Game Thread: Twins vs. Atlanta 5:10 pm PST (7:10 PM CDT) 8/5/2019

[Mill1634]

Indians are shutout 1-0!!!!!

 

 

[operation mindcrime]

Texas does hang on, 1-0 final in CLE.

Awesome!!!!!!!!!

[ashbury]

It's August and we're scoreboard watching. Life is good.

 

Two chances per night for that sweet, sweet chicken dinner?

[Diesel]

MIKE MINOR!!!!!

[Blake]

Okay, Twins, Cleveland did their job, now you do yours.

[Blake]

 

It's August and we're scoreboard watching. Life is good.

Years past, we scoreboard watched, usually peaking between our fingers.

[ashbury]

Soroka's only at 76 pitches yet. Let's hang a complete-game loss on him, shall we?

[David HK]

Chicken for Texas, 1-0.

 

Thanks, fellas.

 

[Riverbrian]

 

And?......go on. 

 

OK

 

The Diary Princess screams because she didn't see it coming, because she watching and taunting the 5 year old standing at the line, still holding the ball in his hand.

 

The 5 year old has no idea what just happened. He just noticed that the dairy princess has plunged into the water. He looks at his Mom worried that he has done something wrong.  

 

Meanwhile, Someone has thrown up on the Tilt-a-Wheel... It was Jason Castro. 

[Blake]

 

OK... How Bout this one.

 

Try to imagine you are at Marshall County Fair. 

 

The Marshall County Dairy Princess is in the dunking booth. 

 

You dunk her from the tilt-o-wheel. 

They put the tilt-o-wheel 10' from the dunk tank? Doesn't sound very safe.

[Danchat]

 

I presume not many NL players will be getting AL MVP votes, so he’s top 10.

And good luck to Moncada getting votes on a losing team or any Red Sox getting votes on an underachieving team.

I was looking at AL-only players. BBref has Trout, Semien, Bregman, Chapman, Polanco, Betts, LeMahieu, Springer, Devers, and Lindor ahead of him WAR-wise. OPS-wise, Cruz, Springer, Bogaerts, Devers, Bregman, Santana, Martinez, LeMahieu, and Meadows are ahead of him.

[Blake]

 

Chicken for Texas, 1-0.

 

Thanks, fellas.

Umm, since I don't find that appealing, I can't, in good conscience, hit the "like" button.

[Riverbrian]

 

They put the tilt-o-wheel 10' from the dunk tank? Doesn't sound very safe.

 

It's Marshall County

 

 

[twinsnorth49]

A 1st baseman makes that play....

[TwinsCD]

Should have been E on Adrianza.  Gotta make that catch -- Cron and Garver make that one.

[David HK]

 

Umm, since I don't find that appealing, I can't, in good conscience, hit the "like" button.

It's not meant to be appealing..

 

It's chicken for another team, so it's chicken, but it's gross chicken.

[crapforks]

The pace has certainly slowed.

[LVTwinsfan]

Lol, far later than most predicted. He'll take the quality start.

Lighten up, all I said was he wasn’t coming out for the 7th

[Mill1634]

defense not helping out Harper at all

[Aggies7]

Here comes the bullpen do do do do here comes the bullpen

[TwinsCD]

Should have left Odorizzi out there.

[GCTF]

Jake Cave = teh ish.

[David HK]

...aaaaand, cue the Benny Hill music.

[bighat]

Couple of bad fielding plays by the Twins, and it's a 1-run lead. Yikes.

[PseudoSABR]

Ugh. Cave and Castro giving this game away.

[TwinsCD]

Dammit...ride must be down.  I forgot the TBE announcement.

[wavedog]

Defense is not sharp this inning

[Riverbrian]

 

It's not meant to be appealing..

 

It's chicken for another team, so it's chicken, but it's gross chicken.

 

Nothing wrong with Chicken Fingers. 

[Blake]

I suggested Cave bring his bat this time around, I didn't think I needed to mention his glove too.

[ashbury]

Should have been E on Adrianza.  Gotta make that catch -- Cron and Garver make that one.

That's E, which rhymes with Free, which is what first base was to Acuna.

 

Also PB, which also rhymes with Free, which is what second base became to him.

 

Harper needed to sit on Albies, to counter that. Instead, he got sat on.