As someone who has done this several times (cough a lot of times) pinch hitters or prompts are appreciated.
If MLB wants us to care about Interleague play, they would not make two game series, not scheudle them during the day, and make sure the games are on all the RSNs.
Meh. Interleague play happens all season now. Plus, it's getaway day.
It nicely mirrors the series in St. Louis. I think I rather like these two-and-two series with a geographically close team.
This for sure. If we have to do it.
I agree. Home-and-homes are fun.
It seems like Joe just can't find the outfield grass. Not sure if it's better defensive plays or better defensive alignments, but he has had some absolutely beautiful plays made against him out there.
So what you're saying is he needs to be moved to the outfield?
heh ... I'm saying he needs to hit it where they're not.
That would seem to be a better solution.
They're certainly not there!
Double play balls everywhere!
Someone with the Twitter please tweet FSMidwest and tell them the "s" is silent in Kennys
The Cardinals stadium announcer got it wrong on Tuesday too.
Buxton just missed his pitch there.
Time for someone to get out the mirrors and turn on the smoke machine
Or rather, someone needs to teach Pelfrey how to share.
That stinks.
Hard to be upset with Pelf...where's the offense now, eh?
Getting out their nickles and dimes.
Black Mauer.
AGAIN WITH THE DOUBLE PLAY
Guh.
w00000000000000000000000t!
PAUER!
and off a lefty!
Whoa. At this point, I definitely did not see that coming.
Sorry. Should have spoilered.
Ha!
If I had a WGOM buck in my wallet, I'd give it to you.
THIS guy
LOL
JEEBUS SAVES
Hit to the opposite field, of course.
I'm tired of the Cards announcer yoyos saying that he hitting to the opposite field since his power is gone; even in the peak of his power he was hitting them out to left center
That was his spot in the Metrodome. Then Target Field moved the fence out a few feet and now his spot is in the fielder's glove.
Nice
Whatever the opposite of Spookying something is - that's what just happened.
Brooksing? Oh wait. That's the same thing.
Wow. I thought LaRussa retired?
Cardinals Way.
Same comment in the stands.
Of course IT shows up to replace my laptop in the middle of the Buxton at-bat!
A sabermetrically-informed approach might have argued here for Perk, given the leverage (meat of Cardinals' order in tie game in the 9th).
Perhaps. I can understand some hesitation based on 4-outs + a couple runners last night.
Wow. Boyer with a K, Mauer with a HR. What next? Fire from the sky?
Please not be a spoiler, please not be a spoiler, ...
Laughed again.
This might just be a gift that keeps on giving.
BLACK MAUER!
This was mildly funny the first time. It is really funny now.
KV
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Totally spookied that!
Mauer and Vargas hit home runs to supply the only runs of the game. Huh.
Works for me.
Huh. Pulled, not opposite field. Send him back down.
Meh. Baseball is easy.
And MLB Network cuts away from it 5 seconds after Vargas crosses the plate...because no one wants to see a walk-off home run again.
So is this a sweep or a split?
Swit.
Spleep.
watch your mouth
Just talkin' 'bout Spleep
As a Vargas (and Mauer, really) apologist, this game makes me quite pleased.
Twins spleep in a series that neither team scored more than 3 runs in a game. Plus, the Twins outscored the best team in baseball by 1 run over four games.
Vargas will be known as the hero, but in a game like this, I always think of the real hero as Mauer. Twins were 4 outs from losing before Mauer tied it. If Vargas doesn't homer, the game just goes to extra innings (assuming he didn't extend the inning and another Twin drove the pinch runner in).
Mauer as hero, Vargas as self-redeeming tag-along was the narrative I used to describe the game to my kids. They like that narrative better anyway.
WPA says the Mauer home run was worth +34 while the Vargas home run was worth +47.
But the Vargas GIDP was worth -30.
I am also ignoring the -1000 Mauer gets for making so much money and only hitting 3 home runs.
Gentlemen, there's a place for this discussion. Recaps don't see as much traffic as game logs, but why have 'em if you're not going to use 'em?
also, I argued that the real story was Pelfrey, but he can't really score runs for himself in the AL-rules portion of interleague play and most pitching performances without a ton of strikeouts aren't as sexy as homeruns (you guys are slipping).
Here it is.
