Farewell, Mountie.
Tonight's tilt: Pelfrey vs. Garza
Leaderboards:
Mauer's on most of the rate stats that matter, and since he has 508 plate appearances, it'll all count, whether he plays another game this year or not.
Just over a month of Twins games remaining.
BULLDOZED
AJ bane o' th' Twin.
Andrus leaves the game because on an injury while running from first to third
odd
alls quiet since Dozier's HR
lets change that
JeffA alert
St. Paul Saints RHP Mark Hamburger signs a minor league deal with the #mntwins, his original organization:
One is tempted to say something like "there's too much hamburger in this organization already", but good for him. Maybe he can get himself turned around.
Also, apparently Duke Welker is the PBTNL in the Morneau trade: http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=welker001duk
Who knows how good either will be (very likely not very), but they both have excellent, excellent baseball names.
Duke Silver would have been a better return
At a quick look, he appears to be somewhat like the Pirates' version of Anthony Slama, but I guess we'll see.
Free Duke Welker!
Wow Garza seriously needs to shave that... thing on his chin.
I found it charmingly elfish.
a double down the line would be great right now.
I am guessing that is the end of Pelfrey's night
and it was a great one.
now, its time for a Jelly Belly rally inning
ball goes through Florimon, rolls to deep SS.
Plouffe goes to retrieve it, falls on his butt while trying to throw the ball
all kinds of win on that play.
I hope that can .gif'd so we can use it to remember the 2013 season in the most succinct manner possible.
It ended up having nothing to do with the outcome of the game, but otherwise it would work. Twins on some kind of run of starting pitching. Too bad they can't hit now.
Oh myyyy.
PUIG!.gif
wowzers
But he doesn't hustle! He doesn't respect the game! They need to bench him!
Obligatory for Twitchy.
NOW MAKE HIM PAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got back from a nice night of wine and watching the Princess Bride outdoors on the big screen. Here I am, just in time to watch us lose... 🙁
One way or another, this ninth inning is ending right here.
Did we already use Perk? Why is Dunce in here?
because its not a 'save situation' *rolleye*
To end the game.
In that case, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
The damage was done when Gardy took out Thielbar for Roenicke. Thielbar is only giving up a .551 OPS to RHB, which is better than Roenicke is against RHB. And if he'd also walked the guy, he's giving up almost .300 less points in OPS to LHB than Dunce. It's really too bad Gardy's treating him like a LOOGY.
Or at least he did in that situation, I guess.
Well, but say Perkins comes in the game and gets the job done in the ninth. Now, we go to the tenth with Thomas, Mastroianni, and Florimon coming up to bat. The Twins might have scored with that group, but it seems unlikely. It's also unlikely Perkins is going to come out for the tenth, so we have to use the other guys anyway. We'd just have had the ninth inning in the tenth.
Boo.
A team that was still reeling from the loss of Drew Butera now has to deal with the loss of Justin Morneau. It figured that it would take them a game to do that. We'll just have to settle for 86-76!