Guardians 4, Twins 2: Twins Strike Out (Often!) in Home Opener

Major disappointment/unacceptable loss🤮💩👎🤬😡if this is any indication-90+losses  4th-5th place finish. This twins team is bad and it falls on ownership/FO🤮💩👎🤬😡

How about Rocco keeps the same lineup two days in a row? Just once, give it a shot and see what happens. I was never more than an avg ball player growing up but there is a bit of comfort in knowing where you are going to bat. I could still recite the 87 Twins standard lineup. There were some changes with a lefty involved but you knew Gladden was hitting first and Puck was third - without exception. 

That said, Buxton and Correa should be in the top three hitters every game. I'd even put AK in there as well as he would fit perfectly in the R/L/R lineup. 

Boy, would Gallo ever look good in this line up!

Funderburk and Sands are two guys I’m skeptical of but both pitched well. Sands seemed to have more movement on his pitches. 
I was confused by the pitch calling in the fourth. López threw nothing but breaking balls which he couldn’t locate. He got a head a couple of times but then everything got very passive. Don’t know if that is coming from the dugout or Vasquez but seemed different than the start of the game. 
Speaking of Vasquez he needs to practice his rundowns. Run the guy back to the base and force the tag at the base he is coming from. Runners advanced for no reason on both of those plays. 
Oh and Eddy with two outs and the bases full you might want to protect the plate. 

Final score was 4-2, not 5-2. Pablo gave up three runs, all earned (I believe). I15 SO many with runners in scoring position. Not fun to watch. Wasted at bats by not even putting the ball in play. Correa hits a leadoff double and didn’t move. Down two runs they couldn’t get him over to third. Hopefully just one game, better results next time. Hope the reinforcements are getting ready in St. Paul! 

We miss Lewis' clutch hitting, which also seems contagious.

A .500 record at the end of April with Duran and Lewis (and others) out would be just fine with me.

53 minutes ago, 1985Fan said:

Final score was 4-2, not 5-2. Pablo gave up three runs, all earned (I believe). I15 SO many with runners in scoring position. Not fun to watch. Wasted at bats by not even putting the ball in play. Correa hits a leadoff double and didn’t move. Down two runs they couldn’t get him over to third. Hopefully just one game, better results next time. Hope the reinforcements are getting ready in St. Paul! 

Not getting Kirilloff home after a 1 out triple as well. 

2 hours ago, Hubie29 said:

Boy, would Gallo ever look good in this line up!

If we spent another Mill. for Taylor

I got to this game an hour before first pitch and they had already run out of the giveaway hats. 

Cheap Pohlads: That's the hole truth and Nutting butt

9 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Have I mentioned how irritating it is to see opposing managers manipulate Rocco into a stupid Manny Margot PH EVERY FRIGGING GAME??!?!

 

The Ks are frustrating. The lack of anyone on this team being an RBI guy. Etc etc.

But nobody is TRYING to K.

Rocco, on the other hand, is doing this intentionally. That's just maddening. He lost me last year, and he just solidifies my opinion every day.

Rocco's managerial style has me longing for the days of Ray Miller.

6 hours ago, bean5302 said:

I have also been very highly frustrated with the giveaway situation last year. Arriving 30-45min early for any giveaway which is decent isn't early enough. The attendance gets announced at like 25,000, but you look around the stadium and wonder if there's actually more than 10k. You'll find all the giveaways on ebay after the game. I suspect people are getting ultra cheap tickets, grabbing up the giveaways and selling them for profit.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186276421557?itmmeta=01HTP6RET3DJPF4VN372KHTTSX&hash=item2b5ef09fb5:g:0kMAAOSwQkRluFl6&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8JkBOOI34bft7mwFSibJHSh1o7E9U2XgQMOBVsw1sLC%2BZTkJgosZlzUCj5J%2BCtzgqg61Y1HCqwa8caMmeCFkcOdOnYHHZQoPbtlyQHkO8NNP5Grpc1oLuZdZCE4ifZNKq1O8iCICePgjJzk5GDrOtPbDZuJokPV7xFqOnmM316xicajlalYXerNTHFe1Q0rPMwmCIup0bj%2FDeAF5ELq5lQuprgsjsCACZF3VisXfXoPcsIl1q4WLjW2pZbPaalrnMEr1MLpQNjA3cT1nHpNRlCmQKac6GE9JO088NhUVRckl%2FL7Xm%2FtnOO7XREs0NSTsgg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBMju3hxtVj

Seems like a whole lot of monkey business for 25 bucks.

Great article Seth.  A very mediocre team with a very mediocre manager is a terrible combination.  Way too many opportunities wasted.  Way too many strikeouts.  Way too many excuses made .  Go Twins!

Pablo wasn't perfect, BP did their job. CLE is better than we expected. Kiriloff is hitting the way we are expecting him to hit. The "all or nothing" approach more often than not, is nothing but SOs when we need hits. Buxton with the bases loaded, I knew when he came to the plate that he was trying to hit a HR. An HR would have been great but you take what the pitcher giving. We are missing our best clutch hitters. 

The K's aren't great, but the inability to draw walks yesterday is what really sunk the team. They need more baserunners. Didn't see the first half of the game, but hated the "strike zone" for the last 3 innings, where the ump added 3 inches to the bottom of the zone, and then did the same for the outside part of the plate as well. I'm so ready for the electronic strike zone.

Happy with the bullpen performance so far, they've done well. Liked what we saw from Funderburk and Sands; Funderburk is a guy I like as a second lefty and his pitches looked good overall. Sands I was less convinced on, but he did well and looked like he might have a little more going on. Small samples, but it'll be interesting to see where they are at the end of april

Hope the bats wake up and get things going. Too soon too make any calls about anyone, but they're capable of much better than this. Some slow starts in here and only a few bright spots.

No team will win many games with 15 strikeouts.  It will be a long year if Twin's batters keep striking out so often. I know Rocco doesn't know what a bunt is or how to have his batters move runners over. Look back on the good old days when we had a manager who knew how to manage games. Wish we had kept Paul a few more years as manager since he knew how to play winning baseball. I think we all keep hoping Rocco will improve, but just do not think that will happen. We could have had at least 2 more runs if we had batters move runners over.