Game Thread "Get Away" Twins vs Rangers 12:10pm cdt 5/6/2021 ad

[wsnydes]

 

Yeah. Yeah.

 

I'm pretty forgiving of managers because they're so often making a 55/45 decision. It's not all that clearcut most of the time.

 

But FFS, this bullpen this season... and he's using Robles in the seventh? WHY?

I'm more displeased that Pineda didn't come out to face the bottom of the order than anything. Expose the bullpen as little as possible. 

[Mike Sixel]

 

My point was I'd be saving Robles for the eighth because he HASN'T sucked.

 

Right, that was my point also....sigh.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

I'm more displeased that Pineda didn't come out to face the bottom of the order than anything. Expose the bullpen as little as possible. 

Same here, my point was Robles should be pitching later in the game because he's one of the only non-flammable materials in the bullpen.

[cHawk]

Rally time then, I guess.

[LVTwinsfan]

Also....again....he has no / few good options in the pen right now.....at some point, they have to be able to get the number 9 hitter out...and that's on them and the FO, not him.

leaving the starter in is a good option

[Otto von Ballpark]

 

It's for stolen base attempts only...not for trying to turn a single into a double, etc. Make contact with the bag before the tag is applied and your safe. Simple as that. Easiest way to increase stolen base attempts, imo

So you can overrun the base completely? Or slide to the side and slap the base with your hand to evade the tag, like guys do at home plate?

 

I think making the bases larger (thus shortening the distance between them) and limiting pickoff throws would be far easier and more effective ways to encourage stolen base attempts, and both of those things are being testing in minor leagues this season.

 

I'd be in favor of a time limit on instant replays too, although that seems like an entirely separate concern from incentivizing stolen base attempts.

[rdehring]

One inning from the pen and another lead is gone. What are the odds this is another loss snatched from the jaws of victory?  90-10?

[ScrapTheNickname]

Dissension has to be growing between the bullpen and position players.

[cHawk]

And the LITERAL second that happens, the offense chooses to hang it up for the day.

[Winston Smith]

Another bullpen game what could go wrong?

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Dissension has to be growing between the bullpen and position players.

While the bullpen has been obviously bad, the offense isn't helping themselves by dying quietly somewhere around the fifth inning of every game.

[Otto von Ballpark]

At 87 pitches, with 7-8-9 coming up, I think Pineda probably should have stayed in for the 7th.

 

Not that he had been super-sharp -- I'm guessing Baldelli didn't want Pineda to put a runner on and have to bring in a reliever mid-inning when the top of the order came up again. But limiting bullpen exposure to potentially 2 innings might have been worth it, I think.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Cruz makes it to first...

 

Wee steps.

[LVTwinsfan]

Tortuga is a good hitter

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Garlick time!

[MNT1996]

Cuzzi going full Italian 

[nicksaviking]

Cuzzi loves the attention.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Garlick time!

Don't press, Garlick. (Ah, I couldn't resist.)

[mrtwinsfan]

 

I'm more displeased that Pineda didn't come out to face the bottom of the order than anything. Expose the bullpen as little as possible. 

100%  Spot on,  double steal here ?

[Brock Beauchamp]

I will never forgive Cuzzi for that Mauer call in the postseason.

[nicksaviking]

That seems like a pitch you pretend that it hit your jersey, even if it didn't.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

I will never forgive Cuzzi for that Mauer call in the postseason.

I remember the play, but not the umpire. Kudos.

[Mill1634]

Phil Cuzzi is atrocious

[MNT1996]

Whenever you're having a bad day, just know that you're better at your job than Cuzzi is at his

[LVTwinsfan]

Cuzzi going full Italian

hey, you talking to me?

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

I remember the play, but not the umpire. Kudos.

Oh, that bastard's name is burned into my brain for that call.

[cHawk]

Phil Cuzzi needs to be demoted or something. Terrible strike three call.

[cHawk]

Phil Cuzzi Rangers MVP

[Brock Beauchamp]

Phil Cuzzi is an awful ****ing umpire.

 

Maybe not Angel Hernandez bad, but he's bad.

[nicksaviking]

 

Whenever you're having a bad day, just know that you're better at your job than Cuzzi is at his

 

Yup.

 

Well unless you are Joe West.