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Big deal. Then, until the glitch is fixed, we just go back to having the plate umpire guess again for a spell.

I like this comment a lot for the info, and dislike it as well for its extreme bias, which was very very clear. I never umpired as much as you, but my experience taught me that no matter how much one does it, the most important close calls will always be a guess, and robbing the players of the correct call in the inhuman part of the game. I don't know how one can ever not want to use the best tools possible.

I contend that before the advancement of the tech, the human element is removed from the players, and given to the umpires who have always given it their best guess. The umpire is the least human part of the game, or should be, especially for the strike zone. The robo ump gives the human element back to the players, where it has always belonged. The perfect take that rewards the best with the greatest eye instead of the well meaning but incapable umpire calling it a strike. The perfect pitch that only touches the zone or exact corner of it so barely instead of the well meaning but incapable umpire calling it a ball. People excuse the wrong call when it is closest. It is those pictches the batter or pitcher deserves the most. They are the human element of baseball that matter. The players, not the best guess from an umpire that tries his best, but fails way too often. The plate umpires rob the game, in just about every inning, and too many at bats. And the tired "as long as the umpire is consistent" BS? Consistently wrong is just more wrong. Go robo. This step is just a cop-out. It still misses the wrong calls that even the batter and pitcher are guessing at. The point is to get it as right as we can, and that will never be a human guessing now, and hasn't been for years. You don't see judges telling us who won the swimming race and ingnoring the touch pads. Baseball should not ignore the tech, either. It is, after all, what is used to grade the umpires, and a tool, if their arrogance doesn't prevent them, to help them get better.

Ryan was saying that he peppers the zone because he knows he has such great defense behind him in a past interview. Well, he got weak singles hit against him in the first. And with Miranda at third, and Solano at first (not today) he is being forsaken. Today he, like others, just keed saying they have a great team. The think they are great. Hopefully, they results start to show it.

True. And that has always been the Twin's narrative for having him around. But this year, he can't hardly hit in AAA ball. Do we need a right handed Gallo type that is worse and a liability in the field?

Garlick who is hitting all of .211 in St Paul?

What a worthless and annoying bit with the hot dog. Took the whole uninteresting failure of an inning.

I know what it is. His admiration of Correa, and letting Correa have such a large an infulence on him. He was fine before at the plate. I mean, to emulate Correa seems to mean that you suck at hitting to start the season.

One of Carlin's 7 words. Twins Daily getting racey. 😇 It's not 1978 anymore. "In 1978, the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, ruled that the FCC's declaratory ruling did not violate either the First or Fifth Amendments, but it limited the scope of its decision to the specific broadcast that caused the declaratory ruling and declined to consider whether the FCC's definition of indecency would survive a First Amendment challenge if applied to the broadcast of other material containing the same or similar words which had been cited in Pacifica's brief (e.g., works of Shakespeare – "pissing conduits", "bawdy hand of the dial on the prick of noon"; the Bible – "he who pisseth against the wall"; the Watergate Tapes). It noted that while the declaratory ruling pertained to the meaning of the term "indecency" as used in a criminal statute (18 USC 1464), since the FCC had not imposed any penalty on Pacifica, the Court did not need to reach the question as to whether the definition was too vague to satisfy the due process requirements of the Fifth Amendment."

Just because a player will or has or can play multiple infield positions, doesn't mean they should when they are really poor fielders. No mattter where you play Solano, he is a tremendous liability. His bat is not that beneficial, especially considering that he can cost games in the field. I really don't like begging for the "out of the baseline" call, but it does seem that the Twins get that called against them too much when they do it just a little bit. It is a stupid rule, i think. There should be like 10 feet or so you can juke about. Runners are constantly out of the base line around third especially, but all the time running out doubles and triples and even on the homer trots. One shouldn't be allowed to be crazy and run in circles and outfield, etc, but they certainly should be able to move around within 10 feet each side of a straight line to avoid a tag. I mean really, you are supposed to try not to get tagged out. Miranda sure looked funny. It made me laugh.

Tonight, Lopez DID offer relief. Good. That is what he is paid to do.

He's gonna lose his job to Spencer Steer

I have appletv+ app on all my devices. iPhone, iPad, and MacPro. No subscription. I can navigate around find the game, but the last thing it does is offer watch free with free trial, so I have to use one of the tons of free sites. Streaming fine,

....... aaaaannnnnnnddddd shutout!

There goes the perfect game and n0-hitter!

There goes the no-hitter!

It was good to see Baldelli not pull Lopez after 6, and start the 7th with only 88 pitches and behind 2-1, having given up 6 hits, 3 for extra bases (1 homer and 2 doubles) 8 Ks, only 1 walk. He was pitching fine, and handled the 7th fine. Great to see Lopez throw another good game after 2 in which he game up 11 earned in 10 innings (9,90 ERA) However, Baldelli pulled Ryan after six ahead 1-0, with 87 pitches, 60 for strikes, throwing a 1 hitter (single), 7 Ks 2 walks, the last a 12 pitch walk in the 6th to Anderson, and 18 total pitches in the last inning. His velo was down slightly in the 6th. But still, why? So shakey Jorge Lopez could blow his game up in 8 pitches. Arguably a better game pitched than Pablo Lopez, and Ryan gets pulled with the same # of (1 less) pitches and didn't get the opportunity to pitch the 7th. Or consequently, win the 6th start to start a season, and set a franchise record (I think). He was still in line for it, though, until Jorge Lopez. Maybe Ryan was tired, and said he was done? Seems he deserved the opportunity if it was Baldelli.

I don't know that an angel was involved 😇 . However obdurate the take, I am not interested in disputatious dialogue here. Many on the site will engage you. In the end, whether he was calulating or going on feelings, he was wrong, and embarrassingly out at second, and from the look on his face, personally embarrassed as well. I bet he even apologized to his teammates, and will be changing his behavior in upcoming games. I will never be advocating a player should just hustle selectively. Too much unexpected can happen on each and every ball in play, as we saw on this one.

Trades after a trade doesn't count. It is not part of the trade. Neither does your ex's new spouse. Unless it is within the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon........

Yes! 3 in a row. The night before in KC he came in the 9th clean, ahead 8-6, and got two outs then gave up 2 singles and hit a batter, was looking like Pagan and Colome! Barely squeaked it out.

I don't know what Dick was talking about for Lopez. He must have missed that last game Lopez pitched in against KC. Came in with a 2-1 lead, 2 out and a runner on 3rd. 2 OUTS! Proceeded to blow the save, gave up the inherited runner with a single by Perez on his third pitch, and then a stolen base, a walk, and a hard contact liner Larnach ran down. Jax got the earned run while Lopez's ERA stayed a 0 and gave Dick a misleading stat to rave about. Thanks Lopez. I remembered. Dick must have a short term memory thing happening. That's two blown saves in a row on consecutive outings. Yet praise the man.

I can't stand Baldelli anymore. Just horrible managing decisions. What a waste of A Ryan start. Batters can't hit a pitcher with a 7+ era coming in. But pulling Ryan after 6 and not bunting Gallo over. Just poor managing.

Yup. But I was also screaming at the screen in real time to bunt him over. Gotta get the run in. Our Twins are so good at not getting him to third. Sox do it (get runner to third) on the first batter. But I'm not playing that game with you.

Don't think I can watch the bottom of the inning.

Vazquez bunts Gallo over to third and he scores on that Gordon soft grounder........