Game Thread: Twins @ Cleveland 9/16/22, 6:10pm CDT

[mrtwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

If you're going to use Duran, why would he not enter when Jax did? Rally in progress, top of the order about to come up?

yes sir

[Montdak]

Probably kaput cuz of an error.

[UpstateNewYorker]

Another hit on an 0-2 pitch.  Cleveland is great at putting balls in play.

[IndyTwinsFan]

2 minutes ago, Montdak said:

So now Gordon injured? Can’t wait till next year.  I think we have the best team in the division.  If they have half the IL time as this year (leading the league) I think they win easy.

May well be right, but we'll obviously never know for sure. 

[SanoMustGo]

Just now, UpstateNewYorker said:

Another hit on an 0-2 pitch.  Cleveland is great at putting balls in play.

They remind me of the TWINS teams of the early 2000’s

[Irishman]

Blown leads by Bullpen pitchers all year,   Bullpen staff needs to be upgraded after season ends.  

[LVTwinsfan]

9 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

I'm watching the Cleveland feed for this game.  I thought  Bremer and Company were hard to swallow.  I gotta believe Cleveland's announcers wear cheerleading uniforms in the booth.

I don’t have a problem with that , they’re Cleveland’s announcers, they’re Cleveland fans… it’s not a National broadcast

[sampleSizeOfOne]

What i miss?

[IndyTwinsFan]

1 minute ago, UpstateNewYorker said:

Another hit on an 0-2 pitch.  Cleveland is great at putting balls in play.

And is a whole lot better at it than we are.

[RpR]

One series where Arraez is not needed for his bat but his ability at Second Base.

[LVTwinsfan]

Crappy way to end your playoff hopes

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, IndyTwinsFan said:

The beginning of the end is underway, I think.

More like the middle of the end, close to the end of the end.

[IndyTwinsFan]

Just now, Irishman said:

Blown leads by Bullpen pitchers all year,   Bullpen staff needs to be upgraded after season ends.  

So does the offense. 

[AussieG]

Sigh... what a joke

[IndyTwinsFan]

Just now, LVTwinsfan said:

Crappy way to end your playoff hopes

But not too surprising, at least to me.

[mnfireman]

New and exciting ways to lose.....

[LVTwinsfan]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

One series where Arraez is not needed for his bat but his ability at Second Base.

I thought you wanted him at first base

[IndyTwinsFan]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

More like the middle of the end, close to the end of the end.

I stand corrected. 

[LewFordLives]

Why do I keep watching this crap?  I like to think I've led a good life, and don't feel the need to punish myself.   This team is just flat out cursed.

[AussieG]

Rocco looks stunned. He has run out of excuses 

[SanoMustGo]

Cleveland owns the Twins. Twins might win one game this series

[Montdak]

Typical.  Barring unusual circumstances season kaput.  Oh maybe they win the next four.  ha

[RpR]

1 minute ago, LVTwinsfan said:

I thought you wanted him at first base

You like Gordon at Second?

[IndyTwinsFan]

Just now, mnfireman said:

New and exciting ways to lose.....

Not sure I would use the terms "new" or "exciting" here.  It's not new to this team a I don't find it particularly exciting either. 

[ashbury]

I'm going to be the sunny optimist, and say that when our Twins win it all in a year or two, we'll look back at 2022 and say, they just weren't ready to win yet.

[IndyTwinsFan]

1 minute ago, Montdak said:

Typical.  Barring unusual circumstances season kaput.  Oh maybe they win the next four.  ha

Highly unlikely, in my opinion. 

[insagt1]

This game has gotten ridiculous. Even Duran has been awful. Scoring from 2nd on a wild pitch is very hard to do, but the Twins do find new and exciting ways to lose important ballgames.

[USAFChief]

Seems somehow fitting if the Twins season ends on a blown 3-0 lead with the winning run scoring from SECOND on a wild pitch. From your best reliever. 

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

Seems somehow fitting if the Twins season ends on a blown 3-0 lead with the winning run scoring from SECOND on a wild pitch. From your best reliever. 

The game probably will stand as a miniature replica of the season as a whole - good enough start but not dominant, and then things start to fall apart and they can't recover.

[Montdak]

5 minutes ago, IndyTwinsFan said:

So does the offense. 

BP actually did ok if you could excise one error.