With the chance to get a series win, the Twins send Phil Hughes to the mound against Baltimore's Miguel Gonzalez. If Hughes is able to pick up where he left off in his last start, the home squad should be in good shape.
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JJ Hardy, Delmon Young, Steve Pearce. All the O's lineup needs is Alexi Casilla.
Delmonstrosity? It's been too long.
Seeing _elm_n hit reminded me of how much I dislike watching him play the baseball.
I end up seeing a lot of the Orioles at work for whatever reason, so I've gotten to see uno after uno.
I just noticed FSN had OBP on their batters graphics.
Progress!
I guess, although it's a bit of an embarrassment that it's taken this long. I probably have a different perspective because I watch as many different broadcast teams as possible, and the Twins have to be one of the last ones.
I have this image in my head of Dick storming the production booth saying "how dare you undermine a bunt situation by putting on base percentage for the hitter!"
Also, I expect he had a rager talking about hunting against the shift.
Last year they only showed it for the first plate appearance.
With this team doing some amazing things re: BB it is very timely for them to be giving it some showtime
So Joe Mauer left the game and no one knows why.
Gah.
Cripes, is delmon still screwing up the twins?
Joe Mauer left the game? Whaaaaat...
Wait, why is shoop still out?
Why was he called out? Because he was running inside the line.
Oh, hmm, seemed pretty close to me, not that I'm complaining. My boy was getting crabby so I couldn't hear the explanation. You'd think baseball would make him sit and pay attention.
They showed it a couple times on the Oriole feed. He was well over the line and Showalter didn't complain at all after the explanation. Schoop wasn't surprised either.
I wonder if Suzuki hit him on purpose...
That is what I was thinking.
Herrmann is nnot good. It would have beenn nnice to have Mauerr up therre.
Plouffe!!
That'll work.
I'm on the Oriole feed. Does anyone know if Mauer is still in the dugout?
Our two jesters haven't commented on that, to the best of my partial attention span.
I'm guessing they traded him for more bullpen help.
The Milkmaid made a similar crack and I about threw up.
FSN showed Mauer talking to the trainer in between innings (before he left)
Atteberry says muscle spasms in the lower back. Sounds like a made up injury to me.
Tommy John soon to follow.
All the twitter guys say Mauer left with back spasms. Day to day.
That's what FSN just said as well. Insert obligatory TJ joke here.
Good thing Gardy didn't put the contact play on.
Yeesh, so much for that excellent scoring opportunity.
I'm guessing that creepy oily statue on the post above is some kinda Pohladeria.
Or geriatric Mary Tyler Moore with geriatric Dick Van Dyke.
In a tribute to Twins broadcasters, I planted my Herb garden today (basil, oregano, sage, parsley, chives, Greek parsley, cilantro, tarragon, mint, rosemary, thyme, and nasturtium).
I have never heard of nasturtium. Interesting.
A flower you can eat on salads. The wife likes.
I'll have to bring that up to the wife as well.
D-man getting respect. A walk.
Poor Cole.
You know, I'm really starting to like Dozier these last couple years.
Im not versed enough in defensive metrics (looking at FanGraphs makes my head swirl), but how is Dozier defensively? My eyetest tells me he is pretty good.
That's pretty much my stance as well with the limited action I've seen.
The metrics seem to agree with your eyesight- Dozier has been very good defensively since moving to second base. Last year he had the top range factor on BBref and was third in putout percentage. So far this year, he's leading in range factor again.
-1 WGOM buck.
Hey, I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's something, especially when taken in account with the high putout percentage (didn't misplay many balls, and he got to a lot of them).
UZR has him far and away the best in MLB so far this year.
BALK!!!
Sneaky Dozier! Hahaha.
That was an amazing steal by Dozier.
He's gonna take home!!!
Okay, probably not on 3-2.
Dammit, I think someone got wise to the streaming. Everything suddenly went dark on me.
Check Gonzalez' pulse, pally.
Holy crap. Suzuki RBI!
Walking ribeye
Nets vs. Raptors last-second craziness, Wild first period ending, bases loaded here...my remote was busy there.
well then.
Cruz, you didn't need to hit it that far. That's just rubbing it in.
Ja, he smote that.
I think this is the third year in a row that my first Spooky moment was for the opposition. Gross.
That was an easy call. Two-out infield single to bring up a guy who loves to hit at Target Field.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Toolball: Hughes in there for 2-3 more pitches.
OK so I was off by 2-3 pitches.
Thielbar Leathah!
SAFE!
ribeyes!!!!!!
That's a hard-hit ball when even Kubel can score.
Kubel scores just in front of Weiters' tag to the groin.
Buck with the challenge. C'mon, do you have to slow down the game for a clear call like this?
Granted, the mid-inning pitching changes are killing this thing much quicker than that challenge.
I don't know much about hockey, but it looked to me like Fontaine got called fir a penalty because a guy fell on his stick.
The announcers agreed.
Ugh, and I was just ready to type "No harm done."
It'd be way cool if the Wild had a #1 type of goalie.
Ditto for the Vikings if you replace "goalie" with "quarterback" and for the Twins if you replace "goalie" with "pitcher".
They do, Oh, wait, you mean a healthy No. 1 type goalie.
Fien must enjoy Target Field.
Back from lunch at a neighborhood winery. Beautiful weather, and entertainment from jet formations to/from the air show in Chesterfield. The two watering holes in Defiance had motorcycles lined up on both sides of the highway. And now the Twins are winning, too. Good day all around
Defiance?
errrrorrrr.
'Errmann. D'oh.
hERRmann
errrorrr
So what exactly is Herrmann bringing to the table?
letting Perk air it out a bit?
He made a couple nice catches earlier, and he's the third catcher that Gardy desperately, desperately needs to have on the roster.
So, not much.
a little speed on the base paths. yeah, still not much
More defense than Colabello. Granted, there's not too many who wouldn't bring more outfield defense than Colabello.
PerKins.