Game Thread: Twins vs. Yankees, 7/24/19, 7:10pm CST

[bighat]

48 pitchers, 5 outs.

Anyone left in the pen? We gonna ride May for 2+ again? I see now way the Twins hold the Yankees under 10 if we go to the pen before the 6th.

[Aggies7]

I lost my wisdom at 21. That's my excuse.

I was going to say, lots of folks still have their wisdom teeth but it’s not helping JK

[ashbury]

Cave is awful.

Because I hold grudges, I'll bring up yet again that Cave dived and missed during a game at Kauffman Stadium that I attended last year - the results were worse that time, with a inside-the-park HR. As a consequence he's about my least favorite position player on the team, with consistently poor judgement on anything requiring more than ordinary skill.

[Mill1634]

Funny talking about wisdom teeth removal. I had my dug out this morning. I'm 19, but I feel very good. I've eaten soft foods, and probably wouldn't want to play a baseball game today, but he got his out what? Friday? I'd be ready to go in two days at the minimum. Something tells me the concussion is worse than originally feared. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Oh thank god.

[jz7233]

 

Cave is stinking it up. I hope he can hit tonight cause he has a lot to atone for.

OPS of .639 this season, what more do you expect?

[Aggies7]

Funny talking about wisdom teeth removal. I had my dug out this morning. I'm 19, but I feel very good. I've eaten soft foods, and probably wouldn't want to play a baseball game today, but he got his out what? Friday? I'd be ready to go in two days at the minimum. Something tells me the concussion is worse than originally feared.

 

You’re a fast recoverer. They hurt like a B for at least 3 days. At least

[MMMordabito]

Because I hold grudges, I'll bring up yet again that Cave dived and missed during a game at Kauffman Stadium that I attended last year - the results were worse that time, with a inside-the-park HR. As a consequence he's about my least favorite position player on the team, with consistently poor judgement.

Off the bat of Butera, I believe.

[Darius]

Why did this team have to start the season the way they did and create so much false hope?

[jtkoupal]

This Twins rotation is making me SICK! They are so much better than this, yet since the All Star break, the Twins are lucky if they can get 6 innings from the starter. Each starter runs into trouble every night, they labor, they're wild, and throw cookies. 

 

This rotation is better than this. So frustrating. 

[Aggies7]

Did I just see a seasoned World Series winner swing at the first pitch after our guy threw about 40 in the top half? Holy cow

[Aggies7]

This Twins rotation is making me SICK! They are so much better than this, yet since the All Star break, the Twins are lucky if they can get 6 innings from the starter. Each starter runs into trouble every night, they labor, they're wild, and throw cookies. 

 

This rotation is better than this. So frustrating.

 

Are they though?

[h2oface]

Sometimes you just need your teeth cleaned.

 

A Trip To The Dental Hygienist

 

http://aerstephen.rootswire.com/podcasts/WC_A_Trip_To_The_Dental_Hygienist_1998.mp3

[obtusebanter]

 

Why did this team have to start the season the way they did and create so much false hope?

 

Run differential don't lie.

[MVP Nick Punto]

Funny talking about wisdom teeth removal. I had my dug out this morning. I'm 19, but I feel very good. I've eaten soft foods, and probably wouldn't want to play a baseball game today, but he got his out what? Friday? I'd be ready to go in two days at the minimum. Something tells me the concussion is worse than originally feared.

You can't necessarily compare. I had mine out at 20, and I was out of any kind of strenuous activity for 2+ weeks. I went through 2 hydrocodone prescriptions and the doc wouldn't write another, so I had to take Ibuprofen which felt like it did exactly **** for pain reduction.

[Mill1634]

 

You’re a fast recoverer. They hurt like a B for at least 3 days. At least

They came out with a new medicine in the past year or year and a half. It is the novicane they always give, but extended release. Injected after the extraction is over, and is slowly released over the next 2-3 days. Does wonders.

[Aggies7]

Good AB by arraez though he should have been K’d

[Brock Beauchamp]

Damn, that kid amazes me on a near-nightly basis.

[notoriousgod71]

 

This Twins rotation is making me SICK! They are so much better than this, yet since the All Star break, the Twins are lucky if they can get 6 innings from the starter. Each starter runs into trouble every night, they labor, they're wild, and throw cookies. 

 

This rotation is better than this. So frustrating. 

 

I would counter that the Twins rotation isn't better than this.

[Darius]

Run differential don't lie.

The record since June 1 don’t lie.

[Aggies7]

They came out with a new medicine in the past year or year and a half. It is the novicane they always give, but extended release. Injected after the extraction is over, and is slowly released over the next 2-3 days. Does wonders.

It’s not something I’d want to go through again for sure. I’m not doubting BB’s inability to play. Just find it hard to believe a dentist would suggest getting them out at a more reasonable time (if he didn’t)

[Mill1634]

Schoop has been fairly bad (by Twins lineup standards) against righties, but he just mashes lefties. 

[nicksaviking]

They’re lurking, waiting to “bite” you

I’ve had the same dentist since I was 14. At 16 they came in sideways and he told me to lose them because that’s give me trouble soon. I told him to screw off, they feel fine. He stopped asking to remove them 20 years ago and every 6 months since he still stares in my stanky mouth and asks me if they’re giving me trouble.

 

Nope, the smooth side chews just fine.

[twinsnorth49]

Arraez, reason to watch.

[jtkoupal]

To echo what I just said about our rotation, it could be an explanation that they are trying to do so much because they know they have a bad bullpen. (I'm not going to sugarcoat it, the bullpen is bad).

 

However, the reverse of this could be true to. Maybe the bullpen has sucked so bad because the starters, night after night, can't make it out of the 5th or 6th inning. 

 

Maybe the two forces are compounding to create this utter disaster, but it's pretty frustrating either way considering they are so much better than this.

[David HK]

 

 

A commercial failure, lukewarm sequel to Chinatown.

Desson Howe, writing for The Washington Post, said "At worst, it's wordy, confusing and – here's an ugly word – boring".

 

Hm. 

Reminiscent of a certain inning I just watched.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just the guy I want to see in this situation.

[Aggies7]

Didn’t think he’d tag. Cave attones somewhat

[Brock Beauchamp]

That plate appearance wasn't even 20% as awful as I imagined.

[Mill1634]

Very nice baserunning by Arraez. He does EVERYTHING well.