]

 

4 Ks in a row for the offense. We know how to take momentum and just vomit all over it

Just asking- do you get invited to many birthday parties?  

[yarnivek1972]

Molitor has to leave Erv in the game. We cannot compete with the Yankees bullpen to bullpen. See if he has anything to start the 2nd.

Agree.

[Aggies7]

For me, it was taking a look at the Twins' bullpen that makes me think Erv should come back out.

 

Yes, but technically Jose is not the usual bullpen arm

[Jerr]

 

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

Well, ya better settle down for a nice -h-ic-ke- dinner later.

 

[Aggies7]

Just asking- do you get invited to many birthday parties?  

Only the best ones

[iastfan112]

 

Molitor has to leave Erv in the game. We cannot compete with the Yankees bullpen to bullpen. See if he has anything to start the 2nd.

Berrios is a starter, you put him out there and count on him to do what Santana was supposed to. 11 pitchers are active for a reason.

[big dog]

All right, we held us scoreless!  Now let's do the same to them.

[yarnivek1972]

Perhaps. But I'd start with Molitor. Obviously Santana was scared to death out there and pitched like it.

Or maybe he sat for half an hour between the time he warmed up and the time he pitched and couldn’t get a feel.

[Aggies7]

Berrios is a starter, you put him out there and count on him to do what Santana was supposed to. 11 pitchers are active for a reason.

This X1,000,000

[gocgo]

This is the inning of the year right here.  shut them down and restore order.

[bighat]

Let's go Erv, 1-2-3. Nice job Mauer not striking out to at least. 

[Aggies7]

Or maybe he sat for half an hour between the time he warmed up and the time he pitched and couldn’t get a feel.

I would have hoped he went and threw in one of the indoor pens. I probably would have but I was just a bush leaguer

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

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?

I'm game.

[jimbo92107]

Twins don't have as many pitching options as the Yanks. Molitor has to take a risk, let Irv go one more, maybe two. 

[Smarterthanyou]

Difference between the Yankees and Twins, they realized when a SP needs to be removed. Hardly want to watch

[spinowner]

What's the record for game thread posts? Second inning and we're at 510.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Yes, but technically Jose is not the usual bullpen arm

Putting Jose into the second inning of a postseason tie game is a good way to see how many Yankees fans in the 18th row you can kill with a 103mph fastball.

[Aggies7]

What's the record for game thread posts? Second inning and we're at 510.

I think it's 1,263

[twinsnorth49]

What would you call it?

Didn't have his stuff.

 

Far from gutless.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Yup. The game is on pace for 54 combined runs. One more baserunner is probably less of a setback than having to pull 8 inning of relief out of the bullpen's backside.

 

Exactly.

 

(although irrelevant, because we all know how this ends)