The Twins go for the series win today. I hope you were all too busy to watch the Twins yesterday.
Go Twins!
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Game 82: Twins @ Detroit – THURSDAY DAY GAME ALERTThe Twins go for the series win today. I hope you were all too busy to watch the Twins yesterday. Go Twins! This entry was posted by kg2005 on Thursday, July 5th, 2012, at 11:49 am and is filed under 2012 Twins Game Log categories. It is one of 14 entries by the author. 201 LTEs written in response to Game 82: Twins @ Detroit – THURSDAY DAY GAME ALERT |
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will it be a third straight day of the 50 Great Twins program, or will it be the hokey ‘Legends’ game on FSN today?
Do they have a “Leaders” game to show?
speaking of which, yesterday was “Minnesota” day on the Big1Ten2 Network. I watched much of the Goofers hoop win at Assembly Hall in 1996 (Lou-Doo’s last game as coach of the Illini). Bobby Jackson had a career high (mid-20s), David Grim scored ~17. Sophomore Sam Jacobson had a lousy game, but hit the winner with 9 seconds to go, and sure as hell looked like a ballplayer.
I can’t remember now whether I went to that game in person. I was a faculty member at Illinois at the time, and went to a few games. I probably didn’t because it was smack in the middle of the spring academic conference season and, as it was known to be Lou’s last home game, tickets were at a premium.
Is there an estimated start time? I was going to line up my lunch so I could watch some of the game. But I’m getting hungry…
1:30ish central
seriously, we wouldn’t mind the rain down here.
No kidding. These Detroit rain storms as my grass turns to dust and my snow dog does his best not to move one inch are hilarious.
anthem being sung soon, 1:25 central start
Hey guys! It’s gonna be a good day for Ploufffe! (the extra ‘f’ is for “fantastic”!) I can feel it!
BWoooooooo!New Guy!?! Nope, a sugary dose of simple sarcasm. Righteous!
SEND HIM!!!!
I concur.
Donuts gave up on that one.
The fact that Doumit is hitting cleanup today was an a bit of a shock. Too bad we don’t have any other right-handed batters hitting well right now that we could have put in between Mauer and Morneau.
K Diamond.
Provus & Attebury together in the booth is as good as I imagined.
No DazzL? OMG.
He’s on his annual Sturgis trip, I believe.
Really? I don’t think the rally comes for a month yet. Because it draws such a big crowd now, though, there are people who go to Sturgis either before or after it, so I guess it could be.
Oh, right! No, his daughter is getting married in Phoenix
It’s August 6-12 this year, so he’s there a bit early.
I love these two together.
fff! Suck it, philo.
I’m as jazzed as everyone else about Babe Plouffe’s home runs, but it really makes me happy to see him work a count full and line a single up the middle, too.
I’m almost more excited about that- there’s plenty of guys who can put a mistake pitch into the seats, but to stay in the lineup to get the chance to do that, Plouffe needs to line those singles up the middle, too.
This -- I like his developing patience and good at-bats almost as much as when he jacks a “mistake”.
Yes. This is what he wasn’t doing at first, and what he has started to do that has me actually hating him less. I mean, jeez he stinks!
Hey, hey! An RBI for the Dozier!
It would be very nice if he were to come aorund even a little this year. There’s a lot to like about him.
Piranhaball.
Has anyone ever done any research to see just how often the contact play actually works? I suppose it would be hard to set the parameters for it, but I’d really like to know what the percentages are on that.
That would be difficult to get accurate data on considering how often is the contact play on and the batter gets a hit? The fans wouldn’t have a clue that the contact play was on. Plus, I would imagine that there are times when the runner just goes even though the contact play isn’t necessarily on.
oh geez
Two runners thrown out at the plate in one inning. Because, after all, the Twins get so many chances to score that they can just throw a couple away.
conversely, the Twins get so few chances to score that they have to try whenever they get the chance /no longer Verlander on the mound
crap
I’m not watching on TV, is Ullger at 3rd today?
Same here -- That was my instinct too. To those watching, were either of them close to scoring?
to be fair, on a contact play, it’s not the third coach’s blame
When did we start giving third base coaches a fair shake? Fire ‘em all!
FIRE LITTEL AND ULGERR!
I can back this approach.
Both of them had abysmal slides. Dozier had a chance if he slid well, but it was ugly. Pre-haircut Plouffe ugly.
Delmon…walked?
Even the Tiger announcers are saying that walking _elm_n is hard to do.
I think whenever Delmon is up, and the count gets to 2-x, the pitching coach should go out and check for an injury or strange phobia.
Ump squeezing Diamond. Double-play cleans up blue’s mess, though.
Diamond ground balls are a girl’s best friend.
walk _elm_n to set up the 4-6-3 brilliant !
I still like Gardy’s commercials for KLN brands.
They do have a goofball charm about them.
