Game Thread "Unexpected Party" Twins vs Pirates 7:10pm cdt, 4/23/2021ad

[wsnydes]

After two innings: Brubaker 17 pitches, Happ 33. Rocco's looking for the EMT's

So, I should expect my long relief guy to throw 10 pitches and my closer to throw 49? Is that what you're implying?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

La Tortuga with the scoop. Turtles can do that.

Remember the words of mother Jaguar?

[Mill1634]

TURTLE!!!!

[Dave The Dastardly]

And the Turtle strikes again!!!!!

[HokieRif]

[MMMordabito]

TORTUUUGA!!!

[Danchat]

Tortuga with a Rosario-esque HR!!!!

[Shaitan]

Is GameDay accurate.  

 

Was that pitch...over his head?

[LVTwinsfan]

Swing hard in case you hit it

[MMMordabito]

Is GameDay accurate.

 

Was that pitch...over his head?

Very much so

[LVTwinsfan]

Is GameDay accurate.

 

Was that pitch...over his head?

it was up there

[sampleSizeOfOne]

My feed was behind enough this thread told me what was about to happen.

[LVTwinsfan]

Twins have an early lead. Seen this before

[Dave The Dastardly]

 

 

So, I should expect my long relief guy to throw 10 pitches and my closer to throw 49? Is that what you're implying?

Standard practice. Fools the opponents every time.

[LVTwinsfan]

Standard practice. Fools the opponents every time.

rope a dope doesn’t really work in baseball

[Nine of twelve]

 

Swing hard in case you hit it

Swing hard in case it hits your bat.

[LVTwinsfan]

Swing hard in case it hits your bat.

anybody who hits a ball that high over the fence has some talent

[stringer bell]

Four swinging strikes for Happ in four innings!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

 

 

 

La Tortuga with the scoop. Turtles can do that.

Remember the words of mother Jaguar?

 

Because it was an obscure reference, i feel i must footnote the reference...

 

It is to The Beginning of Armadillos from Kipling's Just So Stories: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2781/2781-h/2781-h.htm#link2H_4_0007

 

Relevrnt quote being:

 

‘Now attend to me,’ said Painted Jaguar, ‘because this is very important. My mother said that when I meet a Hedgehog I am to drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when I meet a Tortoise I am to scoop him out of his shell with my paw. Now which of you is Hedgehog and which is Tortoise? because, to save my spots, I can’t tell.’

‘Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?’ said Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog. ‘Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you uncoil a Tortoise you must shell him out the water with a scoop, and when you paw a Hedgehog you must drop him on the shell.’

‘Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?’ said Slow-and-Solid Tortoise. ‘Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you water a Hedgehog you must drop him into your paw, and when you meet a Tortoise you must shell him till he uncoils.’

[LVTwinsfan]

Good play by the little league World Series guy

[LVTwinsfan]

Not a good play by the little league World Series guy

[LVTwinsfan]

Hrbek was like an elephant ballerina

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Man, Buxton's hit was a thing of beauty!

[Shaitan]

When is the last time Nelson Cruz stole third base?

[cHawk]

There's no way you couldn't have gone to third, Nellie.

[Shaitan]

Didn't Kirilloff have a hit in his first game this year? Did the scorer change it?

 

Or am I, once again, remembering things wrong.

[Danchat]

 

There's no way you couldn't have gone to third, Nellie.

I dunno, with his ankle hurting I don't think it would have been a good idea.

[Danchat]

 

Didn't Kirilloff have a hit in his first game this year? Did the scorer change it?

 

Or am I, once again, remembering things wrong.

Nope, he went 0/3 in the doubleheader. If there was a hit, it was changed.

[LVTwinsfan]

Good call

[LVTwinsfan]

That is the rule