2013 Twins Game Log

2013 Game 40: Red Sox at Twins

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After a few annoying games in a row, the Twins are three games under .500 but only five games out of first in a predictably mediocre (but surprisingly well-balanced, through a quarter of the season) division. John Lackey, who still looks like trailer trash to me despite years of proof that he's a reasonably decent major league starter, faces Pedro Hernandez, who looks more like a major league starter, but often proves otherwise. Oh well.

Wilkin Ramirez starts today as Willingham sits, and Carroll leads off again. The Twins season has probably hit its zenith and won't be going back, but I'm cool with a quarter-season-long mirage while I wait for the big boys to hit the major league club in the next couple of years.

92 thoughts on “2013 Game 40: Red Sox at Twins”

  1. Aaron Hicks slash line is downright Buteraian: .142/.241/.258/.499 OPS+38 (Butera's career slash .183/.232/.265/.497 OPS+37)

  2. Mauer's caught stealing percentage is taking a hit with how easy the pitchers are making it to steal second.

  3. Funny story by Gladden on Ortiz leaving Minny to go to Beantown: Twins had been teaching me to hit to the opposite field, Boston said to hit with power into the seats. But anyone can do that.

  4. Gameday trivia question: Does mlb.com post the current temperature at Target Field?

  5. Boston color guy Jerry Remy's "How I would speed up the game if I were Commissioner":

    *Batters can't step out of the box
    *Enforce 12-second rule on pitchers
    *No mound meetings unless it's a pitching change

    Yeah, I can't see the players fighting these.

    1. Not that this has anything to do with MLB, but I don't think in Little League we were allowed to step both feet out of the box unless we had a really good reason.

      1. I don't dislike that rule, though it would meet some resistance. The other two will never happen. Everyone on the field will defend the importance of the meeting on the mound, whether in can be backed up by facts or not, and MLB isn't going to employ fifteen people to set a timer for a 12-second countdown 300 times per game. And if they did, what would the penalty be?

        1. Make the penalty simple: automatic ball. I don't think it needs to be a hard limit, but allowing unlimited time is frustrating.

          1. Pitchers would fight that to the point that it would probably make the game even slower, saying that the context is important because of the game situation, or whatnot. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but I imagine it being a disaster. Then again, pessimism is one of my things.

            1. If the bases are empty, there is no reason to wait 20 seconds. If the bases are loaded, that's different.

              1. But if we can play a commercial during the mound visit... Treasure Island Resorts and Casino!!

  9. that was an impressive HR by Middlebrooks. Oppo field power alley over the high wall.

  10. For a team that's been so successful with sabermetrics, I love how behind the Red Sox announcers are. These guys love team fielding percentage and routinely refer to a player's best game of the year as the one where he happened to have the most RBIs.

  11. Bert: I've never been a big opponent of throwing [to first]. It slows the game down.
    Me: ...so you're a proponent of it?

  13. Orsillo will have you just about convinced he's one of the more intelligent announcers, and then he asks "Is 'awkwardly' a real word?"

  19. All right, here we go. The second half of the game belongs to us. THE MINNESOTA TWINS ARE GOING TO WIN THIS BASE BALL GAME!!!!

      1. You could make the argument that the run would have scored without the error (and without an out at first). Given that he got hit in the balls, I'm just saying you should make that argument.

  23. I think this may count as one of those "disrespectable" runs Rhu was talking about. Not much dignity in GIDP only to be safe at first when then throw hits you in the balls.

  24. We got one! It's a start! THE MINNESOTA TWINS ARE GOING TO WIN THIS BASE BALL GAME!!!!

    1. I walked down to my seats yesterday behind new Marney. She was dutifully studying her talking points on the walk down to the camera well.

      Oh, and they put Sheenie and me on the scoreboard in the middle of the ninth inning when approximately fifty non-Red Sox fans were still there.

  28. In good news, Kyle Gibson threw a complete game shutout against Lehigh Valley today. He gave up three hits and two walks, struck out eight, and threw ninety-three pitches.

    1. IF THIS GAME RESUMES, THE MINNESOTA TWINS ARE GOING TO WIN THIS BASE BALL GAME!!!!

  32. ANyone know if the Martín Maldonado who catches for Milwaukee is related to Candy Maldonado. They're both Puerto Rican, and Martín was born when Candy was 26, but it doesn't say they're father/son, so maybe uncle/nephew if they are related at all.

    1. South Side Sox says:

      Martin Maldonado is not in any way related to Candy Maldonado, which is the most disappointing thing to happen to me today.

      I dunno if it's the most for me, but I am a little saddened by this.

    2. I think every third pack of 1990 Topps had a Candy Maldonado card in it.

  33. I've got the hockey playoffs on now (3-2 Boston over Rangers in the 2nd int at the moment). Let me know when/if the game comes back from the delay.

  34. Apparently Cole DeVries was activated from the disabled list and optioned to Rochester. A Nation awaits his thoughts.

  35. thunderstrom warnings for the southern metro, storms heading north. I expect the delay to continue for a while

    1. It was raining very hard not that long ago. Now nothing. Radar still shows plenty of stuff on the way though.

  38. Dave St. Peter ‏@TwinsPrez
    Hope to be in position to resume @Twins @RedSox game at around 6 pm.

  41. On the grill: smoked chicken thighs, and a Boston butt destined for braising, served with roasted beets and heirloom carrots and a green salad. The bones are headed to the stock pot to make home made liquid smoke.

  43. Dazzle says that as soon as Arcia learns to hit the off-speed pitch, he'll be all right. I wonder how many thousands of players that could be said about.

    1. If Delmon Young learned to hit the off-speed pitch, he would have multiple MVPs due to all the off-speed pitches he saw.

  45. Here we go, boys. Let's do it. THE MINNESOTA TWINS ARE GOING TO WIN THIS BASE BALL GAME!!!!

  50. Those two runs are on Gardy. Everyone knows set-up guys can't pitch in non-set-up situations.

  51. the minnesota twins did not win this base ball game

    Oh, well, I guess we'll just have to settle for 140-22!

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