Twins (Festa) vs Mets (Manaea): 7/30/24, 6:10pm

[Patzky]

Jax in the 7th, Duran the 8th, no 9th needed. One way to save the pen.

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, mnfireman said:

Looking at Miranda's pitch by pitch K's on Gameday, he's swinging at everything. A little gun shy after getting hit the other day...

Miranda has always swung at everything. When he's on a hot streak, he hits it.

[cheeseheadgophfan]

What an embarrassing effort from this lineup tonight.....making Mannea look like he's throwing 101 instead of 91.  Disgusting.

[TwinsCD]

1 hour ago, TwinsCD said:

I'd imagine the Mets pitching braintrust spent about 3 minutes on tonight's scouting report -- just do the same thing as last night.

Seems to have worked.

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

2-0 might as well be 12-0.

Two runs means Peter's happy 

[Parfigliano]

Dobnak for the 8th

[USAFChief]

Just now, Patzky said:

Jax in the 7th, Duran the 8th, no 9th needed. One way to save the pen.

There's no way would waste Jax and Duran down 2.

[jaimedude]

Twins are going from contender to pretenders fast. April like at-bat's with consistent strike-out's. Manea is not that great, Twins are making it easy on Manea. 

[exeoud]

Burning all our good relievers chasing an insurmountable lead to set up the sweep tomorrow.

[GusGus11]

2 minutes ago, mnfireman said:

Looking at Miranda's pitch by pitch K's on Gameday, he's swinging at everything. A little gun shy after getting hit the other day...

This is who he is and why his current average is not really sustainable per his exit velos

If he ever at any point develops a semblance of plate discipline though, watch out. Cause he can hit anything reasonably around the plate.

[Peter]

3 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

Like Buffalo and Kanas City? I don't think you get out enough.

Most big cites in all the pro sports are bigger then Minnesota 

[Patzky]

Not sure I'm even feeling confident against the White Sox ..

[Peter]

2 minutes ago, Patzky said:

Two runs means Peter's happy 

Yes it does-2 hits won’t get it done😤

[Aggies7]

Man, he’s gotten better but atteberry loves him a good story doesn’t he

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, Patzky said:

Not sure I'm even feeling confident against the White Sox ..

They're due for a little hot streak. 

[Peter]

1 minute ago, Patzky said:

Not sure I'm even feeling confident against the White Sox ..

They will sweep the white Sox 

[MMMordabito]

1 minute ago, exeoud said:

Burning all our good relievers chasing an insurmountable lead to set up the sweep tomorrow.

Jax hasn't pitched on the road trip. Can't sit 'em forever.

[exeoud]

1 minute ago, Patzky said:

Not sure I'm even feeling confident against the White Sox ..

The Sox are definitely snapping their losing streak this weekend.

[nicksaviking]

Just now, Peter said:

Most big cites in all the pro sports are bigger then Minnesota 

Except they're not. Again, the Minnesota market is the 15th biggest. That's average.

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, Peter said:

Most big cites in all the pro sports are bigger then Minnesota 

Just spitballin' here, but I don't think many cities are bigger than Minnesota. 

[exeoud]

1 minute ago, MMMordabito said:

Jax hasn't pitched on the road trip. Can't sit 'em forever.

This is how you get Okert pitching in close games.

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

Just spitballin' here, but I don't think many cities are bigger than Minnesota. 

ACTUALLY it looks like 65 cities worldwide are bigger than Minnesota. Miami is one of them

[Parfigliano]

Was hoping Kepler would be gone today

[GusGus11]

4 minutes ago, exeoud said:

Burning all our good relievers chasing an insurmountable lead to set up the sweep tomorrow.

No we aren't.

We have thursday off. They can all pitch back to back days tomorrow if needed

Jax and Alcala last pitched exactly a week ago. Duran last Wednesday

They were always gonna pitch tonight. That's why if our offense had even a drop of self respect, Festa did his job today through 5.

Cause we were gonna unleash the big guns

[Patzky]

Hallelujah. A 🎯 hit.

[nicksaviking]

3 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Just spitballin' here, but I don't think many cities are bigger than Minnesota. 

Ready for the geography lesson sir.

[USAFChief]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

ACTUALLY it looks like 65 cities worldwide are bigger than Minnesota. Miami is one of them

Miami has more than 87000 sq miles??

I'm skeptical. 

[GusGus11]

Well, maybe all we needed was an error

Using Kepler as the pinch hit option was certainly a choice.

[Parfigliano]

The break they need E-3

[exeoud]

Just now, GusGus11 said:

No we aren't.

We have thursday off. They can all pitch back to back days tomorrow if needed

Jax and Alcala last pitched exactly a week ago. Duran last Wednesday

They were always gonna pitch tonight. That's why if our offense had even a drop of self respect, Festa did his job today through 5.

Cause we were gonna unleash the big guns

They can pitch back to back days but there's a lot of data proving relievers are much less effective on consecutive days.