Spring Training Game Thread: Twins v Rays, 3/18/14 @ 6:05pm

[Squirrel]

Yeah. I really thought that ball was gone

[Willihammer]

Are you sure? I thought his three pitches were roped single, rocket double, and long HR.

 

That's just bad BABIP luck. He'll regress into a 3 ERA pitcher any day now

[Physics Guy]

Swarzak stands a better chance of starting a game for the Twins this year than Worley does at this point.

[JB_Iowa]

That's just bad BABIP luck. He'll regress into a 3 ERA pitcher any day now

 

You forgot the 1 in front of the 3

[Physics Guy]

Yeah. I really thought that ball was gone

He jumped at the edge of the grass. It seemed to me he thought he was closer to the wall. He doesn't look terribly sure of himself out there.

[Physics Guy]

You forgot the 1 in front of the 3

ouch

[Physics Guy]

6 walks for Moore. 85 pitches, 44 strikes. Glad I didn't draft him in fantasy. Don't get me wrong, I'd take him on Twins in a heartbeat.

[Physics Guy]

Have we had any starter approach this many pitches yet?

[Willihammer]

Moore's final line: 33 swings - 1 LD, 7 GB, 4 FB, 15 fouls, 6 whiffs

 

edit: 6 whiffs, not 5

[Willihammer]

Twins 5th: 8 swings - 1 LD, 0 GB, 1 FB, 4 fouls, 2 whiffs

[Squirrel]

geeeeeeeeez ....

[LaBombo]

Bert with an interesting plug for collusion, via his anecdote about owners controlling costs by not signing VGuer back in the day...

[Willihammer]

You think this is bad, remember in 2012 ST when the O's got beat by a JuCo team?

 

Eternal Hope forever, San Juan Bautista patron saint of baseball pray for us.

[LaBombo]

Twins 5th: 8 swings - 1 LD, 0 GB, 1 FB, 4 fouls, 2 whiffs

Ahhhhh!!! Stop! We get it! Non-Mauer Twins couldn't hit a pinata unblindfolded and armed with a laser-guided Louisville Slugger.

 

J/k, thanks for the updates, it's confirming that the Twins aren't unlucky at the plate tonight, they're just overmatched.

[LaBombo]

Aaaand Bartlett locks down center field for 2014. Grab some bench, Hicks and Elvis!

[Willihammer]

Rays 6th: 9 swings - 1 LD, 1 GB, 1 FB, 4 fouls, 2 whiffs

[LaBombo]

Eternal Hope forever, San Juan Bautista patron saint of baseball pray for us.

http://www.mormoncontributor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/play-aschamp2.jpg

[Willihammer]

Twins 6th: 6 swings - 0 LD, 2 GB, 0 FB, 1 foul, 3 whiffs

[Willihammer]

Ahhhhh!!! Stop! We get it! Non-Mauer Twins couldn't hit a pinata unblindfolded and armed with a laser-guided Louisville Slugger.

 

J/k, thanks for the updates, it's confirming that the Twins aren't unlucky at the plate tonight, they're just overmatched.

I realized I needed to do something to help me stay engaged with this godawful team so I'm keeping score now. We'll see how long that lasts.

[jokin]

I realized I needed to do something to help me stay engaged with this godawful team so I'm keeping score now. We'll see how long that lasts.

 

Frankly, I'm stunned you made it this far. It's going to be a long......season.

[shs_59]

Tell me that when we find a leadoff hitter as good as Ben Revere ...... I'm stil waiting...

 

(might be waiting till past i'm dead)

 

And No Byron Buxton should not be a leadoff hitter (he may have to be)

[Willihammer]

Rays 7th: 9 swings - 3 LD, 0 GB, 0 FB, 4 fouls, 2 whiffs

[LaBombo]

I realized I needed to do something to help me stay engaged with this godawful team so I'm keeping score now. We'll see how long that lasts.

Well done, much appreciated, and know what you mean.

 

Tonight's game has dragged on to the point where I found myself internally debating for several seconds whether to pull for Guerra to make the squad or to get cut so we don't have to hear about the Santana trade quite as often...

[Willihammer]

Come on Ramirez, hit one back up the boxberger

 

edit: walk works too

[LaBombo]

Frankly, I'm stunned you made it this far. It's going to be a long......season.

Season?!?! Good God, man, we're approaching the halfway point of a long decade!

 

Homer.

[Willihammer]

Come on Kubel, send this meathead packing

 

edit: I mean HIcks

[Willihammer]

Twins 7th: 4 swings - 0 LD, 1 GB, 0 FB, 1 foul, 2 whiffs

[LaBombo]

Tell me that when we find a leadoff hitter as good as Ben Revere ...... I'm stil waiting...

Or Span, although the degree to which they're missed may have something to do with the fact that Meyer may already be the best starter in the organization while May's projection is increasingly being downgraded and Worley is being written off.

[Willihammer]

Rays 8th: 13 swings - 1 LD, 5 GB, 1 FB, 4 fouls, 2 whiffs

[Squirrel]

Left the game after the 6th. Parents couldn't take it any more.