Game Thread: Twins @ Tigers 12:10pm cdt, 8/30/2020 ad

[sampleSizeOfOne]

"Let's start things rolling with the Tiger Rag"

 

So begins the first side of the second record in the Spike Jones Omnibus i listened to as a kid. Unfortunately largess of youtube has let me down and the track doesn't come up when searching, so i shall have to leave my Spike Jones and his City Slickers comfort zone. Roll seems as good a cue to follow as any:

 

 

and for those of you like to know the score:

 

 

And just to reassure anyone worried about yestersay...

 

 

And without further ado...

 

Twins

0. Kenta Maeda (R ) P

1. Max Kepler ( L) RF

2. Jorge Polanco ( S ) SS

3. Nelson Cruz (R ) DH

4. Miguel Sano (R ) 1B

5. Jake Cave ( L) CF

6. Luis Arraez ( L) 2B

7. M. Gonzalez ( S ) 3B

8. LaMonte Wade Jr ( L) LF

9. Alex Avila ( L) C

 

Tigers

0. Casey Mize (R ) P

1. Victor Reyes ( S ) RF

2. J. Schoop (R ) 2B

3. Miguel Cabrera (R ) DH

4. J. Candelario ( S ) 1B

5. Niko Goodrum ( S ) SS

6. JaCoby Jones (R ) CF

7. C. Stewart ( L) LF

8. G. Greiner (R ) C

9. Isaac Paredes (R ) 3B

 

Or with further ado, of that is your preference, do feel free to add your own flavor of further ado.

[Don Walcott]

Happy to see Maeda on the mound today. Would have liked to have seen him yesterday, though.

[mrtwinsfan]

any Eddie news ??

[Aggies7]

How about that AB by cave?

[mrtwinsfan]

How bout giving Boston Cave and Wade for Kevin Pillar,  Thought anyway ! 

 

[mrtwinsfan]

 

How about that AB by cave?

2 -strikes and most this team is ???  Get aggressive b4 2 strikes

[Aggies7]

There goes the no hitter

[umterp23]

Cave with a terrible at bat.  Swung at 2 balls outside of the zone.  Lineup is not intimidating at all.  Cruz and may Sano but that is about it today.  

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Twins bring the infield in...

 

If i didn't know better, i'd think that redundant.

[Mill1634]

And we are down early again...great

[Aggies7]

Twins bring the infield in...

If i didn't know better, i'd think that redundant.

1 run feels like 5 at this point

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Down 0-1.

 

The familiar uphill path ahead of us.

 

On familiar ground here.

[umterp23]

Tigers starting pitchers and losses by Twins:  Let's think about this for a second or try to quickly get it out of your mind.  Boyd 7.27 ERA and Twins get 2 runs. Skubal 6.75 ERA and Twins get 2 runs.  Ouch.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 run feels like 5 at this point

Gosh.

 

When did we last score 5?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

At least we stil got 8 innings to make up that run...

[Aggies7]

Gosh.

When did we last score 5?

Last week

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Hey we scored 5! Er... 1. Only seems like 5.

[Aggies7]

Need a far better at bat from Kepler there. Yeesh

[mrtwinsfan]

Kepler looking worse as Cave on any inside slider

[umterp23]

good thing we got a wild pitch/pass ball to bring in the run.  

 

[Aggies7]

TWO runs in one game? Get out of dodge

[Aggies7]

Maeda May need to plunk someone

[sampleSizeOfOne]

5 more with a Polanco dinger to lead off the 3rd!

 

Insurmountable!

[Mill1634]

Hope we get a big lead and Alcala can throw 98 at someones hand

[Danchat]

Time to break this inning open! We need to take a big lead here.

[Aggies7]

Wow that’s some bad luck, although it was probably going to be a DP

[Danchat]

Seems like our RISP has been dreadful the last 3 weeks. They can get runners on somewhat consistently, but really have no way of getting them in outside of sac flies, which usually guarantees we only get 1 run per inning.

[srjr19]

Say hello to your 1st five game losing streak Rocco.

[Aggies7]

Hard to believe how fast we’ve fallen off

[Mill1634]

Maeda with another good outing. Offense HAS to show some life