Game Thread Twins @ Royals 7:15pm CDT 4/2/2019 AD

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Wait for it...

 

Steady...

[yarnivek1972]

It isn’t easy to not score with the bases loaded, no one out and your #4 hitter coming up.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

holy lord that is awful

[yarnivek1972]

*sigh*

[BoofBonser]

There's a guy named Astudillo on the bench. I heard he hits the ball a lot and doesn't strike out! smh

[Nine of twelve]

Well, crepe.

[operation mindcrime]

Very disappointing!

[Mike Sixel]

Is pinch hitting against the new rules? Why is Austin or Astudillo on the roster?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Hmmm ...

 

 

 

I'm not old enough to be anyone's grandparent. But I am old enough to be one tremendous Auntie!

There's a song about being one's own grandparent.

 

Not that i advocate such practices. Just pointing out possibilities.

[Brock Beauchamp]

That was ugly.

[bighat]

The crazy thing is that you have lots of teams out there playing their 7th, 8th games today.

 

Twins are playing their 4th. You've got to think all this time off can't be helping things, especially offensively.

[D. Hocking]

 

It isn’t easy to not score with the bases loaded, no one out and your #4 hitter coming up.

 

I was away from the radio - where there at least some really good hit balls and the runs and hits were robbed by some excellent defense by KC?

[twins_89]

It might be time to give Rosario and Gonzalez a day off. Those two have been killing the Twins offense so far this season.

[twinssporto]

 

There's a guy named Astudillo on the bench. I heard he hits the ball a lot and doesn't strike out! smh

Now you're using logic.  Forget metrics too.  

[amjgt]

We’ve got literally one of the best players in MLB history at putting the ball in play.... and we don’t use him when we need to put a ball in play. Sweet Jesus this is going to get frustrating if they keep coddling to the egos of players who might get hurt because they got pinch hit for.

[bighat]

 

 

There's a guy named Astudillo on the bench. I heard he hits the ball a lot and doesn't strike out! smh

 

Dude you're not going to PH for anyone in the meat of the lineup. I can see if Castro was up, but it's pretty hard to be angry at Baldelli for letting Rosario, Cron, and Gonzalez bat with the bags packed.

[NorthwestTwinsFan]

I can already tell that I'm going to hate watching Gonzales hit this year.  Swings at every ball in the dirt.

[bighat]

 

 

I was away from the radio - where there at least some really good hit balls and the runs and hits were robbed by some excellent defense by KC?

 

Cron hit a line drive to 3rd. Rosie and Gonzalez struck out.

[D. Hocking]

 

The crazy thing is that you have lots of teams out there playing their 7th, 8th games today.

 

Twins are playing their 4th. You've got to think all this time off can't be helping things, especially offensively.

 

Not that they were necessarily going to be a play-off team regardless but I thought the PR games messing a bit with their schedule last year threw them off a bit.  

[LaBombo]

 

It isn’t easy to not score with the bases loaded, no one out and your #4 hitter coming up.

 

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[Brock Beauchamp]

I was away from the radio - where there at least some really good hit balls and the runs and hits were robbed by some excellent defense by KC?

Cron hit a solid line drive but it had the bad luck of going almost directly at the third baseman.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

gotta think we see a pinch hitter this inning

[BoofBonser]

 

Dude you're not going to PH for anyone in the meat of the lineup. I can see if Castro was up, but it's pretty hard to be angry at Baldelli for letting Rosario, Cron, and Gonzalez bat with the bags packed.

Middle of the order or not, he's struggling mightily. Astudillo could easily bat fourth for us right now. Not to mention Gonzalez had struck out twice already. It just so happens Astudillo and Adrianza can play his position as well. Pretty rational option in my opinion. 

[twins_89]

 

gotta think we see a pinch hitter this inning

 

Astudillo for Castro would make a lot of sense.

[Brock Beauchamp]

It might be time to give Rosario and Gonzalez a day off. Those two have been killing the Twins offense so far this season.

You don’t give starters “days off” when they’re playing every other day because the early April schedule in modern MLB is stupid.

[operation mindcrime]

Yeah Schoop!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Another free baserunner for the good guys

[mrtwinsfan]

geez we better take advantage .. once tonight

[bighat]

Here's what we've all been waiting for!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Wait, what? He didn’t hit a five run homer?