Game Thread: Twins vs Phillies, 6/12 - 7:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Lineups:

 

Twins:

Jamey Carroll 3B

Joe Mauer C

Ryan Doumit RF

Josh Willingham DH

Justin Morneau 1B

Oswaldo Arcia LF

Clete Thomas CF

Eduardo Escobar 2B

Pedro Florimon SS

(Mike Pelfrey P)

 

Phillies:

Michael Young 3B

Ben Revere CF

Jimmy Rollins SS

Ryan Howard 1B

Domonic Brown LF

Delmon Young DH

John Mayberry RF

Freddy Galvis 2B

Steven Lerud C

(Tyler Cloyd P)

[Joe A. Preusser]

Lineups:

 

Twins:

Jamey Carroll 3B

Joe Mauer C

Ryan Doumit RF

Josh Willingham DH

Justin Morneau 1B

Oswaldo Arcia LF

Clete Thomas CF

Eduardo Escobar 2B

Pedro Florimon SS

(Mike Pelfrey P)

 

Phillies:

Michael Young 3B

Ben Revere CF

Jimmy Rollins SS

Ryan Howard 1B

Domonic Brown LF

Delmon Young DH

John Mayberry RF

Freddy Galvis 2B

Steven Lerud C

(Tyler Cloyd P)

 

I thought, boy, that's a rough bottom 3rd of our lineup tonight. Then I saw the Phillies were batting Delmon 6th and I thought, hey, could be worse.

[Riverbrian]

I thought, boy, that's a rough bottom 3rd of our lineup tonight. Then I saw the Phillies were batting Delmon 6th and I thought, hey, could be worse.

 

They all get to use bats... As long as that holds true... Anything is possible...

 

If you combine the average of our bottom third... It comes out to .227. Assuming 12 at bats tonight... That means at least two hits from the trio tonight... Maybe 3... If they string them together... Woo Hoo... The Phillies are in trouble.

[Gibby]

He was out.

[Riverbrian]

Ump blew the call... He was out. Nice play by Carroll.

[Guest USAFChief]

Umpire misses call, scorekeeper follows suit. That's gotta be an E5, not a base hit, doesn't it? He made the stop, and the throw clearly beat the runner, but the throw was offline. How is that a hit?

[Riverbrian]

Pelfrey has to battle now.

[Riverbrian]

I don't like this with Brown up.

[Gibby]

At least I have a volleyball match to watch tonight.

[Riverbrian]

Umpire misses call, scorekeeper follows suit. That's gotta be an E5, not a base hit, doesn't it? He made the stop, and the throw clearly beat the runner, but the throw was offline. How is that a hit?

 

He made an extroidanary effort just to catch the ball. You get error cred for that.

[Guest USAFChief]

"How's about I just put it on a tee for you, Delmon?"

[Squirrel]

Difficult choice tonight - this or the hockey game

[Riverbrian]

Difficult choice tonight - this or the hockey game

 

Baseball... Always

[Guest USAFChief]

He made an extroidanary effort just to catch the ball. You get error cred for that.

Not in my book. You make the stop, you should then make the throw. If the runner beats it out, fine. Base hit. But if he's on first cause your throw pulled the first baseman, that's an E.

 

YMMV.

[Guest USAFChief]

Difficult choice tonight - this or the hockey game

Hockey's been over for about a month now, ChiTown.

[Riverbrian]

"How's about I just put it on a tee for you, Delmon?"

 

Pelf has to settle down or Gibson will be here in his spot.

[Gibby]

Going to watch my girl play for the US against Argentina in the Pan Am Cup tonight. That's her on the left.

[CairoCrown]

Pelf has to settle down or Gibson will be here in his spot.

Let's go Phillies?

[Guest USAFChief]

Pelf has to settle down or Gibson will be here in his spot.

D'ya suppose he can be here in time for the top of the 2nd?

[Squirrel]

Hockey's been over for about a month now, ChiTown.

Not in ChiTiwn it hasn't

[Riverbrian]

Not in my book. You make the stop, you should then make the throw. If the runner beats it out, fine. Base hit. But if he's on first cause your throw pulled the first baseman, that's an E.

 

YMMV.

 

The constant sun beating down on you as made you write a difficult book of baseball standards.

[Riverbrian]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]4413[/ATTACH]Going to watch my girl play for the US against Argentina in the Pan Am Cup tonight. That's her on the left.

 

How do you discipline a daughter who can spike with authority.

[Gibby]

Time for a blast.

[gil4]

Difficult choice tonight - this or the hockey game

I agree, and I haven't watched a full period of hockey since the Hartford Whalers moved, the second team the NHL moved on me in 4 years.

[Riverbrian]

Not in ChiTiwn it hasn't

 

Jonathan Toews... One of Grand Fork's own.

[Guest USAFChief]

The constant sun beating down on you as made you write a difficult book of baseball standards.

Possibly.

 

I think it's a pretty fair and consistent standard though...if your error (i.e. a bad throw) results in a base gained, that's then ruled an error.

[Gibby]

How do you discipline a daughter who can spike with authority.

 

Got all the disciplining in before she hit 6' 2".

[CairoCrown]

Got all the disciplining in before she hit 6' 2".

Wow. How tall are you and her mother?

[Gibby]

Wow. How tall are you and her mother?

 

We are both 5' 11.

[Riverbrian]

Possibly.

 

I think it's a pretty fair and consistent standard though...if your error (i.e. a bad throw) results in a base gained, that's then ruled an error.

 

Once you hit the dirt to make a play... Standing up and throwing would be considered an extroidanary effort to continue on make the out.

 

If that's an error... It would have been best for Carroll personally to just hold the ball and don't try.

 

Errors shouldn't be used to discourage effort.