Game Thread: Twins @ Blue Jays, 5/7/19, 6:07 CT

[Nine of twelve]

This is a good night for Berrios to have a good night.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Adrianza can not hit HALF of his weight

He can hit Verlander’s weight, though

[Nine of twelve]

 

Kohl Stewart for a 2 inning game....looks like he will be a starter for one of the Saturday games

The most logical role for the 26th player in the second game of a doubleheader is as a starting pitcher. It keeps the regular starting rotation from getting messed up.

[Nine of twelve]

C'mon boys, let's get this leadoff duck in. 

[Nine of twelve]

 

C'mon boys, let's get this leadoff duck in. 

Yeah, like that!

[MNT1996]

Garver smoked that

[Aggies7]

Thatta boy

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

C'mon boys, let's get this leadoff duck in.

 

Awesome!

 

Lead-off duck scored, on an on-deck-circle duck home run

[Brock Beauchamp]

It’s not a Twins game without a catcher home run.

[David HK]

Zowie!

 

I'll take that poutine with extra Garv-sauce, please.

 

[Twodogs]

It’s not a Twins game without a catcher home run.

I wonder where the combo of Castro/Garver/Astrudillo rates in the league offensively??

[FlauerPauer]

 

Have you noticed any impact at all of the RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) program?

 

Unfortunately there is no RBI Program in Syracuse. My buddy and I looked into it the other day as we were interested in coaching a little league team at one of the middle schools. We have a bunch of interest in the suburbs around here, just not much within the actual city of Syracuse.

[FlauerPauer]

 

I wonder where the combo of Castro/Garver/Astrudillo rates in the league offensively??

 

I believe Nick Nelson just posted something about this on Twitter. Pretty much first in every major category. Twins catchers, as a whole, have been the best group in the league.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Unfortunately there is no RBI Program in Syracuse. My buddy and I looked into it the other day as we were interested in coaching a little league team at one of the middle schools. We have a bunch of interest in the suburbs around here, just not much within the actual city of Syracuse.

Good report from the field

[PseudoSABR]

 

I wonder where the combo of Castro/Garver/Astrudillo rates in the league offensively??

First from what I saw on twitter earlier today.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Nice outing from Berrios, our third best starter

[FlauerPauer]

 

I believe Nick Nelson just posted something about this on Twitter. Pretty much first in every major category. Twins catchers, as a whole, have been the best group in the league.

 

It was Dustin Morse.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Somehow Sanchez made it through seven. Kinda impressive given how much he was knocked around the first inning.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Nice outing from Berrios, our third best starter

Nice.

[Twodogs]

Baseball is too expensive for most inner city kids. I teach at a city high school in Syracuse, we have five high schools, and only one varsity baseball team. The kids simply cannot afford, or do not have interest in the game.

All sports are expensive now adays. My niece is a D 1 basketball player and in high school her Nike national travel team was especially expensive. To be good in today's athletics you need to have trainers, some sort of travel team, specialized coaching at camps, etc..... Most of your NBA players are not showing up out of the hood anymore, they have to have a lot of money for all of the training. I coach wrestling and even that sport is becoming expensive to get good at with camps, J-Rob camp is about 3000 dollars; but now you also have to attend and wrestle at all of the high level national tournaments where the college coaches show up, etc.... Hockey with ice time and all of the gear has been expensive since the beginning of time. But yeah, all poor kids, (in America), have been priced out of most all competitive atheletics and I teach and coach in an impoverished area in California. There are a lot of athletic kids that don't play sports in high school at all because they never grew up doing it, plus now adays kids very rarely go out side to play sports by themselves, it all seems to have to be organized. You never see a bunch of kids at the park playing baseball unless they have uniforms on and there are umpires and stuff. You never see kids just playing basketball in the park, parents don't even let them out of the house these days. The poor kids making it into MLB come from other countries where we set up academies for them to progress.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

No soup for you, Toronto, in the 7th

 

so sorry

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Wait, wrong city

[Twodogs]

I believe Nick Nelson just posted something about this on Twitter. Pretty much first in every major category. Twins catchers, as a whole, have been the best group in the league.

Cool

[Brock Beauchamp]

Garver is a beast. With his improved defense (approaching mediocrity), he could be one hell of a catcher going forward.

[Craig Arko]

Count Garvula.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

3-0 in the middle of the 8th.

 

Not too shabby.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

I’m so old I remember the time Garver didn’t even score from 2nd base on a double to the wall...

[FlauerPauer]

 

All sports are expensive now adays. My niece is a D 1 basketball player and in high school her Nike national travel team was especially expensive. To be good in today's athletics you need to have trainers, some sort of travel team, specialized coaching at camps, etc..... Most of your NBA players are not showing up out of the hood anymore, they have to have a lot of money for all of the training. I coach wrestling and even that sport is becoming expensive to get good at with camps, J-Rob camp is about 3000 dollars; but now you also have to attend and wrestle at all of the high level national tournaments where the college coaches show up, etc.... Hockey with ice time and all of the gear has been expensive since the beginning of time. But yeah, all poor kids, (in America), have been priced out of most all competitive atheletics and I teach and coach in an impoverished area in California. There are a lot of athletic kids that don't play sports in high school at all because they never grew up doing it, plus now adays kids very rarely go out side to play sports by themselves, it all seems to have to be organized. You never see a bunch of kids at the park playing baseball unless they have uniforms on and there are umpires and stuff. You never see kids just playing basketball in the park, parents don't even let them out of the house these days. The poor kids making it into MLB come from other countries where we set up academies for them to progress.

 

It's unfortunate. Majority of kids aren't going to make it to the pro's in any sport. I coach basketball and would have to do the math the show the percentages of making it to the NBA. I feel like the fun has been taken out of youth sports, because now everyone wants that scholarship.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

I’m seeing a lot of good defense. I’m torn about Sano coming back.

[denarded]

Gonzalez's defense is underrated. To go from 3b,rf, and 1b back to back to back and make good plays each position deserves some respect. Plus, his bat seems to be picking up