Twins vs White Sox, 6/20 - 12:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Day game!

 

Lineups:

 

Twins:

Brian Dozier 2B

Joe Mauer DH

Ryan Doumit C

Josh Willingham LF

Justin Morneau 1B

Trevor Plouffe 3B

Oswaldo Arcia RF

Clete Thomas CF

Eduardo Escobar SS

(Scott Diamond P)

 

White Sox:

Alejandro de Aza CF

Alexei Ramirez SS

Alex Rios RF

Paul Konerko DH

Adam Dunn 1B

Dayan Viciedo LF

Jeff Keppinger 3B

Gordon Beckham 2B

Hector Gimenez C

(John Danks P)

[snepp]

No runs allowed in the first inning.

 

 

We're comin'!

[Squirrel]

My neighbor was on a plane sitting next to Danks. As she doesn't really follow the sport she had no idea who he was, but through the course of the flight found out he was a pitcher for the Sox, a starting pitcher, who is fiance was, where she worked, when/where they were getting married, what were his plans after he was done as a pitcher, etc. But never asked his name. Found out everything under the sun but never asked for his name because she didn't want to seem too intrusive. She only found out it was Danks after her son-in-law showed her pictures of various Sox pitchers.

[snepp]

The UnWillinghammer.

[Cap'n Piranha]

Dozier being kept busy so far.

[IdahoPilgrim]

Nice. 3 up, 3 down. Let's see if Diamond can keep that going. I always get a little nervous when he's pitching. Or Pelfrey. Or Deduno. Or anybody else they put out there.

[snepp]

There's only of Arcia's 500 foot flyballs that didn't get caught on the warning track.

[Riverbrian]

​Arcia

[James]

That home run made me stop typing my email, dead in my tracks. I had to raise my fist in triumph as well.

[Cap'n Piranha]

I see. So if Escobar was still on the South Side, the White Sox would be running away with the Central. Good to know.

[James]

The bull-dozier!!!!!

[Riverbrian]

​Dozier

[PseudoSABR]

Dozier!?

[Tibs]

Brian Dozier!!!

[Riverbrian]

That home run made me stop typing my email, dead in my tracks. I had to raise my fist in triumph as well.

 

May your typing be perpetually interrupted.

[snepp]

Do that moar.

[Riverbrian]

Dozier!?

 

Nice back handed question mark.

[James]

Dozier!?

Of all the guys on the roster, Dozier would not be the guy I would have guessed that would homer in back to back games.

[Ultima Ratio]

That ball took forever to get out. Good on you Dozzie!

[IdahoPilgrim]

Dozier!?

 

Even the blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while.

[Squirrel]

Heh, love having the audio going of the game at work when Sox fans come into the library.

[snepp]

Even the blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while.

 

[Riverbrian]

If Ozzie was still managing do you think we'd go from the Pirahna's to the Blind Squirrels.

[IdahoPilgrim]

Diamond getting hot!

[Riverbrian]

Diamond getting hot!

 

Diamond as far as I can tell... Throws a 4 seamer... curve and change up... That's it...

 

With a name like Diamond... He needs to cut that fastball... He'd have a Diamond Cutter.

[IdahoPilgrim]

OK, I'm following gameday remotely. Was that a good throw, or a poor decision to send Doumit home (or both)?

[Ultima Ratio]

Do our third base coaches know anything about baseball: situations -- outs, speed of runner, necessity of taking chance, outs and speed of runner, and outs and no speed running?

 

C'mon.

[Tibs]

OK, I'm following gameday remotely. Was that a good throw, or a poor decision to send Doumit home (or both)?

 

Both.

[snepp]

With a name like Diamond... He needs to cut that fastball... He'd have a Diamond Cutter.

 

*cringe*

[PseudoSABR]

OK, I'm following gameday remotely. Was that a good throw, or a poor decision to send Doumit home (or both)?

Doumit was taken by surprise by the throw home. He didn't slide and made no effort to jar the catcher, nearly tripping over his leg. He looked back to Morneau (on deck) who obviously missed telling him to slide or brace himself. There was plenty of dumb to go around.