Twins (Woods Richardson) vs Guardians (Cantillo): 9/19/24, 12:10pm

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Margot makes a catch.

[OvertheHill]

That was a great play by Margot! 

[Western SD Fan]

6 minutes ago, karcherd said:

Notice the difference in bullpen management.  The Guardians have roles for their pitchers, Gaddis isn't pitching in the 5th inning, he is the set up guy.  We try to match up every hitter and then run out of pitchers by the end of the game.  Irvin should have been left in and now Sands is done and Varland will pitch one inning.  Get ready Tonkin or Blewitt to pitch in a tie game.  And they will have Clase and Smith to pitch.

You also see it in the lineup construction. Notice how Josh Naylor hit against a lefty? No way we would let Larnach get the ABs to gain the trust to hit against lefties. We’d have to pinch hit Margot because the numbers say so.

[Dave Borton]

Jeffers has thrown out 14% of runners this year.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 minute ago, TwinsCD said:

One's lucky, two's a trend.  LOOK AT DR STRANGEGLOVE MAKING PLAYS

What is the inspiration behind this nickname, if i may ask?

[mrmpls]

14  STRIKEOUTS ==

[OvertheHill]

Good for Louie. 

[thelanges5]

Pitchers doing it today. Hitters it is time to step up! ⚾️⚾️🏟️🏟️

[CRF]

Whether he likes it or not...and he probably better start liking it...Louie is significantly better out of the pen.

[TwinsCD]

Just now, sampleSizeOfOne said:

What is the inspiration behind this nickname, if i may ask?

In the early 90s during the Pirates heyday, Jim Leyland would have Gary Redus in either center or right when Van Slyke and Bonilla had days off.  My dad, a big Pirates fan, gave Redus that name because of some of the misplays he'd have in the field.  

[mrmpls]

1 minute ago, CRF said:

Whether he likes it or not...and he probably better start liking it...Louie is significantly better out of the pen.

Or bye bye Louie

[thelanges5]

Clase is due for some regression!

[UpstateNewYorker]

1 minute ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

What is the inspiration behind this nickname, if i may ask?

There's a 1960s movie with Peter Sellers called "Dr. Strangelove".  And in  the '60s a bad fielding player on the Orioles -- Dick Stuart -- was nicknamed Dr. Strangeglove."

[OvertheHill]

Brutal shadows there for batters right now. 

[Parfigliano]

Clase pitch 3-4 or just against TC

[USAFChief]

3 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

What is the inspiration behind this nickname, if i may ask?

The origin:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

It's since been used as a nickname for many players with, for lack of a better term, bad hands

[karcherd]

Don't bring in Jax until we have a lead.

[TwinsCD]

6 minutes ago, Western SD Fan said:

You also see it in the lineup construction. Notice how Josh Naylor hit against a lefty? No way we would let Larnach get the ABs to gain the trust to hit against lefties. We’d have to pinch hit Margot because the numbers say so.

And with that lineup construction, their players always know which slot they're going to be in the majority of the games.  As opposed to our manager who picks names out of a hat to slot them into a lineup.

[jaimedude]

Jeffers is as close to an automatic out that Twins have. Starting to look like Gallo at the plate. 

[cheeseheadgophfan]

i really thought that Royce was gonna be a superstar.....sort of stride for stride with Bobby Witt Jr.........I was wrong (again).

[mrmpls]

1 minute ago, karcherd said:

Don't bring in Jax until we have a lead.

might be april ?

[thelanges5]

2 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

Clase pitch 3-4 or just against TC

He pitches all the time he has 70 innings pitched on the season Gaddis has 77

[howeda7]

Another game where we have led or tied most of the game but it feels like we have zero chance to win.

[thelanges5]

1-7 with RISP so far today with 10 stranded. 

[Dave Borton]

Farmer hitting .429 in September. 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

1 minute ago, howeda7 said:

Another game where we have led or tied most of the game but it feels like we have zero chance to win.

The moment Cleveland tied it, it felt like the Twins were down by 10 runs.

[OvertheHill]

1 minute ago, thelanges5 said:

1-7 with RISP so far today with 10 stranded. 

And 14 K’s and zero base runners since the 5th inning 

[thelanges5]

Just now, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

The moment Cleveland tied it, it felt like the Twins were down by 10 runs.

The series has been close, but we just cannot put them away!

[USAFChief]

3 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

He pitches all the time he has 70 innings pitched on the season Gaddis has 77

And they're both 1 inning relievers. As is Cade Smith, and Herron.

All of Clase, Gaddis and Smith have more IP than any Twins reliever, too.

 

[mrmpls]

2 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

1-7 with RISP so far today with 10 stranded. 

   all the strikeouts  not helping either