Game Thread: Twins vs. Angels 7:10pm CDT 6/8/2018 AD

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Or maybe not.

 

That might be a game changer there.

There's more work to be done.

 

They still got a lead, even if it coulda been worse.

[VATwinsFan]

Gameday says Lynn hit 95+ with that last strike.

[Danchat]

Turning on the TV to see Lynn facing Trout with the bases loaded and 2 outs... and then seeing him strike Trout out... good stuff. Definitely though Trout was going to break the game open there.

[D. Hocking]

 

Bases loaded with Trout up--let's see well this turns out.

 

Lynn > >  Trout

 

As expected.

[bighat]

The ump is giving Richards strikes that aren't strikes, and he's not giving them to Lynn.

[VATwinsFan]

Mejia doing pretty well in Rochester this evening -- 7 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB (!!!) and 8 Ks

[Mill1634]

Wow. Thank you Target Field Ground Crew

[bighat]

Let's call it a double, shall we?

[bighat]

Has Sano always worn that jaw-protector piece? I wonder if that's behind his pitch recognition this year....

[mrmpls]

GLAD FOR THE RUN bUT C,MON THAT WAS A ERROR, To me anyway

[mrmpls]

 

The ump is giving Richards strikes that aren't strikes, and he's not giving them to Lynn.

Amen

[Mill1634]

Smart play by Angels catchers

[Don Walcott]

Wow. Two 98 mph pitches below the zone. Can’t do much about that.

[Danchat]

 

Mejia doing pretty well in Rochester this evening -- 7 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB (!!!) and 8 Ks

Nice, it's great to see he's doing well after missing a month or so with an injury. He'd definitely be worth a call-up if needed.

[S.]

Absolutely should've been an error. Standing in place, ball went between his head and his glove. I feel bad for pitchers when stuff like that gets ruled a hit, but I'll take it either way.

 

This strike zone is hot garbage so far today too.

[bighat]

Garver with a baserunning gaffe. Gee whiz, guy.

[mrmpls]

Garver makes his mark again

[S.]

 

Garver with a baserunning gaffe. Gee whiz, guy.

He plays a very consistent game. The problem is that its consistently bad.

[Danchat]

Boy, even if Garver's bat finally comes around, he's a pretty big baserunning butcher when he does get on base.

[D. Hocking]

 

GLAD FOR THE RUN bUT C,MON THAT WAS A ERROR, To me anyway

 

Harder to tell on the radio, but that is the impression I got as well, and Gladden seemed to think he should have made the play.

[Danchat]

Have I mentioned how much I like Escobar? This dude is a stud at the plate. He's up to .292 with some serious XBH power.

[David HK]

Good battle there, LoMo.

 

*Edit*   Pffffft.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

Sano in the 7 spot. Interesting.

 

I haven’t been playing close enough attention this last week. Is that new tonight or has it been done already?

 

It should certainly get his attention.

 

Sometimes that’s all it takes.

 

I remember back in 1991 TK pinch hit for Kent Hrbek early in the year vs a LHP. Once with the forgettable Carmello Castillo and then with Al Newman. It certainly got his message through. Hrbek ended with a .797 OPS vs LHP, which was pretty close to his overall OPS that year. In 1990, he had about a .150 point spread.

 

 

Edit: Geez, I just looked Castillo up. He had a -1.2 bWAR for his career. The guy was in the bigs for parts of ten seasons. That has to be almost impossible.

new - Molly covered it in pregame. Sano has been struggling and he wanted to take the pressure off Sano, and keep Escobar and Rosario at the top

[Mill1634]

[mrmpls]

Would you try to lock Escobar up now ??  free agent end of year

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Holding our own...

 

No shame yet.

[Mill1634]

Eddie can literally hit any pitch

[David HK]

Just checking in on the game here and there--

 

Holy Cow, this ump....

[Danchat]

 

Would you try to lock Escobar up now ??  free agent end of year

I would wait until the end of the season before I offer him anything. I'd like to see if Nick Gordon will be worthy of starting in 2019 and also not sign Escobar when he's hitting his hottest. But I would be ready to offer him something in the range of 3 years $30-36M

[David HK]

 

Eddie can literally hit any pitch

Good thing LaMarre and Dozier were able to move Garver over, so he scored on that hit.

 

Oh, wait, I was in that alternate universe again, where Spock has the goatee...