2014 Twins Game Logs

2014 Game 1: Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox

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Opening Day. Just remember what A. Bartlett Giamatti said. This game is meant to break your heart.

Today the Minnesota Twins baseball club will challenge the Chicago White Sox team to commence the 2014 Major League Baseball regular season. Leave us not have illusions about what the Twins can reasonably pull off this year, but leave us neither let that temper our enjoyment of the game and the team we love.

Today the Twins send Ricky Nolasco to the mound as their Opening Day starter. The White Sox counter with Chris Sale. Both pitchers enter the season undefeated, so it should be an evenly matched contest.

Play ball!

137 thoughts on “2014 Game 1: Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox”

  1. The real question is how long will it be into the season before I mute Hawk Harrelson?

  2. Dozier reads the lineup. Somehow, even after all these years, it still surprises me when players speak with anything but a midwestern dialect.

    1. I work in 45 minutes. I think this might be the first Opening Day game I've missed in some time. I'm not sure because my memory is failing, but it seems like I usually get this day off.

      2. Don't you have a giant wall of TV's to commandeer? Or does the store not have a satellite package?

        1. Oh, I'll have the game on, for sure. And it'll be slow in there, since I'm in baseball country and it's opening day. It's just more fun to have a beer and watch with you guys.

        2. I suspect that, even if they like wasting money by paying for satellite packages and MLB Extra Innings, there is probably a significant issue with broadcasting a game in stores.

              1. We have a couple of TVs set up with DirecTV to show how the TVs perform with the customer's usual programming. If the TVs in question happen to be tuned to the Twins, the tournament or the NASCAR race (based on who's working), well, what can you do?

                1. I suppose it would be good to show something oft watched, but why wouldn't they just use DVDs of tv shows or movies and save the subscription money, unless they get a deal for featuring a particular supplier?

                  1. We subscribe to DirecTV for break room purposes, actually. Morale thing.

                    We end up using it on the floor because discs are going to be in better quality than the average broadcast, so we want to be honest about what customers are going to get from TV.

                    3. I know that's the old joak, but really, what does it benefit me to lie to someone and take a bunch of returns? We're not on commission, so there's no benefit to that whatsoever.

  4. FSN moved their scoreboard graphic box to the lower left hand corner. Thats going to take a while to get used to.

    1. CSN Chicago made theirs smaller but pushed it over more to the middle of the left top side. It's annoyingly obstructive.

  5. I'm meeting up with my buddy from college who is another Iowa transplant/Twins fan in about an hour. Until then, it's off to find a stream.

    1. haha, nice. i thought that flag image was the featured, or else i would have come up with something. however, it certainly wouldn't have been anywhere near as good as that.

  24. Hey, lots of game left. I wasn't expecting Nolasco to pitch a shutout. Let's break out the bats, boys!

  28. Ok, so the fact that Florimon isn't a very good hitter might justify that. But with no outs, still disappointing.

    1. I was okay with it for the reason you mentioned, that Florimon isn't very likely to get a hit anyway.

  34. I have a feeling that, for the first time since 2004, we'll no longer be missing Henry Blanco this year.

  35. Suzuki just guaranteed his starting role until at least the A-S break. Send Pinto down.

  39. This year's update to the At Bat app includes optional notifications for game starting, game ending, scoring plays, and lead changes. Surreptitious game checking in meetings? Yes, please.

  43. 7 hits in the first 13 plate appearances for the sox. Looks like Nolasco has that "pitch to contact thingy" down.

  46. Dazz: "That was one of the FEW balls that they've not squared up."

    Me: I'm already getting Worleyed about Rickey.

    1. Dazz has been pretty negative on Nolasco so far. Some of that's justified, but he also hasn't gotten a lot of help from his defense, double plays notwithstanding.

  50. There's obviously a chance Dazzle doesn't know what he's talking about, but if Suzuki is the defensive whiz he's being sold to us as, Rick Anderson shouldn't have to tell him to have Nolasco mix in some breaking balls.

  51. Mike Berardino@MikeBerardino

    ex-twin RT @vjmsports: @MikeBerardino our starting catcher and Suzuki successor Wilson Ramos, left game with a broken metacarpal (5 weeks)

    Oy.

    updated:

    Manager Matt Williams said preliminary X-rays on the left hand of C Wilson Ramos were negative. Ramos will see a specialist tomorrow.

  59. Alejandro De Aza has now hit 32 career home runs. EIGHT have come off Twins pitching.

    1. prior to today, he had hit 281/324/439 against the Twins in his career (185 PA), 274/336/408 overall in 1,648 PA.

  65. 6 innings & less than 6 runs, does this count as a "quality start" for a Twins starter?

  70. Eduardo Escobar as pinch hitter is considered a valid choice??

    Also, I'm pretty sure that Suzuki is going to retire as a Twin now.

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