Game Thread: Twins (Keuchel) v Rangers (Montgomery), 9/2 @ 6:15pm CT

[wabene]

Small Balldelli 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

5 minutes ago, insagt1 said:

you can always count on Gallo to do nothing productive. As sure as the sun coming up in the East.

Reliable, eh.

[TWTwinsFan]

c'mon throw damn strikes

[mrtwinsfan]

2 minutes ago, TWTwinsFan said:

if MAT goes to IL, Castro will be back soon.

and Buxton...I think we are OK without him

i would thinlk  stevenson will be here to stay , with no M.A.T.  HE IS A VERY GOOD AND SMART C.F.

[Aggies7]

I wish duran could throw anything other than a fastball for a strike. That would be helpful 

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

I wish duran could throw anything other than a fastball for a strike. That would be helpful 

And A.J. is saying he wouldn't have him throw anything but the fastball 

[USAFChief]

6 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

I am not a millner...

Few are.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/milnejo01.shtml

[wabene]

4 minutes ago, TWTwinsFan said:

c'mon throw damn strikes

How that's for a strike! 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

They were just playing starwars music on the pa.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Runner to 3rd.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Tying run to the plate...

[USAFChief]

OH FFS.

[insagt1]

Duran once again needed only 1 strike and once again he he is struggling mightily to get the final out. Astoundinly frustrating. And Twins have used 9 pitchers. geez

[TWTwinsFan]

this Duran is horrible lately

[mrtwinsfan]

DURAN AND WILD PITCHES LATELY ARE HIS BIGGEST ISSUE

[one_eyed_jack]

This is agonizing 

[OvertheHill]

Seems like it’s been a while since we had a clean Duran outing. 

[USAFChief]

Not sure why they play the shift with a guy throwing 100.

[Aggies7]

Just now, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Tying run to the plate...

Winning run*

[Aggies7]

Had it all the way 

[Jocko87]

Alas, no Duran Duran matchup.

[Schmoeman5]

He frozen him on that one. Ballgame 

[HokieRif]

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Finishing the hat!

[Aggies7]

Duran needs a confidence injection before October. 

[USAFChief]

WInnah.

It's not like Duran gave up any hard contact. Lazy popup to right and a couple soft ground balls that weren't fielded.

2 K's. He looked good tonight.

And we came back from 4-0 to log a win, in Arlington. I'l take that.

[Jocko87]

Bullpen 6 2/3s, allowing 2 runs, despite all the naysayers in this thread.  Could have very easily been zero runs. 

[insagt1]

so he gets it done but I'm not very impressed with him as a closer.

OK--enough of that. Its a win and the lead remains 5. Right now however you can bank a 'W' you do it.

[SteveLV]

Actually allowed 1 run;  the Manfred Man does not count vs. their stats.  Just sayin'. ;)

[USAFChief]

Just now, Jocko87 said:

Bullpen 6 2/3s, allowing 2 runs, despite all the naysayers in this thread.  Could have very easily been zero runs. 

Hard for me to say "could have been zero," when Pagan walks the bases full with no out. But yeah, overall the pen was fantastic, and they needed a lot from them with Keuchel only going 3 1/3.