Spring Training Audio Diary: Pablo's Debut, Kepler Beats the Shift, Nick Sings Badly

Austin Martin made a real. Ice offensive play on a ground ball in the first. 

Kepler beat the shift, but dropped a routine fly ball in foul territory, that fortunately didn't cost them. It looks like Gallo is shortening his swing for more contact. Farmer made 3 baserunning errors in 1 inning.  He didn't run hard on a pop-up that fell in the infield. Then almost got doubled up on a Taylor line-out.  And then should have advanced to 3rd on a Larnach single. Twins baserunning needs work. Lopez 1 looked good.. Lopez 2 will get there. Jax did fine. Overall pitching was OK, but after the 6th inning the defense was reminiscent of little league is what I observed.

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13 hours ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Kepler beat the shift, but dropped a routine fly ball in foul territory, that fortunately didn't cost them. It looks like Gallo is shortening his swing for more contact. Farmer made 3 baserunning errors in 1 inning.  He didn't run hard on a pop-up that fell in the infield. Then almost got doubled up on a Taylor line-out.  And then should have advanced to 3rd on a Larnach single. Twins baserunning needs work. Lopez 1 looked good.. Lopez 2 will get there. Jax did fine. Overall pitching was OK, but after the 6th inning the defense was reminiscent of little league is what I observed.

Speaking of little league, I was astonished when a Red Sox player tagged up and scored from 2nd on a fly ball to center.  I mean they hopefully are embarrassed with those types of results from major league ballplayers.  

This is early ST so I'm happy with Pablo and Kepler progress yet it's time to work things out & get in a groove. Still a lot of ST games left to do that.

9 hours ago, Seth Stohs said:

It happens. It was late in the game. There was a high sky, and Keirsey made a nice catch to stay with it, and then it the wall . He threw it in and there was a throw home. I think Caleb Hamilton just deserves a lot of credit. 

Yeah, I don't really care when in the game it happens and it really doesn't matter how high the ball was hit.  It was a poor play and that should never happen.  I mean we are just fans but if the coaching staff makes these types of excuses then we are going to hear a lot of excuses this season.  It's obvious with a play like that, that either their heads weren't in the game or they didn't care, either way that needs to be corrected.  Hopefully the coaching staff got on them about that because plays like that will lose a lot of ballgames.  I am fully expecting to not see anyone tag up from second and score on a fly ball again this season.  I mean it wasn't a strong throw to the cut, it was ho hummed to the cut because I'm pretty sure he didn't think the guy was going to try and score.  So yeah it was a heads up play by the Red Sox player or maybe the 3rd base coach?   But again that shouldn't happen.  After a couple of poor plays and a snowball fight I hope the Twins left feeling a little disappointed with their play in the field.  I expect that they will be better and sometimes it may take a poor play like that to wake them up and get after it a little bit better.  Again I get that it's spring training but I can't get used to hearing excuses for plays like that.  

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