Game Thread Twins at Tigers 12:10 cdt 5/302022ad

[rwilfong86]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

The shine is really coming off the Joe smith apple

Defense didn't help but he definitely didn't have his best stuff today.

[USAFChief]

Let's leave former Secretarys of State and European nations invaded by Russia out of the game thread. Maybe take it to the Jeopardy board.

 

Kthanks.

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

The shine is really coming off the Joe smith apple

That wasn't at ALL inevitable. 

[rwilfong86]

Let's see if Megill can get out of this inning without any more damage.

[RpR]

3 minutes ago, rwilfong86 said:

Welp, Smith is gonna take his first L of the season. 

It happens to all pitchers.

[rwilfong86]

4 minutes ago, CRF said:

Not really liking how this one seems to be going. 

Started well, ending.... not so well. 

[RpR]

Twins are performing like they are still playing the Royals.

Bad feeling about when they face the Yankees.

[Rosterman]

The Twins do have a solid bench for this game!

[Azviking101]

With the current state of the bullpen and rotation the bats are really going to have to show up over the next 2 weeks or this team could lose a lot of games. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

2 whole innings to go.

 

A tad premature on the doom. 

 

But you are entitled to be as gloomy as you wish.

[USAFChief]

Yeah, someone mentioned it earlier but don't have good Vibes about this road trip. At all.

 

Starting it with Buxton and Correa on the bench because...why again?...not something I agree with.

[rwilfong86]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

Twins are performing like they are still playing the Royals.

Bad feeling about when they face the Yankees.

That's gonna be an ugly series. I think the Twins may be at .500 by the end of next week 

[rwilfong86]

Just now, USAFChief said:

Yeah, someone mentioned it earlier but don't have good Vibes about this road trip. At all.

 

Starting it with Buxton and Correa on the bench because...why again?...not something I agree with.

Agreed. Put the best players in there to try to steal a W. 

[rwilfong86]

3 minutes ago, Rosterman said:

The Twins do have a solid bench for this game!

Need to get some baserunners here in the 8th

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, rwilfong86 said:

 I think the Twins may be at .500 by the end of next week 

That's the spirit! Optimism!!

[wabene]

Just now, rwilfong86 said:

That's gonna be an ugly series. I think the Twins may be at .500 by the end of next week 

C'mon Ray they are 10 over rite now

[RpR]

If they can return to the days when the Yankees were just another team, THAT, will probably set a tone for the rest of the season.

[rwilfong86]

1 minute ago, wabene said:

C'mon Ray they are 10 over rite now

I hope I'm wrong but this stretch of games gives me a bad feeling. 

[Montdak]

The key moment in this Memorial Day game was Sanchez running Schoop back to third.  If he had the ball in his mitt instead of his bare hand he could have tagged Schoop out when he flopped out of bounds.  Instead he had to turn his body way around to make the tag. 

[RpR]

Larnach has had a good bat, now its time to take it to the Tigers.

[rwilfong86]

2 minutes ago, Montdak said:

The key moment in this Memorial Day game was Sanchez running Schoop back to third.  If he had the ball in his mitt instead of his bare hand he could have tagged Schoop out when he flopped out of bounds.  Instead he had to turn his body way around to make the tag. 

And Miranda making an ill advised throw when he should have just held onto that ball

[rwilfong86]

Gah I wish these guys would stop swinging at the first pitch 

 

[TheLeviathan]

Miranda absolutely should have tried for the 3rd out just like Torkelson just did.  He just needs to make the throw.  Eating it makes absolutely no sense.

[h2oface]

11 minutes ago, Montdak said:

The key moment in this Memorial Day game was Sanchez running Schoop back to third.  If he had the ball in his mitt instead of his bare hand he could have tagged Schoop out when he flopped out of bounds.  Instead he had to turn his body way around to make the tag. 

I guess Torkelson showed Miranda how to make the play that Miranda didn't that would have gotten the Twins out of that inning with the score tied at 4 in the 7th. That is the key play in my book. Torkelson was the batter for Miranda's gaff and Miranda was the batter for Torkelson's get.

[stringer bell]

6 minutes ago, TheLeviathan said:

Miranda absolutely should have tried for the 3rd out just like Torkelson just did.  He just needs to make the throw.  Eating it makes absolutely no sense.

Absolutely correct. He had enough time, but he tried to lead Smith while moving away from him. It was a tough play, but doable. 

[USAFChief]

Uffda.

[stringer bell]

5 minutes ago, h2oface said:

I guess Torkelson showed Miranda how to make the play that Miranda didn't that would have gotten the Twins out of that inning with the score tied at 4 in the 7th. That is the key play in my book.

Torkelson made a good play. I don’t think it was as difficult as the play Miranda tried to make. 

[rwilfong86]

1 minute ago, stringer bell said:

Absolutely correct. He had enough time, but he tried to lead Smith while moving away from him. It was a tough play, but doable. 

A more experienced first baseman probably makes that play, which the Twins don't currently have on their roster. 

[notoriousgod71]

I've seen enough of Miranda at 1b.

[TheLeviathan]

Again a make-able play.