GAME THREAD: 4/20/21 Minnesota Twins @ Oakland A's, Doubleheader, Game 1 @ 5:30 CDT

[jkcarew]

 

Cave not available to pinch hit for Jeffers?

Or Sano, or....anyone...anyone.

 

Rocco seems at a complete loss when the boys don’t hit two 3-run homers a game. And apparently Rocco loves Jeffers and his 52% k-rate in late leverage situations when moving a base runner could be the difference between winning and losing.

[Danchat]

Well, it's better to stink early in the season rather than late. Of course, you have to turn the season around at some point... 

[Danchat]

 

Cave not available to pinch hit for Jeffers?

Cave's been putrid at the plate for quite a while now, I can get why they wouldn't PH him. Jeffers was at least a competent hitter last year.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Or Sano, or....anyone...anyone.

 

Rocco seems at a complete loss when the boys don’t hit two 3-run homers a game. And apparently Rocco loves Jeffers and his 52% k-rate in late leverage situations when moving a base runner could be the difference between winning and losing.

Their guy threw 2 wild pitches that inning, too

[Diesel]

Whatever happens this inning, this offense needs to wake up. Have a little fun, guys

 

[cHawk]

Oh snap.

[Aggies7]

Oh lord, that’s a 7 day Rocco DL stint

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Zack Granite in to pinch run

[cHawk]

M-V-P! M-V-P!

[cHawk]

Why does he look terrible at the plate all of the sudden

[Dr. Evil]

Buxton late on every swing

[Aggies7]

 

Why does he look terrible at the plate all of the sudden

Hard to get in a rhythm when you take 3 days off a week 

[Aggies7]

CMON WE GOT A BREAK

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Well ok then

[Diesel]

Another life

[Aggies7]

We don’t have a PH good enough to hit for a guy hitting .063

[Aggies7]

How do you let that guy hit there

[MNT1996]

Everybody's timing is just terrible

[Danchat]

Wow. Rooker didn't have a hope. 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Leaving it up to the contact hitter

[Danchat]

 

How do you let that guy hit there

Because your two guys on the bench are lefties, and Rooker is supposed to be good vs lefties... emphasis on supposed to. Rocco has nothing to work with here

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Station identification there

[Aggies7]

 

Because your two guys on the bench are lefties, and Rooker is supposed to be good vs lefties... emphasis on supposed to. Rocco has nothing to work with here

Sand isnt

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Of course that’s how it ends

[Mill1634]

Of course he caught that...

[cHawk]

We finally hit a ball deep and it’s still caught. This team has to rank near the bottom of the league in BABIP

[MNT1996]

I wish it was Pineda starting tomorrow

[Danchat]

At least Tortuga put up a fight. Say what you will about the pop-ups, at least he gives himself chances to get on base, unlike many others in this lineup.

[AceWrigley]

A double disaster today.

[Mill1634]

What a bad day of baseball. Shoemaker wasn’t great, alcala struggled, the defense was bad in the first game, and the bats were lifeless all day long. We went from absolutely killing lefties in 2019 to the Athletics bringing in a lefty to shut us down in a one run game when their typical closer has been lights out all year. I know writers and posters will say that everything will be fine, which I hope is true, but there aren’t many bright spots on this team right now they have me willing to put my blind faith in it turning around.