Gameday just labeled Despaigne's third pitch to Arcia an eephus pitch.
Provus noted it was an eephus
When's the last time the Twins had a successful hit-and-run? Quality hitting
And now it looks like Schafer's successful bunt yesterday was a fluke
bunting is fun !!11!!one
also, that play should be reviewed because he was still in the box
Yup, Gladden agrees with you.
If no one minds too much, I swapped the image for this post with one from the game today. Pops sent a braggy text.
My hope is to have game log stadium posts filled by photos citizens have actually taken. This might be the first with a photo from the actual game.
I thought that I'd changed one from the game before, but perhaps not.
This game is becoming Correia'd
Another shaky start to an inning for Perkins. I hope he can come back and hold them scoreless the way he has other innings lately.
Nope.
Uh oh, please don't be bad Perkins.
I don't know about "bad," but it sure wasn't good Perkins. Hate to see him give up runs to the 7-8-9 batters.
Fortunately, the Twins have the 3-4-5 hitters up.
Yes, let's bunt on the pitcher that a) has sort of strugged lately and b) can't throw strikes.
Upped the difficulty factor a bit, 'tis all.
Just wanted to set up the [edit] rookie [edit] Arcia [edit]CCPP Escobar heroics.
Keep editing, you'll get it right
Four SB from for different Twins. And Fryer picking off a runner. Nice
That was a helluva catch. Keep the Twins in this, Swizzlestick.
Nevermind.
Splortsplat ups the difficulty factor quite a bit more
Just wanted to set up the [edit] rookie [edit] Arcia [edit] CCPP [edit] Escobar Suzuki heroics.
These Padres announcers are more annoying than DicknBert.
SEND HIM!!
Well, we'll see if Schafer can get the bunt down, because he sure shouldn't be swinging away here.
I just assumed this game would be an L as soon as they sent him out for a sac bunt. Ugh.
Give him the green light. Maybe he'll run into one.
Nunez is literally the last person on the roster I want up to bat in that situation.
Even Fien?
Well, I don't know. He's probably a better batter than several of the Twins' pitchers.
No kidding. Tough part is, he did his job as a PR for Plouffe, so I can't really complain about the usage.
Make that 12-4.
Well, shoot. That could've gone better.
Closers are bound to have a blown save here and there. It's when coupled with a team going 3-16 with RISP that things get really sideways.
True. But this is the fifth time in his last seven games that Perkins has given up two hits in an inning. Over that span, the opposition is 12-for-29 (.414) against him. He'd just managed to wriggle out of it before today. I understand it's a small sample size, but closers are always going to have small sample sizes, and this isn't a good trend.
He only gave up one hit. That was an improvement. The timing was bad. Actually, the pitch selection was horrible. Alonso has been killing fastballs all series and they gave him another one on the first pitch.
You're right, of course. Some days, counting to two is hard for me.
Atteberry: "When you walk in rain, eventually you're going to get wet."
I hate the way the media is so focused on stupid stuff like this. It might be frustrating to fans when a team leaves RISP, but it just means they are getting RISP. The Twins walked 7 times and got 2 HBP, so of course they left a lot of runners. It's very hard for walks to bring in runners. Getting lots of chances is good. The Twins' problem isn't that they don't hit with RISP, it's that they don't hit very well period and they don't hit for much power either. And how is focusing on not hitting with RISP going to help? All it does is make batters grip their bats tighter in those situations and just makes it worse.
Thanks for allowing me to rant. This is no reflection on you.
I hear ya. I heard the same thing in the post-game show, and they always make it seem like if the batters were just clutchier, the Twins would be on their way to the World Series.
Also, if Escobar doesn't get robbed by spectacular defensive play, the Twins would have been 4-for-14 w/RISP, which is better than their batting average overall on the season (.248 coming into the game).
Can't spell "Glen" without an "L"
Why does no one seem to care that Fien wasn't used? Why was our worst RH reliever put in to face the Padres' best LH power hitter in a tie game? Why was probably our worst RH batter allowed to make the final out with Willingham, one of our best hitters, on the bench? And if batting average is cited, I'm going to punch someone.
Lighten up, Francis.
My guess would be that, having used Burton for two innings, Gardy wanted to save Fien for tonight if he could. I do agree on Willingham, although the fact that, with his numbers, he is still "one of our best hitters" says a lot about the Twins hitters.
Huh, wasn't seeing it on the front page. Oh well. More importantly- Jeff Francoeur is a Padre?
It was posted only three minutes before your comment in the Cup.
