Game Thread: Twins @ White Sox 1:10pm cdt, 9/17/2020 ad

[mrtwinsfan]

Lynx on at 7 tonight

[MNT1996]

Twins should go after Colome in the offseason

[wavedog]

I was kind of looking forward to watch Jeffers bat - C'mon Astudillo

[T_J]

Why pitch hit there...

[Aggies7]

how TF are you gonna pinch hit astudillo there? what a joke

[Sielk]

Oh Rocco, why can't you just let Jeffers hit? He hit some bombas lately...

[USAFChief]

Astudillo PHing for Jeffers.

 

Bold move Rocco, we'll see if it works out.

 

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[mrtwinsfan]

Ugly game, bring on the Yanks,  maybe max can get right again, Trevor Bauer coming to town

[hybridbear]

What a stupid decision to pinch hit with Astudillo! Jeffers makes better quality contact. Astudillo flew out on the first pitch. What a waste!

[LVTwinsfan]

I've worked part time as a hockey referee for 15 years (not in the NHL, but I have watched plenty of NHL games). Sure you can curse and swear at the referees, and they'll curse and swear right back. That's all accepted as normal in the NHL, which is fine. But if you do something to obviously show up a referee, say, spray some snow at him, spit at the ice in front of his skates, etc, you'd better believe your ass is at least in the box for a 10-minute misconduct. If it happens in response to a lot of jawing, you'll very likely get a game misconduct. Referees will tolerate a certain amount of verbal abuse, as will umpires, but when a player obviously shows them up, they're more than likely gone.

 

I think the umpiring has been pretty bad this series. I had no problem with Cruz and Baldelli getting tossed the other night on that awful strike three call on Jeffers, especially since the game was pretty much over. But this move by Donaldson was out of the normal bounds of protest, was clearly meant to get himself ejected, and certainly contributed to costing this team the game.

kicking dirt on home plate is a lot less than anything you described there. Baseball umpires won’t take anything and many times they will engage and actually make the situation worse. I will not defend umpires for pettiness and kicking a little dirt on him plate is petty. Not spitting, not spraying ice, kicking dirt, not at the umpire or anyone. a 10 minute misconduct is not an ejection. All your examples here merely proved my point that baseball umpires are petty

[USAFChief]

 

Twins should go after Colome in the offseason

catch him in a back alley without his bro's and teach him a lesson he won't forget!

[Aggies7]

quite honestly, i'd be ok without seeing astudillo bat again

[Twodogs]

Here come the Yankees.

[Twodogs]

Unless we have a nice losing streak and drop down to like the 7th seed?

[T_J]

This team on the road is barely watchable

[MNT1996]

Twins players will probably tell the media that they don't care about who they play in the first round of the playoffs, but you can't tell me that they don't think about the team's previous history against the Yankees. 

[Otto von Ballpark]

 

kicking dirt on home plate is a lot less than anything you described there. Baseball umpires won’t take anything and many times they will engage and actually make the situation worse. I will not defend umpires for pettiness and kicking a little dirt on him plate is petty. Not spitting, not spraying ice, kicking dirt, not at the umpire or anyone. a 10 minute misconduct is not an ejection. All your examples here merely proved my point that baseball umpires are petty

Have you ever seen a player, at any level, deliberately kick dirt on the plate and not get ejected? My friend the softball ump would ring me up for that too -- it's not exactly something unique that only MLB umpires would do.

 

You know who has to clean the plate, right? Kicking dirt on it is the equivalent of an official asking a player for the ball and the player deliberately throwing it away from him.

 

I know umps can exhibit bad behaviors too, but that act by Donaldson is 100% an ejection, by any official, in any sport. I'm guessing that even Donaldson knows that (which is why he did it, to provoke an ejection). And as a fan, you can even like and endorse what Donaldson did -- but it was clearly an ejection-able offense.

[ashbury]

catch him in a back alley without his bro's and teach him a lesson he won't forget!

 

 

It's a bold strategy, Chief. Let's see if it pays off.

 

[ashbury]

What a stupid decision to pinch hit with Astudillo! Jeffers makes better quality contact. Astudillo flew out on the first pitch. What a waste!

With fewer than two outs, if the aim was putting the ball in play versus the downside of a strikeout, I could see the logic. As it was, the outcome on the first pitch was surprising only because I expected an easy grounder, but an easy fly was a good guess too.

 

The Cleveland series gave me false hope, but in retrospect says more about them than us. This team has what it takes to win against the big teams, but somehow is still in find-a-way-to-lose territory. The White Sox centerfielder tried to hand us a break, but ours handed it right back a few seconds later. Kepler later had a chance for a DP that completely changes the nature of the winning rally, but sailed it. That kind of stuff.

 

Too many wrong mistakes, as our guru Lawrence Peter Berra warned us.

 

[insagt1]

We were supposed to win this one. And everything broke down. Our hitters minus Buxton disappeared...as they did all series...only one run scored without a HR. They couldn't string even two hits together. The 'd' was shoddy. And Romo, like Rogers is not getting it done like we had hoped. If we draw NY in round one, we are toast. We can't match them stride for stride when they are healthy.

 

We didn't see a good Twins team against Chicago and we won't catch them now. We have to hope that our big hitters start to produce again. Maybe its time for Kepler to sit and give Wade/Cave the playing time. Even Kepler's 'd' has regressed. Its easy to sound real negative after a game like this, I know. Its a win that got away. Oh well. Bring on the Cubs. Start over.

[insagt1]

Re: Donaldson...it wasn't only the dirt kicked that got him ejected. It was what transpired before. He was jawing with the ump about the previous pitch and clearly he had a bone to pick with the ump. What he did was childish and calculated. He's a veteran , He knew he would get bounced....and it was very selfish...given how poorly his teammates were hitting. No excuses. He screwed up and hurt his team.

 

In hindsight...Romo should have walked Abreu to load the bases and take his chances with the next hitter. No guarantee he would have delivered. You never let the other guys' MVP beat you in late innings of a close game.

[stringer bell]

Barring a collapse, I think the White Sox won the Central. Also, I think Abreu just won the MVP.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

catch him in a back alley without his bro's and teach him a lesson he won't forget!

That's very generous, considering what college tuition is these days.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Man, i left the game in your hands with a 1-0 lead.

 

My bad...