Hosken Bombo Disco

What I saw was the Angels weren’t getting good swings on Dobnak, but they were still making decent enough contact, if that makes any sense.

Sample More Hamm’s?

The Angels have the lead and therefore are not able to “rally” for a lead. We have them right where we want them! We just need this score to hold—ohh wait

Honestly, gotta be frustrating for Cave too, no? “We need you to go out there, every night, and give us 4 at bats”

Warming up in the Twins bullpen

No more and no less

I was just thinking to myself, “Self, I haven’t seen anyone drop a pop up in a while..”* * batter was OUT on infield fly anyway Edit: actually no it wasn’t infield fly, regular force out at second, sorry, watching with half an eye

Trouts was a ground ball through a hole What can you say

welp

Someone is going to get one of these stingers airborne... and look out..

Stung that

Garverrrrific!

Nice take, Cave LOL

All I got for "I was there" is the Jacque Jones homer off of Freddy Garcia game in 2005. Late summer, Jones broke up a no hitter in the 8th, Twins won 1-0. The dome was electric. The Twins were out of the race but the nasty south siders were good, they won the World Series that year.

Honestly, and I'd only say this quietly, under my breath, and definitely wouldn't say it in a game thread, but I got a little anxious when I heard all that "I want to stay here" talk this spring coming from him. I mean, I'd love to keep him, but I also want him to keep playing hungry.

Thanks Danchat!

It’s always thrilling when your team snatches victory from the jaws of victory, as the Twins did yesterday afternoon at Target Field against the Red Sox. The Twins lost 3 of 4 in the series, but were 1-0 in games played in the sunshine. That’s a good sign, right? There will be plenty of sun out in LA this weekend for the three game series against the Angels. Here I have selected five Twins-Halos memorable moments to think back on, from over the years: 1. May 23, 2019: Draining the Opposition Seems like so long ago. The Twins laid waste to the Angels 16-7 to complete a three game sweep in LA and on their way to a 8.0 game lead in the standings. This game was actually played on a scheduled off day, after the field was unable to drain some heavy rains that fell prior to the first pitch the night before. 2. May 8, 1984: Greatness Arrives A promising young outfielder makes his debut for the Twins in Anaheim, and grounds out in his first at bat. Yet he would finish the game with four hits. Few in baseball were able to collect hits in bunches like Kirby Puckett was. 3. Sept. 2, 2011: More Greatness Another promising young outfielder makes his 80th career plate appearance, and first against the Twins, drawing a base on balls in the 9th inning of a Twins win. You may have heard of him: Mike Trout. Bonus points if you can guess the name of the Twins relief pitcher who faced him that evening. (Answer below.) 4. August 3, 1987: How to Get Ejected from a Baseball Game The Twins-Angels game was tied 2-2 in the 4th, when home plate umpire (and great St. Paul guy) Tim Tschida wanted to take a look at the baseballs Joe Niekro was serving up to Angels hitters. There was a confab on the mound, and, well… The Twins went on to win 11-3. The tired and bored but suddenly interested reaction of Steve Palermo, arms folded and hat off, is timeless. 5. October 12, 2002: The Closest We Have Come This is the deepest into the postseason the Twins have reached since 1991. It was the 2002 American League Championship Series, the Twins trailing the Angels 2 games to 1, and a pitchers duel in Game 4. Brad Radke had pitched six scoreless innings, but John Lackey had matched him frame for frame, pitching six scoreless innings himself, and then setting the Twins down in the top of the 7th. And when in Anaheim, late in the game, when the 7th inning stretch comes, you know it well, the scourge of baseball, … But never mind that. Go Twins! Lineups to come EDIT: Here they are: Twins 1. Mitch Garver ® C 2. Josh Donaldson ® 3B 3. Nelson Cruz ® DH 4. Kyle Garlick ® LF 5. Luis Arraez (L) 2B 6. Miguel Sano ® 1B 7. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 8. Max Kepler (L) RF 9. Jake Cave (L) CF Lewis Thorpe (L) Angels 1. David Fletcher ® 2B 2. Shohei Ohtani (L) DH 3. Mike Trout ® CF 4. Justin Upton ® LF 5. Jared Walsh (L) RF 6. Albert Pujols ® 1B 7. Jose Iglesias ® SS 8. Kurt Suzuki ® C 9. Luis Rengifo (S) 3B Andrew Heaney (L)

He actually won the bet. It was for the double header.

As of today, 14 of the 15 American League teams are within a game* of .500 — I think that is probably very unusual. *defining “game” as game in the standings

Thanks. Clarifying that it would be unacceptable if Cave was sixth in PA for a full season; over 12 games there’s at least an explaination.

Built-in rest days also leave more at bats for people like Jake Cave (nothing against him personally). Without looking, I am going to guess Cave is about sixth on the team in plate appearances so far this season, which should be unacceptable. I preferred Adrianza over Cave.

The 2019 team opened the season against Cleveland with the exact same lineup in all three games. (Except for catchers.) Nobody got hurt and nobody needed a day off already!

The Twins need to be able to win some low-scoring games. Can’t always hang it on the offense. There were three shutouts in MLB today.

bewildered, befuddled, bedazzled