Game Thread: Astros v Twins: 4/7 @ 3:10pm

[LaBombo]

7 minutes ago, MMMordabito said:

What a great Friday!

 

Easy with the gratuitous cheerfulness there, champ.  We've got a struggling offense to fret about. 😉

[PDX Twin]

Update: Correa WPA now -0.281. He has lost 1/4 of a game today. More than offsets Gray's excellent +0.254.

[rwilfong86]

I figured this team would be able to score more than 2 runs per game

[Aggies7]

This offense is serotonin

[PDX Twin]

So typical of this team. Leadoff single. No attempt to move the runner along. Three guys don't hit home runs, Runner stranded at first,

I'm sorry, but this team is BORING!

[LaBombo]

Until the Twins get their bullpen issues truly sorted out, I'd rather see MLB settle extra innings with 3-on-3 field hockey.

[jkcarew]

HE'S ALIIIIIVE!!!!

[Parfigliano]

Just now, PDX Twin said:

So typical of this team. Leadoff single. No attempt to move the runner along. Three guys don't hit home runs, Runner stranded at first,

I'm sorry, but this team is BORING!

Predictable though

[ashbury]

I'd feel better if Duran had a tune up outing first, after his neck strain.

[ashbury]

4 minutes ago, rwilfong86 said:

I figured this team would be able to score more than 2 runs per game

Why?

[ashbury]

Right side soreness. Who had that on their bingo card?

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Why?

How could it have gotten worse from last year. Batting champ didn’t add much 😉 

[LaBombo]

4 minutes ago, rwilfong86 said:

I figured this team would be able to score more than 2 runs per game

Season's still very young, with plenty of time for the Twins to easily exceed that mark.

Or leave us wishing they could approach it.

[jkcarew]

6 minutes ago, rwilfong86 said:

I figured this team would be able to score more than 2 runs per game

They will usually...especially when Altuve gets back

[LaBombo]

Duran's fastball is named Rio, and it dances on the sand...

[rwilfong86]

1 minute ago, LaBombo said:

Season's still very young, with plenty of time for the Twins to easily exceed that mark.

Or leave us wishing they could approach it.

5 of 7 games 2 runs or less. Hopefully that turns around because these are winnable games with a "healthy" pitching staff.

[Aggies7]

I don’t think his neck is tweaked any longer 

[stringer bell]

Just now, LaBombo said:

Duran's fastball is named Rio, and it dances on the sand...

Oh Rio, Rio dancing all across the land.

[LaBombo]

5 minutes ago, ashbury said:

I'd feel better if Duran had a tune up outing first, after his neck strain.

He should be fine; staff told him to keep the fastball under 103.

[rwilfong86]

4 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Why?

They've had base runners in abundance it seems like, but no one can come up with a clutch hit. Uber frustrating to see last seasons RISP woes continue.

[jkcarew]

How dare they?!!...

taunting us with Pressly.

[h2oface]

Such a wierdly managed baseball team. You don't let your fastest runner steal bases, and your 200 million dollar man grounds him into a DP and takes him off the base paths. Too proud to bunt and get him on second with 1 out. Doesn't the computer tell you that a hitter that in 1/15 against the opponent should not hit away when you need a run?

Yet they use the same computer to tell them to not let pitchers pitch and pinch hit.... go figure.

[gil4]

1 minute ago, jkcarew said:

How dare they?!!...

taunting us with Pressly.

Maybe we can get a high school umpire to warn them for taunting and then start ejecting people.

[PDX Twin]

Just now, h2oface said:

Such a wierdly mismanaged basenball team. You don't let your fastest runner steal bases, and your 200 million dollar man grounds him into a DP and takes him off the base paths. Too proud to bunt and get him on second with 1 out. Doesn't the computer tell you that a hitter that in 1/15 against the opponent should not hit away when you need a run?

FTFY.

[Aggies7]

That was quite the swing by Vazquez 

[Aggies7]

Welp buxton should be looking at one thing only. 

[LaBombo]

I'd rather have seen Vazquez take the most obvious and hittable called 3rd strike in MLB history than strike out swinging at ball 4 after Press took the 3 second violation or whatever to bring it to a full count.

[Aggies7]

Ugly as sin.

[jkcarew]

It's as if Pressly has seen Buxton bat before.

[h2oface]

The White Sox crushed Pressly on opening day.