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

[h2oface]

That works. GIDP time!

[Aggies7]

Is this what it feels like to play the twins?

[h2oface]

K works. 2 down.

[mrtwinsfan]

Now Bear down , for the 3rd out

[h2oface]

That was cheap.

[Aggies7]

Can’t walk the 8 hitter on 4 pitches

[PDX Twin]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

Can’t walk the 8 hitter on 4 pitches

This team has amazing capacity for such things!

[h2oface]

23 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

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

Right. I agree. But they are not. Would be could be, but reality...... is what it is.

[mrtwinsfan]

And i had Mr, Clean all teed up,  

[Aggies7]

Where is this strike zone

[Aggies7]

Good god. Walking the 8 and 9 hitters. Can’t make it up 

[USAFChief]

This should be Lopez, not Stewart. 

 

[h2oface]

I'd say unbeliebveable, but it is sooooooo believeable.

Only the Twins can't score with the bases loaded and no outs.

[sftwinsfan]

My God, this team is just punishing to watch. 

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

Where is this strike zone

Don't ask the pitchers... they don't know either.

[Aggies7]

Justin says it’s a challenge to come in out of the bullpen and throw strikes.

 

wha?

[HokieRif]

Rocco pushing all the wrong buttons this inning 

[SwainZag]

Walking batters hitting .167 and .182.  Really just unacceptable.  

[Schmoeman5]

2 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Right. I agree. But they are not. Would be could be, but reality is what it is.

Your implication is that rosters change drastically from year to year and that there's no continuity. Which is not true. You made a blanket statement and now you're narrowing it down to tonights game? 

[notoriousgod71]

The crowd erupts at the sight of a thrown strike.

[h2oface]

One batter late but we'll take it, considering the alternatives.

[Aggies7]

Just now, notoriousgod71 said:

The crowd erupts at the sight of a thrown strike.

A very borderline one, at that 

[mrtwinsfan]

1-0   Game , cmon boys or Gray gonna have a Bad month of May,

[Craig Arko]

Bullet partially dodged.

[h2oface]

3 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Your implication is that rosters change drastically from year to year and that there's no continuity. Which is not true. You made a blanket statement and now you're narrowing it down to tonights game? 

It's not an argument. It was just an observation on the batting order tonight.

But the rosters do change drastically from year to year now, and it is not just this team. Tonight we see 7 first year in the order. That is pretty drastic. But it is now common all over sports.

[tlkriens]

If baseball made any sense, you'd use Duran in the sixth with the bases loaded and not outs with a three runs lead instead of Moran and Stewart.

[notoriousgod71]

Just now, Craig Arko said:

Bullet partially dodged.

Don't worry, they're reloading.

[wsnydes]

3 minutes ago, HokieRif said:

Rocco pushing all the wrong buttons this inning 

I'd have gone a different route myself, but it's reasonable to expect that anyone brought in would throw strikes.  Rocco can't throw the ball for these guys.  They've got to perform.

[OvertheHill]

That erratic strike zone does take the bat out of their hands a little. And what do they have against AK? Guy gets the worst calls. 

[Aggies7]

4 pitches, 2 outs. Not exactly giving the defense a breather