Game Thread "Harvey" Twins vs. White Sox 12:10pm cdt 8/21/2019 ad

[LVTwinsfan]

Twins should approach the rest of the season as, break even at home and win on the road, which is what they’ve been doing for a while now. If they continue they’ll be fine

[FlauerPauer]

 

I was going to ask about that. Tracking the game on gamecast, he seems to be slinging a lot of 4-seamers over the plate. I was going to ask if he had some magic sauce in his glove making those pitches harder to hit than it looks.

 

He's been throwing a lot of first pitch changeups. I think the Twins hitters are looking for the wrong pitch and thus falling behind in counts.

 

I hope they begin to make adjustments second time through the order.

[LVTwinsfan]

Except he’s mostly doing his job while the fielders re-enact the Benny Hill intro around him. Odorizzi is limiting hard contact and missing bats. As a pitcher, that’s almost all he can do.

pitching to contact has risks too, cheap hits are part of the game and sometimes they pile up

[gocgo]

It's not like they are clobbering the ball, they are just dinking and dunking it where we aren't.  Sometimes lucky beats good.

[Circus Boy]

 

There is an error on the board at Target Field.

And we'd gone a season-high 14 straight innings without an error. (Note: "14 innings." Fact. "Season high." Not a fact.)

[Brock Beauchamp]

pitching to contact has risks too, cheap hits are part of the game and sometimes they pile up

Odorizzi has struck out four guys in less than four innings. I’m not sure what you expect from the guy.

[LVTwinsfan]

Odorizzi has struck out four guys in less than four innings. I’m not sure what you expect from the guy.

just to hang in that’s all

[Blake]

 

Odorizzi has struck out four guys in less than four innings. I’m not sure what you expect from the guy.

A steely glare and the batter hollering, "I want no part of him" as the batter heads back to the dugout?

[LVTwinsfan]

Odorizzi has struck out four guys in less than four innings. I’m not sure what you expect from the guy.

relax, I didn’t criticize him, I just said he is part of this team

[FlauerPauer]

The squirrel needs to make an appearance.

[Aggies7]

6 strike outs in 10 outs. That’s pretty awful.

[MVP Nick Punto]

The squirrel needs to make an appearance.

The squirrel has been scared away by the awesome power of Giolito:

[FlauerPauer]

Danny just said that the Sox have an average of 82.6 MPH exit velocity on their seven hits. 

[Cap'n Piranha]

Dan Gladden is an idiot.

 

"The White Sox average exit velocity today is 82 MPH, but they have 7 hits!  Makes you wonder, is exit velocity really that important".

 

To his credit, Cory Provus immediately and unequivocally corrected him.

[TheRealCupOfJoe]

Is Polanco playing for the Chisox?

 

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

 

Twins should approach the rest of the season as, break even at home and win on the road, which is what they’ve been doing for a while now. If they continue they’ll be fine

 

 

Well put.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Danny just said that the Sox have an average of 82.6 MPH exit velocity on their seven hits.

Wow. That’s a Moyer fastball.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Wow. That throw was really something else.

[FlauerPauer]

Eddie not hustling at all down the line.

[Aggies7]

Eddie not hustling at all down the line.

He’s not big on hustling

[FlauerPauer]

 

Wow. That throw was really something else.

 

 

Juuuuuuuust a bit outside

[MNT1996]

Not much hustle from Rosario going down the line there. Gotta say, Rosario has been kinda disappointing lately. Sure his average is good, but sometimes his attitude and demeanor just seems bad. I hope Larnach will provide the Twins with more plate discipline and a reason for them to put him in the lineup next year.

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

Eddie not hustling at all down the line.

 

I am legitimately done with Eddie.  I want the Twins to move him this offseason for whatever they can get.

[Aggies7]

It appears that giving up any more runs would be lethal

[Circus Boy]

 

Speculation on your part.  It's possible that a Twins loss is the straw that breaks the camel's back, vis a vis global immolation.  I think just to play it safe, the White Sox should let the Twins win.

At the least, swing away on 3-and-0.

[mrtwinsfan]

Geez-   a few Terrible at bats  39 year old showing up the youngsters ,  

[bighat]

The ol'e "Black Hole" trio of Schoop, Castro and Cave...not sure why Rocco thinks that grouping our worst hitters together in a bunch - in a crucial rubber game match - is necessary.

 

This is a classic forfeit-style lineup. Rocco is playing for the sweep of Detroit, apparently. Might work, but sure does seem like a gamble.

[Brock Beauchamp]

It appears that giving up any more runs would be lethal

The way the offense is approaching plate appearances, zero runs allowed will be no different than 14 runs allowed.

[Jham]

Sano starting to look like the old Sano again...

[MNT1996]

 

Sano starting to look like the old Sano again...

 

Giolitto is tough. Sano is not the only one with bad looking ABs today.