Game Thread: Twins @ Yankees, 4/14 @ 6:05 CT

[Eephus]

First time in years I'm watching games on TV instead of listening on radio....hip surgery silver lining. Random question: I've noticed after the 3rd out (sometimes, often, always??) The Twins catcher sometimes throws to 3rd or 1st (catcher) or somewhere (right fielder to CF) rather than tossed out to the mound like in olden days of yore. Is this a Twins thing?

[SteveLV]

The Twins' coaches should show these terrible AB's to the team after the game to show them what NOT to do....

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

2 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

Having Edouard Julien on the roster makes me think of the number of words we use that come from French. Like hors d’ouevres, just for starters. 

Not to mention Frenchy Cordero in the Yankees lineup 🙂

[Nine of twelve]

1 minute ago, Eephus said:

First time in years I'm watching games on TV instead of listening on radio....hip surgery silver lining. Random question: I've noticed after the 3rd out (sometimes, often, always??) The Twins catcher sometimes throws to 3rd or 1st (catcher) or somewhere (right fielder to CF) rather than tossed out to the mound like in olden days of yore. Is this a Twins thing?

Nope, almost all teams do that these days. I don't get it either.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

2 minutes ago, Eephus said:

First time in years I'm watching games on TV instead of listening on radio....hip surgery silver lining. Random question: I've noticed after the 3rd out (sometimes, often, always??) The Twins catcher sometimes throws to 3rd or 1st (catcher) or somewhere (right fielder to CF) rather than tossed out to the mound like in olden days of yore. Is this a Twins thing?

No this has been a thing for years now. All teams do it. 

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, SteveLV said:

The Twins' coaches should show these terrible AB's to the team after the game to show them what NOT to do....

Shoot, they're on their tablets during the game .Have them ditch their games and review their ABs.

[Squirrel]

9 minutes ago, Eephus said:

First time in years I'm watching games on TV instead of listening on radio....hip surgery silver lining. Random question: I've noticed after the 3rd out (sometimes, often, always??) The Twins catcher sometimes throws to 3rd or 1st (catcher) or somewhere (right fielder to CF) rather than tossed out to the mound like in olden days of yore. Is this a Twins thing?

I remember being at a game in 1986 and after the 3rd out, the catcher threw the ball to the pitcher and the pitcher walked off the field with it and tossed it up to me. That pitcher was Blyleven 🙂

[SteveLV]

C'mon guys.  This game is there for the taking.  Your young pitcher is holding off the Bombers.  Get some grit and get this guy!

[Nine of twelve]

Varland has earned a 3-run inning from his teammates. Let's do it. 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

33 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Fun fact: Shane Bieber had a game against the Yankees on Monday where he surrendered two runs in the first inning, and they were shut out the rest of the game.

Post is aging… aging… not poorly..,, cmon offense…

[USAFChief]

13 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

 

That makes Chief's lawn 300 feet long and 1 foot wide. Makes it pretty easy to mow.

Doesn't take me any time on my brand new rider!

[RickOShea]

2 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Doesn't take me any time on my brand new rider!

Chief, I figured you to be a Snapper kind of guy.

[ashbury]

Correa!!!!

[Vanimal46]

Correa!

[IndianaTwin]

17 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

 

That makes Chief's lawn 300 feet long and 1 foot wide. Makes it pretty easy to mow.

He should turn it into a garden and grow spaghetti. 

[SteveLV]

Love to see those cheap dimensions bite the Yankees for a change. Nice job Correa!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Leadership, deposited into the first row in right!

[USAFChief]

"Deep to the right field corner."

 

Oxymoron in Yankee Stadium.

[Vanimal46]

9 runs in 1 inning was cool. 3 runs in the following 13.2 innings, not so much. 

[SteveLV]

Miranda, 3 AB's, 5 pitches total.  Way, way too aggressive young man.

[rwilfong86]

5 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

Varland has earned a 3-run inning from his teammates. Let's do it. 

Not gonna happen when guys keep swinging at the first pitch and popping up 

[rwilfong86]

Just now, SteveLV said:

Miranda, 3 AB's, 5 pitches total.  Way, way too aggressive young man.

Yep. No plate discipline tonight 

[Nine of twelve]

 

4 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

He should turn it into a garden and grow spaghetti. 

Don't be ridiculous. Everybody knows spaghetti grows on trees.

 

[ashbury]

Oof, that'un got out in a hurry.

[rwilfong86]

Meh.

[SteveLV]

That hurt.  Varland is challenging them, and Stanton tattooed that one.

[rwilfong86]

Just now, ashbury said:

Oof, that'un got out in a hurry.

Stanton's homers seem to do that very often 

[RickOShea]

At least Varland is finding the plate.................belt high and center cut.

[ashbury]

Please  rookie, gut it out this inning.  The alternative is Emilio.  No one, probably not even Emilio's mama, wants that.

[ashbury]

A quality start!  (Unless Rocco wants to roll the dice in the seventh.)