Marlins (Bellozo) vs Twins (Festa): 9/26/24, 6:40pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

[Parfigliano]

Win and half the division plus that team out west lose.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I hope we win.

 

Waiting patiently for a night get away game. I guess Miami isn't going very far?

Yeah, Toronto isn't that far by plane, i guess.

[mnfireman]

2 hours ago, Parfigliano said:

Win and half the division plus that team out west lose.

Seattle has the day off, unfortunately, but a Twins win gives them a full game lead over that team out West. They will know how half the division did before first pitch tonight, not that they should need ANY type of motivation to keep getting W's...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Nor do they need the demotivation should both KC and Detroit win, as they've shown a penchant for.

[cmoss84]

I'd actually consider having Thielbar as the opener in this one, then Festa. Edwards, Norby, and Burger all hit RH pitching better, and it would shorten the game an inning. But I digress. 

Will be fun to watch Festa in a big game situation. 

[insagt1]

Gnats and TB finally providing some competition this afternoon. If they open the door lets hope the Twins can break on through.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Royals represent the best chance for the Twins to make the playoffs. IIRC, they go to Atlanta this weekend and the Braves are playing for their post-season lives. Not sure the Twins can take care of business on their end with the Orioles, but I do suspect KC will drop 2 of 3 against the Braves. If the Twins can somehow pick a game today, and go 2-1 against Baltimore and have KC go 1-2...there's your path.

[TwinsCD]

Late inning chokejobs by both the Nats and Rays so it's a must-win tonight.

[insagt1]

Yep..plan the funeral. KC with a big 9th against the woeful, awful, disgusting Gnats. And Tigers with 2 in the 8th reversing a 3-2 deficit to beat TB. Twins have no chance now.

For pride, they should still go out and win tonite. Stay alive for one more day,

[Hubie29]

Good teams do what needs to be done. Tigers and Royals winning when they have to. They are not going to let the Twins back in it with 3 games to go. 

[Parfigliano]

18 minutes ago, Hubie29 said:

Good teams do what needs to be done. Tigers and Royals winning when they have to. They are not going to let the Twins back in it with 3 games to go. 

Its like KC and DET want to make the playoffs.  Weird.

[thelanges5]

Can’t worry about what the other teams are doing at this point. Just need to keep winning! LFG Twins ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️

 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Yup, must win tonight. 

Baltimore is not going to roll over for us this weekend, just because. 

[NYCTK]

We all know the twins season is done, but I need them to win to keep pressure on the Royals. They can't go into Atlanta half assed and get swept. 

[thelanges5]

 

[lecroy24fan]

Makes sense forit to be Simeon since he's done for the year.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Will Camargo or Margot get a pinch hit today?

 

[insagt1]

When a team wants to win badly, they often dig down deeper and find that extra gear. KC had lost 7 straight. They came to DC to play a team that doesn't give two craps about the games. They are nearly as bad as the Whitesox with less motivation. The result was a KC sweep as the Gnats pretty much rolled over.

Detroit OTOH hasn't cared who they played. They just don't think they can lose. TB led the entire game...until they didn't...in the 8th inning. Tigers did just enough to win, as they have been doing for over a month.

Twins came home from a disastrous double header beating and lost to a 99 loss team. That they finally won yesterday was too little too late. While KC and Det were sweeping; Twins did not. And there you are. Mindsets of the teams involved? Again, we can't read whats inside them but we CAN see results.

Twins batting Lewis cleanup today doesn' t make any sense to me. He hasn't produced many runs lately. Maybe there is no one better? Since Miranda ran off those consecutive hits and looked like he was ready to earn a big contract...he totally disappeared. When he was needed most.

If Twins win tonite, its 2 back with 3 to play. Doesn;t take much math to figure this one out.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I apologize that i set a bad example for the Twins.

Clearly the reason we are running out of steam is a lack of game thread intros. They're like batting practice for is fans.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 minute ago, insagt1 said:

If Twins win tonite, its 2 back with 3 to play. Doesn;t take much math to figure this one out.

But either team can stumble, which makes it... about twice as likely?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Just now, sampleSizeOfOne said:

But either team can stumble, which makes it... about twice as likely?

