Rays (Bradley) vs Twins (Ryan): 6/19/24, 6:40pm

[Patzky]

Just now, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Oh well.

 

Thanks all for the company!

Does help make even the poor games more enjoyable.

[IndyTwinsFan]

8 minutes ago, Azviking101 said:

Wow Royce. Awful error and then swing at garbage. Nice job buddy 

Well, he is human, after all.

[Schmoeman5]

6 minutes ago, RpR said:

Yes

If Santana somehow makes that play. And he lays out. I think Arozarena still tries to score. He's aggressive on the bases. It's just a question if Santana could recover quickly. I can't say whether he'd have made it or not. JMO

[MMMordabito]

Austin Martinis excluded from the following statement.

Bad defense and bullpen cost the Twins thish game.

[CoastiePilot08]

31 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

5 pitches to 3 best hitters and a loss.

Rough 

[Peter]

Scum bag umpires cost us game-it’s time to get rid of them once and for all!!! Robotic/AI going to happen!!

[knothole61]

1 hour ago, Aggies7 said:

Disagree wholeheartedly. 5 walks over the last 4 innings and 2 crucial errors. With some mopish at bats thrown in for good measure. That lucky ricochet bounce probably saved a run 

Yes, by whatever calculus one might come up with to determine "deserving" wins, the Twins fell short tonight. So, you are correct in that. You might also add in the fact that three relievers threw some 75 pitches to get through the ugly 7th and 8th innings and probably deserved to give up more than one run in the process. My point is, however, that despite all of the Twins' shortcomings, that was a game they still should have won--as lucky and undeserved as it would have been. After all of the twists and turns the game came down to a bad throw on a routine play: a play that if successful would have put Tampa in a desperate situation in the last of the 10th. We will never know, but I can't imagine the Twins going down on 5 pitches if that crushing play hadn't happened and if the heart of their order had only to move the runner in from second to win the game.   

[Doctor Gast]

9 hours ago, Jocko87 said:

Noted offensively challenged teams.

Both MN & NYY focus on squeezing every HR they can out of every hitter. Rortvedt is another hitter who doesn't benefit from that philosophy. 

[Schmoeman5]

11 hours ago, Peter said:

Scum bag umpires cost us game-it’s time to get rid of them once and for all!!! Robotic/AI going to happen!!

Sure they did. 

[RpR]

12 hours ago, Peter said:

Scum bag umpires cost us game-it’s time to get rid of them once and for all!!! Robotic/AI going to happen!!

Twins batters watching pitches go sailing by down the middle of the strike zone cost us games.