Game Thread: Twins vs. White Sox, 9/1/20 @ 7:10PM CT

[Mill1634]

BYRON FRICKEN BUXTON

[SS MagicMark]

Welcome back, Buck!

[Vanimal46]

Twins catch a break and get a run...Marwin is slow.

 

Like really slow.

 

He has the lowest sprint speed on the team at 24.3 FT/S.

 

For comparison, Sano runs 26.8 FT/S, 6th on the team

Marwin is in the 4th percentile of sprint speed in all of baseball. 4th. Alex Avila is faster than him. And he’s batting cleanup tonight. Strange times we live in.

[IndianaTwin]

Welcome back, Byron. 

[Longdistancetwins]

Welcome back, Buck!

[ashbury]

Ohhhh, we missed that glove! Thank you Byron!

[IndianaTwin]

 

Welcome back, Buck!

 

Yeah, like he said!

[SS MagicMark]

Cave would've had thahahaha! Couldn't get it out with a straight face.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Buxton got that too!

 

Then tempted fate by dropping it on the exchange, but it was obviously a catch.

 

Just glad there weren't base runners.

[twins_89]

 

Marwin's nearly down to .600 OPS. He's really hurt the lineup over the past few weeks. BBref has him as a sub replacement level player (-0.1 WAR).

 

The guys expected to make up the Twins bench have been ridiculously bad this season. In terms of OPS Wade (.467), Adrianza (.513), Cave (.529), Gonzalez (.608), Vargas (.613), and Avila (.627) are killing the team. There needs to be a major overhaul with prospects Kirilloff, Rooker, Jeffers, and maybe even Blankenhorn taking over spots.

[IndianaTwin]

While we're at it, welcome back, Big Mike!

[Vanimal46]

 

Poor guy

[ashbury]

I didn't spot any mention of Kepler in this thread. Is Rocco sending a little message about last night's flub by writing Marwin's name in RF?

[Diesel]

Just need a normal Pineda start—- 6 innnings, 2 R

Come on, offense!

[Mill1634]

Pineda was really good. The first inning was rusty, but not entirely his fault with the blunder to start it off. 6 inning, 2 runs, against this lineup is great.

[Mill1634]

Cave over Kepler to pinch hit? Holy cow Rocco, you're acting like we have won 6 in a row. 

[IndianaTwin]

 

I didn't spot any mention of Kepler in this thread. Is Rocco sending a little message about last night's flub by writing Marwin's name in RF?

 

I wondered the same thing. Keuchel is a tough lefty, so it makes sense to give him a rest, but seeing Cave get the pinch hit opportunity here may be confirming the message. 

 

Edit: Or maybe he knew Cave was due.

[Mill1634]

 

Cave over Kepler to pinch hit? Holy cow Rocco, you're acting like we have won 6 in a row. 

Happy to eat some Crow, Manager of the year

[SS MagicMark]

There you go, Jake!

[ashbury]

Cave digs for third with one out. Lately I'm liking what I see from Jake.

[IndianaTwin]

I like batting Arraez in this spot. Ball needs to be put in play. 

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Cave!!!

 

(note the 3 exclamation points. Not a coincidence where he ended up)

[Mill1634]

ARRAEZ!!!! LETS GO!!!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Tie game.

 

Keep those boulders coming, and we may get a hill of our own...

[stringer bell]

Two extra base hits in the same inning? I can’t remember the last time.

[jun]

Let's go Twins.

 

I think Vargas will be let go very soon.

 

That should be good news.

[stringer bell]

Well the double kind of got turned into a single.

[ashbury]

I thought we were past the trade deadline! But Arraez just traded himself at second, for Sano at first.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Lima beans...

 

Arraez gets taken out tryin' to advance on a ball in front of him.

 

Oh well.

 

Happens to the best of us.

 

Hope everyone is okay after a hard slide on the tag.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

 

I thought we were past the trade deadline! But Arraez just traded himself at second, for Sano at first.

Would Sano have scored a bigger run?