Hosken Bombo Disco

How about a 150-foot moonshot into foul territory

Sure, but it’s not like the runner got right up and sprinted for third. He stood up and practically brushed himself off looking for where the ball went, then jogged to third.

Only wasted a leadoff single last inning, better than the wasted leadoff double in the first. This inning I’m hoping we only waste a leadoff out, and the next inning after that… and pretty soon we might be able to scratch out a run at some point

When that throw bounced away, Lux trotted down to third base like time was called, lol. someone somewhere wasn’t hustling or in the right position

solo homers won’t kill you or something

Twins waste a leadoff double. trying to figure out where I’ve heard that joke before.

You said it better than me.

I was hoping you would post a pic—enjoy the game!

If you can provide a list of players who have done both, I’d be impressed!

The PRP injection didn’t work, apparently. It might be time to start discussing surgery? I have no idea what that surgery would be or the recovery time, but I’m thinking the Twins still want Buxton to limp to the end and hope for some Kirk Gibson heroics in Sept/Oct yes, sad emoji

Unlike last night, Twins need to launch some deep threes tonite

See you all tomorrow night!

Twins fall 10-3

Oh that was Castillo starting that game. Would be a shame for Seattle not to get him any runs and lose.

And yeah that’s brutal what Kirilloff is going through. Very unfortunate. go Buxton!

Cory Provus is awesome, case in point from this weekend (paraphrasing here): Alex Kirilloff is hurt, which is bad news for the Twins; Emilio Pagan is also hurt, which is bad news for Pagan (He wasn’t making light of Kirilloff’s injury by any stretch of the imagination. just interesting phrasing comparing Kirilloff and Pagan)

LOL

Ohtani is being his usual dominant self on the mound tonight, and unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your POV) the Twins are going to miss his turn this weekend.

Is that math on the chalkboard?

Third time through the order? “How bout that!” #MelAllen

(Yes that is real - Mookie Betts bowls 300 games)

A 300 bowler?

This play had the feel of the old NFL catch rule: where replay reviewers had this mistaken belief that they needed to slow the video way down to make sure both palms and all ten fingers were in firm grasp of the ball on every frame of the tape, that no blades of grass were disturbed by a brush with the football, etc. Thankfully the NFL recognized that their rule had gone too far. Maybe MLB will discuss internally but won't help the Twins this time.

I have to disagree and agree, first, that Sanchez was ever much in foul territory. So following the lead of @chpettit19 with the screen shot, I will add these. 1. Here is Sanchez's initial set up: Kudos to Gordon for covering third base. Also, I love Gio's gesture here. We're not cuttin' this one! 2. Then, here is the point in time where Sanchez is most in the baseline, preparing to catch the throw but if you slow it down, he's kind of rocking back and forth, probably just natural motion, but notice his right foot: Sanchez doesn't have the ball yet and Merrifield is not at the plate. 3. Then a moment later, here is Sanchez providing a lane; his left leg is in the air, and is by no means planted in front of home plate denying an avenue (the spirit of the rule). Notice the right foot again back well into fair territory: And the call on the field: Out, and not even a demonstrative call. So while yes it was a close play, it wasn't that close, if that makes sense. Not very logical but it makes sense in my head, anyway. Sanchez did it probably just the way you coach it? not sure What's really unfortunate is that there is a video angle from the third base dugout camera that looks like Sanchez is blocking the plate old school style and falling all over the runner in a big cloud of dust. I'm sure that angle had to have had an effect on the overturn. Despite the crow hops and clutches, I also thought Beckham made a pretty awesome throw, as good as a throw you could hope for, in my opinion. But mostly I just disagreed that Sanchez did anything wrong and I decided I wanted to do a bunch of screenshots.

Had to leave the game after the 8th, uh-oh missed a few things