62 thoughts on “Game 81: Twins at Royals–The Half-way Point”

1. Now that's how you start a ball game!

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3. Joe goes yard on The Fourth - how American

4. Sano hits the ball so hard, he doesnt give a chance for runners to score from second base.

   1. It feels like it's been forever since anyone's been able to say that about a Twins hitter.

5. Smoke - check!
   Mirrors - check!

6. Double plays are cool. At least when we turn them, rather than hitting into them.

7. WHY ARE YOU BUNTING

8. Apparently Rosario got the productive out sign.

9. Provus tells us that Sano's first-inning single left his bat at 110 mph.

10. We have to have one of the poorer successful sacrifice percentages as a team

    1. League average is 66%
       The Twins came into this game at 68%

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11. The key to that inning was the bunt.

12. By the way, nice job on the picture for the game log.

13. Trevor Plouffe triple... yessir!

14. Ugh, those uniforms.

    1. ugh, this pitching

15. Herrmann is a lot like Tim Laudner, except for the defense.

    1. And the hitting.

       1. Power maybe. Laudner's nickname was buck-eighty-nine for a reason.

          1. His nickname was buck-ninety. And that power helped him be a replacement level hitter. Herrmann is much worse.

             1. Dude could throw out a runner in his time, too

16. So, Joe Mauer, 3-4 today with a HR and 2 RBIs. Huh.

    1. He is good at baseballing.

    2. couple runs, too. Dozier's a slacker

       1. I blame socal for pimping him.

17. I will accept a sacrifiice flii there.

18. Oh man. Hopefully that is just a cramp in Pressley's elbow

19. Pitcher's best friend!

20. could Aaron Thompson's mug shot on mlb make him more like a yokel?

    1. He's no Colby Rasmus, thankfully.

    2. He could have been holding one of these.

21. I'm sitting at a park in Janesville waiting for the worst part of independence day: trying to get home after fireworks. A large part of me is hoping the kids really dislike the loud and we can leave early.

    1. If it makes you feel better, 'toy, I'm finishing this. Malty and smoof.

       1. Oddly, it does not.

          1. maybe if I start firing torpedos?

             1. I've been drinking those all day. Local store had a special.

                1. Well, I forsee me buying a case of that in the near future now.

       2. I have had some Damn good beers this weekend though, so I suppose it could be worse.

    2. And Mrs. Runner and I are waiting for the worst part of Independence Day: watching A Capitol Fourth on TV and entertaining a frightened dog while neighbors launch all manner of ground-to-air missles

       1. That's what we fought the British for!

       2. Coincidentally that's what we're doing here, only multiply the frightened dog by 4.

    3. I got my wish. Had to leave just about as soon as the fireworks started. I didn't have to deal with any traffic whatsoever.

22. I don't know whether I'm starting to believe in smoke-n-mirrors, or maybe Blaine Boyer is growing on me.

23. DON'T TRY TO STEAL

24. Fien not inspiring confidence exactly.

25. Let's go get a GEICO, guys!

26. atta Joe!

    1. Four hits! Eight bases!

    2. Would be nice to see eye-eye get off the schneid here for a change.

27. four hit night for Mauer! woot woot

28. Damn.

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31. AFTP.

32. 81 games in the book
    5 games above .500
    3.5 game back of first place
    not bad. not bad at all.

    1. don't forget: Wildcard

    2. somebody needs to pull out our season predictions for a comparison.

       1. Did we make any?

          1. If not, can't we just re-use last year's?

33. .@Royals For future reference, this picture isn't me... pic.twitter.com/Nbh88s6ALt

    — Glen Perkins (@glenperkins) July 5, 2015

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