Game Thread: Twins @ Kansas City, 5/22/22 @ 1:10pm CT

[rwilfong86]

3 minutes ago, Mill1634 said:

Also, it doesn't really matter, but Rocco "needs" to get tossed in that situation, in my mind.

If the Twins fall short this loss is completely on Rocco, not taking Cano out in the 6th before getting absolutely lit up. Especially when the game was 2-0 then. But agreed he should have showed a backbone and gotten tossed to stand up for his guy. 

[Aggies7]

Calling a big hit from Sanchez 

[h2oface]

Did the ump watch the video in the inning breaks? Those pitches to Arraez were called strikes. Good for learning, I guess.

[mrtwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, h2oface said:

I think, in this AB, the only reason Arraez swung at the other high close ones and fouled them off, was becasue he felt he couldn't trust the umpire to make the right call. Unfortuneately, he finally gave the ump a chance, and the ump continued to fail. That AB was a walk with the and RBI, tie game, and the bases still loaded.

Spot on

[wsnydes]

Kepler!

[Brock Beauchamp]

This game is fun!

[bighat]

Holy cow we got a chance here boys.....

[wsnydes]

C'mon Gary!

[h2oface]

I am smelling Buxton pinch hitting for Larnach.........

[stringer bell]

Hate to say this, but the Twins lose this 6-5.

[bighat]

Just now, Brock Beauchamp said:

This game is fun!

And it'll be a lot more fun if we score a run here. Sac fly Sanchez, let's go.

[stringer bell]

Just now, h2oface said:

I am smelling Buxton pinch hitting for Larnach.........

Doubt it.

[bighat]

Just now, stringer bell said:

Hate to say this, but the Twins lose this 6-5.

Strikeout, strikeout, ground out to end it?

[Mill1634]

Surely the Twins won't ruin my day 

[cHawk]

Tie game!!!

[h2oface]

2 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Hate to say this, but the Twins lose this 6-5.

????????

[bighat]

SANCHEZ!!!

[mrtwinsfan]

Good job Gary, now lets not waste the EFFORT

[rwilfong86]

3 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Hate to say this, but the Twins lose this 6-5.

Wrong haha

[Mill1634]

Gary does his job and Hunter Dozier throws like a JV baseball player

[bighat]

Larnach looks unbelievably lost at the plate right now.

[h2oface]

I definitely would have pinch hit Buxton. But not.............

[mrtwinsfan]

ONLY IN k.c. 

[Mill1634]

If Buxton isn't hitting in that situation, he clearly isn't being used today. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Buxton hasn’t been good lately and Larnach has the handedness advantage. I would have left Trevor in, too. 

[CRF]

Put a lil Garlick on it. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Exciting, no?

 

Listened to it until arriving down 6-2, and forgot about the game while saying hi to friends... I am back.

[snotboogie]

Been listening to the game while doing some grilling in the backyard. I won't say what I made so as not to jinx what's happening.

[bighat]

Just now, Mill1634 said:

If Buxton isn't hitting in that situation, he clearly isn't being used today. 

No, and this isn't the first time it's happened. When Buxton sits, he's sitting. Period. That's what Baldelli has said, that's what Buxton has told the media as well.

None of us really expected him to PH this game.

[LVTwinsfan]

21 minutes ago, h2oface said:

If Arraez had the robots calling the pitches, it would a tie game and the bases still loaded. The only reason he fouled so many off, was because he couldn't trust the ump to call the high zone correctly! He finally gave him a chance to, and the ump failed massively. You say the incorrect calls all average out? It is not about average, it is about not calling them wrong. It changes every game that is played.

That what makes him a good hitter, he can adjust to everything. That ump was too much for him though