2012 Twins Game Log

Game 37! We all rejoice!

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Twins visiting Detroit starting with tonight's game. 610 CDT first pitch.

##Pitchers

MIN: Blackburn (1-4 | 7.18 ERA | 5.83 FIP | 4.49 xFIP | -0.2 fWAR | 4.88 K/9 | 1.55 K/BB)
 DET: Porcello (3-3 | 5.18 ERA | 4.54 FIP | 3.91 xFIP | +0.3 fWAR | 5.18 K/9 | 2.67 K/BB)

Hey look another Wednesday game! You know what's fun? Watching baseball. Even this form of Twins baseball is better than the off season. Right?

Count me out of those asking for changes. Well sweeping organizational changes anyway. I don't think most of us thought the 2012 Twins would be a great team. Hell a lot of us thought they wouldn't be any good. Unfortunately, they've managed to pretty much undershoot anyones worst expectations so far. 10-26 is awful. I don't think this team is really that bad. The offense will come back again. The pitching will level out. Twins will not end up with a .277 winning percentage. The Twins still get to play in the AL Central last I checked.

Porcello is a hittable righty. One would hope that the Twins will take advantage; oh and there is that whole Detroit has a hilariously defensive team. At least killing worms might work tonight. He does rely on a sinker, but he's had some trouble getting it to sink lately. No Adjustments!

Blackburn needs a beard. And an eye patch. But at least he's not Marquis. If he can keep it in the park, he should be fine.

Note: The term "Market Inefficiency" is hereby banned from the game thread. They call it the Dismal "Science" for a reason.

##Lineups

###Twins

1. Span 8
2. Dozier 6
3. Mauer DH
4. Willingham 7
5. Morneau 3
6. Doumit 2
7. Plouffe 9
8. Casilla 4
9. Carroll 5

###Tiggers

1. Austin Jackson, CF
2. Andy Dirks, LF
3. Miguel Cabrera, 3B
4. Prince Fielder, 1B
5. Delmon Young, DH
6. Alex Avila, C
7. Ryan Raburn, 2B
8. Brennan Boesch, RF
9. Ramon Santiago, SS

#GO TWINS!

244 thoughts on “Game 37! We all rejoice!”

  1. Delmon is such a poor fielder that he's the DH on a team with Prince Fielder at first base and Miguel Cabrera at third base. Jim Leyland, old-timey baseball man, agrees with lowly Twins bloggers that Delmon Young has no defensive bones in his body.

    1. Without checking, I'm assuming that Delmon's middle name starts with "H", so he was always destined to end up as a designated hitter.

      1. Ever since the bat-throwing incident, it should have been obvious that he's purely offensive.

  2. Game logs calling for no market inefficiency discussions is the new market inefficiency.

  3. Twins starting pitchers have a 149 OPS+ against. Wow that is bad. Albert Pujols is the only active player with at least 3,000 PAs with a better career OPS+ at 168. Miguel Cabrera's career OPS+ is 149. So, if Blackburn pitches well tonight, maybe we can stay tied with Cabrera. Hopefully, both go down, but the Twins' goes down more.

    1. From Joe C:

      Twins center fielder Denard Span was scratched from tonight's starting lineup with continued tightness in his right hamstring. He's day-to-day.
      Erik Komatsu will take his place in center field and the leadoff spot.
      Span, who missed Tuesday's game with the same injury, actually continued taking batting practice and ran the bases even after being scratched. He's available off the bench.

      Sounds like the Twins are losing patience with Marquis, and rightfully so.

  7. When asked about the 13 man pitching staff today, Gardy said that everyone in the bullpen is throwing the ever living fire out of the ball.

  9. Remember when some fans believed Twins pitcher threw too many strikes?

  10. I'm taking this ban very personally. I like discussing the particular failings and oversights of participatory economic exchanges almost as much as I enjoy discussing politics.

      2. Oh, I see it now in the gamelog header.
        Not reading is the new market inefficiency.

  11. The Twins place such a high emphasis on making productive outs on offense, you would think they would place an equal emphasis on preventing them on defense.

  19. So, it's going to be one of those games. Maybe the point of having 8 relievers is to actually use them before we blow the lead.

    1. That's like winning the prize on the trivia contest between innings of a minor league game.

      1. It's hard to imagine. Frown.

        You know, before this season I was really concerned that almost every member of the rotation was going to be FA next year. Now, I welcome it. I wish Smith hadn't given BBlac_bburn that awful, terrible, no good extension. Cut the bum.

      2. I think we've all learned a lesson about how banning things around here works, yickit. Thanks!

          1. Humor can never be too dry. I am a little surprised at how much fun everyone is having with it, but I probably shouldn't be.

            1. Humor can never be too dry.

              General "Buck" Turgidson (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb): Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.

  26. Thank you so much Cabrera. Tigers were 5-for-6 on balls in play that inning.

  27. I drove from one end of town to the other (about a 1.5 miles). The score went from 5-2 to 6-5 🙁

  32. I just said "Go Justin Morneau!"

    Aquinas repeated after me, but said "Go bunt a no no!"

