2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game 34: Blue Jays at Twins

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In searching for a positive theme to this year, I've mostly come up with this: if the season ended today, the East would have three teams in the playoffs, and it would be the teams not in New York and Boston.

The Central's not so nice, as I've taken to watching the Twins on mute and favoring the NBA playoffs and various movies. Tuning out when the Twins are playing the Blue Jays is always a good idea to some extent, of course, but at least we've won one or two already (I wrote this before the Saturday game, as my schedule will rob me of seeing that one and this one.

The very American Ricky Romero will be facing the very Canadian Scott Diamond, so let's not screw this up with any stupid chants out there, eh, New Guy Target Field?

209 thoughts on “2012 Game 34: Blue Jays at Twins”

  2. Bert says Diamond's goal is to change speeds and to make the Jays hit the ball the other way. I think he might need to keep it in the park, too, though.

  4. If this had been last night, and the Twins were the BJs, that would have gone off of Plouffe and right to the SS.

    2. The lineup today:

      I read that as "The inept today:"

      the loss of socal's enthusiasm may be affecting my visual processing.

    1. agreed. They should have never changed them.
      Then one turns to the TBS game and seeing the awful Braves jerseys (dark jersey with dark numbers. blecccck)

  16. I've been away because it looks like my computer bit it. Right now it's on part 3 of 3 on Chkdsk, it's crawling at 37 percent. Close to 24 hours at that place, but it is checking on security descriptor every 5seconds or so. Only about 180,000 more to go! Step 1 if I can get it working is to backup everything. (Got all the family photos on here.) Step 2 will be to buy new computer.

    Anyways, I just wanted to say that I think we should start talking about getting Scott Diamond to the All Star Game.

    2. I feel your pain on the backup fial, AMR. I lost a bunch of family pictures when my un-backed-up-any-time-recently hard drive crashed last year. I'm trying now to remember to do a backup about once per month.

  18. Mauer with 4 putouts in two innings. He's gonna get as many as he ever had catching Johan.

  21. MLB Gameday running approx. 15 seconds behind the Treasure Island Broadcast Network.

  23. speaking of catcher putouts, I read a piece in the Sacbee this morning about the 60th anniversary of a Class D game in which the starting pitcher through a 9-inning no-hitter with 27 Ks. He only got 2 in the first, but got four in a later inning thanks to a passed ball.

    ridonkulously, the catcher who caught that game also caught back-to-back no-hitters by other starters on the team that year, in which the pitchers racked up 20 and 24 Ks, respectively.

      1. "I caught three no-hitters in my first 14 games and had more putouts than our team combined. I thought this pro game was going to be easy. It went pretty much downhill after that," Dunlop joked.

  31. Mauer watches the guy in front of him hit a donger, takes a 4 pitch walk instead.

    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

  36. Gladden teaser: Carew has highest number of triples for a Twin. Who is No. 2?

    I guess Oliva.

            1. 12 of those were with the Senators, but that still leaves him in the top 10. Versalles only had 2 with the Senators.

  37. I have to fill out the forms for all my classes to transfer them to new teachers. They aren't that hard to do, but paperwork sucks and I'm exhausted and have a headache. This sucks, but at least we're winning

  38. I am continually amazed that MLB doesn't sell advertising to display during the tv commercial breaks

    1. I remember in the early days (like 3 years ago) MLB game day/at bat had complete silence during the inning breaks. /could be schlepping hot dogs/blizzards/paint/bamboo flooring/..../

      1. In the early days of MLB.tv they kept the raw TV feed going. As a result I know Dick is as inane when he doesn't think he's being televised as when he is. Other broadcasters not so much.

    1. Should have run back once Lawrie fielded it. No one was covering third I think, and Butera probably would have beat the throw from Arencibia to first.

      1. I was thinking this too. It also looked like if he slid a little better he might've been able to get his foot under the tag.

        But still, that was a horrible bunt by Butera.

        1. Yeah, looks like Plouffe would have needed to look back to see what Lawrie did. Not much he could do with the crappy bunt and good play by Lawrie.

