Game Thread: Dodgers @ Twins 640 PM 4/12/2022

[Danchat]

Well, that should have been a double play... isn't Trea Turner a gold glove winner? Apparently he isn't... but still, surprising for the Dodgers.

[stringer bell]

Just now, D. Hocking said:

Hard to tell from the radio, but sounds like it should have been a double play?

Yes definitely. Probably at least a bit weather related.

[Nine of twelve]

OK, Buck, just get one somewhere deep in the outfield, then let the rain come down!

[2wins87]

I like the matchup of Buxton against Graterol's straight heater

[Mill1634]

Buxton is about to come through with an XBH. 

[stringer bell]

Graterol has slimmed some.

[wsnydes]

4 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

That wore well!

I'll take credit for being tonight's jinx!

[wabene]

The Buffalo we hardly knew ye

[PseudoSABR]

2 minutes ago, D. Hocking said:

Hard to tell from the radio, but sounds like it should have been a double play?

The runner kind of blocked Turner and so he caught far into his body and couldn't get the throw to second so rushed and airballed it.  It was a double play ball, but bounced in the Twins favor and really wasn't on Turner too much.

[RpR]

Arraez was VERY fortunate on that one.

[RpR]

Well that was a washout, except for fielding.

[PDX Twin]

Tonight must be doubles night. 5 hits, 5 doubles.

[Mill1634]

Twins are going to regret all these LOB. 

[Aggies7]

Something that really annoys me during broadcasts is when an infielder commits an error and the immediate comment is “the ball came up a little on him”. Bert did it all the time and now Justin is doing it. Really irks me as an athletic field groundskeeper lol

[stringer bell]

Official ballgame ladies and gentlemen.

[RpR]

1 minute ago, stringer bell said:

Official ballgame ladies and gentlemen.

A tie.

[PDX Twin]

1 minute ago, stringer bell said:

Official ballgame ladies and gentlemen.

So if it ends now, it goes in the books as a tie, right? Does it then get replayed?

[RpR]

ARRRH, Kiriloff in left field, so much for Twins superior fielding.

Baldelli just crapped on Celestino.

[Nine of twelve]

2 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Official ballgame ladies and gentlemen.

Not as long as it's tied it's not. The failure to get that second run in last inning looms large. That's also why Dave Roberts brought in Graterol in the fifth inning.

[D. Hocking]

The thunder is pretty steady in St. Paul, I cannot imagine it is not going to be at Target Field shortly.

[Aggies7]

4 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Official ballgame ladies and gentlemen.

Drat, I only watch the unofficial games

[PDX Twin]

Danny's trying to keep this one out of the loss Coulombe.

[stringer bell]

Not trying to pick on Buxton, but I think he'll be a great offensive player (he's definitely a great defender and a great weapon on the bases) when he comes through more often in those game situations. 

[Nine of twelve]

1 minute ago, stringer bell said:

Not trying to pick on Buxton, but I think he'll be a great offensive player (he's definitely a great defender and a great weapon on the bases) when he comes through more often in those game situations. 

What, you mean like in the 8th inning on Saturday?

[stringer bell]

4 minutes ago, RpR said:

ARRRH, Kiriloff in left field, so much for Twins superior fielding.

Baldelli just crapped on Celestino.

Arraez hit for Celestino. It is immaterial who went out to left.

[Aggies7]

Coulombe must be Spanish for “can’t find the strike zone”

[Nine of twelve]

Somebody enlighten me. Say the Twins take a lead in the bottom of 6 here but don't complete the half inning before the game is stopped. Do the Twins get the win or is the inning wiped out because it wasn't completed?

 

And don't say yes.

[Mill1634]

Have to think they are trying to get through this half inning before halting play until tomorrow morning. 

[RpR]

2 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Arraez hit for Celestino. It is immaterial who went out to left.

Arreaz did crap; Baldelli showed so much faith in Celestino.

He should have treated Winder the way he treated Celestino.

[PDX Twin]

3 minutes ago, RpR said:

He should have treated Winder the way he treated Celestino.

Winder probably would have been much more poised and effective in a second inning.