Game Thread: Chicago White Sox @ Minnesota Twins - 4/22/2022 @ 7:10pm CT

[Azviking101]

4 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

While I don't have much confidence in anyone in the pen, that's awfully knee-jerk to get someone up after the double.

No one in this bullpen should get any benefit of the doubt right now. If someone is off they should get yanked quickly. Pagan was off and got insanely lucky. Rocco sitting around doing nothing as usual 

[h2oface]

25 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Hahahaha that’s not a strike 

Looks like a perfect strike to me...... just glad the ump didn't miss it!

[tarheeltwinsfan]

That was a great one to win and would have kept me up for 2-3 more hours if the Twins had lost in the 9th. Now I can crawl into bed and sleep like a baby. Good night fellow Twins fans. Let's get them tomorrow.

[RpR]

Well that games will delay the return of Jake Cave for a bit.

[Squirrel]

8 minutes ago, PopRiveter said:

Ugh. I left you guys in charge and you let this happen?!?!

It was Aggie's fault

[Nine of twelve]

1 minute ago, tarheeltwinsfan said:

Now I can crawl into bed and sleep like a baby.

What, you mean wake up every two hours and cry?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Winnah?

 

Just finished show...

[wsnydes]

Just now, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Winnah?

 

Just finished show...

Winnah!

 

Good timing!

[tarheeltwinsfan]

7 minutes ago, Gingernsnap25 said:

Jeffers framing >>>>

Plus Jeffers double plus Jeffers blocking pitches in the dirt with the tying run at 3B. Jeffers was awesome.

[ashbury]

12 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

We can't be trusted with anything.  

True.  I've read that some of the members at TD even used to rob banks.

[Squirrel]

7 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

Ish!

In this instance, the word you are looking for is 'Ick'

[Danchat]

8 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

When is Duran going to be named closer 

Probably once he gets his ERA under 5.00!

For whatever reason, Rocco has never trusted younger guys closing, so it's who knows when. Kind of an odd thing for a hyper-analytical manager, I know.

[Don't Feed the Greed Guy]

Stat that jumps out for me: 11k's for Twins pitchers. 

[Mill1634]

Sanchez getting scratched tonight won us that game.

[wabene]

That is the best theft of victory against the Dirty Sox in the history of baseball.

[tarheeltwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, Mill1634 said:

Sanchez getting scratched tonight won us that game.

You may be right about this.

[bunsen82]

So is this our new closer with shades of the past, every day Emilio? Gives me the same type of heart burn with similar results. 

[tarheeltwinsfan]

10 minutes ago, ashbury said:

True.  I've read that some of the members at TD even used to rob banks.

Yeah, but he was traded to the Yankees.

[LewFordLives]

3 minutes ago, tarheeltwinsfan said:

You may be right about this.

The question is, how long can they keep going with one and a half catchers on the roster? Jeffers gave his body to the cause tonight.

[tarheeltwinsfan]

Tonight would be a fun night to troll the White Sox fan sites.

[ashbury]

11 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Probably once he gets his ERA under 5.00!

For whatever reason, Rocco has never trusted younger guys closing, so it's who knows when. Kind of an odd thing for a hyper-analytical manager, I know.

Age is one of the more quantifiable notions in the sabrmetric arsenal.

[ashbury]

Just now, tarheeltwinsfan said:

Tonight would be a fun night to troll the White Sox fan sites.

Report back.

[RpR]

13 minutes ago, Mill1634 said:

Sanchez getting scratched tonight won us that game.

Had he not blocked those pitches it would have been his error, there is almost no way they could not be blocked.

Problem for him and Sanchez, if they keep doing that knee thing, had the batter been a on the other side and the pitch on the other side, there is zero way it would have been blocked.

His double made huge difference, but as it is -  Sanchez  is at .216 with 8 rbi and Jeffers is at .152 with 0 rbi.

[Squirrel]

1 minute ago, tarheeltwinsfan said:

Tonight would be a fun night to troll the White Sox fan sites.

I'll just troll my colleagues tomorrow at work  

[stringer bell]

38 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Probably once he gets his ERA under 5.00!

For whatever reason, Rocco has never trusted younger guys closing, so it's who knows when. Kind of an odd thing for a hyper-analytical manager, I know.

Besides being a rookie, he’s new to relief pitching and coming off a season where he didn’t throw 20 innings. He definitely has the best stuff in the BP, perhaps the best stuff a Twins pitcher ever displayed, but we don’t know his arm will bounce back. We don’t know if he can maintain the sharpness and finally, we don’t know how he’ll handle the pressure. I think they will work him toward closing, perhaps he might get a chance with Pagán likely not available tomorrow. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

55 minutes ago, ashbury said:

True.  I've read that some of the members at TD even used to rob banks.

I can't claim to be on such familiar terms, but i am used to Mr. Banks and his kite flying escapades.