Jeanmar Gomez
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Liam Hendriks
The Twins passed Colorado and are now ranked third in MLB. Cleveland, however, is right behind the Twins in the Race For #1. Personally, I like their chances better.
The Twins have a respectable 20-32 record in the second half, but aren’t getting it done in the division with a 26-27 record. Additionally, they’re just handing third place to the Indians with a 7-4 mark against them this year. The Indians are two games behind the Twins and have a four game series. I see them tying, if not outright taking the lead, by Monday night.
Finally, the Twins take on Kansas City after while Cleveland heads to Texas. The Twins have a ridiculous record of 10-5 against the hapless Royals while the Indians have split against Texas in six games so far. I just see no way the Twins retain third place and wouldn’t be surprised to see them drop to fifth, behind Colorado once again.
Oh, that’s just well done.
I predict a safe Twins win tonight.
…but a Liam Hendriks win?
I predict two Liam Hendriks wins tonight.
Only if Gray gets at least five wins.
Then Perkins can get 7 saves!
I think it’s safe to say that was can get no higher than 3rd this season. If we really wanted to win it all, we should have held on to Marquis.
Actually, he’s pitched pretty well for the Padres after stinking up the AL. He also has an OPS that’s a hundred points higher than Butters’.
So all we had to do is turn Butters into a pitcher and Marquis into a catcher and we would have been fine???
It couldn’t have been any worse.
Now I really want to see this happen someday. I may have to become a baseball coach and work through the minors just so that I can have a catcher pitching to a pitcher.
It’s definitely the best idea I’ve had in at least 10 years.
Then that Rockies play last night could have been a wild pitch (by the catcher) or a passed ball (by the pitcher) without really messing up stat tables.
that was a ball?
That should have been a double play.
ROBOT UMPS NOW!
Hendriks would have two wins already if that was the case.
Bender/Calculon 2012!
So, the Mariners lineup must just be really bad then, hmm?
Apparently low-and-away just doesn’t exist for the ump.
Hendrix vs. Santana. This only ends one way!
One’s gonna die choking on his own vomit and the other of shame from a Rob Thomas collab?
I’m not sure what is going on in this gamelog, but it seems Liam might be in on it.
Hendricks’pitch count is racking up because the ump didnt call a strike a strike.
Spookystory finished and sent in. I had writer’s block on this one for at least two days. No inspiration at all. Luckily, something sort of fell into place once I started trying to put words down. Only took two false starts.
I got really lucky I remembered to send it. I only woke up 10 minutes ago. I woulda been pissed.
Worked that way for me except inspiration didn’t hit until 8:10 tonight and once draft one was written, I had to jettison 40% of my words to make quota in about ten minutes.
twas a little luckier. i was pretty busy, but had pockets throughout that last few hours to write (didn’t have any ideas until about 4pm today though). had a small enough idea where i only got to about 400 before having to cut. that’s a small victory in itself.
I’ve noticed that MLB GameDay plays a metallic-bat-sound every so often. I guess that’s OK.
I get those too, in MLB.tv. I’m sure they mean something, but I’m not sure what.
Little League hits?
Indians announcers getting on Mauer for not hitting enough home runs. I may have to change to Twins broadcast.
What’s with that? We need more home runs!!
because the Tribe catcher/1b dude Santana is jacking HR’s at an incredible rate (he’s got 15, while batting .250)
Oh sure, Gomez gets that call but not Hendricks.
Winners get that call. It really only takes one. Even Jeff Grey would get that strike.
OfficeTalk: Listen here, Kotchman.
Ahhh…that’s better.
Dick Bremer is giving off this vibe…a vibe like when Scott Baker was pitching.
doing stuff with the game on, but i heard a few syllables drift to me from the game and i thought, “…is that frankie?”
This umpire is awesome!
The Twins just got a question from “Bill Lumburgh”.
made me chuckle
Yeah, I’m gonna need you to come in this weekend, um-kay? That’d be terrific.
A lead!
I think Hendrix is going to need a few more.
I predict the Twins get no hit, but Hendrix gets a 5 inning win.
So much for the first half of that.
SEND HIM!!!SEND HIM!!
Now Willingham can get the grand slam!
Willingslam!
If we’re asking a dude to bunt in the 3rd inning, I question the wisdom of having him hit 2nd in the 1st place.
he plays second base, thus must hit in the 2 hole
all that work to get the runners over, then Mauer gets the ol IBB
Ooh, that was your pitch, Consuela.
Checking in from the right center seating area…I predict a HOUR from hammer.
How do you like the seats?