We need Morneau to get a base hit here, so we can get Doumit thrown out at the plate.
Well, now it’s going to take a short passed ball or something.
Wow, Prince is poetry in motion at first.
More like a dirty limerick.
I imagine Prince has written hundreds of dirty limericks.
I like the Tigers’ infield (when they’re out in the field, of course)
Ploophed it.
The stench of his expectedly awful play reaches my nostrils three states away.
Calm down, it wasn’t that bad…just a pop up for the 3rd out -- happens to the best of ‘em.
On the other hand, the Coors Light commercials could go away any time now.
Come on, Maestro! You’re not supposed to get thrown out until you get to home plate!
that was nifty
Great tag there by the Prince.
ouch
Fielder not having a good inning fielding.
If nobody got hurt there, it sounds like it will be hilarious to watch on the highlights.
What the heck is Porcelo doing on that play.
I need at least a recap…
I need at least a
renightcap…FTFY
Probably not until after I migrate the email users to the new application server, though.
Carroll popped a bunt up. Fielder, Porcello, and Laird all converged on the ball. Fielder elbow went right into lairds chin and the ball dribbled away.
Although I think they touched it in fair rritory, but the ump called it foul
Thank you!
cue circus music
And you come through with a photo of the play in question. Thank you.
ouch. that cuts too close to my occupation
Drunken engineer?
Hey, back off… he needed a nightcap!
Drunken
engineerdriver.FTFY.
yeah, not funny.
Awwwwwww.
here you go.
Fielder used his truck stick there. my goodness.
A nasty factor of 100? Is that even possible outside of that one magic pitch in Bases Loaded for the NES?
Blackburn had one with 100 a couple nights ago. I think it’s the machine not being able to express a 0.
Tigers Color: “Minny’s gone back to the days when they were called Punto and the Piranhas.”
Did anyone ever say “Punto and the Piranhas?”
Dick Clark.
sounds like a name for a terrible bar band
Or a Spookymilk Survivor team name.
MAKE TI HAPPEN
TRERYRYAN SORRLELAgainst my better judgement, I kind of like Mastroianni and hope he sticks as a fourth outfielder for a while.
its a trap!
Obvious trap is called correctly?
For all that we get the impression the Twins fan base is down on Mauer, he sure gets chosen a lot in the “hitting streak” contest.
When a guy’s hitting .328, I suppose that’ll happen.
As always, it seems to be a few very vocal people.
On the one hand, this is true. On the other hand, they’re probably more numerous than most in this circle would be willing to believe. There are a lot of baseball fans out there, and for most of the ones that I’ve seen HR+RBI+RUNS=Good Player.
Certainly, but they would never have been happy, except for 2009.
Who says that they’re ever happy?
Then again, if they’re livid now, think of what the uproar would’ve been if they had let him walk after 2010.
But he’s always had some combination of HR, RBI and RUNS!
On the other hand, Joe is never going to make it as actor after his career is over. That H&S commercial is painful.
I’m thinking he’ll be a manager. He can rattle off cliches with the best of ‘em.
again, OUCH
The infield hi-jinks continue.
It is amazing to me how many times Twins batters have literally hit the ball off the pitcher this season.
*cue Benny Hill theme*
Poor Porcello. He’s getting pulled and he’s really not at fault for all this crap. On the other hand, wooooooo
That’s an awful lot of hits and infield comedy with only two runs to show for it so far.
Twelve hits & enough infield shenanigans to fill a highlight reel in four innings, but only three runs so far.
Get ‘em on, get ‘em over, strand them on base.
Twins Baseball!
*cue Theme from Twins Baseball!
Did they just say Phil Nevin is their AAA manager? Good for him. (Side question: is it common for former players to be AAA coaches so quickly after their careers end?)
Seems pretty quick to me. (follow-up side question: Wasn’t Nevin about 40 when he called it quits?)
(35)
On the bright side, I guess, if the Twins weren’t getting hits, they wouldn’t have left eight runners on base.
What was with that first pitch ball to Jackson? Gameday said that it didn’t touch the black, but only because the entire ball was inside the strike zone.
I thought there was a consensus a couple years ago that the M caps were history. I have cap confusion.
There was a consensus they were ugly.
Even as a child, with absolutely no sense for aesthetics, I knew they were ugly. My grandfather got one for me for my 8th or 9th birthday and I traded it for the TC version.
I was given one for a birthday (or something.) I never wore it out in public, choosing to wear my faded old TC model instead. The M looked like it was gonna tip over. Just a clunky looking design.
It’s not like they didn’t have anything to go on.
I’ve always disliked them, but I’d be surprised if the caps they wore when they won the World Series ever completely go away.
yeah, only nostalgia makes me like them
Giveback errors.
Deep breaths, Scotty. Deep breaths.
geez, no one got the trivia question? I know Greg Myers was one, but couldn’t find the other and went with Oliva.
