2013 Twins Game Log

2013 Game 92: Twins at Yankees

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Ah, a merciful end comes as we enter the All-Star break. The Twins are 38-53, which is right around the disaster we feared they'd be at the "half." This AL East tour certainly did the team no favors. The Yankees are 51-43 but are sitting in fourth in their always-ridiculous division.

Kyle Gibson, who has one win, faces Captain Cheeseburger, who has two hundred. I plan to watch the Yankee feed, but if it's a CC love-fest I might have to rethink things.

A series win in New York...it's impossible, right? Let's see it anyway, Twins.

182 thoughts on “2013 Game 92: Twins at Yankees”

  1. Cheeseburger 9-0, 1.78 in his last ten against the Twins. This is the game I finally get to see all the way through from home. Neat.

  9. what the heck is Cano doing trying to catch the near in deep RF?
    oh well, Morneausie on second

  17. Nice. Five-run lead on Yanquis and on C. Charles Seabass.
    Have the Twins blown this big a lead against either in the Gardy era?

  18. Well, that's annoying. I lost satellite signal for the Twins' rally, and it came back just in time for me to see Cano getting. another. base. hit.

    1. Yeah, excellent play there. I won't be comfortable until this game is over, of course. Ruben Sierra. Never forget. Or, perhaps, forget. Is there an Eternal Sunshine machine nearby?

      1. In a pinch, you can guzzle a pint of grain alcohol. It's temporary, but it works.

    1. For a long time I was thinking you had the CT at the end backwards, until I realized that's his actual name.

  28. This is the greatest game of the year.

    ...and as I'm typing that, Doumit inexplicably get caught in a worthless rundown.

      1. The Yankee announcers have been very good, but they showed three or four angles and somehow concluded that the ump made the right call.

  33. The Twins got Captain Cheeseburger out of the game before the 5th inning in the rubber game of a series in Yankee Stadium.

    This may be the high point of the season, gentlemen.

    1. Good time for the high point. We don't have to go into the All-Star Break focusing on a miserable failure.

      Then again, there are five innings left. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE

  36. another reason to dislike ERA: Sabathia ERA will only go up a tick because he is charged with only 3 of the 8 runs given up.

    Why not drop the 'E' and just go with Run Average?

    2. Preachin' to the converted, my man. The dude gave up eight hits. He probably should feel the pain.

      I remember watching a game about ten years ago where a pitcher got pulled after two innings where he gave up nine runs, none earned. His ERA went down! He gave up something like seven hits and four walks.

    3. its just like Thielbar's "scoreless" streak. he wasnt charged with any runs, but gave up runs that were charged to other pitchers.

      1. JC Romero had a long "scoreless" streak like that. The Twins announcers were touting him day in and day out, and all the while, he was plating basically every inherited runner.

        1. wow, I just looked it up. He allowed 47% of inherited runners to score that year (2004).

  38. Morneau having a charmed day at the plate: blooped one to RF only to have Cano (!) miss it, broken bat doink over the pitcher, and now a squirter to a shifted SS.

  40. Oh man, I turned on the game, saw it was 8-3, then watched it for over an inning before I realized it was actually the Twins that were ahead.

  41. I'd have given Gibson a little longer leash here. Not to say Gardy's wrong (after all, he's seen lots of people smack the wall pretty hard about now), just that I'd have waited a batter or two and seen what happened.

    1. Maybe Gardy saw that we were 2:25 into the game and instinct took over. (Sorry I can't get over this, but when I saw it was the 4th inning my jaw dropped)

            1. That's not new. Typically 5 games on the Thursday following the ASG, so most teams have had a four-day break most years.
              Oh, this year all teams are off? dumb. I betcha one big-market east coast team complained about the shorter break than another team in their division and Selig said this:
              shrug

              1. "Typically" depends on how far back you go. I can remember when everybody was back playing on Thursday, but then, I'm old.

  42. It was totally unfair to T. C. Bear that they broke a tie in the Mascot Home Run Derby by having a dizzy bat race.

          1. Was Teddy Roosevelt involved?

            BTW, anyone else feel gratified that after the Nationals had the best record in the NL last season, they went and let TR win the mascot race and then got bounced in the first round of the playoffs? I can't remember if I came around to gloat last year.
            About time someone else had a curse. (Twins have the curse of Torre's Gold.)

  44. It seems like every time we play the Yankees they get about six cheap little hits like that.

    2. and because of that, Thielbar throws more pitches, and then Ichiro hits one about 500 feet.

  48. Dazzle said that one of the questions the Yankees have to answer is "What are we going to do with Derek Jeter?" I suppose DFA-ing him is out of the question.

  51. That was pitch number 15 for Caleb Thielbar; his effectiveness may start slipping, as he holds opposing hitters to a .083 average in the first 15 pitches but they hit .118 off him after that.

    A scout whispered this in my ear.

  53. A team's bullpen having more strikeouts than the starters at the all-star break isn't as rare a phenomenon as I might have thought.

    1. When we were at the Padres game, a Padres fan started in with an "O-ver RA-ted" chant when Heyward stepped to the plate. A Braves fan followed with something else, and soon they were trading these big long barbs with each other in the same cadence as the "Overrated" chant.

      Eventually, someone in my section started chanting "your chants are too complicated" in the same cadence.

      1. high chopper over the mound, Cano goes to the LF side of 2B to play it, only to have the ball skip off of him, Dozier hustles in for the double.

