GAME THREAD: Minnesota Twins vs. Houston Astros; 04/09/2023 Easter Special, 1:10pm Central Standard Time

[USAFChief]

Just now, IndianaTwin said:

It's over. 

If you say so.

[USAFChief]

Just now, ashbury said:

Y?

Huh?

[SwainZag]

2 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Feed your hate. Feed it. 

I don't even know why I hate it so much.   Maybe it's the bagpipe.

[Linus]

2 hours ago, USAFChief said:

I don't believe it serves any purpose. "Load management" doesn't prevent injury, doesn't increase performance. It just increases the amount of time out of the lineup. 

Yea I would love to see some data on load management in relation to injury prevention. I don’t buy it either. Some guys get hurt a lot. Some guys don’t get hurt much. 

[ashbury]

5 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Huh?

Right, NM, I forgot you don't know Y.

[IndianaTwin]

Well, since I can't have chicken, I guess I'll have a piece of chocolate pie left from the Easter dinner. 

[h2oface]

8 minutes ago, mnfireman said:

Solano, Farmer, Larnach and Jeffers are all hitting and hitting well. 

MAT, Miranda and Gordon are not hitting.. MAT was not expected to, the other two were. 

Well, none hit today expect for a 1/4 from Solano.

Too bad we couldn't hit the guy with the 7.71 ERA coming into the game.

[ashbury]

Ugh, Saints losing to Iowa, too.

[SwainZag]

1 minute ago, h2oface said:

Well, none hit today expect for a 1/4 from Solano.

Too bad we couldn't hit the guy with the 7.71 ERA coming into the game.

In all 4.2 IP coming into today.   Brown has some serious potential.  

[h2oface]

16 minutes ago, SwainZag said:

Impressed Pagan got out of that unscathed

It is like an ever progressing limbo bar. The bar just keeps getting lower.

[h2oface]

1 minute ago, SwainZag said:

In all 4.2 IP coming into today.   Brown has some serious potential.  

Potential. Like our guys. 

[SwainZag]

1 minute ago, h2oface said:

Potential. Like our guys. 

I mean....top ranked prospect in the Astros system and a Top 75 guy.   He's got pretty dang good stuff.  Dissipointing result, but no real shame on being beat by him. 

[h2oface]

10 minutes ago, SwainZag said:

I mean....top ranked prospect in the Astros system and a Top 75 guy.   He's got pretty dang good stuff.  Dissipointing result, but no real shame on being beat by him. 

I hear you. And especially the ...... stuff!! And those Detroit bats are fearsome! 😇

Brown had a good day. Can't say I am ever impressed that much by the prospect numbers, but yes. That is what they say. They used to say that about some of our guys. Maybe Blaze will show them yet. 

[ziggy]

28 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Maybe Blaze will show them yet. 

Has he adanced to eating solid food yet?

[wabene]

Brown looked good to me. I'm hoping we keep getting guys back from injury and this offense becomes less offensive.

[wabene]

Nine games in and in two of them, 22.22%, our starters gave up 4 runs. In one the starter then set down 11 straight for a good performance and a win. In the other he did have a good 6th. In Twins history this would be a very good result. I'm looking forward to watching Twins starters making the Yankee's batters work for a change.

[Robert Floren]

Maybe we were up against grade A pitching today, but even if so.....that's what we'd face in the post season.  Doesn't look like we have shutout pitchers available to win 2-1 or 1-0.  

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Wait, we lost?

 

Guess i can't count others to do my rooting for me anymore...

[IndianaTwin]

4 hours ago, SwainZag said:

Impressed Pagan got out of that unscathed

Yeah, yeah, yeah, small sample size, but Pagan has not been our weakest link out of the pen in the first week. 

[SwainZag]

8 hours ago, Robert Floren said:

Maybe we were up against grade A pitching today, but even if so.....that's what we'd face in the post season.  Doesn't look like we have shutout pitchers available to win 2-1 or 1-0.  

Before today the Twins had the lowest ERA from starting pitching in the major leagues.   They beat the defending World Series Champs 3-2 earlier this week.   The guy starting went 7 innings of 1 run ball giving up 4 hits and striking out 13.  What more could anyone possibly want?