Twins 6, Rangers 2: The Buck Truck Just Ran Over the Rangers

Great wrap-up!  And great work by Festa and the bats.  Caught up on the mlbtv after monitoring exams this morning--  2 notes:

1)  I almost always have the oppo broadcast team on, as I'm completely underwhelmed by the Twins crew.  But Texas has to be the worst in the league.  No more of that.

2)  I'm old enough to remember Halsey Hall recapping rundowns:  Herb Carneal:  "That play goes 1-3-4-1-6-2."  Halsey:  "And if a man answers, hang up!" 😂

All around fun game to watch today!

Overall nice outing by Festa and it’s a fun day when Buxton is playing well.

Great outing by Festa to limit early damage and make it though 6.

Buxton absolutely obliterated that slider for a mammoth HR.  Guessing it has to rank (479 feet) as 1 of the top 5 Twins HRs in Target Field history.

Also kuddos to Castro!  Huge 2 RBI triple to open things up.

Need Ober to bounce back from his last mediocre start tomorrow in finale.

Great win...and Buxton was in All-Star form!

Help me out here: I'm calling on the more prosaic, stat-centered folks herein to try to make some sense of this for me. I believe that we're being plagued during the telecasts of late with stats that seem (to one such as me) to be absolutely meaningless. I'm wondering if I'm missing something, or if maybe the producers are just giving AI free rein to pop meaningless stats on the screen without considering their merit. This evening, we were told, was the first time since 2016 that Buxton has had a walk, a home run, and a double in a game. Even more meaningless, I think, a couple of games ago we were informed that we had just seen the first instance since 1975 that a Twins' catcher and third baseman had hit back-to-back homers in a game.

What am I missing?

16 minutes ago, knothole61 said:

Great win...and Buxton was in All-Star form!

Help me out here: I'm calling on the more prosaic, stat-centered folks herein to try to make some sense of this for me. I believe that we're being plagued during the telecasts of late with stats that seem (to one such as me) to be absolutely meaningless. I'm wondering if I'm missing something, or if maybe the producers are just giving AI free rein to pop meaningless stats on the screen without considering their merit. This evening, we were told, was the first time since 2016 that Buxton has had a walk, a home run, and a double in a game. Even more meaningless, I think, a couple of games ago we were informed that we had just seen the first instance since 1975 that a Twins' catcher and third baseman had hit back-to-back homers in a game.

What am I missing?

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

I couldn't agree more.  Because I couldn't care less about the meaningless stats.  

I guess they have to fill the air with something.  🙄

I don't think any other player in baseball could make a catch like that in the top of the 3rd and then go and demolish a slider on the OUTSIDE part of the plate 479 feet over the bullpens into the left-center field seats in the bottom of the 3rd! There's not even that many players who can hit a HR that far (not including Coors Field) but to do both of those things in the same inning is frankly mind blowing.  

Thankfully Festa had a solid game and went 6 innings - badly needed. Now Ober needs to go 6 or 7 as well to give the bullpen some respite. 

6 hours ago, Mark G said:

I couldn't agree more.  Because I couldn't care less about the meaningless stats.  

I guess they have to fill the air with something.  🙄

Figure close to 3 hours for the game, and another half hour pre/post game.  

Unless you want to hear Trevor Ploufe's story about the fattest slump buster he ever saw (I know I  want it, but...), you've got to fill that time with something!

Great win Twins.  We need to beat the rain and the Rangers on Thursday.  I too get tired of all the mindless information being thrown at us.  I like Audra on TwinsTv except she never shuts up.  She always talks over the play by play often leaving the viewer missing live action.  Plus all the games I watch there seems to be a lot of talk and video going on that is totally unrelated to the game at hand. .

Watched the game and felt that Festa worked well with Vazquez.

Didn't look at comments last night but wondered how many wanted Festa sent back to AAA after he gave up 2 runs.

Great game by Buxton which highlights in bold what a healthy Byron does for his team.

The Twins continue to receive solid pitching. 

The prayers of many posters (not me) were answered late last night with Jorge Alcala being traded to Boston for a Level A+ unranked prospect. All the best to Alcala. His 8.88 ERA is super lucky in China.

7 hours ago, knothole61 said:

Great win...and Buxton was in All-Star form!

Help me out here: I'm calling on the more prosaic, stat-centered folks herein to try to make some sense of this for me. I believe that we're being plagued during the telecasts of late with stats that seem (to one such as me) to be absolutely meaningless. I'm wondering if I'm missing something, or if maybe the producers are just giving AI free rein to pop meaningless stats on the screen without considering their merit. This evening, we were told, was the first time since 2016 that Buxton has had a walk, a home run, and a double in a game. Even more meaningless, I think, a couple of games ago we were informed that we had just seen the first instance since 1975 that a Twins' catcher and third baseman had hit back-to-back homers in a game.

What am I missing?

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

What are you missing? Nothing.

This is the first time in Twin's history that i've replied to one of your posts.

11 minutes ago, tony&rodney said:

Watched the game and felt that Festa worked well with Vazquez.

Didn't look at comments last night but wondered how many wanted Festa sent back to AAA after he gave up 2 runs.

Great game by Buxton which highlights in bold what a healthy Byron does for his team.

The Twins continue to receive solid pitching. 

The prayers of many posters (not me) were answered late last night with Jorge Alcala being traded to Boston for a Level A+ unranked prospect. All the best to Alcala. His 8.88 ERA is super lucky in China.

I can't say that I prayed for Alcala's departure, but I'm not going to miss him.  At all.  Despite all the injuries, Buxton's talent is electrifying.

A very nice win by the Twins and a good bounce back after an ugly loss. I wasn't thrilled seeing festa hang a change like that in the second, but it was the 3rd that made me wonder if he was going to fall apart. The defense picked him up (something we might not have said very often in recent years!) and he did a good job settling in. I was happy to see him get a chance to go 6 and not get yanked early, but I suspect the 4 run lead instead of a 1 run lead had a lot more to do with it.

Buxton was great last night. Goodness, he crushed that homer! Oh, my. He obliterated that one! But he really had a complete game last night; he looks healthy and locked in. Love it. He's one of the most exciting players I've ever seen when he's healthy and it's so much fun watching him play.

I'm guessing Bruce Bochy was losing his mind internally when Leiter walked Vazquez. Nice to see that happen to someone else for a change, lol.

Brooks Lee looking much more comfortable at the plate the last couple of weeks, and is having a very nice stretch. Hopefully he's figured some things out and will be a regular contributor, especially with Clemens looking pretty rough over the same period.

12 hours ago, AceWrigley said:

What are you missing? Nothing.

This is the first time in Twin's history that i've replied to one of your posts.

Ace...nice!

12 hours ago, stringer bell said:

Wentz for Alcalá and the moves are already done. The Twins saw Wentz plenty when he pitched for the Tigers. They must think there's something to unlock there. 

Judging from today's outing, they might need a safecracker! 😂