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  1. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Bottom of the 6th McCann flies out to center. Gurriel grounds out on a dribbler to catcher Gimenez. Gonzalez singles. Bregman flies out to right. Belisle just had a clean inning... who woulda thunk.
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    Strat-O-Matic Report Top of the 6th -Luke Gregorson now pitching- Kepler strikes out swinging. Vargas grounds out to second. Escobar reaches on error by 1B Gurriel, reaches 2nd base. Rosario strikes out swinging. HOU leads 7-4
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    Strat-O-Matic Report Bottom of the 5th Gonzalez grounds out to short. Bregman singles to left. Aoki walks. Marisnick flies out to center. Springer walks, bases loaded. -Matt Belisle now pitching- Altuve singles, Bregman scores (HOU 7-4) Reddick flies out to left. Why did I just have Belisle come in with the bases loaded? Maybe I secretly wanted him to give up a grand slam.
  4. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Top of the 5th Vargas strikes out swinging. Escobar reaches 1st on an errored pop-up to C McCann. Rosario flies out to deep right, Escobar advances to 2nd. Gimenez walks. Adrianza singles, bases loaded. Dozier doubles, Escobar and Gimenez score. Grossman singles, Adrianza and Dozier score. Sano flies out to center. And just like that, the Twins are only trailing 6-4! Dozier with another bases loaded double in this series! We now have two close games.
  5. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Bottom of the 4th Aoki singles. Marisnick strikes out swinging. Springer singles, Aoki to 3rd. -Phil Hughes now pitching- Altuve grounds out to first, Vargas to Hughes. Altuve advances to 2nd, Aoki scores. Reddick singles, Altuve to 3rd. McCann walks. Gurriel grounds to to third. Both games aren't going so well, but at least we aren't losing 6-0.
  6. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Top of the 4th Grossman grounds out to first. Sano grounds to pitcher Fiers - error on play, Sano reaches. Fiers leaves game with injury. Francis Martes now pitching. Kepler grounds into double play. Things just got weirder - there is a tiny chance that a player can leave with an injury, and the Twins have [literally] knocked Fiers out of the game. Now we're onto their long reliever!
  7. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Bottom of the 3rd Altuve singles to right. Altuve steals second. Reddick singles to left, Altuve scores. McCann singles to left, Reddick to 3rd. Gurriel singles to center, Reddick scores, McCann to second. Gonzalez strikes out swinging. Bregman grounds into double play. Those two singles to left were playable balls for Grossman, but his poor defense made it so that both landed. That's now 10 singles in 3 innings for the Astros and they lead 5-0. At least the Twins have turned 3 double plays...
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    Strat-O-Matic Report Top of the 3rd Rosario strikes out swinging. Gimenez flies out to center. Adrianza singles to center. Dozier flies out to deep left.
  9. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Bottom of the 2nd McCann singles to right. Gurriel grounds into a double play. Gonzalez singles to right. Bregman singles to right, Kepler errors the play, runners advance one base. Aoki singles to center, Rosario errors on the throw, both runners score, Aoki to 2nd. Marisnick singles, Aoki scores. Spinger grounds out to short. Astros lead 3-0. Ugh. Two outfield errors, plus the game seems like it knows Rosario has the tendency to airmail throws.
  10. Danchat
    This inning hasn't gone very well... and spoilers, similar things happens in the simulation, too.
  11. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Top of the 2nd Kepler strikes out looking. Vargas flies out to right. Escobar strikes out swinging.
  12. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Bottom of the 1st Springer singles to center. Altuve grounds into double play. Reddick strikes out looking.
  13. Danchat
    Strat-O-Matic Report Dozier lines out to first. Grossman strikes out swinging. Sano grounds out to short. Nothing exciting yet...
  14. Danchat
    Probably cause he struck out 3 times yesterday.
  15. Danchat
    1. Brian Dozier ® 2B 2. Robbie Grossman (S) LF 3. Miguel Sano ® DH 4. Max Kepler (L) RF 5. Kennys Vargas (S) 1B 6. Eduardo Escobar (S) 3B 7. Eddie Rosario (L) CF 8. Chris Gimenez ® C 9. Ehire Adrianza (S) SS 1. George Springer ® DH 2. Jose Altuve ® 2B 3. Josh Reddick (L) RF 4. Brian McCann (L) C 5. Yuli Gurriel ® 1B 6. Marwin Gonzalez (S) SS 7. Alex Bregman ® 3B 8. Norichika Aoki (L) LF 9. Jake Marisnick ® CF Here is an attempt to post the lineups from my cell phone. Polanco getting a much needed day off, Mauer looked a bit rusty yesterday, so seeing most the bench in this game is OK.
