2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game 138: Cleveland Indians at Minnesota Twins

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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.

114 thoughts on “2012 Game 138: Cleveland Indians at Minnesota Twins”

  3. 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.

    1. 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'.

      1. So all we had to do is turn Butters into a pitcher and Marquis into a catcher and we would have been fine???

        2. 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.

          2. 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.

  12. 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.

    2. 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.

      1. 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.

  13. I've noticed that MLB GameDay plays a metallic-bat-sound every so often. I guess that's OK.

  14. Indians announcers getting on Mauer for not hitting enough home runs. I may have to change to Twins broadcast.

    2. because the Tribe catcher/1b dude Santana is jacking HR's at an incredible rate (he's got 15, while batting .250)

  19. doing stuff with the game on, but i heard a few syllables drift to me from the game and i thought, "...is that frankie?"

  25. 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.

      1. 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.

  35. Alright, my MLB.tv insists on going backwards in time repeatedly, so I think it's time for bed. Night!

  41. They were going to continue wearing their Dutch outfits until circled? Couldn't Bert have waited a few more games?

    2. 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.

  50. 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.

    1. 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"

      1. 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.

        1. 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?

            1. 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.

                1. hmmm.... still doesn't put the boxscore there.
                  Never really been bothered by ads, does this plugin work for all browsers?

                    1. 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.)

                  1. 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.

  53. 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.

  55. Liam Hendriks continues to learn. Another comeback falls short. We'll just have to settle for 80-82.

    1. 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.

  56. Race to the Bottom
    Losses Year(s)
    102 1982
    99 2011
    97 1999
    94 1997
    93 2000
    92 1998 1983
    91 1993 1986
    90 1961
    89 1978
    88 1995 1990
    86 1971
    85 1985
    84 1996 1980
    83 2007 1975 1968 1964
    82 1989 2012

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