Game Thread: Tigers (Olson) v Twins (Ober); 4/20 @ 1:10pm CT

[h2oface]

I never understand throwing meat on purpose. 

[mrtwinsfan]

Rocco, this is Baileys game, let him back out to start the 7th at a minimum, how they ever gonna get CONFIDENCE,     

[Parfigliano]

5 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Rocco, this is Baileys game, let him back out to start the 7th at a minimum, how they ever gonna get CONFIDENCE,     

Not to be

[howeda7]

Pulling Ober with that few pitches is just ridiculous. Rocco is awful these days. 

[OvertheHill]

1 minute ago, howeda7 said:

Pulling Ober with that few pitches is just ridiculous. Rocco is awful these days. 

These days? 

[Parfigliano]

U had one job Okert

[Parfigliano]

2 minutes ago, howeda7 said:

Pulling Ober with that few pitches is just ridiculous. Rocco is awful these days. 

Rocco is Rocco.  Awful.

[OvertheHill]

Stating the obvious but Ober should have been allowed to start the inning. I’ve seen nothing from Okert that gets me excited. 

[OvertheHill]

4 minutes ago, howeda7 said:

Pulling Ober with that few pitches is just ridiculous. Rocco is awful these days. 

82 is the new 100 apparently. 

[USAFChief]

"Best bullpen in baseball."

How  TF do you give up an 0-2 linedrive to Javier Baez? He literally will swing at anything. ANYthing.

[RickOShea]

These games have to be scripted

[Parfigliano]

Morneau right.  Way to watch Castro

[howeda7]

Here comes the game tying bloop. 

[OvertheHill]

Let me know if you’ve heard this before. Largely effective Twins starter with modest pitch count gets pulled, things go south. 

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

"Best bullpen in baseball."

You gotta play baseball, first.

[KirbyDome89]

Literally throw a ball in the opposite batters box and Baez will swing at it. How anybody gives up a hit to that guy is beyond me...

[Danchat]

Gotta agree on Okert, he's been quite rubbish so far this year - only 6 innings and in that span he's given up 12 baserunners. 

Looks like Sands threw a well-located 0-2 pitch to Baez, he just did a great job of making contact on that ball out of the zone.

[Parfigliano]

2 minutes ago, OvertheHill said:

Let me know if you’ve heard this before. Largely effective Twins starter with modest pitch count gets pulled, things go south. 

Can you hum a few bars?

[mrtwinsfan]

Twins Daily Dose of Rocco

[jkcarew]

15 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

Not to be

Happened to be reading a ‘50 years ago’ history site…general, not sports-centric….

Early in the 1974 season, Nolan Ryan struck out 19 batters over 13 innings.

Lest the young’uns among you scoff at this old-timey bit of trivia…this is in an era when the name of the game was putting the ball in play…and players had the approach and skill to do so. 
 

Point being…he was throwing HARD…all 13 innings. And he pitched another 20 years after that.

Not that we can use Nolan Ryan as an ‘example’ career…still, what happened?

 

[Parfigliano]

Better score more cause 2 more innings of.this relief pitching

[Tlaker]

Why are they swinging at the first pitch so often?

[Parfigliano]

SB time Julien

[howeda7]

PH Santana for Kirloff, Rocco? Really? Make that firing today not tomorrow. 

[MMMordabito]

Now pinch hitting for Best Hitter is Worst Hitter. What do you think of the move, Justin?

[Danchat]

Holy barnacles... you can't have Santana pinch hit! Certainly not for Kirilloff!

[howeda7]

Margot for Larnach. Seriously Rocco. 

[OvertheHill]

Margot. That will scare them. 

[USAFChief]

I'm so Ober Rocco.

 

[CRF]

Santana needs to go back on tour with the band.