Clay Buchholz [9.00 ERA 7.86 FIP 5.34xFIP 4.76 K/9] v Liam Hendriks [ 3.86 ERA 5.92 FIP 4.32 xFIP 3.86 K/9]
Go TWINS!
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It’s winning Wednesday!
From LEN3:
Smooth, Bobby.
hilarious!
Liam does have an L in his name. L for lefty!
Revere is in the lineup and playing in left?! Who the hell is running this show?
I’ve fired off at least 2 torpedoes. They were not like peeing in my mouth.*
*sorry free.
I’ve never peed in my mouth, but I have had Coors Light.
Yeah, about the same.
I look forward to having one or two non-mouth pee Torpedoes when I get home.
I switched it up and had a Mexican Coke. I can get diabetes the honest way with real sugar.
b-b-but the body can’t tell the difference between HFCS and sugar! Sugar is sugar!!!!1111one1111!!!
I like to stick to the Mt. Dew Throwback and Jones colas for the cane sugar. I get enough corn in my diet, I don’t need to drink it.
I’m firing off Red Chairs (not as catchy, but it’s just as terrible as Torpedo; stay away).
Dude. You are sitting on Red Chairs.
That’s why you’re up here.
Attebury response to Gladstar’s comment that he wouldn’t have admitted to the Hendrick’s left-hander/righthander gaffe.
free MLB.tv game today, Bo. Why you stuck watching the radio?
Habit I guess. Am eating in the kitchen with laptop (NBBW on work trip).
Chicken saltimbocca with quinoa, carrots.
Could prolly get the NESN on the big screen, but would have to listen to their propaganda, not ours.
put the NESN on the big screen and mute. Then you can use your eyes to decode Dazzisms.
True dat. There is something zen-like there. Bet he picked up the koans whilst in Nippon.
Stanley cup on the NESN. Did see that Legally Blonde was on -- guess what would be on if she were here…
NESN’s guys aren’t bad. The PBP guy is quite good, and the color guy is dippy in a somewhat charming way.
TK rocks.
Oh, right, TK. I can hear the NESN guys anytime.
Petunia needs to trim that mountain man beard.
Actually, the less I can see of his face, the happier I am.
this is one hell of an at bat
aaand the long, national nightmare is over.
That at-bat only took 10 million pitches.
Hoo-boy there. Lotsa work to get the no.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Pussy single.
escaped the GIDP somehow.
Juiced for Plouffe?
The Twins are good at walking in the first inning.
crax.
Plouffe’s pop out would’ve been a grand slam in New Yankee Stadium. Sigh!
No dome fans to blow it out.
Rallycide.
Find the plate, kid.
Don’t have to worry about dead air with TK in the booth.
Nice pitch.
I don’t like Babe Ross up with guys on base.
well, at least we didn’t have to see his noodle arm.
No respect from Ortiz, and none deserved.
right off the end of the bat. :/
Spanski!!
Nice efforts by Span and Casilla there.
eff Mike Aviles.
TK: “Not a good pitch. A pitch we were hoping to avoid.”
Uh, yep.
I hate the Red Sox.
Liam showing he belongs in the Twins rotation.
Yeah, I’ve seen this movie before, and I didn’t like the ending.
Mike effing Aviles and Cody effing Ross are destroying the Twins this series. Puke.
Oh, effsake, all I did was leave to cook the damned spaghetti.
Hell, all I did was show up. Evidently you have to be here and I have to be somewhere else.
Anagram fun:
Mike Aviles == I Make Evils
Peter Bourjos doesnt fit. damn.
Try Matt Joyce.
My Taco Jet.
When Provus says “Buchholz”, it really sounds like “Buckles”.
Prediction: Revere goes yard.
halfway there
I’ll give you half a point for that guess.
Way to make ‘im work, Burroughs!
Oh, Pork. Rhett, Reiner and Rogan?
Speedy Ben!
Heh heh. Speed is nice to have.
That’s nine consecutive games of at least four runs allowed by the Twins. They’ve allowed less than four runs only twice this season, and both times it was three runs allowed (one win and one loss).
RedSoxesque.
Bad pitching will do that.
Speedsters, there.
TK really taking the Sawks to task for the lack of a cutoff man.
“I’m not sure what they’re trying to prove there…it’s a little different from the baseball that’s been goin’ on for oh…a hundred-some years.”
funny, when Bobby Valentine was doing ESPN games, he would call out teams when they have cutoff men in weird places.
I don’t mind that with Lexi. Put some pressure on.
crap.
Let’s test someone’s glove other than Gonzalez’s for a while.
Never noticed before, but the logo at the back of the pitching mound changes. Yesterday it was the TC logo and now it’s the M.
changed it for luck, I hope
It seems like it’s a lot easier to score when you hit the ball over the fence for some of your hits.
