Nine of twelve

These stats don't tell all, but I think they are worth noting. The Twins are fifth in the majors in team ERA. The Twins are fourth in the majors in OPS. Small sample size though it may be, if we can stay in this range all season I think we will do well.

Sometimes teams lose because a player has an off day. Sometimes teams lose because the manager has an off day. This game was the latter.

That's the second time this game we are better mangers than Rocco.

Worthy of Chief. (That's not a compliment.)

Great job by Stashak.

I'm hoping everybody gets injected.

One batter too late, Rocco. Sometimes that happens, I suppose, but it looked obvious to me that Shoemaker had hit the wall.

That review gave Dobnak more time to get ready. Good for us.

BUCK!!!!!

He has a reputation for being an excellent defender at third base. It doesn't make sense to me to move him to first.

Atta boy, Buck!

ISWYDT.

And then there's Oddball, who was well versed on the subject of negative waves. As always, math is everywhere

Yeah, and some guy who wore 99.

Prolly would have been more routine if not for Shoemaker getting squeezed. We need a more consistent and more accurate method of calling pitches than human beings.

Polanco showed some shortstop chops on that play.

Far from it, but I find the subject very interesting. Of any field of human endeavor it is the closest thing to the truth.

I don't think there's anybody by that name who posts here.

For the record, 59 is not old.

Lineups and batting orders: Seattle: 1. Mitch Haniger ® RF 2. Ty France ® 2B 3. Kyle Seager (L) 3B 4. Jose Marmolejos (L) 1B 5. Luis Torrens ® DH 6. Taylor Trammell (L) CF 7. Tom Murphy ® C 8. J.P. Crawford (L) SS 9. Braden Bishop ® LF P: Chris Flexen ® Twins: 1. Luis Arraez (L) 3B 2. Jorge Polanco (S) 2B 3. Nelson Cruz ® DH 4. Byron Buxton ® CF 5. Max Kepler (L) RF 6. Miguel Sano ® 1B 7. Jake Cave (L) LF 8. Ryan Jeffers ® C 9. Andrelton Simmons ® SS P: Matt Shoemaker ®

Corey Provus does a very good job of this. Dan Gladden does a very poor job of this.

Greetings all, and welcome! For today's game thread intro I'm going to use the time-honoured (Canadian spelling to acknowledge Twins fans living in the Dominion) 5-topic introduction. 1.) Today is the 67th anniversary of 11 April 1954. On this date there were so few events of significance that it has been designated to be the least noteworthy and least interesting day in modern history. Feel free to do an internet search and you'll see that to be the case. Of course, there is significant irony in this. The fact that it has this designation makes it noteworthy and interesting. 2.) Today is also the birthday of one of this site's more noteworthy members. I'm not going to say who. However, I will say that once a woman gets to be age 59 it's impolite to mention her age so I won't do so. 3.) On the subject of birthdays, Ryan Jeffers and Brandon Waddell share the same birthday, June 3. It is not surprising that two players on a major league roster share the same birthday; in fact, it is expected. The probability of two people in a group of 26 sharing the same birthday is approximately 60%. 4.) I posted this link on the R.I.P. Hank Aaron thread back in January but I think it's worth posting again for those who missed it before. It's very cool, both for the math and the story of the people involved. 5.) e^iπ + 1 = 0. You may have noticed that there is math in this post. That's because math was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. There are things that are unquestionably true and unquestionably significant. This equation, often referred to as Euler's identity, is probably the most true and most significant of all. It contains the five most fundamental numbers: 0, 1, e, i, and π. It also contains the four most fundamental operations: equality, addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. I think it is absolutely beautiful, and if I ever were to get a tattoo this is what it would be. Expected weather conditions at gametime: 48F/feels like 44F, cloudy, winds NNW (from the left field corner toward right-center) at 10 mph, dew point 39F. Let's hope that the numbers in today's game favour our favourite team! Lineups and batting order are not available as of the time of this post. They will be posted later.

If the game is tied in the home half of the extra inning it would be tempting to bunt twice and win the game. Provided the batters coming up are decent bunters, of course.

Duffey come out for the 8th?

Depends on the opposing starting pitcher.