Game Thread: Twins (Gray) v Giants (Cobb) @ 6:40 CT, 5/23/23

[h2oface]

Only 2 of the 9 in the batting order aren't first year "strangers". This is one of the reasons that baseball is beoming less intersting for long time fans. 3 of 10 if we add Gray as he has been here for a while now. Julien is from the farm, but still first year. It is harder to love and get excited about your team when so many are sort of rentals and just passing through.

[PDX Twin]

1 minute ago, h2oface said:

Only 2 of the 9 in the batting order aren't first year "strangers". This is one of the reasons that baseball is beoming less intersting for long time fans. 3 or 10 if we add Grayt. Julien is from the farm, but still first year. It is harder to love and get excited about your team when so many are sort of rentals and just passing through.

Yes! This is happening in other sports too. Even college pointyball.

[mrtwinsfan]

Sonny had a 9 pitch 1st inning,--   ,   Cmon Man

[Schmoeman5]

7 minutes ago, Montdak said:

You left out Correa .  And what did  Miranda lose wait for.?  He didn’t appear to need to.

Supposedly the gm#2 (Correa) told him he needed to come in more fit for the 162 game season. Apparently Miranda wore down towards the end of last season 

[Craig Arko]

AK plays a pretty good right field.

[Winston Smith]

I saw Grandpa Yaz play for the Minneapolis Millers at the old Met circa 1960. Just a youngen, our neighbor worked for Honeywell and got tickets like 3 rows up from the dugout.

[Craig Arko]

Just now, Winston Smith said:

I saw Grandpa Yaz play for the Minneapolis Millers at the old Met circa 1960. Just a youngen, our neighbor worked for Honeywell and got tickets like 3 rows up from the dugout.

I first started following baseball in 1967, with the great series of Yaz and Lonborg vs. Gibson and Brock.

[UpstateNewYorker]

6 minutes ago, Craig Arko said:

I first started following baseball in 1967, with the great series of Yaz and Lonborg vs. Gibson and Brock.

There was a great pennant race in the AL that year: 

	Tm	W	L	GB
1	Boston Red Sox	92	70	__
2	Detroit Tigers	91	71	1
3	Minnesota Twins	91	71	1
4	Chicago White Sox	89	73	2

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, UpstateNewYorker said:

There was a great pennant race in the AL that year: 

	Tm	W	L	GB
1	Boston Red Sox	92	70	__
2	Detroit Tigers	91	71	1
3	Minnesota Twins	91	71	1
4	Chicago White Sox	89	73	2

It was fun to watch George Scott take infield practice.  He would catch throws between his legs, throw tosses to infielders over his back, etc.  He really was a slick fielding 1st baseman, and he was a big man.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Did we win yet?

[mrtwinsfan]

1 minute ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Did we win yet?

We always win the 1st  6 innings, 

[stringer bell]

6 minutes ago, UpstateNewYorker said:

There was a great pennant race in the AL that year: 

	Tm	W	L	GB
1	Boston Red Sox	92	70	__
2	Detroit Tigers	91	71	1
3	Minnesota Twins	91	71	1
4	Chicago White Sox	89	73	2

A great race and all the Twins needed to do was win one of two at Fenway!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

4 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

We always win the 1st  6 innings, 

Better than not winning anything...

But yeah, i could probably ask for more.

[RickOShea]

4 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

A great race and all the Twins needed to do was win one of two at Fenway!

Sounds like a broken record, LOL

[CRF]

39 minutes ago, PDX Twin said:

According to MLB.COM, Our pitcher's real name is Sonny. Does anyone know if that's his birth name or if he changed it? If the former, is his sister named Daughterry?

You're correct about both. 

[SwainZag]

Ayyyy MAT!  

[UpstateNewYorker]

4 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

A great race and all the Twins needed to do was win one of two at Fenway!

Yes.  This is a pretty interesting deep dive about that race: https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-1967-al-pennant-race-the-30315229-to-1-possibility/

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 hour ago, PDX Twin said:

Logic?

"Pete, it's fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart"

...

 

"Gopher, Everett?"

[IndianaTwin]

Welcome MAT!

[Schmoeman5]

32 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Only 2 of the 9 in the batting order aren't first year "strangers". This is one of the reasons that baseball is beoming less intersting for long time fans. 3 of 10 if we add Gray as he has been here for a while now. Julien is from the farm, but still first year. It is harder to love and get excited about your team when so many are sort of rentals and just passing through.

Really. Polanco out. Kepler out. Larnach and Gordon out. Those 4 would most likely be starting this game. So the only 1st years in Minnesota who would be playing tonight would be Vasquez, Gallo and Farmer

[stringer bell]

Taylor is the prototypical bottom of the order hitter. Pretty long stretches of futility and just when you think he'll never get a big hit..........he does something really good.

[stringer bell]

Approaching 100 pitches. Probably needs quick outs to stay in through the sixth.

[mrtwinsfan]

Oh Boy,   Valium needed

[h2oface]

Gray looks finished.

Tough inherited runner situation with 2nd and 3rd and no outs.

[SwainZag]

C'mon Gray, finish your night off with a big K

[Aggies7]

Welp he was given a chance. Let’s hope Moran doesn’t walk 3 people

[h2oface]

If this was the Twins at bat.... no problem to get out of the inning. Bases loaded and no outs. An almost sure no score set up 😇

Sonny could very well give up 3 earned now and not actually let a runner cross the plate as baseball scoring goes.....

[CRF]

Weather report: We went from Sonny to cloudy, with a chance for storms. 

[mrtwinsfan]

Always the Same ,    Walks Walks , Good luck Moran,  , 

[I wish the twins were good]

Cannot see this going well. They should have had someone other than Moran up. What's the odds they get out of this with even a one run lead....30%?