Game Thread: White Sox @Twins, 9/28/22, 6:40PM CDT (4:40PM PDT)

[PDX Twin]

I’m pretty cynical about the Twins these days, so here my take on the Twins’ Halsey Hall-vintage broadcast intro song, updated to late 2022:

We’re gonna lose, Twins.
We’re gonna score (maybe).
We’re gonna lose, Twins.
Watch that baseball soar (into the catcher’s mitt).
Crack out a foul ball;
Shout a “Hip-Hooray.”
(Yet, despite it all) Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today!

So here’s what I’ve got for tonight:

Rookie Josh Winder starts for the Twins, with his 4-5 record and 4.20 ERA. So much has happened since April that it is difficult to realize that he had never appeared in a major-league game until 2022. Missing much of the season through injury (he’s a Twin, after all) he has made just 9 starts and 13 overall appearances.

For the team with bleached stockings from Chicago, Johnny Cueto makes the start. This has been the 36-year-old’s first season in the American League after 14 with the Reds and Giants. He brings in a 3.15 ERA and a 7-9 record in 22 starts (23 total games). MLB.com says that his nickname is “El Jucho,” for which Google Translate provides no clues. Can any Spanish-speakers on the site help with this? Or is it something unprintable in English?

Lineups

Cynicism aside, beating the White Sox is always fun, and last night showed that it is possible. Go, Twins!

[Squirrel]

Well, that was cheery ... 

[stringer bell]

23 minutes ago, PDX Twin said:

I’m pretty cynical about the Twins these days, so here my take on the Twins’ Halsey Hall-vintage broadcast intro song, updated to late 2022:

We’re gonna lose, Twins.
We’re gonna score (maybe).
We’re gonna lose, Twins.
Watch that baseball soar (into the catcher’s mitt).
Crack out a foul ball;
Shout a “Hip-Hooray.”
(Yet, despite it all) Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today!

So here’s what I’ve got for tonight:

Rookie Josh Winder starts for the Twins, with his 4-5 record and 4.20 ERA. So much has happened since April that it is difficult to realize that he had never appeared in a major-league game until 2022. Missing much of the season through injury (he’s a Twin, after all) he has made just 9 starts and 13 overall appearances.

For the team with bleached stockings from Chicago, Johnny Cueto makes the start. This has been the 36-year-old’s first season in the American League after 14 with the Reds and Giants. He brings in a 3.15 ERA and a 7-9 record in 22 starts (23 total games). MLB.com says that his nickname is “El Jucho,” for which Google Translate provides no clues. Can any Spanish-speakers on the site help with this? Or is it something unprintable in English?

Lineups

Cynicism aside, beating the White Sox is always fun, and last night showed that it is possible. Go, Twins!

Glad to see Ryan Jeffers back with the Twins. I still believe he can be an above-average regular catcher, but he’ll have to do more controlling the running game. 
 

The Saints outfield the Twins will send out with Gordon at short shows the dire straits the Twins are in. 
 

My prediction—the sultan of swing tonight will be Carlos Correa with Arraez also getting multiple hits. Correa has contributed 5.0 WAR, so I guess his contract isn’t money for nothing. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

And i think technically i think we have the tie breaker with Seattle if they lose out and we win out (and the in-between teams lose enough for it to matter) so we're not entirely eliminated.

 

Never say die!

(What, never?)

[ashbury]

1 hour ago, PDX Twin said:

MLB.com says that his nickname is “El Jucho,” for which Google Translate provides no clues. Can any Spanish-speakers on the site help with this?

I'm no Spanish speaker but I consulted my Spanish-to-English dictionary and found that it means The Jucho.

[CRF]

Not enough expletives in the song lyrics for my personal taste, but to each his/her own. 

[PDX Twin]

24 minutes ago, CRF said:

Not enough expletives in the song lyrics for my personal taste, but to each his/her own. 

Hey, this is a family site!

[CRF]

24 minutes ago, PDX Twin said:

Hey, this is a family site!

Absolutely! I'll just let the bad words dance around what's left of my mind!

[RpR]

43 minutes ago, CRF said:

44 minutes ago, CRF said:

Not enough expletives in the song lyrics for my personal taste, but to each his/her own. 

Baseball was never more than an entertainment form for me, I still anxiously await spring training every year I do not have snit fits about bad turns.

Losing the 1965 World Series a true bummer, and watch the YANKEES eat Gardenhires lunch was quite annoying but to cuss and snort over the results does nothing to make things better.

 

[Tlaker]

Love me some Halsey Hall and the new lyrics to that classic!

Put’s me in the mood for “the beer refreshing”….ice cold Hamm’s!

[stringer bell]

Saints OFs are 2-2 with 3 RBI. Then Contreras fans.

 

[RpR]

Another string Miranda, Urshela, Cave and Wallner, Twins lead.

[PDX Twin]

6 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

Love me some Halsey Hall and the new lyrics to that classic!

Put’s me in the mood for “the beer refreshing”….ice cold Hamm’s!

Halsey was a classic, along with Ray Scott in the booth.

[RpR]

7 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

Love me some Halsey Hall and the new lyrics to that classic!

Put’s me in the mood for “the beer refreshing”….ice cold Hamm’s!

 

[stringer bell]

For the four or five of us watching, it looks like the Twins are in their score a bit, then shut down for the rest of the game mode.

[stringer bell]

Really nice play by Gio.

[CRF]

Helluva play by Gio...and a nice one by Miranda to dig it out.

[RpR]

The play by the Chicago 1st baseman shows a lack heart; did not try to get the the runner at all.

[stringer bell]

And now two more runs. Apparently the Twins are more interested in winning than the Pale Hose.

[h2oface]

Windor will put you to sleep. The type of pitcher that the clock rule is made to stop delaying the game.

[Tlaker]

FWIW…..Judge just tied Maris 

[mrtwinsfan]

17 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

FWIW…..Judge just tied Maris 

Will he get the Triple Crown  ??  

[RpR]

5 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Will he get the Triple Crown  ??  

Nothing against Judge, he is a nice fellow but I hope not.

[tony&rodney]

Interesting to see Wallner get walked. He is such a free swinger. 

Good move because Jeffers tried to pull a pitch that was middle on the edge away  and fouled it off. He got a good pitch to hit but was tentative with two strikes.

[mrtwinsfan]

Arreaz was hitting 338  at the all star break,  Judge was 284,    Amazing year for Judge,   Hoping for Luis !!!

[Longdistancetwins]

Let’s break this open for a change of pace…

[tony&rodney]

Arraez is a good hitter. That is true. But why has he hit so many fly balls in the past six weeks?

[stringer bell]

4 minutes ago, tony&rodney said:

Arraez is a good hitter. That is true. But why has he hit so many fly balls in the past six weeks?

Adjustments and adjustment to adjustments.

[LVTwinsfan]

So the Twins have finally started to play baseball. That just pisses me off.

[h2oface]

Fulmer can't come in and get the 8 and 9 hitters. Not even one of them.