76 thoughts on “2014 Game 110: Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox”

    2. If there's an eight-run inning, but no greekhouse is here to comment on it, does it really exist?

  17. Every Twins player has a hit.
    9 have scored runs. (Arcia would have probably had one if he didnt run into an out there in the 8th)

  20. This was the series where Joe Mauer destroyed the Royals

    Dustin Morse ‏@Twins_morsecode 49s
    With the help from @STATS_MLB - the last time the #MNTwins had at least 44 hits in a 3-game was July 26-28, 2010 at KC (53).

  21. Bremer: Twins scored all these runs this series and only two solo HRs. ..... Maybe thats a good thing, instead of scoring a lot with 3 run HRs.

  25. Ok folks, if you didnt watch this game, you gotta see a replay of that Arcia HR. He cleared the RF grandstand.

      1. Looks like the last time a Twins player reached base 6 times in a game* was Jason Kubel on July 20, 2009
        I remember this game and still have nightmares

        *6 safeties. There has probably been a time where someone reached on a Fielders Choice or error

        1. Didn't the A's pull off another major comeback against the Twins later in the year? On a Friday night if I recall.

          1. well, the third game of that series was a 16-1 A's win and later that year on Fri Sept 11, the A's won 12-5

          2. There was one about ten years ago when Joe Roa pitched like 6 innings after the ninth and Terry Mulholland finally came in to let the A's win.
            OK, it was almost exactly ten years ago*. Roa pitched the 13th through the 17th, and faced 16 batters. (0.76 WPA!)
            It was only a 2-0 lead squandered.

            I do remember another game where the Twins got stuck at nine runs in a seeming blowout (when the WP chart showed that teams scoring 8 win more often than those scoring 9 runs). Then the A's scored ten in the last two innings. Or something like that.

            *Which means it's almost my college roommate's ten-year anniversary on Friday!

          3. Yes. I remember that game vividly. Cuddy tried to score from second on a wild pitch and was thrown out to end the game.

            Of note, Twins pitchers did not strike out a single batter in that game.

      2. And when they talked to Gardy about Santana's day after the game, all he could talk about was that he didn't get a bunt down. The way the management of this team runs down its young players is very annoying to me.

        1. Seriously? If he missed a sign, sure. But getting a bunt down is a skill, not a mental lapse.

          1. So I decided to look at Diamond Mind's statistics for Gardy for all five years he was in the majors. They exhaustively look at play-by-play data to determine someone's ability to bunt (i.e. they don't go on reputation). It looks like Gardy was an above average bunter in three of his five years, and was quite an excellent bunter the year he played 141 games (given than his OPS+ was 67, probably a good thing). But in '83 and '84, he had terrible years getting the ball down.

          2. Strib game recap says he missed a hit-and-run sign in the 2nd which I guess could explain some level of frustration, but griping about a bunt when the young man has his best day at the plate as a major leaguer seems almost petty.

            1. Sadly, Roy Smalley assumed when Fryer took off that it "couldn't" have been a hit-and-run because it came with two outs. I wasn't so sure, but I agreed that it "shouldn't" have been a hit-and-run with two outs and the Twins' leading slugger at the plate. (Yes, Santana leads the Twins in slugging).

        2. Are you sure he was being serious? I haven't seen any quotes from Gardy about that. I would have thought the writers would have picked up on that if they thought he was serious. The only quote I've seen directly about Santana was:

          "He had a good day; with five hits, that's kind of an understatement," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He's a nice looking player. Playing center field, he's a shortstop. He's fun."

          1. I saw it on the TV postgame show. He sure sounded serious to me. He gave a perfunctory compliment, which he pretty much had to given that he was asked what he thought of Santana getting five hits, then launched into his criticism.

    1. I ran across the street and got half a dozen ears for dinner tonight as well. It's not summer until there's been a blow out of the White Sox and sweet corn is eaten.

      1. I can't believe we just did a week in MN and didn't get sweet corn. #swingandamiss

    2. A couple days ago, Tom Powers tweeted that he would rather see Pedro Florimon bat than Arcia. Even before this homer, the ignorance of that statement just left me speechless.

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