Game Thread: Twins @ Orioles, 6/1/2021, 6:05 PM EDT

[lukeduke1980]

What is the league average batting average with RISP?  When I see the Twins are 1 for 8 every game is that not as bad as it seems, on a relative basis?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Alrighty then!

4 or more runs in 6 or fewer outs.

We can do it!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

6 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Now i get it. I am not up on the recentest call ups. Sorry.

Do we know yet if Chalmers cleared waivers or not?

[mikelink45]

Excellent Sano 0 - 18 and I was worried that he would not get a K tonight. 

[h2oface]

What team would still be putting Sano in the lineup but these Twins?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Credit Sano for hanging a long time before swinging at the 3-2 slider down and in.

 

So close... If only he coulda taken ball 4...

 

If wishes were horses...

[h2oface]

Just now, mikelink45 said:

Excellent Sano 0 - 18 and I was worried that he would not get a K tonight. 

Swinging at another ball 4. Not even close.

[h2oface]

WOWZER!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Astudillo!!!!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Simmons!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Sigh.

[RickOShea]

Did I hear 'keystone cops' music in the background?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Happens to the best of us...

 

I'm just not sure what it was.

 

Simmons had 2nd on an over throw, and stopped midway, getting tagged in the ensuing rundown.

[RickOShea]

Simmons looks like a guy who is rotting from the inside, out.

[Irishman]

6 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Swinging at another ball 4. Not even close.

Baldelli, please bench Sano tomorrow.   

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 minute ago, RickOShea said:

Did I hear 'keystone cops' music in the background?

You have better hearing than i do.

 

But it is the internet, so you can bring up your own sound track.

[RickOShea]

Simmons' kid says:  'Daddy I saw you on tv, tonight.  I thought you said you played major league baseball'.

[lecroy24fan]

14 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Do we know yet if Chalmers cleared waivers or not?

Not yet. Will know sometime tomorrow.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 minute ago, lecroy24fan said:

Not yet. Will know sometime tomorrow.

Thanks.

[h2oface]

Simmons and Donaldson are so disappointing. Simmons "baseball IQ" seems to have been left in LA.

[mikelink45]

I keep hearing people put down Astudillo - I do not understand - he plays hard, he plays with heart, he plays anywhere.  If only more players had Astudillos spirit

[D.C Twins]

Thank goodness Sano finally struck out....The world is back in balance... I was getting worried that we may have been entering the end of times if he made it through a whole game

[Danchat]

Fun fact, Tortuga would hit 24 HRs if he kept his pace over a 600 PA stretch!

[h2oface]

Don't catchers wear cups anymore?

 

[mikelink45]

Wilkerson wants to thank Colome - only his third walk all year.  Nice work.

[RickOShea]

Just now, h2oface said:

Don't catchers wear cups anymore?

 

Yeah, but not over their faces.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

C'mon 1 more out, then some lively batting.

And hopefully we get to pitch again.

[h2oface]

1 minute ago, RickOShea said:

Yeah, but not over their faces.

Thinking about Garver, of course......

[mikelink45]

Colome may not give up any run, but a hit and a walk so far - this is not a quality reliever

[h2oface]

Has Astudillo thrown anyone out stealing bases in the show?