Game Thread: 4/17/19 Twins vs. Bluejays 6:40 CST

[operation mindcrime]

Wooooooo Mejia!!!!!!

[Danchat]

I have no problems getting Mejia out there against their 6-9 hitters who have about a .200 combined batting average. Then get Rogers or Parker to face the heart of the lineup.

[ashbury]

The excitement when the 9.39 relief comes in.

Stick with the front side of the baseball card at this time of the season. He's a distinctive looking fellow anyway.

[mrtwinsfan]

Taylor Rodgers, to me right now  is our only Quality arm in the pen, Hope the others come around, Hey wheres Addison Reed? = Joke

[twinssporto]

 

It's almost like that is why he was signed!

Sage

[twinssporto]

 

Maybe the rain has made him less flammable tonight.

Is that sarcasm or passive aggressive?

[wabene]

Buck up brah

[ashbury]

Is that sarcasm or passive aggressive?

Borderline Dad Joke, IMO.

[ashbury]

Welp, the computer battery is running low, and so is this east coast denizen come to think of it. G'night all - bring this win home for me.

[jkcarew]

b-r.com offers "splits" for any pitcher's season. Here's Odo's for this season so far:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=odorija01&year=2019&t=p

 

Scroll down to "By Inning", and maybe linger on some of the other delights on your way there.

 

Four first inning runs in 3 games. Scoreless seconds and thirds, in 2 games. A run in two fourths. Three runs in two fifths.

 

His page for 2018, with greater sample size of course, demonstrates a 3-inning pitcher to my eye.

But the 3 innings take 2 hours to play, so you can’t really say his starts are short.

[twinssporto]

 

Love is the answer

[Aggies7]

Lol he swings at what was clearly ball 3, hits a bullet, and hits into a DP. Baseball is tough

[twinssporto]

Big, BIG bats coming up next.  

[NorthwestTwinsFan]

That DP was set up by Rosario's ability to hold the previous batter to a single.  It's the little things.

[LaBombo]

 

Lol he swings at what was clearly ball 3, hits a bullet, and hits into a DP. Baseball is tough

 

Just like they drew it up on the touchscreen of their newfangled cybermetric machine...

[wabene]

You gotta play em if you want em to play good

[NorthwestTwinsFan]

I hope Polanco plays like this forever.

[Twodogs]

Mejia seems like he is all over the place?

[MMMordabito]

Mejia = Better to be lucky than good sometines

[twinssporto]

 

Just like they drew it up on the touchscreen of their newfangled cybermetric machine...

LaBombo - Please...We discussed this last night. It's an analytical, data driven approach designed to provide quantitative analysis.  It's not newfangled. 

[wabene]

I really thought we'd be missing the D at 1st but Cron is a ballplayer

[wabene]

$

[Nine of twelve]

Let's get some insurance runs.

[David HK]

Hmmm.  

 

This game seems to be out of the regular pattern:

1) starter cruises for a bit, then implodes

2) offense has 1 big inning, then tries to hold on, usually gives the team a lead, solid or precarious

3) the bullpen candidate for s*ck-du jour enters, gives up the lead

4) no chicken

 

It looks like a promising 9th so far- but when will there be a guy (maybe only Rogers at present), who when entering the game, the fans don't go, "omg, not this guy..."

 

C'mon, Blake.

C'mon, Twinks.

[Aggies7]

Parker looks decent tonight

[Nine of twelve]

WWCD!

[MMMordabito]

There's a dub.

[David HK]

Dang!  How about that?

 

 

Edited April 18, 2019 by David HK

[Squirrel]

I ate my chicken dinner before the game. I was that confident.

[twins_89]

 

I really thought we'd be missing the D at 1st but Cron is a ballplayer

 

Cron's provided better defense than I expected along with worse hitting than I hoped for. The same could be said for Schoop.