Game Thread Twins @ A's 8:05pm cdt 9/22/2018 ad

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Let your hair down Game Thread.

 

So duck and don't get hit by the falling hair.

 

I bring up the duck cause it already has down hair... Well maybe they are feathers, not being a mammal, but it serves a similar purpose.

 

How do you keep interested in these games, serving similar purposes to the last bit of a penant race?

 

Twins

Chase De Jong ( R)

 

1. Joe Mauer (L) 1B

2. Jorge Polanco (S) SS

3. Jake Cave (L) CF

4. Robbie Grossman (S) LF

5. Max Kepler (L) RF

6. Tyler Austin ( R) DH

7. Ehire Adrianza (S) 3B

8. Willians Astudillo (R ) C

9. Gregorio Petit (R ) 2B

 

Athletics

Mike Fiers ( R)

 

1. Nick Martini (L) LF

2. Matt Chapman (R ) 3B

3. Jed Lowrie (S) 2B

4. Khris Davis (R ) DH

5. Matt Olson (L) 1B

6. Stephen Piscotty (R ) RF

7. Ramon Laureano ( R) CF

8. Marcus Semien ( R) SS

9. Jonathan Lucroy ( R) C

 

Gametime Forecast: 69°F • Clear • 0% PoP

[Winston Smith]

Lively bunch here tonight...Must be exhausted from all the winning...

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

How do you keep interested

because it's late September, and it's sad to think there won't be good Twins baseball again until next Spring spring of 2020 at the earliest? Edited September 23, 2018 by Hosken Bombo Disco

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Or, because this could be Mauer's swan song?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

To prepare us for the inevitable Vikings meltdown?

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Mauer comes through with a sac fly for a lead!

 

Yeah, winning really takes it out of ya...

[Borealis]

They just listed all the injury casualties to the A’s rotation this year - amazing. And yet they keep winning...hmmm.

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Or, because this could be Mauer's swan song?

Mauer has a swan?

 

Cool!

 

And thanks for the effort to follow the theme of the intro!

[Danchat]

 

They just listed all the injury casualties to the A’s rotation this year - amazing. And yet they keep winning...hmmm.

I don't get how the A's and Rays keep winning games. It just doesn't seem to matter what player they trot out there, they just succeed. To me it feels the opposite... no matter who we trot out, we just aren't any good.

[Borealis]

To prepare us for the inevitable Vikings meltdown?

Vegas has the Vikes at -16.5. Could be the kiss of death lol

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Vegas has the Vikes at -16.5. Could be the kiss of death lol

I was thinking January-type meltdown, but yours would work too

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Anyone watching? How is De Jong looking?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Mauer has a swan?

 

Ha, that looks so much like one of those sentences where all the letters were rearranged to make something new, so I rearranged the letters back to their original order:

 

A man was a usher.

 

Is that what you meant?

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Vegas has the Vikes at -16.5. Could be the kiss of death lol

That is more than 2 touch downs.

 

And they are favored?

 

They must be good, or something.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Ha, that looks so much like one of those sentences where all the letters were rearranged to make something new, so I rearranged the letters back to their original order:

 

A man was a usher.

 

Is that what you meant?

Could be...

 

Ushering is a useful job.

 

But i also figured swan song would lack authenticity sans swan...

[Danchat]

 

Anyone watching? How is De Jong looking?

He looks pretty darn good thus far. 4 scoreless innings against a playoff team is impressive. Might just have a future as a long reliever.

[Borealis]

That is more than 2 touch downs.

And they are favored?

They must be good, or something.

Or the Bills or really bad lol. Actually the Vikes are pretty good. But likely just good enough to crush us fans in January as HBD eluded to above. SMH

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

One of these years!!

[Danchat]

Well, there goes De Jong. That didn't take much, but at least we get to see some more of Vasquez.

[Borealis]

Well a little of Vasquez smh

[Danchat]

How are we going to evaluate Vasquez if he's only allowed to face 1 hitter per game and then take a 2 game break?

[Borealis]

This is scary..

[Borealis]

Yes - the Drake! Our bullpen is generally bad as a whole, but I actually like the Drake.

[Borealis]

How are we going to evaluate Vasquez if he's only allowed to face 1 hitter per game and then take a 2 game break?

Yeah for sure. Molly has trust issues when it comes to bullpen usage.

[Danchat]

Adrianza was bailed out by a bad throw because he would have been out at home for the 5th time or so this season. Gene Glynn has no feel for Adrianza's speed.

[LaBombo]

Stu calmly ties the game with that compact, quick stroke, and on the first pitch of course, because why stand there any longer than you need to?

 

If Astudillo The Player finishes the season being even close to as good as Astudillo The Story, then he's probably my favorite bright spot in a season that's been woefully short of them.

Edited September 23, 2018 by LaBombo

[LaBombo]

 

Adrianza was bailed out by a bad throw because he would have been out at home for the 5th time or so this season. Gene Glynn has no feel for Adrianza's speed.

 

Yeah, there's 'aggressive', and there's 'Oh, crap, my bad Ehire, you're gonna be ou...'  "SAFE! SafeSafeSafe! I knew it!"

[Danchat]

And Polanco is yet another out on the bases...

[Danchat]

Here comes Tyler Duffey in a tie game with 2 guys on base and no outs. What could possibly go wrong?!

[LaBombo]

Not saying Polanco is THE answer at short, but on that nice two-out pick and throw to preserve the tie, he was at least AN answer.