They were pretty okay except that it’s tough to read the strike zone and anything hit down the lines. I’ve been spoiled this year -- every other live game for me was watched from lower bowl, third baseline and no further than about 15 rows from the field.
That would be a brutally long plate appearance.
He fouled off 215 pitches. They had to change pitchers 3 times.
I lol’d in the middle of my wife talking about her day at work.
Hopefully I didn’t get you in too much trouble!
That was my phone’s fault -- supposed to say HR.
not very often you see Willingham hit it in the RF corner
OH YEAH!
The IBB comes back to haunt!
That might be enough to get Hendrix through five.
the Liam Hendriks Experience :/
Sequels are never as good as the original.
I think with Burnett and Robertson, they’re the Band of Gypsies.
He appeared to be at least 10 feet from the bag when he caught that.
Alright, my MLB.tv insists on going backwards in time repeatedly, so I think it’s time for bed. Night!
Rick Aguilera looks like he could still go out there and pitch.
I’m off to watch
high school footballpep band!!Have fun, kids.
jeepers, the Indians are placing the ball well this inning.
there was some crosstown traffic on third base
Twins not letting go of third place!
They were going to continue wearing their Dutch outfits until circled? Couldn’t Bert have waited a few more games?
The Birds of War just lost to Jamaica for the first time ever.
thats not good.
My fault, was teaching the kids about Reggae vocals tonight.
The sample song was Buju Banton’s “Crazy Talk” and I told them it was English and that the singer was really trying to emphasize the extremes of his version of English. But if he was here in the room, he could speak to us and we could speak to him, and if done patiently enough and using simple enough words and sentences (like talking to your little sister), we’d be able to understand what he was trying to say and he’d be able to understand what we’d say, and we’d recognize it as part of our language.
oh boy, Alex Burnett time!
burnett coming in makes me wonder:
Only in the obvious way.
figures…
[ellipsis]
Even Bremer can’t believe that wasn’t an error.
That was easy.
whenever i hear “waldrop”. i think of this. thankfully, the indians were dispatched of just as quickly.
if richard is criticizing your umpiring, that’s not a good sign.
I refuse to use new-coke gameday. That said, in chrome, the ad in the lower-right corner of gameday classic keeps relocating itself over the score, inning, count, runners on base, and current at-bat’s pitches. I find it very annoying. But I do edit the URL from “mode=gameday” to “mode=classic” each time, so I can just refresh the window.
I don’t see the advantage to new-coke gameday. So there’s a bigger graphical respresentation of the stadium, and most of the information is hidden until you select to see it (but it replaces the info already on your screen), and there’s a “scout” making ridiculously inane statements like Madden does in “Madden NFL 2000″
You can disable the scout information. Click the gear in the top right. My biggest complaint with the new Gameday is you can’t go back to see previous plate appearances.
yeah, as soon as I saw I could access classic, I figured I didn’t need to stick around and figure out the specifics of how new-coke bugged me, or how to work around them. Are there any advantages to new-coke?
Less clutter. So, no, not really.
I’d gladly pay $5 a season to ditch the lower-right ad on gameday classic. It used to be that way and the box score went all the way down. Before the game started, one could see both teams’ lineups.
Ad Block Plus. I haven’t see an ad in Gameday in years.
hmmm…. still doesn’t put the boxscore there.
Never really been bothered by ads, does this plugin work for all browsers?
No. It’s browser specific. Ad Block Plus is the Firefox version while Chrome has just Ad Block.
Thanks for the tip. Don’t know how I’ve avoided obvious stuff like this.
I’ve been using Chrome for a year now, and I’ve liked it so much I never added any “extensions” until just now.
(My wife uses Firefox, I used to use IE but then switched and now I’m happy. Separate browsers means never having to share bookmarks or logging in and out of all the sites we both use.)
Gameday has ads?! /Ad Block user
Gameday? What’s that?
I switch to the mini ASAP when I rev up Gameday Audio. I hate hate hate not being able to scroll back to previous PAs in Gameday, so I don’t use it.
classic is like mini but with more on screen at once.
You can go back, they just made it confusingly non-obvious
Really? If it’s that confusing, then I don’t think it counts.
This.
Comeback starts now!!
at this rate, it’ll be tied up by the end of the 10th!
while i enjoy perez’s blowhardness, i sure hope he blows this one too.
Not sure I understand pinch-running Casilla for Plouffe. I’m sure Casilla is faster, but he’s not the tying run and has a base head start on any extra base hit.
Calling Revere’s first home run here.
Liam Hendriks continues to learn. Another comeback falls short. We’ll just have to settle for 80-82.
Yeah, four runs in five innings isn’t a disaster. A two-run HR and a couple weak hits that found the right spots for RBIs.