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  1. h2oface
    Rays win again 9-3. Ties MLB record to start season 13-0.
  2. h2oface
    Yes!! We need him even with the .100 some batting average and .400 something OPS. Nothing some hits won't fix.
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    Correa said it happened when he did this awesome attempt at scoring. This is all it took......... click on link to see MLB video https://www.mlb.com/twins/video/luis-garcia-in-play-run-s-to-trevor-larnach-1tdcxl?q=trevor larnach rbi single&cp=MIXED&qt=FREETEXT&p=0 Pretty amazing that this little lackadaisical tip toe dance attempt at scoring in a horrible bit of base running takes him out. It also ended the inning, and instead of runners on 1st and 3d with 2 outs, the rally was ended. Read the Athletic article posted earlier fast, as it will slap the paywall page on top in about 10 seconds if you aren't a subscriber. If Correa is consistent, the upside of his pattern is that even if he sucks at the beginning of the year, he will get hot by the end and take it into the play-offs. Rememeber play-offs?
  4. h2oface
    I can't believe Garlick is once more on the way. He has been hitting well in St Paul, but went 0-6 on Tuesday. The smell of garlic(k) has always been hard to get rid of. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/04/twins-likely-to-select-kyle-garlick.html
  5. h2oface
    Brain fart. Thanks, I will fix it. I always found it interesting that it isn't the Manhattan, or the Queens, or the Long Island, or the Staten Island, or the Brooklyn, but it is the Bronx, with "The" in caps, according to some, but not others. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-residents-feeling-capital-article-1.1799794
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    As good as Duran is, he is getting a lot of fouls and guys touching his pitches. And another homer on a middle middle pitch. I hope that changes. Lopez almost hit someone in the head, too. Now to Queens (brain fart) the Bronx with depleted roster and Duran and Jax probably not available tomorrow. Good luck to us. Glad they got this win after all it cost. Time for the bats to go crazy.
  7. h2oface
    I hear you. Lopez performance certainly deserved to bring the win. But as baseball rules go, once the score is tied again, and you are not in the game anymore, the win is not yours. No game has ever been won, no matter how good your pitching is, without your bats scoring, and scoring more than the other guys. Not one.
  8. h2oface
    Thanks @Steven Trefz for all the inserted videos. 8 of them I really appreciate it. Classy. As good as Lopez pitched, it still didn't bring the win in the end, because of the offense. We will miss Luis Arraez everyday, not just every 5th day. Winning? People love to say win-win, I guess. Lopez pitching this way certainly helps. Yes, we needed better pitching. Too bad the method was by trade instead of free agency or the farm.
  9. h2oface
    It sure seemed a bit over confident to lay that first off speed pitch up there middle middle. I agree. Heat. Got a bit too clever, and it sure looked like Robert was looking for it. Middle middle and it was gone. Duran sure had to throw a lot of pitches. 24. After the first pitch homer, 23 more - 12 to Sheets, in an impressive 12 pitch AB of which he touched 8 of them, only totally missed one he swung at, and took 3 balls (albeit the 4 pitch ball was a strike and called a ball.). Interesting that Duran did hit his target (Just like Moran did in the 9-6 game against Houston with the same result only it was a change up). He threw it right where Vazquez called for it on that first pitch to Robert. Vazquez did call a fine rest of the game, although his base running was a bit foolish.
  10. h2oface
    Two fine starts as the season opens, and the ace talk. How many pitchers have started seasons with two fine starts? So very desperate.
  11. h2oface
    It is amazing that Correa hurt his back on this little lackadaisical dance into home - one of the lamest scoring attempts I have ever seen. He had no awareness of the throw and where he needed to be running. If I see the catcher setting up there I run in fair territory, not right toward him. I mean, he didn't even slide. Just tip-toed around and strained his back? It is the play he says he hurt his back on. Buxton and Correa have become so fragile. https://www.mlb.com/twins/video/luis-garcia-in-play-run-s-to-trevor-larnach-1tdcxl?q=trevor larnach rbi single&cp=MIXED&qt=FREETEXT&p=0 Buxton was sent in for one reason. To try to tie the game with a homer. Nobody on base, and with Miranda coming in and giving up the DH, the pitchers spot wouldn't come around for 8 more batters, if the game wasn't over. Hunting for the "big swing" as they like to call it these days. It would seem you would want to save him to do that with a runner on, but so it went. Wallner was the one Baldy wanted to pull.
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    There goes the all important run differential. I don't know what folks expect from Mahle. Well, I know what the FO sold us and some are trying to. But Mahle's career ERA is 4.35, and the season is now at 4.09. WHIP 1.32 to 1.36 in the only first two starts. That is what he is. That is what he probably will be. Better score lots of runs when he pitches. And the Pagan spin? Stuff stuff and more stuff? One the worst relievers running for the last 3 years. How about that stuff. 2 of 3 from Houston is still a win. And 6-3 is a welcome start as a team. Let's see what the White Sox have got. Great info on Mahle's trials. Love it. And if you know how Buxton runs, he would have scored from first on the double. But with Watkins coaching third, he might have held Buxton to prevent him from sliding ......... 🙁
  13. h2oface
    My thoughts exactly. Our depth. Yikes. At least the Twins don't need them yet. Polanco playing 7 innings with a double and 2 walks..... I like that.