I suppose two-out hits help, too.
“Fun” Fact: these two teams have given up 102 runs each, coming into this game. The next AL team, KC, has given up 85. Then a bunch are in the 70s.
(Rangers = 49 (!))
Walks are Not Good.
Ugh.
That’s one way to get out of an inning. I guess.
Least satisfying third out ever.
rally time
The Twins starting pitching is not very good at baseball.
6 runs on 6 hits for the Bosox? Wha?
walks will do that when they are followed by a jacked donger.
God this sucks, guys.
Selfish singles are ruining this team. Hit one out, pussy!
Station. To. Station.
More selfishness.
TK’s banging the drum for Morris for the Hall.
…eh, I’ll allow this one.
TK is Dazzlin’ with his GOML talk.
I don’t know guys, we might have to all grow beards to fix this season.
That’s gonna be a problem. It’s been an annoyance for many directors who wanted me to grow a beard for a show to find out that I’m completely unable.
If you want, you can borrow some of mine. Just give me an address.
you have more than one beard? What, you got a back-beard too?
Dang, a cheapbeer package apparently just went out to me today. You could have sent it with that.
I’ll need some, too.
Good news: after my last final on Saturday, I can grow a beard again!
I already have one. Maybe if I shave?
I shaved last Friday…nothing doing Z.
Or mustacchios. But something.
Or the avatars have to grow some. Ubes is set.
Doc is set.
*twirls mustache, knowingly*
Greek is set?
Uh, I don’t think so.
That thing is kinda like a mustache.
LOL. More mustache!! Soul patch?
I will try to thin mine out.
You’re looking kind of nappy up around the horns, too.
Set and expertly styled.
blech.
At this rate, you’re gonna run out of mild curses to use.
You’re goram right.
I laughed.
What? Petunia DOESN’T get on base???
Those boys did NOT look thrilled about being in the booth with TK and Dick.
Yeah, what was that? They must have been in a fight and gotten reprimanded beforehand.
Wow. A shutout inning. I didn’t know that was allowed.
Phil Hughes is the Liriano of the Yankees. He only went 2.2 inning tonight. 16 IP, 18 runs allowed
Now Revere will hit a home run.
Just missed.
You can’t stop Lexi, you can only hope to contain him.
Holy motherfelking schmidt!
Gonzalez, Doucheixeira, Poo-holes, and…
I loved how TK said “please don’t say Doucheixeira” in response to the trivia question
is Derek Lee still playing?
I love the disdain in Tk’s voice when Tex’s name was brought up
Gotta be Helton.
Yep, he has three.
Uh, I just went and looked. The answer is indeed the five we named.
I would probably watch a game 7 of just about anything.
even a Red Sox Yankees game?
I can haz rally?
184M reasons why we won’t get a two-out hit here.
That’s enough for me. Torpedo Time.
Trim job then. Keep em growin.
Time to watch something else for a while. I’ll be back later, maybe.
PlouffE
That error was so funny, that even him being a Twin couldn’t stop me from laughing.
As must as I want the Twins to win, I feel oddly vindicated for starting Buchholz today.
I must them, too.
Just got back from choir; I missed ‘Lexi’s RBI
HA! Poor Yankees!
Sucks for Pineda. Ha ha! for the Yankees.
stinky
Darnell McDonald sighting!
Revere doing everything possible to stay in the big leagues. hit a double, bunt for a single
Must not like bus rides.
He also misses the streetcars.
Have you ever been to Rochester?
No, but I’ve been to
Twolves HellSyracuse.Would you be interested in doing an NBA playoff preview where we send each other maybe half a dozen questions each through e-mail.
Yeah, send me at stickandballguy, gmail.
SEND HIM!!!
holding Casilla?
ULLGERLIDDLE!Spantastic!
This looks like a rally to me.
PANSY!!! BOOOOOOO
Hit ‘em where they ain’t, Joe!
Or just hit ‘em in the foot.
Evil Mauer enjoys hitting pitchers; scoring runs.
Joey Joe Jo!
JOE MAUER JUST LITERALLY HIT A ROCKET!
wait, what?
when did Clemens come out of retirement?
Booooooooooooooooooo.
42 minutes ago
Twins fans are idiots.
He’s going to have to win multiple MVPs to stop the boos. No, they still won’t stop I think. Fuck you Souhan.
all right Jason Morneau!!!!!
Hey, a ball that might’ve been out in another ballpark!
This game is getting good.
BOSTON BULLPEN = MINNESOTA STARTERS
oh shit
Damn.
Screw you Red Sox!
Oh crap.
Oh, boy.
Kirby wasn’t hit in the eye, Dick.
It looked and sounded like he took it on the brim but they didn’t do a replay.
