2013 Twins Game Log

2013 Game 79: Yankees at Twins

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I had a pretty nice game log all ready to go today, but we won't be using it because it's on my laptop. I'm writing this on my backup PC, which I built about the same time that Gardy took over as manager of the Twins. It's slow. Painfully slow. Matt LeCroy slow. Sloths laugh at things this slow. But it's all I've got until I can eradicate the apparent malware that has basically bricked my laptop.

The Twins open a 4-game series tonight against the team we all love to hate. The Yankees send 41-year-old Andy Pettitte to the mound. We know what he can do. He's beat the Twins in his last seven starts against the hometown nine. The Twins counter with Scott Diamond, who has struggled in has past few starts while posting a 1-3 record since June 2nd. But for once it actually feels like the Twins match up pretty well with the banged-up Bombers sans ARod and the Cap'n. We'll see.

Play ball!

126 thoughts on “2013 Game 79: Yankees at Twins”

  1. These are not your father's Yankees

    Brett Gardner CF
    Jayson Nix SS
    Robinson Cano 2B
    Vernon Wells RF
    Travis Hafner DH
    Zoilo Almonte LF
    Lyle Overbay 1B
    Chris Steward C
    David Adams 3B

    Wow, that is ugly. On the other hand, no Mauer tonight. Apparently too scared to play the Yankees, so he is "under the weather." Never heard of it.

    1. Yeesh, that is ugly, 'cept for Gardner and Cano.

      Overbay, Hafner, Wells and Nix on the same team and all playing does amuse me a bit, though.

      1. I have never heard of Zolio Almonte, and that seems like a name I'd remember. I've not heard of Steward or Adams either, at least not that I remember.

    2. I saw a note where Mauer has played the last 20 games.
      I think a day off is fine.

  3. There is no doubt, absolutely none, in my mind that Vernon Wells is hitting a homer today when Scott Diamond hits THE WALL!.

    1. Also, I will be listening to dicknbert over the Yankees guys. I hate those guys.

  5. Cuddy getting some irrationally exuberant love from the scribes these days.

    Cuddyer plays right field and first base for the Rockies, and has significant Major League time at second and third. But Cuddyer's well-rounded nature can't be contained by the field's dimensions.

      1. LeCroy played his entire career with the Twins alongside Cuddyer

        Frank Robinson promised himself he wouldn't cry if they forgot about him. But when it actually happened, it hurt more than he could have imagined. There was no way he could have held back those tears.
        That hurt, Mr. Harding.

    1. Doumit is having a hard time catching the ball this inning. FTFY. I didn't realize how much he sucks until that article about the best and worst framers for catchers (Mauer one of the best, Doumit one of the worst). Now, I watch him jab at pitches all the time. He had a horrible game tonight behind the plate.

  11. I see that Joe Coleman is transferring from the U to St. Mary's out here (not the Winona one). Huh. I guess not everyone is excited about the coaching transition.

  12. Who had 7 pitches in the "first mound visit for the Yankees" pool?

      1. I dont even know how the ump misses that call. he is not shielded from the play.

  19. I totally thought Gardy was gonna get tossed there. He has a good case, that was a Yankeelicious call.

  25. ump scouting report from Reusse:

    Patrick Reusse ‏@1500ESPN_Reusse
    We now know Cory Blaser is lousy on bases, but wait until you see him behind plate Tuesday. No one knows a ball from strike, especially him.

    1. First he needs to work on out and safe. Then we'll move on to strikes and balls.

  26. That entire series of plays was great. Pettitte flailing completely to field the ball and Arcia frantically moving (I hesitate to call that running) to second.

  28. Dick: "Overbay's had a GREAT career and put up DECENT numbers and he's done FINE...."

    Now that's just a hilarious beginning of a sentence.

  33. if Willingham goes on the DL, I wouldnt mind if Chris Herrmann gets called up. With Doumit's sore ankle and needing a backup OF, Herrmann kills 2 birds with 1 stone

  35. Bert marvelling at Cano's sustained production despite having no protection. The dots are there, waiting to be connected.

  39. I wonder if the young guys coming up will be all like, "what the heel, why were you guys do scared of the Yankees?"

  45. Dick just referred, I think, to Pettitte as "one of the best pitchers of his era." Sure, if you ignore the top, oh, 30 of the last 20 years.

        1. How many of those have never lost to the Twins during Gardy's managerial career?

    2. Top 25 since 1990, minimum 2000 innings, ranked by ERA+:

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        1. I had to include him so we could describe Pettitte as "a bit better than Radke."

      2. Pettitte is a compiler. His WAR7 is lower than Radke's WAR7.

        If you go strictly by the rule of including pitchers who would raise the average JAWS of HOF pitchers--and talking about "best of era" seems almost like codespeak for the HOF to me--I find the lists interesting:

        IN:
        Roger Clemens
        Randy Johnson
        Greg Maddux
        Pedro Martinez
        Curt Schilling
        Mike Mussina
        Tom Glavine

        Out: (retired 2000 or after or still active)
        Roy Halladay
        Kevin Brown
        John Smoltz
        David Cone
        Bret Saberhagen
        Kevin Appier
        Chuck Finley
        Orel Hershiser
        CC Sabathia
        Johan Santana (JAWS numbers very close to Koufax, actually)
        Tim Hudson
        Andy Pettitte
        Dwight Gooden
        Roy Oswalt
        Mark Buehrle
        Kenny Rogers
        David Wells
        Jamie Moyer
        Carlos Zambrano
        Javier Vasquez
        Brad Radke
        Cliff Lee
        Bartolo Colon
        Jose Rijo
        Justin Verlander
        Al Leiter
        Felix Hernandez
        Jake Peavy
        Dan Haren
        Barry Zito
        Josh Beckett

      1. Also, despite his fondness for weird lineup construction, he's a decent human being.

  50. Jared Burton tweaked a groin muscle about a month ago and missed a few games. Ever since, he has become very hittable.

  54. Burton is marginally worse at throwing to first than he is at throwing to home.

  55. I was worried there that we were going to hang an L on Pettitte, but thankfully the Twins took care of that.

  58. blown call by the ump, Twins pitchers soiling themselves late in the game

    yep, the Yankees are in town.

    1. Or on Gardy for trying to do the same damn thing every night, expecting different results.

  63. If I was Girardi, I would walk Mauer to deal with Escobar and Thomas.

  64. Robertson and Rivera get the most generous outside corner. Credit to them for being able to consistently hit that spot, but it's incredible that they get it all the time. Joyce, who actually wasn't giving Pettitte teh extra inches, is suddenly giving it away.

    1. FSN didnt have FOXtrax up, but I thought the first 'strike' looked generous

  65. BEST FANS IN BASEBALL

    Judd Zulgad ‏@1500ESPNJudd
    Drunk Yankees fan: "Mauer you suck. Go play for the Yankees." Now riding Joe with chants of "Mauer."

    1. If the Yankees want people who suck to go play for them, I think the Twins could help them out.

  69. I'm starting to feel sorry for the Wall- the Twins just keep smashing into it, harder and harder.

  70. We can all remember times when the Twins won Game 1 of a series with the Yankees, and we can remember how that turned out. Clearly, the Twins tanked the end of this game so that wouldn't happen again. Clever strategy by Gardy, actually. We'll just have to settle for 119-43!

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