  14. h2oface
    Tell De Leon we are playing Israel in the WBC. What. Danny Valencia is on the team! And Joc Pederson!
  15. h2oface
    ..... and, one might even propose, with only 81 pitches, and Ryan breezing through the 6th, he was pulled too early, still! Ryan had just induced a fly out to Alvarez, and then struck out Abreu and Tucker on 7 pitches in the 6th. Seems pretty cruising to me. And he was going to face 6-7-8, Pena-Hensley-Meyers, Pena who had struck out looking twice, Hensley who had struck out swinging twice, and Meyers, who had flown out and lined out to left. And with only 81 pitches thrown so far. <They all struck out in the 7th anyway 😇 > You push Lopez and Jax to the 8th and 9th. It is a one run game at the time, though....... and you like your pen. And Ryan had the one shakey inning.... 3 innings ago... It all worked out fine except for having to use Duran, as it happened. Fun to think about for a post. 6 innings is still 6 innings. 6-2 sure looks good, and especially with at least a series win against Houston.
  16. h2oface
    I noticed that Vazquez was calling just about all off speed stuff for Pena all day. In the 4th "Jeremy Pena took five straight offspeed pitches (from Ryan) and then struck out looking on an 89 MPH fastball below the zone." 5 off speed for a swinging K in the 7th from Lopez, and in the 9th against Moran, the first change just missed, and Vazquez called the same pitch, gave Moran the target, right down the middle, and he hit it. So did Pena. After seeing 11 out of 12 of the last pitches to him off speed, Pena might have been sitting on it.
  17. h2oface
    Great home opener win!!!! That box score link goes to yahoo and the season opener with KC (unless they have fixed it when you read this). Use this one: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/astros-vs-twins/2023/04/07/718684/final/box As good as Gray has been, the batters have left him with 2 no decisions. deGrom'd without losing the game, even though they gave up the lead. [Edit: Gray DID get the win in his first start] Did Gallo hurt himself doing his Delman Young impersonation in right field?
  18. h2oface
    Not a good case for pitching depth help today. My, how far Tyler Duffey has fallen. Wow.
  19. h2oface
    I'm not a cricket!! 😇 But Jax didn't blow it up, IMO. Really, he just gave up a single considering the infield "hit" that Correa was out of position for shouldn't have been a hit, but the second out! And he very well could have handled it with runners on first and second and one out, but didn't get the chance. It should have been a runner on first and two outs. I would say Baldelli (first by pulling Lopez, having Correa shift to the right, and bringing in Thielbar) and Thielbar blew up the game. Jax got the blown up ERA, and didn't deserve it. But also, make no mistake, I hate to see Pagan still on this team, and he is still a time bomb ticking.
  20. h2oface
    Don't you love it when the game ends on a great take by Larnach, the pitch is 4-6 inches outside (according to robot), and the umpire calls it a strike? I don't. Plate umpire was poor all day. In fact, Lopez's 500 K was outside and not a third strike! There is already a pitch clock. No need to call balls strikes to go home early. Lopez #500 called third strike:
  21. h2oface
    If you don't want to burn through pitchers, why do you remove your starter, who is pitching against his former team with aplomb, had just struck out the side (on 14 dealing pitches), and only has 88 pitches, very probably an innings worth under the 100 his former teammate just showed the previous game how it is so very possible? Miami has a bullpen, too, and could have relieved Alcantara. But he was dealing and they didn't. Is Lopez more fragile? I bring Lopez out for the 8th, and go from there, understanding all the options. It was a shame that, when they did and brought in Jax, Correa was shifted to defend a lefty when a righty was at bat. Yes, Segura had hit it up the middle earlier, but what happened to the %'s here? Correa in the normal place for a righty, and it is a routine grounder and 2 outs for Jax. That play changed the game. I know it is early, and Theilbar got bombed at the beginning of last year, too, and then ended up having his best year, but I fear for the confidence in Theilbar. I have been saying all spring that last year was probably the one shining end of the season. The smoke has cleared and the mirrors are cracked. I hope I am wrong, but this performance isn't helping. Theilbar not only tanked his early season ERA, but he crushed Jax's even worse with the IRS! Thanks Caleb. Here come 10 against the Astros, White Sox, and Yankees (4)......... from last place teams to front runners. Now we see how this team measures up.
  22. h2oface
    Can we just move on to playoffs now?
  23. h2oface
    Probably most of the time. Maybe. Not on Sunday (Moran, Lopez, and Pagan), but it was a pretty comfortable lead. I hope that it isn't always the strategy when only behind by 1 in the late innings. Some of those games are ones you will want to give it your best shot if it is that close.
  24. h2oface
    It is nice to be high on Ober, but you are not considering he got lit up a bit on 3 earned in 4 innings - 4 hits, a hit batter, and a walk, 69 pitches and only 39 strikes in his final ST tune-up. In his first (and next) honing start in St Paul he lasted only 3 innings and gave up 3 runs, 2 earned on 5 hits and a walk with 70 pitches. Glad that didn't happen for the Twins in games that counted. Not saying he won't be ready, but he might be in just the right place for now.
  25. h2oface
    One swing. One swing beats us. One swing away from winning or tying the game. I love seeing a pitcher throw a complete game. That was awesome. 100 pitches and his arm didn't fall off. I love it.
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