Game Thread: Twins (Ryan) v White Sox (Lynn), 7/21/23 @ 7:10 CT

[OptimisticTwinsFan]

It's been interesting to see Ryan lose the couple extra MPH off of his stuff over the last month or so and how that has translated to more HRs leaving the park. He's also been unable to consistently command his offspeed stuff. 

[wsnydes]

2 minutes ago, RpR said:

Never was impressed with their defense but they beat a team we could not.

To diss them is a absurd effort.

It's the major leagues.  Any team can beat any team at any given time.  It doesn't mean a whole lot.

It's the randomness of baseball.

[USAFChief]

5 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Had to step away for a few innings.  Any Burger jokes while I was gone?

Coupl'a cheesy ones.

 

//I'll see myself out 

[IndianaTwin]

4 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Had to step away for a few innings.  Any Burger jokes while I was gone?

We ran them into the ground. 

Speaking of, do you know what you call a cow with no legs? 

 

 

Ground beef. 

[OptimisticTwinsFan]

1 minute ago, RickOShea said:

The fastball hitters couldn't locate last year, is suddenly making some guests appearances by Ryan. Adjust, adjust and adjust.

He's throwing it slower and his command hasn't quite been there. He's also unable to command his secondary pitches for strikes and it becomes a little easier to load up on the FB. Lots of small things that add up. 

Also Ryan has always struggled with HRs but the idea with his pitching style is that in a general sense he's so good at tunneling and he's got the sneaky life on his FBs and he pounds the strike zone to avoid walks along with pitching up in the zone. He's going to have WHIPs near or sub 1, but when hitters do connect it's going to go deep but hopefully a solo HR. 

Him not being able to command that breaking pitch/split finger at the bottom end of the zone has led to him reverting to being more of a FB pitcher. 

[RpR]

1 minute ago, wsnydes said:

It's the major leagues.  Any team can beat any team at any given time.  It doesn't mean a whole lot.

It's the randomness of baseball.

You mean like the Twins vs the Yankees and Twins in post season play?

LOL, LOL, LOL

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, OptimisticTwinsFan said:

It's been interesting to see Ryan lose the couple extra MPH off of his stuff over the last month or so and how that has translated to more HRs leaving the park. He's also been unable to consistently command his offspeed stuff. 

He seems to me to have gotten inconsistent with command of everything, fastball included.

More misses than usual. Not just in the zone, but out too. Lots more uncompetitive pitches

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, IndianaTwin said:

We ran them into the ground. 

Speaking of, do you know what you call a cow with no legs? 

 

 

Ground beef. 

Chief, your jokes used to be mediocre.  What happened to standards? 🤣

[ashbury]

2 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

We ran them into the ground. 

Speaking of, do you know what you call a cow with no legs? 

 

 

Ground beef. 

Good one.  Do you know what to call a cat with four legs?

[cHawk]

Just now, RpR said:

You mean like the Twins vs the Yankees and Twins in post season play?

LOL, LOL, LOL

Postseason baseball is different than regular season baseball in multiple ways.

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Good one.  Do you know what to call a cat with four legs?

A cat?

[ashbury]

2 minutes ago, RpR said:

You mean like the Twins vs the Yankees and Twins in post season play?

Why do you even bother to watch, since you already know the outcome?

[wsnydes]

Just now, USAFChief said:

A cat?

Seems a bit too obvious...

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

A cat?

That's as good as any.  It won't come when you call it anyway.

[Schmoeman5]

10 minutes ago, RpR said:

WOW, this crappy team took 2 of 3 from Atlanta and we could win EVEN ONE, Twins are SO GOOD.😍

Ah. Let's see. Buxton 0 fer 2023 terrorizes lance Lynn. I don't see how the white Sox ever won a single game. Oh I know that awesome defense

[RpR]

4 minutes ago, cHawk said:

Postseason baseball is different than regular season baseball in multiple ways.

Well then when the Twins played the Yankees in regular season it must have morphed into post season play.

You gents are rationalizing Twins poor play agains good teams.

[Brock Beauchamp]

I just noticed that the lineup today is a righty, then four lefties, then four righties.

That’s… weird. 

[wsnydes]

3 minutes ago, RpR said:

You mean like the Twins vs the Yankees and Twins in post season play?

LOL, LOL, LOL

I'll bite, how do you explain a clearly inferior team winning in the regular season yet floundering in the postseason?  Seems pretty random to me.

[ashbury]

Wallner's one of those gifted outfielders who can make the tough plays look difficult.

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Wallner's one of those gifted outfielders who can make the tough plays look difficult.

"Smooth" us not an adjective that comes to mind

[Parfigliano]

Just now, Brock Beauchamp said:

I just noticed that the lineup today is a righty, then four lefties, then four righties.

That’s… weird. 

Rocco got a rule book and was stunned it doesNt have to be R, L, R, L.....

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

Well then when the Twins played the Yankees in regular season it must have morphed into post season play.

You gents are rationalizing Twins porr play agains good teams.

Calling it random is hardly rationalizing.  

[OptimisticTwinsFan]

Correa has 3 batted ball events over 104.5 and is 0-3... tough

[RpR]

1 minute ago, wsnydes said:

I'll bite, how do you explain a clearly inferior team winning in the regular season yet floundering in the postseason?  Seems pretty random to me.

Staw man fallacy.

[OptimisticTwinsFan]

7 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

He seems to me to have gotten inconsistent with command of everything, fastball included.

More misses than usual. Not just in the zone, but out too. Lots more uncompetitive pitches

Agreed and then he starts to throw it slower to try to throw strikes... almost looks like he's guiding the ball. 

[wsnydes]

2 minutes ago, RpR said:

Staw man fallacy.

What's strawman about it?  

How do you explain it then?  Bad teams beat good teams regularly.

[Schmoeman5]

3 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I just noticed that the lineup today is a righty, then four lefties, then four righties.

That’s… weird. 

Only because Casto and Gallo were late scratches

[USAFChief]

Pagan in progress...

[jkcarew]

So let’s see…Jimenez would be the go-ahead run.

[RpR]

Do you think Pagan escapes this inning or it ends up a tie game?