GAME THREAD: 5/7/21, Minnesota Twins @ Detroit Tigers, 6:10 CDT

[Aggies7]

 

Think I've seen this movie before.

 

[Aggies7]

Omg  

[Vanimal46]

Who’s next in St Paul to call up? Are we really keeping Stashak in this game?

[Danchat]

How does Stashak get so many chances despite looking terrible, yet Alcala can never get into a game when we have the lead?

[MNT1996]

This will actually be the last straw for me. If they blow this game, this will be my last game thread and last time watching the Twins for 2021. 

[Aggies7]

Colome is warming haha at this point you just have to embrace it 

[Aggies7]

A good bit of rain coming towards the stadium. Probably wouldn’t end the night, though

[Vanimal46]

Mother nature looks like it’s coming to help us end the game before our bullpen blows the lead.

[D.C Twins]

I can feel it coming in the aiiiiir toooniiiiight!

[MNT1996]

Looking at radar. It's not much rain. Game will finish

[h2oface]

 

This will actually be the last straw for me. If they blow this game, this will be my last game thread and last time watching the Twins for 2021. 

 I'll take $100. on that.......

[h2oface]

Better call the game. It is only safe. Shucks.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

(image from Back to the Future)

And for your rain delay entertainment i suggest (in stereo!) "Roads, where we're going we don't need... roads"

 

[Danchat]

So... if the game ends here, do we credit God / Mother Nature with the save?

[Aggies7]

Man, I like Justin but he’s painstakingly boring 

[jimbo92107]

The Twins have a chance...if the umps call it in the 6th.

[Aggies7]

 

And for your rain delay entertainment i suggest (in stereo!) "Roads, where we're going we don't need... roads"

A better metaphor for this club is when Biff drives in to the manure truck.

[jun]

I wanted Stashak demoted long ago...

[cHawk]

I wanted Stashak demoted long ago...

My guess is he will after this game, kind of like Waddell

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

A better metaphor for this club is when Biff drives in to the manure truck.

Last time i'd dug up that comparison, it had overlapping audio tracks as well. Oh well.

 

I was more thinking along the lines of the pitcher catcher conference on the mound, and our pitcher saying "what if i threw a slider out of the zone and he doesn't swing at it? Ya know, i don't think i could take that kind of rejection!"

[stringer bell]

Cabrera and Baddoo both with hitless skids in the mid-twenties and surprise! they both get hits.

 

The Twins are baseball’s slump-busters.

[Otto von Ballpark]

What would be fitting is if the game resumed, the Twins fell behind in the bottom of the 7th, and then the game was called — thus adding another 7 inning loss to our record.

[Otto von Ballpark]

Anybody here with MLB.TV? They have a stream called “Big Inning” on weeknights where they look in at various games and show highlights. I’m just checking it out for the first time now in the rain delay:

 

https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/big-inning

[cHawk]

 

What would be fitting is if the game resumed, the Twins fell behind in the bottom of the 7th, and then the game was called — thus adding another 7 inning loss to our record.

[jun]

Pretty much every move Rocco made this season went wrong. It almost feels like he gets paid by the other team.

[cHawk]

Pretty much every move Rocco made this season went wrong. It almost feels like he gets paid by the other team.

What’s infuriating is how many (essentially) coin-flip decisions land tails. Seems like it lands tails 80-85% of the time.

[bighat]

So, if they call it will it resume tomorrow?

 

I always was curious about those games that get "resumed" vs. those that get "called". Why, sometimes, do games continue the next day and other times they are just called and booked?

[Dave The Dastardly]

Cleveland vs Cincinnati - Plesac and Miley pitching. 8th inning both pitchers carrying no-hitters.

 

Both pitchers over 100 pitches. Weren't they supposed to get the hook in the 6th??

[Dave The Dastardly]

Whoops! Stand corrected. Only Plesac with a no-hitter.

[Dave The Dastardly]

Whoops whoops. Gameday shows Miley gave up 3 hits, but box score shows no Cleveland batter has a hit.