Game Thread Twins Vs. Braves 6:20 pm CDT

[RickOShea]

Joey has got to have some Dutch in him, he's too much like a windmill.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Just not sure here with the Buxton stuff ……..

[Irishman]

39 minutes ago, tony&rodney said:

Gray has pitched great. Our bats are woeful.

Agreed.    Nothing changes!   Our bats are horrible!  

[sampleSizeOfOne]

2 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Tonight's view

Cool!

 

What i miss?

[Parfigliano]

4 minutes ago, SwainZag said:

Strider is a damn good pitcher too. 

Damn bad pitchers routinely do what he did against them too.

[IndyTwinsFan]

Predictable end to this one.

Sigh.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Looks like he ripped one, but it was foul (i was busy typing)

[Mike Sixel]

Il Buxton already. 

[mrtwinsfan]

23 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

Julien..... "Who's Eddie"?

Arent You

[MABB1959]

Anyone know what the average strikeouts per game and how that compares to the Twins. 

[Parfigliano]

12 K's again.  Only able to score via HR again.  This is a bad baseball team with above average starting pitching.

[insagt1]

12 more k's, the last 2 totally predictable. Good pitchers know how to pitch to a hitter's weaknesses. Gallo and Buck have major weaknesses.

Anyone know how many games this year the Twins have k'd 10 or more times? I'm thinking, rough guess...a lot.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Oh well LSU is on their way to another College Baseball championship 

[MABB1959]

4 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Il Buxton already. 

For his own good they should medically retire him for his long term healt.  

[mrtwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Didn’t you listen to SGT Peppers? You got to believe!

Have that Album

[Mike Sixel]

1 minute ago, insagt1 said:

12 more k's, the last 2 totally predictable. Good pitchers know how to pitch to a hitter's weaknesses. Gallo and Buck have major weaknesses.

Anyone know how many games this year the Twins have k'd 10 or more times? I'm thinking, rough guess...a lot.

I'm not bummed about the Ks.....they faced the top strikeout pitcher tonight. Just, everything else on offense.....

Something needs to change (or not, but if it doesn't, I'm 100% in favor of selling at the deadline, even if they are leading the division - words I never thought I'd type.).

[SwainZag]

1 minute ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Oh well LSU is on their way to another College Baseball championship 

Dylan Crews is going to be a helleva player

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

1 minute ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Have that Album

Loved it. “She’s Leaving Home” = underrated 

(also the time to start Beatles posts is the 3rd inning not after the game, my bad lol)

[tony&rodney]

July, August, and September are an easier schedule in theory than April, May, and June. 85 wins is possible.

[William K Johnson]

The problem with tonight's lineup was that with Correa in the four hole and Gallo batting seventh, every time that you would get something started, one of them would come to the plate and neither one can hit.  Correa really needs to be dropped in the order, he is simply killing us at the plate at this time.   Why didn't Lewis play tonight?

[IndianaTwin]

3 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Loved it. “She’s Leaving Home” = underrated 

(also the time to start Beatles posts is the 3rd inning not after the game, my bad lol)

It was pretty much a hard day's night.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

1 minute ago, William K Johnson said:

The problem with tonight's lineup was that with Correa in the four hole and Gallo batting seventh, every time that you would get something started, one of them would come to the plate and neither one can hit.  Correa really needs to be dropped in the order, he is simply killing us at the plate at this time.   Why didn't Lewis play tonight?

Correa has been doing better. Granted he has some 0-fers but he is striking the ball some

[insagt1]

someone today said, in a battle of 1st place teams...Braves vs  Twins.

Hee hee.Braves are the top team in the NL and 2nd overall. Twins are in 17th place overall and only 9th out of 15 in the AL.

Some battle!!

[HokieRif]

I can summarize Twins hitting with a single still frame -

 

[insagt1]

Nice to still see Pagan turn a close game into a not-close game.

[MABB1959]

29 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Correa has been doing better. Granted he has some 0-fers but he is striking the ball some

He did hit into 2 double plays in critical scoring innings.  That was horrible. 

[MABB1959]

30 minutes ago, insagt1 said:

someone today said, in a battle of 1st place teams...Braves vs  Twins.

Hee hee.Braves are the top team in the NL and 2nd overall. Twins are in 17th place overall and only 9th out of 15 in the AL.

Some battle!!

Somewhere in that article they mentioned having their best players hitting. Why bench Lewis?

[stringer bell]

39 minutes ago, MABB1959 said:

Somewhere in that article they mentioned having their best players hitting. Why bench Lewis?

Lewis is coming off two ACL surgeries. He is going to get some days off. 

[MABB1959]

57 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Lewis is coming off two ACL surgeries. He is going to get some days off. 

I get it but he should be playing against the tougher teams.  They have a day off this week and play KC next week.   Resting against one of the best teams doesn’t seem logical unless he is hurting. 

[MABB1959]

1 hour ago, insagt1 said:

Nice to still see Pagan turn a close game into a not-close game.

He seems to have a mental block they need to work on or just let him go