Game Thread: Twins (Varland) v Angels (Sandoval), 5/20 @ 9:07pm

[IndianaTwin]

3 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Bremer said Leg Tightness,  

Hopefully it's just tightness and not weakness. And monolateral, not bilateral. 

[h2oface]

These are the types of outings that your best reliever can get tagged because they have no intensity. We will see.....

[RickOShea]

Well we know our battery can't catch a ball.

[mrtwinsfan]

Hey Mr, Leg Tightness,  M.A.T. Has done a great job for ya,  Looks like he is wearing down, Your Team needs ya, Leg Tightness ?  Loosen em up running around in Center, .  And no more Headfirst slides,  Hope your okay !!!

[h2oface]

1 minute ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Hey Mr, Leg Tightness,  M.A.T. Has done a great job for ya,  Looks like he is wearing down, Your Team needs ya, Leg Tightness ?  Loosen em up running around in Center, .  And no more Headfirst slides,  Hope your okay !!!

He had started sliding feet first, and hurt his hip and knee! 

[mrtwinsfan]

Good Game Twins,    road trip, Keep it going

[Tlaker]

Winner 

[h2oface]

He's a Moniak, Moniak at the plate...........

[stringer bell]

2 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Good Game Twins,   2-2 road trip, Keep it going

2-3.

[h2oface]

Get it tomorrow, too, and split the games in (and around) LA! 

Who is that Otani guy, anyway.

[IndianaTwin]

4 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Good Game Twins,   2-2 road trip, Keep it going

2-3, actually.

[Schmoeman5]

15 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Harmon was really pretty fit. At least in his retirement. I got to spend some time with him before he did a clinic at Charlottesville High School in 1996 and asked him because he looked way smaller than I rememebered him or thought he was, and he said he was 5'10' and about 185 lbs! He looked great! I have seen him listed in some pages as 6'0" and 5'11", and 195 and 213 lbs. He said they always wanted me to be bigger, and he had shrunk at least an inch, though, and smiled and laughed. He was very generous and fun to be with. Impressive.

No argument here. But he was thick. Tree trunk legs. Forearms the size of hams. 

[Squirrel]

Blizzard winner! I’ll go get one tomorrow 

[Montdak]

7 minutes ago, h2oface said:

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You’d think Buxton could learn how to slide smooth.

He had started sliding feet first, and hurt his hip and knee! 

 

2 minutes ago, h2oface said:

He's a Moniak, Moniak at the plate...........

 

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You’d think Buxton could learn to slide.

 

[stringer bell]

More Plouffe and less Laudner, please.

[stringer bell]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

2-3. 

You're late, Chief.

[USAFChief]

Just now, stringer bell said:

You're late, Chief.

Actually, now you're late 

 

;)

[mrtwinsfan]

24 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

2-3.

Oops!!!!!

[stringer bell]

I do want to give credit to the bullpen tonight. For two very different reasons, possible disaster was averted in the 6th and 7th innings. In the 6th, Varland left with a 4-2 lead, two on and none out. Previously unreliable Jovani Moran set down three straight hitters and kept the lead at two.

In the 7th, Jorge Lopez clearly had the lead off batter struck out, but the home plate ump blew the call, it seemed to throw Lopez off as he yielded a double and then fell behind the next hitter, but he struck out the next three batters including Trout and Ohtani. End of threat.

Stewart and Duran closed it out mostly routinely, game over.