Game Thread Twins @ White Sox 1:10pm cdt 7/1/2021 ad

[wsnydes]

Only 8 LOB for Sano today.  Stellar.

[SanoMustGo]

Surprise...Sano with the K

[Aggies7]

DFA sano. 8 men LOB in 4 AB. 3 k’s. It’s never going to get better

[operation mindcrime]

6 minutes ago, JW24 said:

The only thing harder than watching the Twins pitching staff...

Is watching them bat!

[SanoMustGo]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

DFA sano. 8 men LOB in 4 AB. 3 k’s. It’s never going to get better

They should, but they signed him to some stupid contract, so they owe him too much.

[USAFChief]

Sano Kd with the bases loaded and 2 outs?

Well I guess it's true, you'll see something at every baseball game you've never seen before. 

 

[GCTF]

This season...

Target Field Sano .889 OPS

Everywhere else Sano .549 OPS

Career splits show a home field edge but obviously not nearly this large.

 

[operation mindcrime]

4 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Loaded for Sano.

Oh, great.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Aggies7]

2 minutes ago, SanoMustGo said:

They should, but they signed him to some stupid contract, so they owe him too much.

Don’t care 

[GCTF]

3 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Oh c'mon, don't be so hard on them. 

 

I have every confidence they can find more.

Enough with the viagra jokes already.

[Vanimal46]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

DFA sano. 8 men LOB in 4 AB. 3 k’s. It’s never going to get better

8 LOB probably isn’t his season high either. 

[SanoMustGo]

Just now, operation mindcrime said:

What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe if they pinch hit Rortvedt for Sano whenever they get in these situations he would get the message.

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, GCTF said:

This season...

Target Field Sano .889 OPS

Everywhere else Sano .549 OPS

Career splits show a home field edge but obviously not nearly this large.

 

Trash can banging doesn't travel well.

[Mike Sixel]

True story....meant to clean the toilets in the house today. Forgot until after that last Sano AB. I'm sure that is a coincidence.....

[SanoMustGo]

Just keep mindlessly firing it in there Robles, maybe someone will be dumb enough to swing at that garbage.

[LVTwinsfan]

14 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Except last season, they went out and got some good pitching, which performed well in the postseason, while the offense laid down and died.

There isn't a silver bullet out there to fix the Twins' postseason woes. Over the course of almost two decades, they have found every way to lose imaginable.

Their pitching was good by their standards, short season only playing divisional games, pitching would definitely make a difference 

[SanoMustGo]

Just now, LVTwinsfan said:

Their pitching was good by there standards, short season only playing divisional games, pitching would definitely make a difference 

If we had played more of a balanced schedule last season, I don't believe the results would have been so good.

[USAFChief]

I go back to this: a struggling team finds a way to give their "ace" an unlikely lead in the middle innings of a game that you absolutely, positively HAVE to win to keep any shred of hope alive...and he coughs up that lead before you can say "How "bout that!!?!"

 

Zero Ks. 4 runs in 5 IP.

 

He's the most disappointing player on this team. 

[LVTwinsfan]

8 minutes ago, GCTF said:

Enough with the viagra jokes already.

Don’t worry They will  flop after 4 hours

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, SanoMustGo said:

If we had played more of a balanced schedule last season, I don't believe the results would have been so good.

Concur. Strongly.

[LVTwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, SanoMustGo said:

If we had played more of a balanced schedule last season, I don't believe the results would have been so good.

I agree

[SanoMustGo]

It only took Robles 20 pitches to get no outs, and walk a batter...LOL  And how about that vaunted infield defense.

[LVTwinsfan]

17 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I did the math on it awhile back and the Twins held a lead in over 80% of those postseason games, IIRC.

Just brutal.

Bullpens are important too

[LVTwinsfan]

17 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Loaded for Sano.

Oh, great.

What was loaded, his cheeseburger?

[SanoMustGo]

1 minute ago, LVTwinsfan said:

What was loaded, his cheeseburger?

Don't forget about those "loaded" Hostess pies!

[Mike Sixel]

If I were the manager, I have no idea what I'd say or do at this point......like, what can he do at this point? One failure after another, and more often than not, by veterans.

[operation mindcrime]

7 minutes ago, LVTwinsfan said:

Don’t worry They will  flop after 4 hours

FTW!

[SanoMustGo]

27 pitches to get one out.

[SanoMustGo]

3 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

If I were the manager, I have no idea what I'd say or do at this point......like, what can he do at this point? One failure after another, and more often than not, by veterans.

I would tell the team to enjoy drowning in their failures.

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, Mike Sixel said:

If I were the manager, I have no idea what I'd say or do at this point......like, what can he do at this point? One failure after another, and more often than not, by veterans.

I'd start with "mandatory infield tomorrow at 4, followed by mandatory BP. During infield we'll be focusing on cutoffs, positioning, and situational throws,. During BP, I want everyone to focus on contact." Same schedule Saturday, starting 3 hours before game time. Same schedule every day next week."