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Game Thread: Twins v Royals, OPENING DAY! @ 3:10pm CT

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wsnydes
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Already behind the Royals in the standings too.  It's all over!

miracleb
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I will start.......Grienke....let's put him out to pasture!  Twins need to start him off with a 15.0 ERA after game 1.

stringer bell
stringer bell

Gallo's OBP last year was .280, Kepler .318. Gallo OBP vs. RH pitching in '22: .297     Career vs. RH pitching:  .332 Kepler OBP vs. RH pitching in '22  .328  Career vs. RH pitching:  .328

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Just now, stringer bell said:

I really don't like using up half of the bench in the sixth.

Okay, so it worked out. Still don't like it.

Gonna have to disagree with this one. There were scoring opportunities and this offense needs to use any advantage it can find to push across runs. There's few hitters in this lineup I wouldn't PH for given similar situations. 

LaBombo Wichita Wind Surge

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4 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

I don't like pinch hitting in the fifth.

It often seemed a bit iffy to me in the era of 10-man pitching staffs.

With 12 pitchers it's like running with scissors.  Into a mirror.  Under a ladder.

jkcarew Cedar Rapids Kernels

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1 minute ago, stringer bell said:

I really don't like using up half of the bench in the sixth.

Okay, so it worked out. Still don't like it.

Doesn't look egregious now. But I don't like it. Two pinch-hitters in the top of the sixth in a one-run game. Great opportunity for backfiring later.

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11 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

He seemed to slow between second and third and when the throw came through decided to slide. He trotted home just fine on Larnach's single.

It's those last-second decisions that can lead to injury, though.  The contact with the ground was ungainly, and he's perhaps lucky if it all worked out.

Still, Buxton "doing everything wrong" still results in a triple.  So I'm nitpicking.

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Just now, jkcarew said:

Doesn't look egregious now. But I don't like it. Two pinch-hitters in the top of the sixth in a one-run game. Great opportunity for backfiring later.

And the defense won't be better with the 5-8 Solano at first base.

wsnydes MVP

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1 minute ago, LaBombo said:

This just in... new research indicates leaving the bases loaded is massively less disappointing when it happens after scoring runs.

I don't know...seems like small sample size bias!

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1 minute ago, nicksaviking said:

That's most certainly what ESPN Gamecast thinks.

The right fielder was required to take 2 or 3 steps back to camp under it and wait.

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1 minute ago, nicksaviking said:

That's most certainly what ESPN Gamecast thinks.

MLB At Bat app concurs.

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Just now, USAFChief said:

The right fielder was required to take 2 or 3 steps back to camp under it and wait.

You'd think with all of the analytics that go into positioning that they'd be able to get closer than that.

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