Game Thread: Twins @ Tigers 6:10 6/1/2022

[Mill1634]

If Schoop hadn't played the Twins 9 times this year, he may have been DFA'd already

[cHawk]

Jonathan Schoop is lowkey owning us right now

[Aggies7]

The twins have two, TWO, wins against teams with winning records. Tampa, way back when

[USAFChief]

WE CANT GET JONATHAN EFFING SCHOOP OUT FFS.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

6 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Yes. October 

What about a jack o'lantern?

 

More fun to declare, i do declare!

[Rick Blaine]

16 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

I still have high hopes.

 

Ya gotta have hopes.

 

Miles and miles of it.

Oops there goes another rubber tree. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

The twins have two, TWO, wins against teams with winning records. Tampa, way back when

Suprising how teams are less likely to have winning records when you beat them...

[wsnydes]

Ok, so who forgot to make their sacrifice to the baseball gods?  This has gone on long enough.

[stringer bell]

Don’t want to alibi too much for Ober, but I think the inning is a lot different if Polanco makes that play. 

[notoriousgod71]

I just looked up the standings. How the hell are the Twins 5 full games (as of now) ahead of second place Chicago?

 

This entire division should be contracted.

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Suprising how teams are less likely to have winning records when you beat them...

Have to beat the best to be the best

[h2oface]

Skubal gets the same exact inside edge pitch that Ober doesn't. Umpires. At least he got one right, looking right at it over the inside shoulder. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Time for some Garlick,

[garn from vancouver]

i was saying to my wife yesterday that june was going to be the real test for this team and now with injuries and such (the such being not playing byron enough and the other other being that he's not hitting the ball...) that we'll see them drop games in june and july and we'll see where they really stand. and here we go. and they're not even playing a plus .500 team in the tigers. june's gonna be a long month. (i'll be at target field at the end of the month so hopefully they have a good outing then...)

[h2oface]

90 pitches and Skubal's arm hasn't fallen off.......

[Mill1634]

Twins are likely going to fall to 8-6 against 14 games against the Royals and Tigers, teams that have a winning percentage of just .350. Absolutely abysmal. Thankfully the White Sox have been no better, but the difference is they've been facing good teams and this was a chance for the Twins to extend the lead to 8, 9, or 10 games. Instead, it's going to be somewhere between 4 and 6 games while the Sox have the easiest SoS remaining, while the Twins have the 14th hardest.

[Brazilian Twins Fan]

5 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Time for some Garlick,

This is the only Garlick we're getting tonight:

[wsnydes]

That was an inspiring response...

[Richie the Rally Goat]

1 hour ago, wsnydes said:

Sounds like Wichita does too.

I need to do some research! Maybe that is why Garver and Rortvedt were expendable….

[wsnydes]

Just now, Richie the Rally Goat said:

I need to do some research! Maybe that is why Garver and Rortvedt were expendable….

There best be a reason somewhere!

[cHawk]

[Mill1634]

 

Would imagine he's back sometime early next week, but it's possible they want him to get an outing or two at the higher levels too.

 

[Danchat]

1 minute ago, Mill1634 said:

Twins are likely going to fall to 8-6 against 14 games against the Royals and Tigers, teams that have a winning percentage of just .350. Absolutely abysmal. Thankfully the White Sox have been no better, but the difference is they've been facing good teams and this was a chance for the Twins to extend the lead to 8, 9, or 10 games. Instead, it's going to be somewhere between 4 and 6 games while the Sox have the easiest SoS remaining, while the Twins have the 14th hardest.

Y'know, for the heck of it I was checking out what the sportsbooks had for odds to win the AL Central... it's the White Sox by a decent margin, even though they're below .500 now. Unless they didn't touch the spread since April, it means that the folks who are putting money on this don't think the Twins are as good as we think.

[Irishman]

11 minutes ago, Mill1634 said:

If Schoop hadn't played the Twins 9 times this year, he may have been DFA'd already

 

11 minutes ago, Mill1634 said:

If Schoop hadn't played the Twins 9 times this year, he may have been DFA'd already

School must have his grudges against the Twins for letting him go.   He hates the Twins!  That’s for sure.  

[h2oface]

I guess the "Plan" is to let Ober get a certain number of pitches, regardless of what is happeing with the score. Gotta rest those other 13 pitchers on the roster.

78 pitches, 60 strikes. Good ratio. Just too bad so many were meatballs.

[USAFChief]

10 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Skubal gets the same exact inside edge pitch that Ober doesn't. Umpires. At least he got one right, looking right at it over the inside shoulder. 

It's infuriating. 

 

The complaining about umps, I mean.

[Mill1634]

2 minutes ago, h2oface said:

I guess the "Plan" is to let Ober get a certain number of pitches, regardless of what is happeing with the score. Gotta rest those other 13 pitchers on the roster.

78 pitches, 60 strikes. Good ratio. Just too bad so many were meatballs.

I'm fine with it personally. Sometimes it's okay to let a pitcher wear it, and this is one of those times. They're also likely to be without a reliever or two in Toronto.

[h2oface]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

It's infuriating. 

 

The complaining about umps, I mean.

Umpires love umpires. Well, not all of them, as I umpired for a spell, too.

[Winston Smith]

The last week this team has looked totally disinterested for the most part.

[wsnydes]

Nice comeback inning anyway.