47 thoughts on “Game 74: Twins in Miami”

1. Mauer catching a day game after catching a night game? What's Danny B going to whine about? Surprising to not see Mauer at 1B with Morneau getting the day off.

   If Danny B had a radio program in the 1960s do you think he'd constantly harp on Harmon Killebrew's low batting average?

   1. There was some wondering by Dick'n'Bert if Mauer might catch today due to Doumit's heel.

   2. If Danny B had a radio program in the 1960s do you think he’d constantly harp on Harmon Killebrew’s low batting average?

      Most definitely. That and too many walks (not being aggressive enough in RBI situations, etc.). Those complaints are probably why it took so long for him to get into the Hall of Fame.

   3. Who the heck is Danny B?

      1. Barreiro. I regret to inform you all that he has unblocked me on Twitter.

         1. Oh, yeah. Thankfully his voice doesn't carry this far

   4. Day game after a night game and I'm sure was hot and steamy in both.

      1. Dome was closed. Stuffy, at least.

2. oops!

3. With Brian Dozier batting, missed catch error by Tom Koehler on the pickoff attempt, Clete Thomas to 3rd.
   What?

   1. put a comma after catch and it almost works

4. Yep, Joe's good.

5. See what happens when you give Mauer some baserunners?

   1. And he hits a single.

6. Marlin's 1B all kinds of bad this inning.

7. Slowey sighting.

   1. Is this game televised on FSN? If so I bet DicknBert are practically foaming at the mouth.

      1. watch your language!

8. I couldn't find the DirecTV remote here at work until just now so all I've managed to see is Parmelee's bases-loaded groundout. Sorry, dudes.

   1. we'll put that HR on you, too

9. Well, well our old friend Mr. Wall has showed up.

   1. I haven't checked, but I think this is about the 206th game in a row where Diamond sailed along for four or five innings and then fell apart. At some point, shouldn't the manager be prepared for it to happen?

      1. I haven’t checked, but I think this is about the 206th game in a row where Diamond the Twins starter sailed along for four or five innings and then fell apart.

         FTFY

      2. This has been way overstated for him. In this game, it was one pitch that scored two runs after a flair single. The other scored on an infield out following two bloop hits and a ground ball that went through the infield. The fourth run he allowed came after the silly decision to pull him and the next guy gave up a home run. Why allow Diamond to hit and then pull him after another ground ball single? Even the home run he gave up was because he had a three-run lead and was challenging a bad hitter who hadn't hit one out since last August. He hit it out. Give the guy credit. I agree with Bert that they should have tried to go away instead of inside, but it was right down the middle (but low) so it may not have mattered where they set up. Diamond came into the game with a .333 BABIP. The Marlins made eight consecutive outs on balls in play and then suddenly went 5-for-7 on balls in play against Diamond with none of them being classified as a line drive. That's just the way it goes sometimes. When stuff like that happens, our inclination is to say that something changed with the pitcher. We don't like to use random chance as an excuse, but it does happen. Fangraphs shows that his xFIP today was 3.16.

10. Oh, jeez, even Slowey gets a base hit.

11. OMG Slowey got a hit. Will he score tying run?

    1. Yup

12. hittin' the wall
    hard

13. Interesting listening to Dazzle and Provus discuss Slowey's history. While not approving what happened, at least they're not excoriating him for it.

    1. So if Twins don't score any more runs, Kevin Slowey is your winning pitcher. That might even make Dick Bremer swear.

       1. I hope that a few of you guys who, as Pek would say, "Got Twitters" are trolling Dick right now.

14. If K-Slow is the winning pitcher, will Dick's head assplode?

15. d@mnit Joe's good

16. Just got home from the rink. Both men's rooms are now home to brand new stall partitions. Yippee!

17. So much for that plan to get back to .500.

18. Joe with a 5-for-9 line against the Marlins, so I blame him.

    1. A real man would have hit a 3-run homer in that last at bat.

19. It sucks to lose to the Marlins, but I'm very glad it was Slowey that got the win.

    1. I hope Dick did his best Hawk Harrelson impression when he had to talk about Slowey getting the win.

       1. I don't get very much after the game, but they were pretty decent about it during the game. Didn't make much commentary about Slowey with the Twins. Pretty much left well enough alone.

          1. He's just afraid that mags'll flame him on twitter again.

             1. The best part of the Slowey win was that it came in relief.

20. From the PiPress:

    Add in Ed Lucas' bloop single on another 0-2 count, and Diamond's lack of a consistent put-away pitch was a glaring weakness on this day.

    Nevermind that Diamond had a season-high four strikeouts in five innings today.

    1. hey, SOMEBODY on the staff had to pick up the "no out pitch" label.

21. Also:

    MIAMI -- Scott Diamond had a three-run lead before he ever took the mound Wednesday afternoon at Marlins Park.

    And still he couldn't win.

    Three whole runs! Wow. That's like a week's worth of runs, isn't it? Three runs and only nine innings to protect it. Can't be the offense's fault.

    1. That's a week worth of runs for Miami

22. Well, we can't really expect to beat a juggernaut like Miami. Fortunately, we don't play them any more, and next week we get to fatten our record against the weaklings of the American League East. So, we'll just have to settle for 122-40!

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