  16. Danchat
    He isn't up yet, they haven't made a corresponding roster move at this point. All we know is that it's been confirmed Colon will come up before Tuesday's game starts.
  17. Danchat
    Game Thread: Twins @ Astros, 7/16 @ 1:10 CT Probable Starters: Kyle Gibson (5-7, 6.31 ERA) vs Mike Fiers (5-4, 3.84 ERA) -5 Thoughts- 1. An Interesting Flashblack I had a game thread with the Astros in August last year and I wrote this: “As I’ve been casually observing the Astros this season, I must say that they’ve had an odd year. They swept the American League by storm and nearly took the AL West. It seemed this team that had been in a complete rebuild was on the way up. But then they began 2016 tripping up and falling on their faces – though they were outdone by the Twins’ early failures. Similarly to the Twins, they had a torrid June and July, and Houston was back in range of making the playoffs. However, they’ve lost the last 9 of 11 games and they’re tumbling out of control. Most of their bats have gone cold with many starters failing to hit over .220. Cy Young winner Dallas Keuchel hasn’t been himself, and the other starters are average to mediocre. They’re in an odd position. They should be only getting better, but it’s not happening this season. Who knows where they might end up next year…” Well, the Astros ended up in a pretty nice position. All of their batters have turned into MVPs and their pitching staff has improved, even if their ace is hurt. It’s no given the Astros stay World Series caliber, as we’ve seen many teams over the years fade in August and into September. I’m interested to see where this franchise is headed. 2. Lineups (insert here when they’re available) 3. MN/HOU Bullpen Examination I noticed something interesting when I was recording info for the Strat-O-Matic game. Have a look: Relievers Strikeouts per 9 innings Houston James Hoyt 14.5 Chris Devenski 12.5 Michael Feliz 12.3 Luke Gregerson 11.1 Ken Giles 10.5 Will Harris 10.1 Minnesota Ryan Pressly 10.0 Tyler Duffey 8.8 Matt Belisle 6.9 Taylor Rogers 6.7 Phil Hughes 5.6 Craig Breslow 5.6 Brandon Kintzler 5.5 Wow, look at those Houston numbers! I find it interesting that our best relievers, Rogers and Kintzler, have had a hard time striking out guys. Meanwhile the Astros bullpen is out of this world in the strikeout department. I think it would behoove the Twins to cut some of the chaff (Belisle and Breslow) and search for guys who can get some more Ks. However, strikeouts aren’t everything as Houston’s best guy in that category, Hoyt, isn’t doing so great and ours, Pressly, has been a dumpster fire on a stick (to put it nicely). 4. Strat-O-Matic Baseball Explanation During today’s baseball game, I will be simulating the same game using the Strat-O-Matic Baseball Board Game! You can’t purchase this year’s set of players until the year is over and they’ve been made, but that won’t stop me. Years ago I developed a way to play the game without the need of buying more sets of cards. All I need are the players’ current stats and I can simulate the game with maintained accuracy. Using Baseball Reference, I’ve compiled all of the players’ stats in order to make the simulation as realistic as possible. During today’s thread, I will be reporting what happens in the board game. After each inning’s over, I’ll tell you guys what has happened. Let’s see if the Twins can win 5. I am out of ideas and time… so… Thanks for reading! Let’s win Twins! Alright Twins, time to win a series against the best team in the American league!
  18. Danchat
    I think you're talking about the Braves, the team he played with for the first half of 2017. He was an All-Star for the Mets last year.
  19. Danchat
    Winner winner chicken dinner!!! See you guys in tomorrow's game thread! I hope you can join me for some Strat-o-matic Baseball.
  20. Danchat
    It's time for a week of Escobar/Adrianza at short and have Polanco sit on the bench and work things out. It's definitely not time to DFA him, but he needs to get this groove back. As I already showed in the first post of the game thread, his batting line since June 24th is nearly the exact same as Buxton's April. And that's really, really bad.
  21. Danchat
    Today's game has basically been "who's worse in RISP situations?", and the Astros have been worse. So many runners left on base...
  22. Danchat
    Hildenberger really needs to take over Duffey's role. Duffey's last two weeks have been really bad.
  23. Danchat
    Of course, the only hit with the bases-loaded was the twins got was a complete gift. Garbage RISP PAs so far.
  24. Danchat
    If I'm not mistaken, I think it's Dozier 2 for 2 (or maybe 3?) and the rest of the team 0 for 19.
  25. Danchat
    Our RISP is killing us in this series. You gotta at least advance those runners! We're something like 1 for 15+ with guys in scoring position.
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