140 thoughts on “Game 136: Twins at Chi Town”

    1. On the radio broadcast, it was mentioned that Plouffe had gotten a glove from Mike Moustakas because the glove he'd been using wasn't really a third baseman's glove. He'd only brought outfielder's gloves to start the season because that's where he thought he'd be playing this year. Seriously? The Twins have been letting him play third base for months with the wrong glove?

      1. Somehow, I'm sure it's the medical staff's fault.

        Actually, did anybody catch Gladden's rant on Sunday during the bottom of the seventh about how computers are ruining baseball and people should be relying more on their gut than on numbers? That, plus this story about Plouffe, just sort of reiterate to me that the Twins seem to be so much myopia with how things are done that there is no longer anyone within the organization thinking independently to just remind them of things that might be slipping through the cracks.

  26. this seems like a low number to be on a Top 10 list for a franchise that has been around 40+ years

    Dustin Morse ‏@Twins_morsecode
    Justin Morneau walked for the 450th time, tying him with Kirby Puckett for 8th on the #MNTwins all-time list.

    1. I suspect it has more to do with the team not being very good for many years. For instance, with the Yankees Morneau would rank 15th since 1961. He would be sixth with the Royals however and seventh with the Rangers.

  30. Who knew the Twins had all of these great hitting middle infielders in the minors!?!?!

    1. We've replaced your replacement level team with a team full of capable major league hitters. Let's see how long it takes its fans to notice?

  41. OK, so Humber had a perfect game earlier this season, retiring 27 straight. Is Ventura gonna let him try to face 27 straight batters without retiring one?

    2. I logged in to say this, but there was so much goodness above that I just got to this point in the log.

  47. Trivia Question: Did Humber give up more runs tonight or in his entire career with the Twins?

      2. Against the Twins, he's now given up 20 runs in 18 innings. With just the White Sox, it's 19 runs in 15.1 innings.

  53. Do you think the guy with the last name Omogrosso got made fun of in grade school? I bet he did.

      1. For his sake I hope he doesn't have a sister. Ah, nevermind, he is on the White Sox. I hope he has three.

  58. Using Smokestax tonight, eh? Better hope Hendriks doesn't go for 2 innings this week.

  68. I think Ventura broke gameday.

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  73. Outside of when he's pitching perfect games, Humber's ERA this season is 7.14
    Outside of games when he's allowing more than 7 runs, his ERA is 4.63

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