Yep, straight on the brim of the helmet.
That probably wasn’t as bad because it at least deflected.
That’s a silver lining, anyway.
just hope he doesnt have a concussion
diamond cutter
For Parmelee!
Kids are in bed. Turned the game back on. Apparently things went well when I wasn’t watching.
Good Plouffe = G’loofe?
Well damn Burroughs, you could’ve at least struck out.
Set up the Laddie homer.
if the Twins want to cut Burroughs any time, they don’t have to wait for my okay
Yeah… where’s Jim Thome when you need anyone besides Burroughs?
3 out inning for Burroughs.
Can anyone explain Mauer’s 2-RBI hit to the pitcher for me?
Hard liner off of the pitchers foot that deflected into left field.
Is that why they threw at the head of our only valuable young player? Value being relative, of course.
I assume so.
Diamond cutter that was interrupted by Atchison’s foot.
Mauer smoked it up the middle, hit the pitchers ankle/leg, then rolled to a vacated SS
Well, they made it interesting. I sure thought Morneau should have scored, though. Are they being extra careful with him?
Just a “doesn’t like to get criticized” 3B coaching move.
Liddle was not aggressive that inning. Casilla should have scored on Span’s double
Agreed, although TK said something about not touching third, so that might have been a possibility. That early in the inning, you don’t want to be overaggressive.
Early? Burroughs was coming up!
He’s like the reverse Ullger, or Regllu as he likes to be called.
Nice pitchin’ Swizzlestick!
Petunia wilted.
Suck it, Pedroia!
Time for Burroughs to have another three-out inning, this time all on Ks!
Then the Twins can get two 8-run innings in one inning!
Another ump on the list!
looked safe to me
you were robbed, Ben
Joyce’d.
Opposite of that.
Right.
Looked safe.
Vicente Padillia is from Nicaragua. Of the 12 players born in that country to play in the Majors, 9 have been pitchers.
That just reinforces the stereotype that Nicaraguans have tight elbow ligaments.
A hurtful stereotype, for sure.
Perkins is in? Hasn’t he had season ending surgery yet?
That’s for May.
David Ortiz looks my size.
I’m not sure if this means he is losing weight or if I am putting weight on.
Ortiz =/= Happy Camper
You know we have a way to make that symbol for real now!
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Except they should be backslashes.
\( \neq \)
Who needs LaTeX when you have Unicode!
≠
Okay, the LaTeX version is easier to read.
Valencia is going to get the winning hit after being an injury replacement.
That was some pitching
from the gut by Perkins.
Evening gents. Did I miss anything?
Dude, you missed everything.
Good evening zoom -- just got here myself!
Parmalee got hit in the head.
was it Justin Morneau bad?
We won’t know until after he’s out for the season.
I was at the game where LeCroy was hit in the head. He played soon after, but the sound was pretty horrifying.
You missed a disappointing start, an incredible rally, and a Twin getting nailed in the head with a pitch.
You’ll be here for the walk-off win though.
That’s what I like to hear…well, that last sentence anyway.
To be honest, I turned the game on when it was 7-1 BloSox. I had to wait for the zooomx.3 and 4 to hit the sack before I could log on. Sipping on Apothic Red by the way.
I’ve been watching the futility with RISP most of the evening. I was telling AMR the other night that I watch almost every game, but if I participated in the game logs, I’d have comment numbers like bS.
That would only get you second place.
I’m from the Upper Midwest…
Man, I chose a bad night to stop sniffing glue.
Reverse Cuzzi’d.
bandbox
That was an upper decker at NYY
I’d like to leave an upper decker in Yankee Stadium.
In NY they call that a “Pavano.”
Son of a…
Holy I’m slow.
I would be a lot more sympathetic to the Twins hitters’ complaints about the dimensions if the opponents weren’t constantly hitting balls over the fence. Maybe the hitters should complain that they never get to face the team’s starting pitching.
This.
another Tom Kellyism…’central field’
I love that TK calls Dick “Richard.” For that alone, I give him as much leeway as he needs.
You know what the best part about not having a lead in the 9th is?
No Capps!
That’s the spirit!
don’t be so sure.
The weird thing about having TK in the booth is they talk about baseball the entire time.
DicknBert talk about baseball maybe 31 percent of the time.
but how would we know when bert’s birthday is if he didn’t tell us every night?
I kind of like the fact that DicknBert avoid talking baseball much of the time. It makes them almost tolerable.
It seems so wasteful when a HOF pitcher doesn’t talk a whole lot about pitching.
Bert after a hit: “He left it over the plate”
Bert after a called ball: “He needs to throw it over the plate and trust his defense”
Yup… that’s about all that HOF pitcher has to offer.
He does occasionally nail it when he talks about setup pitches and what they’re meant to accomplish.
