Game Thread: Twins vs. Tigers @ 5:10 pm PST (7:10Pm CST) 5/10/2019

[yarnivek1972]

Geez, we think our bullpen is bad. This is the Tigers first guy out in a game still within reach and the dude just can’t throw strikes.

[MNT1996]

Cruz saving the Grand Slam for tomorrow. I like the decision.

[LaBombo]

A decade of mostly bad Twins baseball prior to this season means that team identities in games like this one transcend the familiarity of uniforms and player names, and force me to constantly remind myself, "The Twins are the good team".

 

It's sort of like remembering to drive on the other side of the road in the U.K. and Japan.

[BoofBonser]

Am I the only one who thinks the Tigers need a rebrand? Their colors and jerseys are blah

[VATwinsFan]

So i guess Odorizzi getting the last twenty batters out is pretty good?

[MMMordabito]

That's pure class from Cabrera ... congratulating an opponent in game

[Blake]

Sort of hard to believe the Twins are beating up on a team they should beat up on.

[Joe A. Preusser]

Over Easy retired the last 20 batters he faced. ..

 

Meh, show me something impressive...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarcasm alert!!!!!!!!!!

[Gibby]

 

A decade of mostly bad Twins baseball prior to this season means that team identities in games like this one transcend the familiarity of uniforms and player names, and force me to constantly remind myself, "The Twins are the good team".

 

It's sort of like remembering to drive on the wrong side of the road in the U.K. and Japan.

 

  I got in a little trouble in Japan for that.

[BoofBonser]

 

Sort of hard to believe the Twins are beating up on a team they should beat up on.

They've done it all year minus the Blue Jays home series

[Vanimal46]

I keep waiting for the hat to drop with this starting staff... 20+ years of Minnesota sports fandom does that to you. It hasn't happened... And I'm very confused.

[Joe A. Preusser]

I keep waiting for the hat to drop with this starting staff... 20+ years of Minnesota sports fandom does that to you. It hasn't happened... And I'm very confused.

Lean into it.

[Gibby]

 

I keep waiting for the hat to drop with this starting staff... 20+ years of Minnesota sports fandom does that to you. It hasn't happened... And I'm very confused.

 

 

  I hear ya. I removed myself from this place for a couple years. I became a twisted old cynical man watching this team.

[Joe A. Preusser]

I hear ya. I removed myself from this place for a couple years. I became a twisted old cynical man watching this team.

Me too, except for the old part.....

 

Oh god, am I old????

[Gibby]

 

  I hear ya. I removed myself from this place for a couple years. I became a twisted old cynical man watching this team.

 

  However, I never stopped appreciating the scrappyness.

[LaBombo]

 

Still so weird watching Gardy walk out there in a Tigers jacket

 

He's like the baseball version of The Major in 'Soap', but instead of being confused about what decade it is, he's forgotten what team he's on.

[jtkoupal]

This start by Odorizzi was HUGE!

 

With Pineda and Stewart going tomorrow, we may need to lean on that bullpen. Pineda has been a 5 inning guy and who knows what you get out of Stewart. Not out of the question that we may need to squeeze 8 or 9 innings out of that 'pen, hopefully we can keep that to 6 or 7.

 

 

[twins_89]

The Twins have scored 6 runs without hitting particularly well with runners in scoring position. Hopefully they are saving the clutch hitting for games when it matters.

[Gibby]

 

Am I the only one who thinks the Tigers need a rebrand? Their colors and jerseys are blah

 

  Interesting. When I was a little kid. I was Imagining what teams I would want to play for, because I thought their uniforms were the coolest. I came up with Detroit for baseball, Chicago for football, and I would have sold my first child to play for the North Stars.

[Joe A. Preusser]

A run of teams with soft records coming. I think we will continue to win.

[LaBombo]

 

  I got in a little trouble in Japan for that.

 

Yeah. The language barrier and cultural differences in humor make those close calls harder to have a mutual laugh about with the local prefecture police.

 

And as an aside to anyone with kids or siblings considering military service, maybe relay to them that if they're going to pass out on a lawn in base housing after an especially hard night of drinking in Okinawa, despite its beautiful landscaping the base commander's yard is an especially bad choice.

 

That's... what I heard, anyway.

[IndianaTwin]

Eggs lowers his home ERA on the season to 0.70.

[Joe A. Preusser]

Interesting. When I was a little kid. I was Imagining what teams I would want to play for, because I thought their uniforms were the coolest. I came up with Detroit for baseball, Chicago for football, and I would have sold my first child to play for the North Stars.

When I was a kid I would sit on the toilet and debatw whether I would play for the Vikings or Twins. It was usually decided by what season it was. I am not kidding.

[Shaitan]

 

The Twins have scored 6 runs without hitting particularly well with runners in scoring position. Hopefully they are saving the clutch hitting for games when it matters.

 

Yup. This game feels like ti should be 12-0 right now.

[Gibby]

 

Yeah. The language barrier and cultural differences in humor make those close calls harder to have a mutual laugh about with the local prefecture police.

 

And as an aside to anyone with kids or siblings considering military service, maybe relay to them that if they're going to pass out on a lawn in base housing after an especially hard night of drinking in Okinawa, despite its beautiful landscaping the base commander's yard is an especially bad choice.

 

 

  I lost my Dad this year, but when I was telling him about my trip, and all the places we partied in Tokyo, He drug out his old footlocker and provided advertisements circa 1955 of the same places. 

[yarnivek1972]

If you read between the lines, it sounds like the Twins plan to start Stewart in one of the games. But that doesn’t mean he’s the 26th man. It seems more likely that the Twins would demote someone to make room for Stewart, bring up someone else as the 26th man (Duffey seems most likely) demote Stewart after his start and promote someone else. Too bad Nick Gordon has never played 3b. This could have been an opportunity for him.

 

Luis Arraez has been splitting time at 2b and 3b...

 

Until Marwin or Sano is back, why not?

[snotboogie]

Interesting. When I was a little kid. I was Imagining what teams I would want to play for, because I thought their uniforms were the coolest. I came up with Detroit for baseball, Chicago for football, and I would have sold my first child to play for the North Stars.

You had a child when you were a little kid?

[Gibby]

 

You had a child when you were a little kid?

 

 Several

[Joe A. Preusser]

Several

Pubescent Joe is jealous.

[Shaitan]

 

If you read between the lines, it sounds like the Twins plan to start Stewart in one of the games. But that doesn’t mean he’s the 26th man. It seems more likely that the Twins would demote someone to make room for Stewart, bring up someone else as the 26th man (Duffey seems most likely) demote Stewart after his start and promote someone else. Too bad Nick Gordon has never played 3b. This could have been an opportunity for him.

Luis Arraez has been splitting time at 2b and 3b...

Until Marwin or Sano is back, why not?

I'm reading that Romero might be demoted. Has he pitched in back to back games before?