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Six games left. Another bad year. Since the season is all but over, let's take a look at how the team performed versus the league.
Batting: 9th (4.38 runs/game)
Pitching: 14th (5.19 runs/game)
Starters: 14th (5.94 runs/game)
Relievers: 8th (4.19 runs/game)
Fielding: 11th (.688 DefEff)
Compared to last year:
Batting: 13th (3.82 runs/game)
Pitching: 13th (4.96 runs/game)
Starters: 12th (5.16 runs/game)
Relievers: 14th (4.94 runs/game)
Fielding: 14th (.677 DefEff)
I don't think the numbers for this season are describing anything we don't already know: the starters have been awful. I do think the improvement in the offense and relief pitching from bad to below average makes this season not a complete loss. I am very curious what the Twins will do this offseason.
Dick: We tend to think of a couple runs and a couple runners left on as a bad inning.
Me: Uh, because it is a bad inning?
If a tree falls in WGOM and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Cabrera, 0-1; Mauer 0-0 with a BB. So the batting race tightens a little bit more.
hey everyone!
.003 points between Mauer and Cabrera. For some reason, Cabrera was referred to as a "teddy bear" by Dick.
If only Joe could have faced the Twins' staff this year...
#pleasedonttradeSpan
I wonder if there's ever been a 9-6 force out on a grounder. I know 9-3 has certainly happened plenty of times.
I bet Mauer gets walked here
I was wrong.
Hey Diamond, you know you can bean Miggy, right?
I guess everyone else is watching the Pirates/Reds game.
One inning left.
Milt is getting ticked.
I don't think I've seen a catcher throw the pitch back as fast as Hanigan does.
I am.
Jumping in at the very end. No-hitter-wagon-hopper.
I just found out it was happening!!!
With one out, Bailey almost hit the batter in the head and the crowd booed. Yeah, he's really looking to hit a guy there, Pittsburgh.
this would be a great time for the Twins to score some runs.
Well, we finished Feed My Starving Children, then finished feed my starving family.
You couldn't get Joe a hit, but Cabrahrah got one?!
Diamond wasn't in far enough.
Cabrera strutting down the first base line, and only got a single. HAW HAW
Played pretty well by Revere there.
Ooooh... how awesome would it be if the Tigers miss out on the playoffs because they don't score a run here and lose the game by one and miss the playoffs by one game??
Pretty awesome, right??
the only problem in that equation is that the White Sox actually have to win a game or two down the stretch
Pretty awesome, right??
M-V-P! M-V-P!
Oh Delmon. Best trade ever*.
* Slight hyperbole. Only slightly though.
And Cabrera loses the MVP, don't forget. Because he's a slow, slow teddy bear.
That Teddy bear comment is maddening. Maybe those guys forget players at their worst, but fans don't. He isn't a Teddy bear. He's just a bear.
I missed it, but apparently YDNROBR!
Brad Radke?
Homer Bailey's no-hitter is complete! Killer.
Unfortunately (I) missed Ben Revere throwing out Cabrera at home. I think it was worth it.
Always, for a no-hitter.
It didn't happen a moment too soon. Bailey was getting wild at the end there.
Is that the first time Revere has thrown someone out at home? I honestly can't remember if he's done it before.
He should hit a home run when he comes up to bat this inning. I know he's never done that.
He does have now eleven assists.
And then Revere strikes out, just to make my entire LTE useless. Oh well.
When everybody is running on you, you're bound to throw some guys out.
The corollary to "When you put a ton of guys on base, you have a good chance of leading the league it turning DPs."
true.
You are an awfully negative fella, painter.
ibid
Anybody watching the Lynx?
There we go! Tasty Doughnut.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Good call on showing Coke dropping the F-bomb in slo-mo there, FSN.
Yeah, that was great.
Gone and Doumit again.
Kyle Gibson just posted this on twitter. Probably some good value there.
yuck
Move back the fences!
Nuts
Diamond almost has the decency to drop his F-bomb into the glove.
It sure looked like Scott Diamond was crying in the dugout.
Paging New Guy!
SEND HIM!!!!!!!!!
🙁
Justin "Make Him Pay" Morneau
Justin "Make Him Pay" MorneauRyan "Make Him Pay" Doumit
Boooooooooooooooooo on the intentional walk of joe mauer. Boooooooooooooooooo
since 2000, there have only been 3 Twins to get 84 walks in a season: Matt Lawton's 91 in 2000, and Joe Mauer 84 in 2008 and this year.
The Tigers are taking Mauer out of the batting race. Punks.
i wouldn't be shocked if that was a consideration.
donuts for everybody!
AWESOME!!!!
WOOOOOO( Rick Flair style)
Well, okay then!
I approve of this inning.
shouldn't you be judging? 😉
Who says I'm not?
nice play by flora. he's now guaranteed 100 games at SS next year.
thats a quality win right there.
puppies!
And they got 20+ games on free tee-vee, too!
You've out done yourself.
Ryan Doumit makes his push for MVP! Scott Diamond makes his push for Cy Young! We're still on track for 71-91.