If it seems like Octavio Dotel has been around forever, it’s because he has been.
Here you go from earlier in the game:
http://i.imgur.com/Gixb4.gif
Fielder looks like a giant bowling ball coming in to pick up the spare.
those 6-10 pickups can be tricky sometimes.
not when you use an oversized ball
Diamond and the bullpen had better stay strong, because I don’t think the Twins are going to score any more runs.
It seems the Dotel/Plouffe combo has broken my Gameday.
Mostaccioli starts if off! Let’s get some insurance runs.
Twins baserunners <-- balls
Twins baserunners <-- too much balls
Maestro’s got some wheels.
A strike-out and two stolen bases, it’s even better than a bunt and a balk!
Can haz steal of home?
If this weren’t close, and it wasn’t the Tigers…
No.
Jiminy crismiss! I was JOKING!
Fire Grady and Algore!!!!!!
Well, we hadn’t gotten a runner thrown out at the plate for four innings or so, so I guess we were due.
hellacious pitch to try bunt off of
Eh, I suppose I can give Carroll the benefit of a doubt, then.
Seriously? Was it an honest to goodness straight steal attempt?
What’s the club record for guys thrown out at home?
Well that worked well.
That was worse than a contact play. Carroll needs to work on his bat-handling, evidently.
Look at the pitch on Gameday sometime. He’d have had throw his bat at that one.
Must’ve been the second pitch, then. Yeah, the Twins ran themselves right out of this game.
Of course it had to be that shithead.
guess we’ll need to hit another 8-10 hits yet
Is there no strategy for pitching to Cabrera that doesn’t involve him getting a hit?
hitting him
The pregame keys to the game on FSN were “walk Cabrera.”
Showtime for N64.
Huh. That turned quickly.
What a revoltin’ development this is.
Hmm..boo.
*forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack* *forehead smack*
Oh.
Seriously Gardy? You bring out Robertson to face one batter? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
On the bright side -- Capps didn’t blow another save.
That pitching change worked well for Gardy.
I blame… um… let’s say… Ploufffe.
Gardy wants to sit on win 900 for a bit longer. 901 is such a non round number.
Honestly, why didn’t they bring out Burton for that inning? You have a one run lead. Bring in your best relievers.
Delmon now?
Review will apparently show HR. Comerica is #3, I believe, in HR Reviews. Can you guess #1 and #2?
Back to work, I guess.
Jesus.
And I know it’s the Twins but can we just drill someone for once?
It’s an empty gesture if they get “drilled” with an 85 mph fastball I suppose.
Touché.
I just want Prince to get one in between his catcher-smasher and his waffle-chomper.
Trying to think of a worse way to lose this one. There aren’t too many other scenarios to top it, Delmon’s HR as icing
I’m going to guess the Twins will put Douchey McDancealot on the ropes, and end the game with the tying run in scoring position.
6-14 with RISP, 3 runs scored. 9 LOB. 3 players out at the plate. Horrible.
6-for-14 with RISP is terrific, not horrible. It’s hard to get six hits with RISP and only score three runs. Is that bad luck, bad base running? A combination? Getting more than one extra-base hit in the game also would help.
The 6-14 with RISP is definitely terrific, but only managing to score 3 runs out of that is what I felt was horrible. Agreed that some power would help. Sigh.
This game got real ugly, real fast.
Well, at least this game will come to an end quickly.
All we need is a grand slam!
I left for an inning and a half to go swimming with my girls and had a feeling something lousy was happening.
I take back my Ploufffe-blame! It’s all Spooky’s fault!
great minds, and all that
Ah! well, the blame is no longer on Plouffe!
Bleepity bleep bleep.
On to Texas.
So, I was in a pretty good mood. Now I’m in a really crappy mood. I can’t wait to hear Gardy’s reasoning for not using Perkins or Burton in the 8th.
Perkins still not available after pitcing four days in a row. Burton was the closer du jour and apparently couldn’t pitch more than one inning after having three days off.
Did Gardy really pull Diamond after 7 innings with a pitch count of 91?
After the 7th I checked Diamonds pitch count and was thinking “Oh, good he can come out for the 8th”.
Same.
STrib reporting that Diamond was “gassed” after pitching in the heat. Capps’ injury and Duensing being forced to the rotation finally came back to hurt the Twins. Also, not scoring more than 3 runs on 15 hits didn’t help.
Good start to the second half.
On pace for 35-127!
its been a while since the bullpen (non Capps division) completely fell apart.
still got a split of the series, but it stinks it wasnt 3/4.
Wow. No luck whatsoever for the Twins. I counted three two-out hits with RISP that didn’t score a run (one runner thrown out and two stopped at third) and two lineouts to infielders with two outs and RISP.
Well, it was a disappointing outcome. Still, if the Twins keep getting that many runners on base, and keep getting that kind of starting pitching, they’re going to win a lot of games. We’ll just have to settle for 115-47!