Game Thread: Twins @ White Sox, 7/6/22 @ 1:10PM CT

[stringer bell]

Crap. Crap. Crap. 

[Winston Smith]

Just gave this game away.

[Aggies7]

Jeffers, ay chihuahua

[wavedog]

Send in the clowns

[USAFChief]

He's trying to give you an out, FFS.

[umterp23]

Pitcher throwing it all over the place.  Jeffers was scrambling from the 1st pitch on where the F... the ball was going

 

 

[Vanimal46]

Passed ball. Gross. Gonna need a miracle to get out of this. 

[LVTwinsfan]

Gave this one away. Giving Correa a day off is more important than winning this game

[mrtwinsfan]

1 minute ago, h2oface said:

It was 9 for Duran. It was that dreaded 9th pitch.

My Bad,    

[Mill1634]

welp. still a successful series but hard to stomach that one especially using Duran so cautiously. That's baseball.

Until Friday, go Twins

[Cap'n Piranha]

3 minutes ago, Montdak said:

Couldn’t have PH for Jeffers.  There’s a high percentage for scoring in this dumb runner already on second deal.  Doesn’t look good.  Had a chance to push the Sox into the ditch.

This makes no sense, of course they could.  They have the $35M man on the bench, who was brought in to help the Twins win big games.  You still have your second catcher on the bench.  That was one of the biggest no-brainer pinch hit spots of all time, so the fact that Rocco didn't...

[USAFChief]

Just another routine gut wrenching defeat snatched from the Jaws of victory. 

[umterp23]

Rocco deserves as much credit for this loss as the players do.  Holy bleep he has no idea how to manage his roster.  What a joke

 

[MMMordabito]

Nobody likes the "play-for-tomorrow long game", Rocco/Falvine.  Especially when you have Thursday and Monday off.  

[Winston Smith]

Bally breaking out the lipstick on this one.

[Aggies7]

I’ve been all over rocco a lot but he made decent enough bullpen moves today. We’re just god awful in that department. Honestly need like 4 new guys minimum if we’re going to do ANYTHING in October. And I don’t mean maeda

[Vanimal46]

[Richie the Rally Goat]

[Aggies7]

I mean, I was hopeful that jax wouldn’t turn back into a pumpkin if given late inning work but he’s been kind of shaky. Maybe thielbar can step up but we’ve been down that road before. Everyone else is just a heap of nothingness. Literally need a minimum of 4 new guys. Good luck 

[Cap'n Piranha]

So many levers to pull and buttons to push in this one, and Rocco just decided to sit on his hands for all for them.

[umterp23]

5 losses in extras were avoidable except Rocco has no idea how to truly manage a game.  

[h2oface]

Baldelli had this game with a 2 inning Duran save. Not ready for prime time.

[Montdak]

There must be a reason for no ph for Jeffers.  There better be..  And now we see he puts in a guy with control problems to finish off the big screwup.  Wild pitch was in predictable.  Why not Duran again?  And a bunch of other why nots. This one is on the manager .  Very bad. Half a dozen dumb moves.

[wabene]

Dang that sucked

[USAFChief]

Just now, h2oface said:

Baldelli had this game with a 2 inning Duran save. Not ready for prime time.

I'm going to assume they didn't want Duran to go 2 innings today. 

[Danchat]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

I’ve been all over rocco a lot but he made decent enough bullpen moves today. We’re just god awful in that department. Honestly need like 4 new guys minimum if we’re going to do ANYTHING in October. And I don’t mean maeda

Yup, he tried to bump Pagan down, gave Megill a shot as the setup guy... and still got burned, plus Jax looked bad. Maybe he should have sent Duran out for the 8th / 10th, but he can only use him so much. We need middle relievers and high leverage relievers... meanwhile, the front office twiddles their thumbs, as the only bullpen move the past week has been to get Minaya up and down. I get it if you can't make a trade right now, but at least try something!

[nicksaviking]

I’ve seen the Twins give long leashes to catchers who are good defensively but struggle with the bat. We be seen the Twins give long leashes to catchers who have a good bat but struggle defensively.

I’ve never seen them give a leash this long to a catcher who’s as poor at all aspects of the games as Jeffers.

[Aggies7]

2 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Yup, he tried to bump Pagan down, gave Megill a shot as the setup guy... and still got burned, plus Jax looked bad. Maybe he should have sent Duran out for the 8th / 10th, but he can only use him so much. We need middle relievers and high leverage relievers... meanwhile, the front office twiddles their thumbs, as the only bullpen move the past week has been to get Minaya up and down. I get it if you can't make a trade right now, but at least try something!

Like I said in all my rants about him last week, at least try someone else (besides EP) and my ire can be directed towards the relievers more so than him. He tried and they all failed except duran and thielbar. I just don’t know where these extra arms are going to come from. Try to imagine a playoff series and realize that the starters will probably be pulled even more quickly than they are now. All the high tension outs they’ll need to get. Ugly thoughts..

[h2oface]

Jeffers is really disappointing in all aspects of his game. Remember when catching was going to be such a strength?

1 minute ago, Danchat said:

Yup, he tried to bump Pagan down, gave Megill a shot as the setup guy... and still got burned, plus Jax looked bad. Maybe he should have sent Duran out for the 8th / 10th, but he can only use him so much. We need middle relievers and high leverage relievers... meanwhile, the front office twiddles their thumbs, as the only bullpen move the past week has been to get Minaya up and down. I get it if you can't make a trade right now, but at least try something!

Baldelli had the Ace in Hand in the 8th for a SAVE! Could have, and should have, given Duran the ball with the 2 run lead for a 6 out save. I see no excuse with a day off tomorrow. 

[Cap'n Piranha]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

I'm going to assume they didn't want Duran to go 2 innings today. 

Sure.  Gotta save him for tomorrow's day off.

In all seriousness, division games count for two.  Gotta win games against the teams chasing you.  I'd rather sweep the Sox and go 1-2 against Texas, then go 2-1 against both the Sox and Texas.