I get my kicks from game log 66
As someone who has done this several times (cough a lot of times) pinch hitters or prompts are appreciated.
If MLB wants us to care about Interleague play, they would not make two game series, not scheudle them during the day, and make sure the games are on all the RSNs.
Meh. Interleague play happens all season now. Plus, it's getaway day.
It nicely mirrors the series in St. Louis. I think I rather like these two-and-two series with a geographically close team.
This for sure. If we have to do it.
I agree. Home-and-homes are fun.
It seems like Joe just can't find the outfield grass. Not sure if it's better defensive plays or better defensive alignments, but he has had some absolutely beautiful plays made against him out there.
So what you're saying is he needs to be moved to the outfield?
heh ... I'm saying he needs to hit it where they're not.
That would seem to be a better solution.
They're certainly not there!
Double play balls everywhere!
Someone with the Twitter please tweet FSMidwest and tell them the "s" is silent in Kennys
The Cardinals stadium announcer got it wrong on Tuesday too.
Buxton just missed his pitch there.
Time for someone to get out the mirrors and turn on the smoke machine
Or rather, someone needs to teach Pelfrey how to share.
That stinks.
Hard to be upset with Pelf...where's the offense now, eh?
Getting out their nickles and dimes.
Black Mauer.
AGAIN WITH THE DOUBLE PLAY
Guh.
w00000000000000000000000t!
PAUER!
and off a lefty!
Whoa. At this point, I definitely did not see that coming.
Sorry. Should have spoilered.
Ha!
If I had a WGOM buck in my wallet, I'd give it to you.
THIS guy
LOL
JEEBUS SAVES
Hit to the opposite field, of course.
I'm tired of the Cards announcer yoyos saying that he hitting to the opposite field since his power is gone; even in the peak of his power he was hitting them out to left center
That was his spot in the Metrodome. Then Target Field moved the fence out a few feet and now his spot is in the fielder's glove.
Nice
Whatever the opposite of Spookying something is - that's what just happened.
Brooksing? Oh wait. That's the same thing.
Wow. I thought LaRussa retired?
Cardinals Way.
Same comment in the stands.
Of course IT shows up to replace my laptop in the middle of the Buxton at-bat!
I laughed.
Boyer? Of course, Boyer.
A sabermetrically-informed approach might have argued here for Perk, given the leverage (meat of Cardinals' order in tie game in the 9th).
Perhaps. I can understand some hesitation based on 4-outs + a couple runners last night.
Wow. Boyer with a K, Mauer with a HR. What next? Fire from the sky?
Please not be a spoiler, please not be a spoiler, ...
Laughed again.
This might just be a gift that keeps on giving.
BLACK MAUER!
This was mildly funny the first time. It is really funny now.
KV
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Totally spookied that!
Mauer and Vargas hit home runs to supply the only runs of the game. Huh.
Works for me.
Huh. Pulled, not opposite field. Send him back down.
Meh. Baseball is easy.
And MLB Network cuts away from it 5 seconds after Vargas crosses the plate...because no one wants to see a walk-off home run again.
So is this a sweep or a split?
Swit.
Spleep.
watch your mouth
Just talkin' 'bout Spleep
As a Vargas (and Mauer, really) apologist, this game makes me quite pleased.
Twins spleep in a series that neither team scored more than 3 runs in a game. Plus, the Twins outscored the best team in baseball by 1 run over four games.
Vargas will be known as the hero, but in a game like this, I always think of the real hero as Mauer. Twins were 4 outs from losing before Mauer tied it. If Vargas doesn't homer, the game just goes to extra innings (assuming he didn't extend the inning and another Twin drove the pinch runner in).
Mauer as hero, Vargas as self-redeeming tag-along was the narrative I used to describe the game to my kids. They like that narrative better anyway.
WPA says the Mauer home run was worth +34 while the Vargas home run was worth +47.
But the Vargas GIDP was worth -30.
I am also ignoring the -1000 Mauer gets for making so much money and only hitting 3 home runs.
Gentlemen, there's a place for this discussion. Recaps don't see as much traffic as game logs, but why have 'em if you're not going to use 'em?
also, I argued that the real story was Pelfrey, but he can't really score runs for himself in the AL-rules portion of interleague play and most pitching performances without a ton of strikeouts aren't as sexy as homeruns (you guys are slipping).