Game Thread Twins at Royals 3:10pm cdt 6/5/2021 ad

[Aggies7]

Continually putting Robles in to close games is a fireable offense. He stinks in this role

[denarded]

I was glad to see Rogers in to pitch to 3-5 hitters. Bring your best guy in in to neutralize best rally.. Our problem is we have no 'finish' solution. Oh well

[sampleSizeOfOne]

More extra inning practice.

[Aggies7]

Robles haha rabbits foot up his ***

[Danchat]

I think the Twins' defense is so bad, Dyson thought he could take advantage when he really couldn't. That's some sort of reverse psychology there!

[PDX Twin]

Simmons gets two assists on this play? How often does that happen?

[PDX Twin]

Just now, PDX Twin said:

Simmons gets two assists on this play? How often does that happen?

Never mind...

[mrtwinsfan]

X---Comical

[denarded]

Twins 'Baseball' 2021

[PDX Twin]

Exit velocity is sooooo important.

[Aggies7]

The win it irrelevant. It was a dumb move and Robles got lucky again

[Danchat]

Bad teams will luck into wins from time to time. This was one of those occasions for the Twins.

[lecroy24fan]

I still don't understand the challenge call. You can only challenge one call on a play. But the Royals challenged both calls. 

 

It doesn't matter since the next platy was a lineout DP but repay is worthless if the rules aren't followed.

[RickOShea]

Just now, Danchat said:

Bad teams will luck into wins from time to time. This was one of those occasions for the Twins.

JC, SMH.  Just can't win.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Winnah!

 

I do believe it is time for chicken?

[h2oface]

Did that really happen? We won a close one? pinch me.

[denarded]

1 minute ago, lecroy24fan said:

I still don't understand the challenge call. You can only challenge one call on a play. But the Royals challenged both calls. 

 

Yeah, how did this work?

 

[h2oface]

Why does Celestino play so shallow? So far, we see him running horrible routes backwards and not catching catchable drives if he was playing at a reasonable depth, especially in the late innings. Haven't they learned anything from Buxton? Play deeper and don't run into the wall. With Celestino, he can't even get there. He just runs a bad route and then stops short and plays it off the wall. Playing double depth, which he should have, he would have caught that double on the fly and saved the excitement.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

5 minutes ago, denarded said:

Yeah, how did this work?

Perhaps it was umpire discretion?

 

You can still ask them to look at it even if you lost your challenge, 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Thanks for the company!

 

[lecroy24fan]

5 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Why does Celestino play so shallow. So far, we see him running horrible routes backwards and not catching catchable drives if he was playing at a reasonable depth, especially in the late innings. Haven't they learned anything from Buxton? Play deeper and don't run into the wall. With Celestino, he can't even get there. He just runs a bad route and then stops short and plays it off the wall. Playing double depth, which he should have, he would have caught that double on the fly and saved the excitement.

He clearly isn't ready to be in the majors but as we know this was out of necessity.

[Nine of twelve]

50 minutes ago, PDX Twin said:

Simmons gets two assists on this play? How often does that happen?

 

50 minutes ago, PDX Twin said:

Never mind...

Would have been a cool side story, but oh well. BTW, one assist per putout. Here's the rule.

https://www.mlb.com/glossary/standard-stats/assist

[h2oface]

1 hour ago, lecroy24fan said:

He clearly isn't ready to be in the majors but as we know this was out of necessity.

He is not ready at the plate, but defense is his calling card, supposedly. If he is not ready to play the outfield after 5-6 years in professional ball, when is he supposed to be ready? Playing the field doesn't change, it has no better pitching to hit, etc. He runs horrible routes to the ball, many responsible for not getting to and catching it. He needs to be coached better and positioned better while he is here. That is for sure. I can live with he can't hit and isn't ready for MLB pitching, but no excuses for playing the field. 

[ashbury]

50 minutes ago, h2oface said:

He needs to be coached better and positioned better while he is here.

This. No rookie up from (basically) AA is positioning himself, is he? If he gets burned on a fly ball, which he most certainly did, that's on the coaching staff.

Granted, the coaches probably had a case of Dyson On The Brain, and were concerned that playing deep increased the chance for a little looper falling in for a single, after which a pinch-runner SB ends up with the same situation.  So it could be that the coaches own that double, but it was still the only reasonable choice.  I'm not clever enough to decide.

It's also on Robles for allowing the solid contact in the first place, although even then I can't say it looked like a bad pitch to me.