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

[Vanimal46]

3 runs in 6 innings should be good enough to earn a W in most cases. Not looking like it tonight. 

[RickOShea]

Way to step on their neck Twins, for a one game, one inning maximum.

[jkcarew]

3 runs over 6 was about what I hoped for. Gives the team a puncher’s chance in what was a pretty unfavorable matchup.

[CRF]

 

"That spin class was brutal"

[SteveLV]

Twins have hit 5 home run foul balls down the left field line.

[Nine of twelve]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

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

Varland at 83 pitches. Close call.

[ashbury]

GARLICK!!!!

[SteveLV]

And now one fair!

[Nine of twelve]

Just now, SteveLV said:

Twins have hit 5 home run foul balls down the left field line.

And one fair ball.

[rwilfong86]

Too bad there wasn't a runner on there for Garlick

[glunn]

Twins still in this.  Let's get some runs!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Looks like he’s done. I like to see Pablo and Louie chatting in the—

[Danchat]

People here give Garlick a lot of crap, but man does he eat lefties for breakfast!

[Nine of twelve]

C'mon rook, just get on base here.

[glunn]

I give Varland credit for giving us a chance to win this.

[ashbury]

How many days of Major League service is required, for pitchers to stop looking their pitching coach in the eye and instead studiously look anywhere else but?  A year and a half's worth, at minimum?   Cortes seemed practically insubordinate out there, though of course I'm sure he's not.

[Nine of twelve]

2 minutes ago, SteveLV said:

And now one fair!

 

2 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

And one fair ball.

Great minds think alike.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Hey, i have been thinking, and doesnt Edouard Julien looks a lot like Jake Cave?

*ducks head, leaves quickly*

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

1 minute ago, glunn said:

I give Varland credit for giving us a chance to win this.

Two home runs on the first two pitches he threw…

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Hey, i have been thinking, and doesnt Edouard Julien looks a lot like Jake Cave?

*ducks head, leaves quickly*

And he's got an American Gigolo's name.

[ashbury]

Just now, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Two home runs on the first two pitches he threw…

Well sure.  Once done is done, though, don't you think he did well to not implode, and instead did as well as you could hope someone from the bullpen might have done?  Giving the team the chance to win, as was stated.

[Squirrel]

16 minutes ago, rwilfong86 said:

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

 

15 minutes ago, rwilfong86 said:

Yep. No plate discipline tonight 

You jinxed them!

[Mike Sixel]

Not a great start, not a bad start. Pretty much league average, but against the Yankees....so I'll go with good. Hopefully the pen can keep it to this and the hitters can get two more.....

[RickOShea]

Only Rocco would put Pagan out there, with a one run deficit.

[IndianaTwin]

15 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

 

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

 

Looks like some serious money growing there. 

[ashbury]

5 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

Great minds

What this has to do with a game thread...

[Richie the Rally Goat]

6 minutes ago, Danchat said:

People here give Garlick a lot of crap, but man does he eat lefties for breakfast!

If only he nibbled Righties even a little bit

[Nine of twelve]

A good opportunity for Pagan to continue to prove himself.

[Mike Sixel]

3 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Two home runs on the first two pitches he threw…

And the rest of the innings? 3 runs against the Yankees is less than they scored on average last year (they scored more than 4.5 runs per nine last year).

[Squirrel]

11 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

3 runs in 6 innings should be good enough to earn a W in most cases. Not looking like it tonight. 

Should be … still think Varland did great … rookie against that lineup