    1. Displayed for educational use only; do not reuse I assume that's for the GIF, not the beer?

    2. I'm home sick, and have cracked open a grapefruit juice to take my vitamins. The idea of a beer and an afternoon game is starting to feel foreign to me.

        1. Because of a high cholesterol profile, I went on Atorvastatin +10 years ago. Yet am supposed to avoid grapefruit as it can make the drugs effect uncertain.

          So therefore I crave grapefruit.

          Recently my doc said if I took the pills in the AM, then OK to have grapefruit in the PM. Mmmmm, it's bliss.

  52. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I can do that and not get paid 23 million for it you pussy!

  55. Can we hit Pause, and Save, and restart this game at this point whenever we want to?

  60. that porn stache is coming along nicely, Donut. Now hit the snot out of something.

    2. But then the snot will get all stuck in his porn stache. It will be a huge mess.

  71. Jays feed making a point to tell me Doumit has 46 career RBIs with the bases loaded. Yeah, real useful stat there, without context.

        1. Oh, wow. I didn't even notice the typo.

          Yesterday on TwinsBaseball.com, one headline was "When time's are tough, Span calls mom." Looks like it's since been fixed.

    1. Well, of course it is by the juice of safu that thoughts acquire speed.

    1. If this team's BA with RISP ever uh, progressed to the mean, they might win more than like 35% of the time.

      1. Twins' OPS with RISP (prior to this game) is .706. It is .719 with a runner on first. With no runners on, it's .622. Clearly, the Twins' offensive problems this year are hitting with RISP, or so Dick would have us believe.

  89. Just got back from taking the family out to dinner. This was a nice surprise.

  90. Is there something above HOF we can nominate diamond for? Unanimous HOF? Canadian HOF?

  92. Over/Under on date the Scott Diamond allows his next run. I will set the bar at November 3rd 2012.

  94. I want two or three runs this half-inning so that I can go watch the NBA game.

  100. Nobody home

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ucJAV3rVU

  104. Relief pitching not the area of need? Then why is Gardy keeping 15 relief pitchers?

    2. The relief pitching has been so good they HAVE to carry that many.

  105. Hey, did you know the Twins have left a lot of runners on base lately? I don't seem to remember this being a problem on the road trip.

    1. Phil Mackey ‏ @PMac21
      Jared Burton just allowed his first hit in 11 2/3 innings. Rajai Davis' single snapped an 0-for-34 streak.

    1. I'd like to see the difference in BABIP between the Twins and their opponents and how it compares to league average.

  114. I knew there would be regression, but did he have to do it all in one inning? Three ground balls and two pop flys and four hits allowed.

  121. Please score some runs in the bottom of the 8th, boys. Capps vs. Jays with a one run lead sounds ominous.

  125. Twins know they're much better in one-run games, so this is all strategery.

    1. Twins are .500 against the teams that own them the most this year. .231 against everyone else. Bizarro Twins.

  130. Dick: Capps is trying for 7-for-7 in saves in one-run games.
    Me: Um, yeah, because he twice gave up runs to make them one-run games. Still, he's now 5-for-5 when entering with a one-run lead and has only allowed two hits and no walks in those situations. Capps for the All-Star game! (That should raise his trade return at the deadline).

  131. Twins had four walks and no strikeouts with RISP. Sounds like a team taking good at-bats and just not having any luck in a SSS. Twins were 5-for-14 in reaching base w/ RISP. The worst part was three times leaving a runner at third with less than two outs, but the Twins scored two others in that situation (Wheeling Ham's walk & Doumit's hit), so 2-for-5 is 40 percent and I think the MLB average is around 50 percent. The guys that didn't get the job done were Plouffe, Komatsu and Butera. Not exactly murderer's row, especially with Plouffe really struggling right now.

  132. Twins finally reach double digits in the win column. San Deigo is second worst with 12 wins.
    But with Cleveland's loss, the Twins are 8 games back

    1. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Scott Diamond has been with the Minnesota Twins for less than a week, and he already has accounted for one-fifth of the team's wins.

        1. When Jeff Gray had been with the team a week, he had one hundred percent of the team's wins.

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