But of course the proper response woulda been "but sir, the odds of surviving a direct assault on a star destroyer are approximately 250 thousand to one!"

But i didn't think about it until inalready whiffed...

I'll just float away with the rest of the trash... 

[Craig Arko]

7 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

But of course the proper response woulda been "but sir, the odds of surviving a direct assault on a star destroyer are approximately 250 thousand to one!"

But i didn't think about it until inalready whiffed...

I'll just float away with the rest of the trash... 

I hope you float back. It’s nice to have a bit of respite from the usual radioactive acid bath of a game thread.

[NYCTK]

13 minutes ago, insagt1 said:

They came to DC to play a team that doesn't give two craps about the games. They are nearly as bad as the Whitesox with less motivation.

Well, that just ain't even close to true. The Nats aren't even the worst team in their own division. 

[TwinsCD]

19 minutes ago, insagt1 said:

When a team wants to win badly, they often dig down deeper and find that extra gear. KC had lost 7 straight. They came to DC to play a team that doesn't give two craps about the games. They are nearly as bad as the Whitesox with less motivation. The result was a KC sweep as the Gnats pretty much rolled over.

Detroit OTOH hasn't cared who they played. They just don't think they can lose. TB led the entire game...until they didn't...in the 8th inning. Tigers did just enough to win, as they have been doing for over a month.

Twins came home from a disastrous double header beating and lost to a 99 loss team. That they finally won yesterday was too little too late. While KC and Det were sweeping; Twins did not. And there you are. Mindsets of the teams involved? Again, we can't read whats inside them but we CAN see results.

Twins batting Lewis cleanup today doesn' t make any sense to me. He hasn't produced many runs lately. Maybe there is no one better? Since Miranda ran off those consecutive hits and looked like he was ready to earn a big contract...he totally disappeared. When he was needed most.

If Twins win tonite, its 2 back with 3 to play. Doesn;t take much math to figure this one out.

Starts with the manager and instilling a little extra in the players.  The Tigers have a professional manager.  The Royals have a guy that pulled perfect strings in these 3 games vs the Nats when the bats were just not working.  Our guy chomps his gum and stands looking off into space at his spot on the railing.

[NYCTK]

Fun Fact: Inter-league record isn't the most telling metric of success, but it is quasi balanced, and I think tells an interesting story. 

Playoff "contenders": 

Braves 29-14

Brewers 31-15

Dodgers 30-16

Padres 27-19

Phillies 26-20

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Guardians 24-22

Mets 24-22

Diamondbacks 24-22

Yankees 22-21

Royals 21-21

Astros 22-24

Tigers 22-24

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Orioles 20-26

Twins 18-27

First, the NL is so much better than the AL. And The Twins really aren't good. The got all their wins in the two worst division (54-31) and shat the bed against the far superior ALE and NL (28-45). 

[Schmoeman5]

47 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Will Camargo or Margot get a pinch hit today?

 

Yes.

[TwinsCD]

I'm genuinely sad for the fans in Oakland.  I cursed their name in 88 when that Fox character hit the HR on Sunday Night Baseball to change that race but I enjoyed dancing on their graves in 87, 91, and especially when we marked our return to competence in 2002 by winning Game 5 on their home turf.  It's reprehensible that billionaires like Fisher and others who don't use their platform for the greater good.  

[NYCTK]

Just now, TwinsCD said:

I'm genuinely sad for the fans in Oakland.  I cursed their name in 88 when that Fox character hit the HR on Sunday Night Baseball to change that race but I enjoyed dancing on their graves in 87, 91, and especially when we marked our return to competence in 2002 by winning Game 5 on their home turf.  It's reprehensible that billionaires like Fisher and others who don't use their platform for the greater good.  

I was hoping they were going to riot and force a forfeit. 

Imagine being a billionaire, like Fisher and the Pohlads, and caring more about a made up number on a financial statement that doesn't improve your life one bit instead of actually trying to help others. 

I wish I believed in hell so I could imagine eternal suffering for people like them, but at least their legacy will be one of absolute hatred. As it should be. 

[thelanges5]

This helps explain why Miranda hasn’t been hitting lately.