Unfortunately, he has the attention span of a ferret.
Or, “He left it up. He needs to get it down.”
I’ve said this before, but what I find most annoying about Bert is that every once in a while, when he’s motivated to do so, he can do an extremely good job of breaking down a pitcher’s motion and delievery and strategy and all of that. It’s just that he’s very rarely motivated to do so.
On the other hand, what motivation does he really have to be good at his job? He knows he’s going to be able to keep it as long as he wants whether he’s any good at it or not. In fact, most Twins fans probably think he’s a great analyst. He probably thinks, “Why should I work hard at this when I don’t have to?”
So this Burton guy has looked really good every time I’ve seen him.
Who are you? I’m no one to be trifled with. I must know. Get used to disappointment. Maybe I missed it, but who in the h*ll is your new avatar?
Did you really ask who that was?! You’re banned.
I did…I really don’t watch television if it’s not beisbol or lacks a certain wells.
I’m with Corn. About the only non-sports TV I watch is if I happen to be in the room when Mrs. A has the Hallmark Channel on. And Doctor Who, of course.
Dido. It’s not Walter Bishop, and it’s not an animated character, so I’m stumped. And what pb says below.
Honestly, I couldn’t tell either. It wasn’t that I didn’t get the reference, it’s that the picture was so small I couldn’t tell what it was.
Arrested Development Werewolf starts on Monday (hopefully), so I went with a variation on the pirate theme.
Gotta like the bullpen tonight. They are making the Sox look a bit silly. Makes me even more depressed about our starters.
Swarzak was pretty awesome
We have somebody to pinch hit for Burroughs this inning, right?
Pavano’s good with the bat, right?
we’re entertaining guests, but i’m logging in quick to say this:
Doumit should PH for Burroughs
TK is a bit of a mumbler, but I’ll take his mumbling every day of the week.
Ah ceee ves. Love it TK.
I believe he has to take one. TK is great.
Just missed with ball 4.
Do it, Doumit.
Yes!
Nice call -- you deserve some notice for that one.
Hit a homerun here, will ya? I am about to pass out.
“That was terrible, huh? Have you seen anything worse?” Please send bert back to socal or denmark or where-ever.
wow, Plouffe.
WTF was Plouffe doing there?
I like Revere up in this situation.
At least he’s not a DP threat.
High average hitters are inherently more “clutch”.
Except for the Twins’ ones.
did I just see someone hold up a Rally Monkey with a Twins jersey on it?
Yes. Now, put that out of your mind.
boooooooooooooooooooo
Ha!
Why do they keep panning to that shot of New Guy at that game holding the rally monkey?
He must be related to someone. They won’t stop showing him.
Blown call number 2 ump.
He hates Revere.
Come on, really?
terrible terrible call by the ump
Casilla always gets a hit in this situation, right?
well, sort of.
this first base ump is f’ing brutal
What do you expect from a Barksdale not named D’Angelo?
He may get hung in the joint for his performance tonight.
Stop hitting our players!
And my feed is a couple of seconds behind.
Everybody knows Laddie loves game winning walk offs.
THE RED SOX KNEW THAT LADDIE LOVES WALK OFFS, CLEARLY.
As in, “walk it off”…?
I like a rule that if a player leaves the game because of hbp the team victimized can re-insert a player if they want.
Casilla!
Stop booing, you f*&ktards. That was a pretty damned good outcome.
wild pitch please
THere is nothing NOTHING NOTHING worse than that “Ooh-Ooh… OOH-OOH” song they play to fire up the crowd.
it’s got you fired up
No doubt.
I cannot stand Gwen Stefani. I never understood it, outside of “Well, she’s hot.”
Hey, it works for Katy Perry, I guess.
I can hear Katy Perry’s songs and stop short of wanting to commit suicide. I can’t say that for Stefani.
I’ve found some of her stuff pretty good, but upon reflection I think it all falls under the “No Doubt” umbrella. Her solo work definitely captures some of her unfortunate impulses (such as collabs with that Woo-hoo guy)
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80% of my game log comments are like that.
that was unfortunate
damn
Hurray for the off day!
This is crushing my soul, you guys.
I blame Casilla.
You would.
Nuts.
Man, starting to understand that StatFreak was just a few years ahead of his time.
I think the Twins left 72 runners on base this game (Yahoo boxscore says 17)
71 of them were Burroughs’.
He was also the first Twin since 1847 to make three outs in one inning.
I heard he beaned Parmalee too.
A 5-14 record is pretty soul crushing, but at least two of those games they’ve lost by 1 run with eleventy bajillion runners left on base. I think they can reel off a few wins if they could just get a starting pitcher to give up less than 7 freaking runs.
*cue video of free’s “rally monkey”
So, I guess we’ll have to settle for 148-14!