Game Thread: Twins v Royals, 4/28 @ 3:10 CT

[USAFChief]

The Twins need to rethink their reliance on breaking balls. 

 

 

[PDX Twin]

Pagan up and throwing?

 

[mrtwinsfan]

Horrible 

[Aggies7]

Anyone can close games!

[mrtwinsfan]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

The Twins need to rethink their reliance on breaking balls. 

 

 

WE MUST BE THE ONLY ONES SEEING IT ,  

[rwilfong86]

YESSSS

[Nine of twelve]

It should never have had to be that way.

[MMMordabito]

Dirty Chicken Dinner

[h2oface]

A bad ump means the catcher is stealing pitches! Right. That is how horrible that whole framing stat crap is. Based on a bad umpire.

[mrtwinsfan]

Never a doubt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stringer bell]

That was exciting, and not in a good way.

[Sutter50]

Everybody RELAX!!! A win is a win. No style points are awarded 

[USAFChief]

Winnah.

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Somehow.

[jmlease1]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Anyone can close games!

there really isn't anything sacred about pitching the 9th inning. Tonight we had probably our best available pitcher facing the top of the KC lineup in the 9th, which is how it should be. Unfortunately, he picked tonight to be very shaky. But a win is a win.

[jkcarew]

Hey fastballs!!
 

Tough inning for Vazquez as much as anything. Made it MUCH more difficult than it needed to be.

[Nine of twelve]

You win some, you lose some, you lose some you should have won, and you win some you should have lost.

[Parfigliano]

1 minute ago, h2oface said:

A bad ump means the catcher is stealing pitches! Right. That is how horrible that whole framing stat crap is. Based on a bad umpire.

Dont forget agents.  Its crap.

[David HK]

They seriously did not deserve this one.  Here, have some chicken.

[Dman]

If I am the Royals you have to be upset the way that all played out.  Still winning doesn't really benefit them as they have a ton of holes in the lineup and on the mound.  Still I don't love winning via umpire and yet we have been the screwed team more often than not so maybe this just helps even things out.  At any rate I just don't feel good about this one but we get the win anyway.

[Robert Floren]

sigh of relief

[Squirrel]

7 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Winnah.

...

 

Somehow.

Yeah. However, lesser teams would have lost that. Think last year and if we had to call on Pagan in that situation? It was an ugly win, and maybe we didn’t deserve to win, but, last year we would have for sure lost that. So, ugly as it was, I also call it progress 

[jkcarew]

6 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

The Twins need to rethink their reliance on breaking balls. 

 

 

2 run lead, 2 out nobody on in the 9th…eats Perez alive with a 98 mph fastball for strike 2.

Calls a breaking pitch...which splits the plate in half. 😶 Proceeds to do the exact thing with the next batter. A legion catcher would catch an earful for how Vazquez called that inning.

[9moons27]

Lopez, Jax, Theilbar, and Lopez all stunk it up. And hitting was pathetic after the 5th.

[stringer bell]

Dunno if Lopez was shaky or the Royals were dialed in, but he got the job done. He got the 1-2 hitters on few pitches, but then couldn't finish off Salvi and Melendez. 

[Aggies7]

10 minutes ago, jmlease1 said:

there really isn't anything sacred about pitching the 9th inning. Tonight we had probably our best available pitcher facing the top of the KC lineup in the 9th, which is how it should be. Unfortunately, he picked tonight to be very shaky. But a win is a win.

I disagree, it’s different. 

[Sutter50]

THEY WON THE GAME!!! NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!!!!!

[Parfigliano]

6 minutes ago, Sutter50 said:

THEY WON THE GAME!!! NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!!!!!

Win!!!!! Thats it.  Win.

[Craig Arko]

18 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

You win some, you lose some, you lose some you should have won, and you win some you should have lost.

And some days it rains.

[Parfigliano]

Someone said vinyl earlier.  I live in a state that is how we say enlightened in a good way Gonna listen to London Calling.  Yes on vinyl.

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[Robert Floren]

5 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

Someone said vinyl earlier.  I live in a state that is how we say enlightened in a good way Gonna listen to London Calling.  Yes on vinyl.

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 I've got the Stones on vinyl.