113 thoughts on “2013 Game 18: Rangers at Twins”

    1. That's two flyball outs. This guy is clearly struggling, should be an easy win tonight.

    1. Short and long.
      Just glad his pace wasn't Pelfrey. I'd still be watching foul balls with a frozen HPR too proud to leave before the fifth inning was over.

  14. I think Gardy is high on Arcia

    "I know Doumit, he can probably bite a bat in half right now," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He played pretty much every day for us last year, but you know what? I didn't bring Arcia up here to sit on the bench."

    1. Doumit played 134 games last year. Now, that was a career high, but he averaged more than one game/week off.

  16. I have a question for all you geniuses out there (and I am not using that phrase the way Sid Hartman does):

    I was trying to determine which player has the highest BB/H ratio in his career or for a single season, inspired by Hicks' crazy numbers to date. I couldn't figure out a way to do it with play finder at baseball-reference.com nor could I find it anywhere else. Seems like it's probably not that hard. Or is it?

    2. I would use the filter at the bottom where you can filter based on one stat compared to another. Picked BB > H and set the multipler for H to 1.5. Sort by H to get the players with the largest denominator to get rid of the people with three walks to one hit, etc. Leading the list is Bonds' 2004 season.

      1. Depending on your minimum of hits, I see Nick Johnson's 2010 season: 24:12. Dick Howser and Frank Fernandez both had 35:23 for the Yankees in 1968. Going down the list I see Larry Schlafly with 22:10 in 1907.

          1. Hicks at 11/4 currently; would have to draw a dozen walks and get no more than one hit to match Strang; can't match Gagliano literally, but theoretically he could match the ratio if he takes 19 BB before his next hit. I'm not holding my breath. Though the way the Twins are hitting tonight...

      3. I thought I did something similar to that but got gibberish as a result. I will retry based on your description - thanks for the help.

  17. What's with all the zeroes on the Twins' half of the boxscore? Has anyone even come close to getting on base?

  24. No no-hitter! Would have preferred a home run like last time, but a hit is better than nothing.

    1. Second that. He's two years younger, similar minor league numbers, but Escobar seems to be the better fielder.

  41. former St Paul Saint Scheppers
    Im surprise DicknBert arent beating this into the ground 'almost one of us!!!'

  42. Question: Going on vacation in August and the two away series that week are against Detroit and Cleveland. With a 14 and 12 year old in tow, do we catch a game in either city? Thinking about safety, atmosphere and other sites to see. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

    2. Cleveland was pretty awesome. Friendly crowd, and nice field. We sat in the bleachers, and I loved it.

    1. Dick was commenting on how far over to center the LF was playing. If Dozier had put it down the line, it would have been an RBI triple for sure and possibly an ITP HR.

        1. We weren't even booing AJ.
          We booed the first base ump a few times. Not that we could tell if the calls were right, just that everything there seemed to go against the Twins.

          And I always boo when I get bored of the opposing team trying to pick off runners at first.
          But that's more "yoou're booring me, please keep the game mooving."

          1. Oh i see the context, the IBB. More annoying than four straight pickoff throws.
            And even more annoying that it was effective.

            1. I just liked suggesting you'd be the type to boo Mauer and that HPR would know better.

    1. It's like the anti-closer. Starts out at an inning at the end. Gradually replaces the starter earlier in the game until he is the starter.

  52. Vikings with a very solid first round draft. Shariff Floyd (DT) and Xavier Rhodes (CB). The experts seem to think we did very well!

      1. I think that was too much to give up for that last pick, but I'm pretty happy with the selections they did make.

    1. HPR thought the game stiunk=

      And he threw up in his bed at midnight. Prolly a food poisoning, cos there was his hot dog and there was his peanuts.

      He thought the game stunk because of the outcome, but I explained it was a good close game.
      Personally, Worley was not fun to watch. Foulball, foulball, foulball, foulball.

  56. If only Hammer could have switched his last two ABs. Twins pitchers had more Ks, 5-2. Twins' two Ks were both looking and one was pretty questionable and extremely late. Twins were 7-for-28 on balls in play and almost an even split on ground balls and fly balls, so we didn't have much luck tonight.

  57. Glad to see Joe Nathan allowed a baserunner for old time's sake. We'll just have to settle for 153-9!

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