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Game Thread: Twins @ Red Sox, 9/4/19 @ 6:10pm CT

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twinssporto
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Good afternoon Twins fans and welcome back to another game thread party!  We have a first place team and we beat the Red Sox last night. Great time to be a Twins fan!!   Before starting, I need to mak

Mike Sixel
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I heard it was heading to Alabama.....

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Just saw a flash of lightning...   Made me think of Highlander for no particular reason...

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Sano swinging at a bunch of those low-and-outside pitches tonight that he'd seemingly learned to lay off.

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If anything, this article makes me more impressed with Walter Johnson. Throwing 88 to 90 mph for 170 pitches per game every third game is a whole lot more impressive than the throwers of today.

Walter Johnson was a freak. However, tonight’s “soft tossing lefty” averages 3 miles per hour more than the “hardest thrower on earth”.

 

That’s no knock on Johnson, he really was a freak, it’s just a different game. The mound is 10” down from a max height of 15”, and the strike zone is smaller. https://bosoxinjection.com/2013/12/13/pitching-mound-history/

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Walter Johnson was a freak. However, tonight’s “soft tossing lefty” averages 3 miles per hour more than the “hardest thrower on earth”.

That’s no knock on Johnson, he really was a freak, it’s just a different game. The mound is 10” down from a max height of 15”, and the strike zone is smaller. https://bosoxinjection.com/2013/12/13/pitching-mound-history/

I don't buy for a second Walter Johnson threw 88 MPH. This artticle is just someone's guess.

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Jeepers, just back from class in time to see Makina in trouble yet again.

 

I sure hope he gets a ground ball here. Don't want to see him face Betts again with the bases juiced.

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Okay, now the problem stops being Berrios and starts being Baldelli. Yank him, skipper.

Berrios is definitely a problem and remains one
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Baldelli has a lot to learn about managing starting pitchers.

 

A LOT.

 

I probably would have taken him out after getting through the meat of the order in the 5th.

 

Single, walk on 14 pitches to start the 6th. No way is he still in after that. Someone should be up after the first seven pitch at bat and be ready after the second one.

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it was measured in an artillery range. Accurately measured? Not by today’s standards

The artillery range had him over 91. I don't buy that either, measured by doppler, not radar.

 

The 88 is the author's estimate based on 11 percent change in the time to run a mile from then to now.

 

Pretty shaky "science" if you ask me.

 

 

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Welp.

 

There was that Eddie R discussion thread from yesterday.

 

Exhibit A right there.

 

What could possibly necessitate that throw (sort of) to the plate, allowing the runner to move up to 2nd?

 

Brain cramp of the first order.

 

For God's, sake, now I'm hate-watching this game.

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Hopefully Graterol can become that guy in a couple years!

Couple years for Graterol, who knows how many for Berrios, the Twins have their shot this year, no guarantees for tomorrow, hindsight is perfect but they should have at least got some starting pitching this season, we have 2 starters, gonna be tough, the rest of the way
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