2013 Twins Game Log

2013 Game 54: Mariners at Twins

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Jeremy Bonderman (?!) vs. Scott Diamond.

The Twins have somewhat gotten well lately against bad teams, and are up to an unimpressive-but-not-like-the-past-two-seasons 24-29. Bonderman last pitched in 2010 and is returning from multiple surgeries; normally I'd like a story like this to start with a happy comeback, but that can wait a game, right?

I'm going to link to the WGOM 2013 Predictions Spreadsheet since we'll be exactly one-third of the way through the season after this game. For the division winners, I highlighted any pick that is currently on track for the playoffs. For the wild cards, the darker yellow shows that both picks are on track while the lighter denotes one team is correct.

TEAMS ON TRACK FOR PLAYOFFS:
7 - Philosofer
6 - CarterHayes, DK, Dread Pirate
5 - nibbish, rowsdower, sean, socaltwinsfan, spookymilk
4 - AMR, Beau, Can of Corn, HomerDome, Rhubarb_Runner, socaltwinsfan, Zack
3 - davidwatts
0 - Jeff A

MOST PREDICTABLE DIVISION
NL West

LEAST PREDICTABLE DIVISION
Stupid Red Sox and Yankees.

MOST DIVISION WINNER PICKS HEADED TO PLAYOFFS
spookymilk (4). I needed to find a way in which I looked like I was ahead.

MOST-PICKED INCORRECT TEAM
Washington

LEAST-PICKED CORRECT TEAM
Boston (nobody)

Does anyone see any other fun stuff there? I didn't do updates on the rookies since many haven't joined the big club and it would just lead to depression over Hicks's opening month. I didn't look at MVPs either, but that's mostly because it would take a while. I'm happy with my Upton pick, though.

86 thoughts on “2013 Game 54: Mariners at Twins”

  1. I had the exact same exclamation points appear over my head when i looked it up and saw Bonderman is the starter.

  2. I swear I've heard way more about team defensive percentage this year than in recent years. Are we going backwards? The Mariners are impressed with the Twins, the "second best defensive club in the AL."

  4. thank you McDonalds for giving the world more Stephan A Smith facetime on TV.

    1. the greatest thing about the postgame show on TNT last night was seeing Stephen A. Smith on the floor trying to corral Roy Hibbert for an interview, then remembering that I was watching TNT, and therefore would not have to change the channel or mute the interview.

    1. And all three catchers are playing. Gardy has a bizarre case of catcher anxiety.

      1. Maybe with the third catcher in the bigs, we should just all tell ourselves that Doumit is now a DH/right fielder.

          2. I didn't say it was rational, just trying to make my brain avoid the idea of three catchers.

  6. How is the second NL Wild Card a tie between SF and COL? PIT is five games ahead of both of them.

          1. There's another error. I'm pretty sure 133-29 is good enough to be on track for the playoffs.

  7. Jeremy Bonderman was on that awful 2003 Detroit Tigers team and it got me looking at the stats from that team and Nate Cornejo's numbers kind of stood out: 194.2 IP, 46 K 58 BB. Almost 200 innings and his K/9 rate was 2.1

  11. Why am I cursed to think about nothing but Parmelee's baserunning mistake after a run-scoring play like that? Do I really need to be that cynical?

    Granted, it was an awfully nice play on Parmelee.

    1. with as bad as Escobar has been hitting, trying to bunt for a base hit isn't necessarily a bad idea. The best bunters get hits on their fair bunts about 35 to 40% of the time. I have no idea if Escobar is a good bunter, though.

  27. Hicks will have a harder time trying to get that HR because Bonderman is gone.

  28. the Twins are only 5.5 game behind Detroit? that is actually surprising.

    1. Well, that puts them on pace to finish 16 or 17 games back, which feels about right. Or, using Padre's system, 30 games ahead or so.

      Granted, by the end of that losing streak I was convinced the Twins would finish about 35 games out.

      1. they way Detroit has been putting up runs, I figured the would have 50 wins by now. But they actually have a losing record on the road (13-15)

        1. I sure didn't think much of the Angels going into this season, but I didn't figure them to have a losing record this deep into things.

  29. Bert is full on 'get off my lawn' mode here about exchanging Herrmann's HR ball for a Joe Mauer autograph.

    1. I'd inquire more, but there's a reason I left that feed. The Mariner guys are as bland as they were when I left them. No problems here.

      1. FSN guy was interviewing the dude who caught Herrmann's HR ball and said he traded it for a Mauer autograph. Bert was saying 'just give the ball back'.

            1. but then Bert was saying he has a baseball from all 28whatever career wins and he had to negotiate with teammates to get the game balls.

              1. Maybe that's why his position is to just give the ball back. He remembers the arduous negotiations with his teammates.

        2. I guess I get that, but I'm sure Mauer doesn't mind taking 30 seconds out of his day to autograph a ball.

          That being said, I suppose it probably a sucks a bit to have to get someone's else auto to get your HR ball back.

  32. I think all the HRs hit by the Twins have been in within a 15 seat radius

  34. Mariner feed shows that the Twins are 14-0 when outhitting opponents. That's all the more times they've outhit their opponents?! 24-29 is pretty lucky...

      1. no mention during the game of a Carroll injury, but it does seem to lean that way

      2. Hicks has hit .221/.267/.451 from games 16-54 this season, which I'm completely fine with for his rookie season. The power is there and a 22% SO% (again over games 16-54) is high but acceptably high--much lower than someone like, say, Jack Cust or Mark Reynolds. In fact, I think it's been great that he's been able to basically recover from his awful first two weeks.

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