Article: Game Thread: Twins v Blue Jays, 4/30 @ 7:10pm CT

[Aggies7]

Welp, the 2016 team took 35 games to win their 9th, so we have some work to do

[Cap'n Piranha]

I’d say it’s looking like we’ll be sellers come August, except I have no idea what players on this team will draw any interest whatsoever.

 

Reed? Pressly maybe?

[Platoon]

And foul or not that play on the line was uber stupid!

[VATwinsFan]

I guess the Twins can call up Gonsalves as well?

[Mike Sixel]

Guess that passed ball doesn't matter in teh grand scheme of things....sigh.

[Danchat]

It looks like it's time for Lynn to take a nice, long trip to the DL.

[yarnivek1972]

I’d say it’s looking like we’ll be sellers come August, except I have no idea what players on this team will draw any interest whatsoever.

 

Reed? Pressly maybe?

More like sellers in June.

[PseudoSABR]

I just can't...

[BoofBonser]

 

I guess the Twins can call up Gonsalves as well?

That's my wish 

[Dave The Dastardly]

There goes the Dastardly.

 

Hello TV re-runs.

 

What do TV re-runs and the Twins have in common?

 

Answer: We've seen this crap before.

[Mike Sixel]

Lynn should finish the 5th. Don't care how many pitches it takes....

[Aggies7]

More like sellers in June.

June? Tomorrow is May 1. I give it two weeks

[twinssporto]

The GM's that passed on Yu Darvish 5 years $120mm and Lance Lynn 4 year $80mm dollar contracts look genius.  The deal we got for Lynn was still good. I think...

 

The days of huge contracts for pitchers over 30 are clearly going to decline in the future.

 

Sorry, just ranting. 

[Aggies7]

Lynn should finish the 5th. Don't care how many pitches it takes....

Yep, and berrios should never have been pulled after only 3 yesterday. I can’t stomach more bullpen

[Cap'n Piranha]

It looks like it's time for Lynn to take a nice, long trip to the DL.

Nice as it is, I don’t think Detroit Lakes can fix Lynn.

[yarnivek1972]

Lynn should finish the 5th. Don't care how many pitches it takes....

The pace he’s on it might take 130.

[slash129]

Well, at least Falvine didn't give him a 3-4 year deal ... I guess they got that on Ryan

[Cap'n Piranha]

The GM's that passed on Yu Darvish 5 years $120mm and Lance Lynn 4 year $80mm dollar contracts look genius. The deal we got for Lynn was still good. I think...

 

The days of huge contracts for pitchers over 30 are clearly going to decline in the future.

 

Sorry, just ranting.

Yup—every 3rd/4th/5th starter approaching free agency secretly wants to murder Lance Lynn right now. Also Tony Clark.

[Aggies7]

Wtf was Mauer doing there?

[BoofBonser]

Look at that effort from Pillar... love to see that 

[yarnivek1972]

June? Tomorrow is May 1. I give it two weeks

Yes, the Twins will certainly be saying “mayday” tomorrow.

[BoofBonser]

 

Wtf was Mauer doing there?

We're tanking, didn't you get the memo

[Cap'n Piranha]

What is John Gibbons doing? Even if Pillar is safe, the Blue Jays have 5 more innings against Twins pitching. They’ll have plenty more opportunities to score runs.

[Aggies7]

Yes, the Twins will certainly be saying “mayday” tomorrow.

This didn’t happen on May Day, but I feel like it’s relevant to our team

[yarnivek1972]

This didn’t happen on May Day, but I feel like it’s relevant to our team

Tanks for the memories...

[Riverbrian]

 

Wtf was Mauer doing there?

 

That is a good question. If he is aware of where Dozier was positioned he would cover first. 

 

However... I'll take a guy over trying over a guy under trying like Rosario laying up on that ball. 

[Mill1634]

One of the only positives for the Twins during this young season:

 

Max Kepler

[Riverbrian]

Here's a test... 

 

Can we drive in Kepler from third with no outs? 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Good to see the other guys can look incompetent, too.

[TwinsCD]

 

I sent an email about this to an umpire friend. I'll see if he responds while the game thread is still active.

 

I could answer that question for ya -- it's pretty easy to see if the ball is touching the line or not as it's rolling.  If you see brown dirt between the ball and the line, then it's foul.  But like anything else in umpiring, it's the angle that you have as you're looking at it.  The HP umpire should be straddling the line looking straight down at it.  It's possible that Garver's positioning blocked out the umpire and he may have had to move a little off that normal angle and that may have skewed what he saw, especially if he moved to the foul side of Garver to look at it.