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Twins (Lopez) vs Rangers (Mahle): 8/18/24, 1:35pm

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Bringing Alcala in is one thing. Leaving him in to lose the game is quite another.

When a manager has zero feel for the game and instead sticks to predetermined scripts, this is exactly what happens. There wasn't even a mound visit. Jax was throwing. There was a delay. Ample opportunities to pull Alcala and get your best reliever into the game.

We're not talking about the end of April or something. It's late August. Every game counts at this point and this is a game they had won.

It's an awful loss and Rocco needs to own it. It's on him. 

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Dude. After the tie (at the latest) he should have been pulled. Jax was loose. Alcala pitched yesterday. This isn’t really defensible. 

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11 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

Time for the bats to awaken

Except that they've basically been in a deep coma since the third inning.  While I hope they do awaken, I'm not expecting it to happen against Yates. 

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Just now, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Bringing Alcala in is one thing. Leaving him in to lose the game is quite another.

When a manager has zero feel for the game and instead sticks to predetermined scripts, this is exactly what happens. There wasn't even a mound visit. Jax was throwing. There was a delay. Ample opportunities to pull Alcala and get your best reliever into the game.

We're not talking about the end of April or something. It's late August. Every game counts at this point and this is a game they had won.

It's an awful loss and Rocco needs to own it. It's on him. 

What's the script, here?

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2 minutes ago, CCHOF5yearstoolate said:

Holy irony hahaha, all I get is downvoted for not stepping in line with the group think in these threads.

But yeah, I'm sure if Trevor Richards had come in earlier and not given up any runs that would have been a praised Rocco decision. 

Except Richards wasn't gonna get anywhere near this game in that situation.  I'm genuinely surprised that he pitched the 9th to keep this at 1 run.  Also genuinely surprised that it's still a 1-run game.

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Just now, IndyTwinsFan said:

Except that they've basically been in a deep coma since the third inning.  While I hope they do awaken, I'm not expecting it to happen against Yates. 

Yates can blow up too

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5 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

I am too lazy to look it up…… anyone know what the Twins record is in final games of a series this year? 2-1 btw, all time in final games of the World Series 😀

23-16 entering today.

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