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  1. IndianaTwin
    Wallner is the second coming of Ron Hunt.
  2. IndianaTwin
    Sometime I’ll bring donuts.
  3. IndianaTwin
    Yep. and right now I’m approaching downtown Chicago on the same. I find train riding incredibly relaxing. Using the USA Rail pass, I left Chicago last Tuesday, rode to Milwaukee for Tuesday and Wednesday night’s game. Had to cut out in the eighth on Wednesday, but rode to St. Paul to catch Thursday and Friday’s games. Then was the awesome part. Left St. Paul Friday night, arriving Whitefish around 10 p.m. Saturday. Got off, crashes on an air mattress at a friend’s house in Kalispell. Hopped back on Sunday morning and rode back to St. Paul by Monday morning. Spent the day, went to last night’s game, back on this morning for the ride to Chicago. Then off to Millennium Station to catch the Southshore to South Bend. It’s been an awesome vacation/work trip. May try it again next summer.
  4. IndianaTwin
    Thanks, all. It ended up working swimmingly. My friend’s spouse had a mid evening commitment downtown, so she dropped us off at the game, went to her shindig and then hung out at an ice cream shop. With the blowout, we left in the eighth and walked to a spot where spouse could pick us up street side. Made it to the Depot with plenty of time to spare.
  5. IndianaTwin
    After last night’s game, Rocco talked of Ober’s next outing coming after “more than just an extra day or two.” I think he also used language of “three or four innings.” To me, that sounds like… 1. A limiting of innings. Not surprising. 2. That he will keep pitching, not just an IL stint. 3. Since he last pitched on Sunday, and Rocco mentions “more than just a day,” I’m guessing he doesn’t throw again until at least Tuesday, Sept. 5. 4. When Rocco talks about three or four innings, it sounds like they are keeping him stretched out long enough to be able to start, but also that they don’t wish to have him start. 5. That also points to him not being in the playoff rotation. So, moving down to St. Paul does allow them the opportunity to start grooming him for bullpen usage. If this is indeed the plan, I like it a lot. First round will be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. That’s after an off day on Monday. Don’t use him over the weekend and he would be fresh. Let Lopez, Gray, Maeda air it out and play with a short hook, knowing that if you need to the bullpen, you can get three or more innings from Ober.
  6. IndianaTwin
    Those sound great. Do you have dates on either? They would be fun to look up. I guess the Uecker game won’t be hard to find while looking at his home run log.
  7. IndianaTwin
    My sense is that Rocco does increase the leverage opportunities, but very slowly, slower than a lot on TD would like. Particularly with young guys, he focuses on putting them in positions to succeed and not to fail. He seems to recognize that it takes a while to build confidence. I also sense him doing that when he pulls a young starter an inning earlier than folks on TD would like. He likes to have them leave with a good taste in their mouth. Tonight was driven by availability, obviously, but Winder with 46 pitches on Thursday vs. Sands with 32 on Friday were arguably equally rested. It was pretty low leverage when Winder came in, but it was also still within a grand slam. That he went to Winder in that spot suggests to me that he’s inching up the trust chart.
  8. IndianaTwin
    You can also get the save if you go at least three innings, regardless of the score. In tonight’s game, Maeda didn’t go five innings, so he couldn’t get the win. That means it’s the scorer’s decision on which reliever most deserved the win. Since Winder went three, it could have gone to him, but in a case like this, where both relievers were effective, the scorer is encouraged to reward each by giving both a win and a save.
  9. IndianaTwin
    The bullpen botched it last week, but they now haven’t given up an earned run since the seventh inning last Wednesday. That’s 22.2 innings.
  10. IndianaTwin
    Going 10-20 the rest of the way would give them a nice round 100 losses. I’ve got confidence they can do it.
  11. IndianaTwin
    15 up, 15 down, no less.
  12. IndianaTwin
    Then let’s get about 20. And another 11 in October. Though I’m not big on smalls.
  13. IndianaTwin
    Not surprising that Taylor was the first guy to call the balk. And then steals third to add insult to injury. Nice.
  14. IndianaTwin
    Gotta like getting four shutout innings from two guys with spring training uniform numbers. EDIT: Five. Opening a crucial series with their closest follower, and two of the bottom guys in the pen get the win and save. That works.
  15. IndianaTwin
    No. Just got off too far. That’s several times when he’s gotten burned being too aggressive. Last week in Milwaukee, rounding first base too far when down four in the ninth. Though to be fair, he was a bit in No One’s Land. If he tags and it drops, he could have been forced at third.
  16. IndianaTwin
    Correct — meant to say “when they are wearing.”
  17. IndianaTwin
    I wish this pitcher would drop down from time to time, just to be able to call it a sidewinder.
  18. IndianaTwin
    Little disappointed in the size of the crowd, though it is a weeknight. But yes, good energy. There was a bit of nervous silence early, but a six-spot will liven things up. PA folks were hyped early, however, breaking out the infernal “Every-body-clap-your-hands” by the bottom of the second.
  19. IndianaTwin
    Concur. I still don’t like that they are wearing Marlins caps, but I like the rest of the kit.
  20. IndianaTwin
    Funderburk setting himself up for the “Win, scorer’s decision.” I had lunch with official scorer Stew Thornley recently. He said that this year, thanks in part to the pitch-clock operator being added to their crew and in part to the reality of betting, they have been moved from the general press box to being isolated in one of the extra broadcast media booths. Until the game is over and he’s made his decision, he’s not allowed to give anyone a sense as to where he’s leaning with that decision, for fear it will get tweeted and allow folks to slap down a late bet.
  21. IndianaTwin
    It was.
  22. IndianaTwin
    1U, K, 1-3. Not bad.
  23. IndianaTwin
    To add to the explanation on the previous post, both teams screwed it up. The ump at second clearly said Correa was off the base and the runner was safe. Cleveland’s coach needed to let him know to stay on the base. When he didn’t and was jogging slowly to third, the coach next needed to direct him straight to third in an attempt to “steal” the base. Similarly, the Twins screwed up in not catching that he was jogging to third. Had they seen him jogging, they should have easily been able to get him in a run down. As I said, I didn’t see anyone call timeout, and the umps would have had no reason to call it without someone asking. When the umps got together, they could have easily ended the conversation quickly by saying, “Such-and-such asked for time and we gave it.” That that didn’t happen makes me think that no one asked for time. I think the correct call SHOULD have been to call him out for giving himself up, but that would have been a hard sell to Francona. So the “safe” solution was to send him back to second and blame it on confusion. That’s my perspective from Section 103, where I have a pretty good view.
  24. IndianaTwin
    After the runner was called safe, he jogged to the dugout, assuming he was out. After he made it to the coaches box, the dugout let him know he was safe, so he tried to jump on third. I didn’t catch whether time had been called. Had it not been and had he stopped at third, he would have been entitled to the base. I don’t know if this was Rocco‘s argument, but he could have been saying that time had not been called and that the runner had given himself up by going past the dirt and towards the dugout. In the end, the umps probably got it right by just sending him back to second.
  25. IndianaTwin
    Lead chipped, area mulched. Now let’s go ahead and put the Guardies on the compost pile.
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