    I think he gets it.

  33. Blackburn's pitching is wilting my rose colored glasses, worn in the hope that he would prove to be decent 4th or 5th starter this year.

    1. Someone on Twitter today (Mackey?) said something like "Is this the game Blackburn turns it around?"

      I audibly said "Nope!"

      I didn't think his start could be this terrible, though. Wow.

      1. I had hoped that his arm was healthy this year and he would be adequately mediocre, but that thread of hope has snapped. Then again, he's exactly what I thought he would be - the 4th or 5th best starter on the roster!

    2. He'll have like 4 or 5 good starts in a row in mid July or something... at some point when it doesn't matter and everyone else is miserable. That's how he goes. And then he'll get right back to this stuff.

      1. what what? Bootsy, are you telling me that Whole Paycheck is carrying THE Oyster Stout??? I just might have to make a special trip.

  43. you know its bad when Wayne Hattaway is dying his hair to change the luck of the club.

  45. Maybe Gray should have started instead. Would have given up fewer runs and pitched longer.

        1. Anybody remember when Tommy Barnard was using a voodoo doll to tighten up Kirk Gibson's hamstring?

          1. I do. And it was 25 yrs ago. So was our marriage - we will be 25 clicks in July.

              1. Control Data in Arden Hills. She was in testing, I was in development.

                2. CDC! I work for what I think would be considered the spiritual successor. Pretty sure one coworker worked for CDC before leaving for the current one.

                  1. My Dad's first engineering job was at Control Data...My uncle was over there too.

  47. Easy to see why Gray ran out of gas. He may have only pitched in two out of the last eight days, but both times were for 14 pitches. Obviously they need more pitchers to handle the relievers not being able to go more than two innings.

  50. Dick says he doesn't want to hear the term "day-to-day". You're with the wrong team for that.

  61. News flash: teams lose more when they don't have many hits.

    Never would have guessed that, thanks FSN!

      1. Casilla is clutch. It's the only time he's any good. My usual cheer for Plouffe! is that the result is just 1 out.

    1. Identical posts are probably inefficient, but there's still room in the market.

      1. Oh, crap, there's a hivemind here, too? I thought the groupthink was only over at Canis Hoopus. I better go get deprogrammed again.

  69. Thank god for the Fat Prince because anyone else might have scored on that play.

    1. Why anyone throws him pitches in the strike zone is beyond me. Delmon has the plate discipline of a Sumo wrestler at a smorgasbord.

  71. Why is Gameday working for other small market teams but not ours? Unfair. Slobs.

      1. I expected something a little more exciting. Heck, that didn't even tell me if it was Thursday or not.

  73. detroit announcers:

    "that looked like a combination between a splitter and a change."
    "what do you call that?"
    "a splange!"
    together: "hahahaha!"

    hivemind? don't think so...

  74. tv guys trying to think of a Twins SS that hit 2 HRs in 4 game. JJ Hardy hit HRs in back to back games early in the 2010 season

      1. Plus, he was positioned so close to the outfield grass, he may as well have been an outfielder. He even caught some fly balls in the outfield grass.

    1. But Bert cited Burton's win-loss record. I would say it evens out, but it's not even close.

      1. 10-3 career! Also, Burton's given first name is Levi. I find that more interesting than his W/L numbers.

        2. I like DK's slightly better, and I'm not just saying that because he's judging Turbo Survivor. Still, using "succumbed" and a running gag is excellent.

  78. I stopped for a few Fuller's after work tonight. Then I got home and I found a bunch of Surly in the fridge. I am enjoying cold one city, usa tonight.

    1. When you say found do you mean the beer fairy stocked your fridge while you were out?

      1. 16 oz. cans are the new market inefficiency. (sorry, had to get mine in tonight)

    2. I think I heard that Capps is not available. A Nation wept (in relief, mostly).

  92. Wait, Butera and Plouffe bat back-to-back and it produces two runs? Wow!

  96. I think you're an asshole if you don't run out a double play that you hit into.

    I'm looking at you, Cabrera.

    2. Centerfielder goes first! Why would he redo the entire lineup just because Span is a late scratch?

  102. you gotta be kidding me

    Darren Wolfson ‏@DarrenWolfson
    Gardenhire: Doumit popped a calf muscle. Will head to disabled list. Blackburn has a thigh issue.

  103. Sounds like Doumit is hitting the DL with a "popped calf muscle." Blackburn has a sore muscle in his thigh, and might hit the DL too.

  105. God dammit, I just heard something about a Doumit popped calf and a Blackburn thigh issue.

  106. From AP:

    The Twins beat the Tigers for the fifth time in their last 23 meetings.

    Bizarro Twins indeed.

    1. That sounds like a lot, but with 18 games per year, it's not exactly a long streak.

  107. Because the Twins don't have enough outfielders, Revere is being called up. That gives the Twins five full-time outfielders plus Plouffe, who started in RF tonight, which left the Twins without a backup IF on the bench. The only two first basemen are Morneau and Mauer, unless you count Plouffe.

  108. quality game log tonight guys. I very much enjoyed the discourse on microeconomics.

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