I'd just logged onto MLB.com and got excited about the free game and really wanted to share the good news. That lasted about thirty seconds.
Sure would have been nice to get to watch that homerun. Grumble, grumble.
The Twins are 12-3 against the Padres, their best winning percentage against any team.
I was at that game. As I remember discussing before, I believe Spooky was too.
Yup
PLOUFFE! GO BOOM
Gameday just labeled Despaigne's third pitch to Arcia an eephus pitch.
Provus noted it was an eephus
When's the last time the Twins had a successful hit-and-run? Quality hitting
And now it looks like Schafer's successful bunt yesterday was a fluke
bunting is fun !!11!!one
also, that play should be reviewed because he was still in the box
Yup, Gladden agrees with you.
If no one minds too much, I swapped the image for this post with one from the game today. Pops sent a braggy text.
My hope is to have game log stadium posts filled by photos citizens have actually taken. This might be the first with a photo from the actual game.
I thought that I'd changed one from the game before, but perhaps not.
This game is becoming Correia'd
Another shaky start to an inning for Perkins. I hope he can come back and hold them scoreless the way he has other innings lately.
Nope.
Uh oh, please don't be bad Perkins.
I don't know about "bad," but it sure wasn't good Perkins. Hate to see him give up runs to the 7-8-9 batters.
Fortunately, the Twins have the 3-4-5 hitters up.
Yes, let's bunt on the pitcher that a) has sort of strugged lately and b) can't throw strikes.
Upped the difficulty factor a bit, 'tis all.
Just wanted to set up the [edit]
rookie[edit]Arcia[edit]CCPPEscobar heroics.Keep editing, you'll get it right
Four SB from for different Twins. And Fryer picking off a runner. Nice
That was a helluva catch. Keep the Twins in this, Swizzlestick.
Nevermind.
Splortsplat ups the difficulty factor quite a bit more
These Padres announcers are more annoying than DicknBert.
SEND HIM!!
Well, we'll see if Schafer can get the bunt down, because he sure shouldn't be swinging away here.
I just assumed this game would be an L as soon as they sent him out for a sac bunt. Ugh.
Give him the green light. Maybe he'll run into one.
Nunez is literally the last person on the roster I want up to bat in that situation.
Even Fien?
Well, I don't know. He's probably a better batter than several of the Twins' pitchers.
No kidding. Tough part is, he did his job as a PR for Plouffe, so I can't really complain about the usage.
Make that 12-4.
Well, shoot. That could've gone better.
Closers are bound to have a blown save here and there. It's when coupled with a team going 3-16 with RISP that things get really sideways.
True. But this is the fifth time in his last seven games that Perkins has given up two hits in an inning. Over that span, the opposition is 12-for-29 (.414) against him. He'd just managed to wriggle out of it before today. I understand it's a small sample size, but closers are always going to have small sample sizes, and this isn't a good trend.
He only gave up one hit. That was an improvement. The timing was bad. Actually, the pitch selection was horrible. Alonso has been killing fastballs all series and they gave him another one on the first pitch.
You're right, of course. Some days, counting to two is hard for me.
Atteberry: "When you walk in rain, eventually you're going to get wet."
I hate the way the media is so focused on stupid stuff like this. It might be frustrating to fans when a team leaves RISP, but it just means they are getting RISP. The Twins walked 7 times and got 2 HBP, so of course they left a lot of runners. It's very hard for walks to bring in runners. Getting lots of chances is good. The Twins' problem isn't that they don't hit with RISP, it's that they don't hit very well period and they don't hit for much power either. And how is focusing on not hitting with RISP going to help? All it does is make batters grip their bats tighter in those situations and just makes it worse.
Thanks for allowing me to rant. This is no reflection on you.
I hear ya. I heard the same thing in the post-game show, and they always make it seem like if the batters were just clutchier, the Twins would be on their way to the World Series.
Also, if Escobar doesn't get robbed by spectacular defensive play, the Twins would have been 4-for-14 w/RISP, which is better than their batting average overall on the season (.248 coming into the game).
Can't spell "Glen" without an "L"
Why does no one seem to care that Fien wasn't used? Why was our worst RH reliever put in to face the Padres' best LH power hitter in a tie game? Why was probably our worst RH batter allowed to make the final out with Willingham, one of our best hitters, on the bench? And if batting average is cited, I'm going to punch someone.
Lighten up, Francis.
My guess would be that, having used Burton for two innings, Gardy wanted to save Fien for tonight if he could. I do agree on Willingham, although the fact that, with his numbers, he is still "one of our best hitters" says a lot about the Twins hitters.