Article: Game Thread: Twins @ Royals, 5/28 @ 6:15pm CT

[Platoon]

Don't worry, he just gave that one up so its a save situation.

[mrmpls]

Yup rodney is back!!

[Aggies7]

Although he looked good there

[Brock Beauchamp]

Well, if Rodney is going to hand out moonshots, this is the night to do it.

[jtkoupal]

 

Rodney shouldnt be brought in with runners on base imo.

Who would you rather have come in in that situation? If you can't count on Rodney to put out a fire, then how can you possibly count on him to pitch in the 9th inning of 1/2 run games? If he is the closer/relief ace, then he needs to be the guy counted upon in high-leverage situations.

 

Use your best reliever(s) in the situations of the greatest need.

[mrmpls]

If his cap was on straight , he would of had it

[Aggies7]

Yay

[Blake]

 

[jimmer]

Anybody have some chicken? ;-)

[Mill1634]

TWINS WIN!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Nobody really talks much about it but Rodney is 41 years old and throwing 95mph fastballs on a regular basis.

 

That's nuts.

[Platoon]

Never a doubt......

[OTPS300]

 

Not in my case. Sigh.

I hope you are not an attorney.

[Riverbrian]

[Platoon]

Nobody really talks much about it but Rodney is 41 years old and throwing 95mph fastballs on a regular basis.

 

That's nuts.

. That's nothing, it would be far more impressive if he was 95 yrs old and throwing FB at 41mph.

[David HK]

Good win.  

 

Chicken for all.

 

Sux we're chasing the Tigers at this point, tho...

 

Ah, well, I'll take it.

[BoofBonser]

Good win dudelets

[Squirrel]

Doesn’t appear that Rodney has it tonight

An example of speaking too soon ...

 

Although he looked good there

[Squirrel]

Nobody really talks much about it but Rodney is 41 years old and throwing 95mph fastballs on a regular basis.

 

That's nuts.

Don’t question it. Just go with it. I like cashews.

[bighat]

I re-watched Buxton's ABs:

 

AB 1: Solid ground ball single to left

AB 2: Ground out to deep short - he may have beat the throw to 1st, but the SS went to 2nd for a force play

AB 3: Bad push-bunt to 1st base.

AB 4: Got down 0-2, battled to work a 3-2 count but struck out with men on 1st and 2nd

AB 5: Line drive to center field, hit the ball on the nose right at the guy

 

Not great, but not quite as hopeless as it has been. He was moving in the right direction with last night's game.

 

BTW, interesting that KC chose to pitch to Garver last night with a base open and Buxton on deck. I'd have walked Garver and let Buxton bat with the bases loaded if I were them.