        1. I just saw the 'highlight', and dick's call was pretty funny, "I assume it will be another double, or a yankee error, either way it doesn't matter."

  64. Shots of Mauer playing in high school. The "ping" of the aluminum. Crazy.

    Yankee announcers admire and understand him in a way the Twins fan base really doesn't.

    1. Now shots of Mauer goofing around with a baseball as a seven-year-old. I hate to admit how much I've liked the Yankee feed here.

    2. thats because they want Mauer to be a Pinstriper.
      gotta make him a 'true Yankee' early

        1. I ventured over to the SBNation Yankee board the Friday (wanted to see what their reaction to the Hick throw out was) and was reading the Game Log and more than once there was a comment along the lines of 'I cant wait for Mauer to be a Yankee'
          its a like the stereotype Yankee fan coming to life.

          1. Have they not noticed how old Joe will be when his contract is up? I'm not saying that he won't be good, but he'll be on the wrong side of the peak of his career.

  65. this is encouraging:

    Darren Wolfson ‏@DarrenWolfson
    Sano showing good defense at 3B. #MNTwins VP Mike Radcliff the other day: "He can play third base. That's not an issue anymore."

  66. I continue to have no objection whatsoever to the Twins scoring another run or two.

  67. A win here will put the Twins on pace to finish 69-93. Three-game improvement, just like last year!

    By the way, meat: 13 pitchers right now.

  68. Joba Chamberlain smells strongly of cheese doodles and shame

    These scouts have some serious insider info.

    1. Was hooping it up at Plan B when the double-digits happened. The locals were looking at me like I had two heads. Course at least half of them are Beantowners.

  74. Man, pitch 2-4 are the same location, and 1-5 are too, with different called outcomes.

  76. first time the Twins scored 10+ since June 2 against Seattle
    first time the Twins scored more than 6 since June 30 (9-8 loss to KC)

  77. Yankees guys talking about the debate of whether you hold your talented closer when you're a bad team or trade him for something useful.

    Gotta trade him, right? Perkins is great and he amuses me, but you can fleece guys with closers all day long.

    Perkins apparently has started a twitter movement to bring back bullpen carts. I do love this guy.

        1. Yanquis announcers were saying Perkins would probably go to some team in heat.

    3. but you can fleece guys with closers all day long.
      Did I miss another team hiring Billy Smith?

    4. Twins have control of Perkins through 2016 on very favorable contract. No reason to trade him. Plus, it's not like he doesn't get save chances. He's got 21 saves in 23 opps at the AS break. I don't get why bad teams don't need closers anyways. Might as well trade the whole team, then. They don't need any of them either. They can lose without them. Let's go to all rookies and pay everyone the minimum and go for the No. 1 pick. That's a guaranteed superstar, right?

        1. Gotta trade him, right? Perkins is great and he amuses me, but you can fleece guys with closers all day long.

          I took this to mean you were in favor of it. Only the first 2 sentences were a direct response to your comment. The rest was venting about the general idea of closers being of less value to bad teams.

  78. Sounds like the umps are trying to see if they can get the Yankees back into this game.

    1. Yankees guys said it was a "great play by Dozier" but that ICHIRO! beat it out....

  84. just got back from a weekend at Bernie's Tahoe. I see that the Freak threw a no hitter today for Los Gigantes. Huh.

    1. err, yesterday. I guess I am a little bit behind on the news. Has the George Zimmerman trial started yet?

  87. JeffA alert:

    Dustin Morse ‏@Twins_morsecode
    Following today's game, the @Twins have optioned Chris Parmelee, Oswaldo Arcia & Eduardo Escobar to AAA. #MNTwins

    on FSN, Gardy says they needs some swings.
    Gardy says Bernier (???) up, Herrmann too

    2. If they need some swings, then Gardy should be getting them in the lineup, rather than playing Thomas and Doumit all the time.

    3. That's odd timing. Arcia has been playing every day except the last two. Parmelee has gone into a little slump the last seven games, but even with that, he's batting .246/.329/.437 since May 23 (46 games). Nothing great, but better than league average. Prior to the slump, Parmelee was hitting .288/.378/.519 since May 23 (39 games). If anything, Gardy played Arcia and Parmelee too much. Meanwhile, Clete Thomas is batting .234/.309/.351 on the season and has struck out 32 times in 123 PAs, which is actually worse than his career rate (so much for him cutting down on his swing. All it's done is cut down on his power).

    4. The Twins won't reveal the third player, but Chris Colabello, the International League's leading hitter, is scheduled to play in the Triple-A All-Star Game on Wednesday, making him a likely candidate for promotion once that game is played.

      I hope they play him every day. We need to know if Colabello is more than a AAAA player.

    5. From Jim Mandelaro:

      Not only is Bernier the best-fielding shortstop in the league, he’s coming off a June in which he hit .350. And he’s batting .294 overall. Wings manager Gene Glynn told me Tuesday night that Bernier is the “unsung hero” of his club.

      He’s also the IL’s best bunter and a great guy (that shouldn’t enter into the equation, but he is).

      1. Hmm, Atteberry on the postgame radio said Bernier was a second baseman. Shortstop makes much more sense.

  89. The Yankees are clearly intimidated by the Twins. I mean, their best pitcher gave up eight runs! They made two errors and several other misplays! We're obviously in their heads. Of course, it won't be long before the rest of the league is intimidated, too! We're still on track for 109-53!

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