Game Thread: Twins (Ober) @ Guardians (Allen); 5/18 @ 5:10pm CT

[Squirrel]

Gotta win today! Go Twins!

Jeffers DH
Correa SS
Castro LF
Miranda 3B
Buxton CF
Margot RF
Santana 1B
Farmer 2B
Vázquez C

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Sites are a mess this morning, cannot upload images or embed anything like tweets AND we're getting hammered with DDOS attacks. A perfect weekend, in other words.

At least posting text comments still works fine.

[Squirrel]

Buxton activated, Martin down. Tried to post a tweet yesterday where Betsy reported that Buxton was in Cleveland. Expect to see him in the lineup today

[ashbury]

Good luck with the site issues.

Buxton up, Martin down (ninja'd by Squirrel).  I would say Hallelujah, not being a big Austin Martin believer as yet, EXCEPT, I believe it's the case that Buxton failed to get a base hit during his short stint at AAA.  All is not yet well, I fear.

[Squirrel]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Good luck with the site issues.

Buxton up, Martin down (ninja'd by Squirrel).  I would say Hallelujah, not being a big Austin Martin believer as yet, EXCEPT, I believe it's the case that Buxton failed to get a base hit during his short stint at AAA.  All is not yet well, I fear.

Someone ninja’d you …

[ashbury]

3 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Someone ninja’d you …

Looks like my edit ninja'd your boast, as it showed up in your reply. 😀

[wabene]

Buxton was pretty hot in his last 10 games played

[Squirrel]

19 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Looks like my edit ninja'd your boast, as it showed up in your reply. 😀

Proves I got to you first all the way around

[mrtwinsfan]

7 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Gotta win today! Go Twins!

Jeffers DH
Correa SS
Castro LF
Miranda 3B
Buxton CF
Margot LF
Santana 1B
Farmer 2B
Vázquez C

 

Castro and Margo both in Left   field, Rocco worried about the Defense ? And no Max - weird

[IndianaTwin]

19 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Castro and Margo both in Left   field, Rocco worried about the Defense ? And no Max - weird

Buxton can cover both center and right. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

32 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

Buxton can cover both center and right. 

but doesn't that just make Buxton the Right Fielder? Not sure who is Center then, but i imagine it could be a short fielder and a deep fielder?

 

Or are the i field shift rules somehow extended to the outfield?

[Squirrel]

1 hour ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Castro and Margo both in Left   field, Rocco worried about the Defense ? And no Max - weird

Ooops, Margot is in right … changed it, thanks

[mrtwinsfan]

5 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Ooops, Margot is in right … changed it, thanks

All in Fun😁

[bighat]

With Farmer, Margot and Vazquez in the lineup and the Twins already in one of their trademark offensive cold-spells, I'm afraid this won't be pretty. Probably be Cleveland 4-1 or 3-0 or something. Ober will pitch well enough to win, it'll be close late until Jackson gives up a 2-run double in the 8th and the Twins will go down weakly in the 9th. Buxton strikes out twice and doesn't reach base, Jeffers goes 0-for-4 and the air continues to leak from the Twins balloon. 

[mrtwinsfan]

21 minutes ago, bighat said:

With Farmer, Margot and Vazquez in the lineup and the Twins already in one of their trademark offensive cold-spells, I'm afraid this won't be pretty. Probably be Cleveland 4-1 or 3-0 or something. Ober will pitch well enough to win, it'll be close late until Jackson gives up a 2-run double in the 8th and the Twins will go down weakly in the 9th. Buxton strikes out twice and doesn't reach base, Jeffers goes 0-for-4 and the air continues to leak from the Twins balloon. 

Jeffers goes 0-for-4     HE DOES !!

[Schmoeman5]

Castro over 1000 ops vs lefties. Castro .143 w risp

[mrtwinsfan]

Nice to hear Span,  Smalley i could do without 

[IndianaTwin]

26 minutes ago, bighat said:

With Farmer, Margot and Vazquez in the lineup and the Twins already in one of their trademark offensive cold-spells, I'm afraid this won't be pretty. Probably be Cleveland 4-1 or 3-0 or something. Ober will pitch well enough to win, it'll be close late until Jackson gives up a 2-run double in the 8th and the Twins will go down weakly in the 9th. Buxton strikes out twice and doesn't reach base, Jeffers goes 0-for-4 and the air continues to leak from the Twins balloon. 

His overall stats speak to how bad he was early, but Farmer is 8 for 24, plus three walks, since April 27. It works out to a .949 OPS. 

[mrtwinsfan]

2 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Castro over 1000 ops vs lefties. Castro .143 w risp

Like Willi as a Part timer,  with his BaseBall I.Q. NOT A FAN OF HIM IN THE 3 HOLE

[USAFChief]

Pretty tough to take seriously a team that bats Castro and Miranda 3 and 4.

With Manny Margot 6th.

Can you imagine the Dodgers, Braves, Yankees with a similar lineup?

[SD happy]

I don’t think our #3&4 hitters inspire as much fear for other teams compared to Cleveland’s #3&4 hitters.

[stringer bell]

Leadoff hit for the Twins leads to nothing, leadoff hit for Guards............

[Schmoeman5]

4 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Pretty tough to take seriously a team that bats Castro and Miranda 3 and 4.

With Manny Margot 6th.

Can you imagine the Dodgers, Braves, Yankees with a similar lineup?

The top of this lineup is loaded! Whatever do you mean? 😃 

[USAFChief]

Maybe don't keep pitching him inside. 

[mrtwinsfan]

Really Ober, if at first you dont suceed  keep throwing to the same spot ,  eventually thats what Happens

[IndianaTwin]

Right after saying to myself how nice it is to have Perkins rather than Gladden as the color guy on the radio, Perkins is discussing Ober’s pitch count and says, “He’s hitting foul ball after foul ball after foul ball. That’s not a problem unless there’s two strikes.”

Glen, the way it works is that after a player hits two foul balls, it’s a given that any remaining foul balls will happen with two strikes. 

[Aggies7]

Jose Ramirez is our daddy

[Aggies7]

38 pitches to get through the first inning, my goodness. I’ll put the Stooges back on I guess. Although this is some good slapstick, farcical comedy too 

[mrtwinsfan]

Again - Byron , your starter needs a minute,   This team is not coached well during games, And Rocco thats on you only

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Guardians are extremely annoying.