MIN 15, DET 6: Cruz Leads Trouncing of Tigers

[jmlease1]

I hate the 8-man bullpen. Even in this day and age where starters get pulled in the 5th or 6th inning, you still end up with a guy in the 'pen who pitches once a week at best in the 8-man bullpen. Thank goodness they expanded the rosters to 26 so you can actually still have a 4-man bench.

 

Nice to start off a Detroit series with a dominant win and nice to see Polanco get off the schnide.

[Bickle19]

 

Concur. If they thought that, they'd have IL'd them and brought someone up. But, illness is a bit more difficult to predict ... always day by day.

I believe Rocco actually referred to Buxton as hour by hour lol.

[Squirrel]

 

I believe Rocco actually referred to Buxton as hour by hour lol.

Having had various levels of food poisoning before ... yeah, that's about right. (And so unpleasant.)

[mnfireman]

 

Pretty much an old around demolishing today. Good to see things clicking on all facets. Bottom half of the order could have been more productive though.

 

2-8 (.250 avg.), 7 BB (9-15, .600 obp) 5 runs scored and 3 RBI. I can see where you thought the bottom of the order wasn't producing. 

[Trov]

I missed the 9th inning so did not see the 5 runs dobnak gave up.  I am not worried about him at this point.  All pitchers have bad innings.  Also, we are not looking for him to be an ace, he is a 4 or 5 starter or long reliever.  

 

Badoo is a nice story for himself, but lets wait until june to see how he is doing before we talk about what a mistake the FO made with him. 

[diehardtwinsfan]

hopefully the illness isn't something highly contagious like the stomach flu... we might end up seeing a lot more of those if that's the case. 

[umterp23]

 

Goodness ... really? Already saying to send someone down? We've had some good games, it's early. These guys deserve a little leeway 4 games into the season. Especially after two really good offensive games.

 

It was poking fun at cHawk post that said to send down Dobnak.  I"m all about the leeway 4 games in.  

[Squirrel]

 

It was poking fun at cHawk post that said to send down Dobnak.  I"m all about the leeway 4 games in.  

 

Ahh ... okay ... shoulda caught that but seeing one after the other, I was just thinking ... 'Really???' 

 

Thanks for clarifying.

[JoshDungan1]

 

I hope that isn’t the case. That kind of attitude earned Rosario his walking papers....

The flyout that people are mentioning was about 10 feet short of his third home run of the game, and off the bat it 100 percent looked like it was his third of the game.