85 thoughts on “Game 153”

1. Mike Pelfrey struck out the side
   including Miggy Cabrera

   what?

   1. It's. CoC's pennies.

   2. dog's asses and the sun, and broken watches and such.

2. love the outfield assist.

3. never mind me.

4. 24 OF assists in a season is a lot

   Most OF assists by a Twin
   24 Ward 1983
   19 Cuddyer 2007, Puckett 1985
   18 Becker 1996
   16 ROSARIO 2015, Puckett 1984, Brunansky 1983,Hisle 1976

   — Phil Miller (@MillerStrib) September 25, 2015

   1. I remember Ward had a gun. Where's liidership on that list (he asks knowingly)?

      1. Torii's highest OF assist total was 15 back in 2011 as a RFer for LAAAAAA
         His highest CF Twins total is 14 in 2001.

         1. Speculation here, but I'd imagine many of the best OF arms assist totals fall off pretty rapidly as scouting reports circulate. Gentleman's bet here. Rosario's OF assists go down in the coming years as word spreads about his prowess. Conversely, some noodle arms often pad their stats because everybody runs on them.

            1. I'd thought that, too, but some of these teams have faced Rosario before. I think plenty of these baserunners run scouting reports be damned. Sorta like sliding into first

               1. Mmm hmm. Barfield was still getting 15+ assists after 5-7 years in the league. His arm was well known.

                  1. spec·u·la·tion
                     ˌspekyəˈlāSH(ə)n/
                     noun
                     1.
                     the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.

                     1. with this?
                        

                     2. Eh. I didn't disprove your theory by cherry picking one example.

            2. I'm with you and the chilling effect is pretty damned valuable, too.

5. Nice catch by Hicks.

6. Of Pelfrey's 9 outs, 5 have been by strikeout.
   what?

7. Jermy Boyd.

8. Twins batters getting hits would be nice.

9. Pelkfrey's season strikeout high is 7.

10. Fan on the field delay. dumb

11. This is Sano's 71st game. He has the 3rd highest walk total on the team.

    1. How much of that do you think is attributable to pitchers worrying about strikes catching too much of the plate?

       1. Probably some.
          Some of it comes from the umpires giving Sano a generous zone.

          1. True. You'll also get that when you display the plate discipline he has.

             1. Even with that, it's still pretty impressive for a guy that young to get that veteran treatment.

                1. Yup

12. Tigers Baseball!!!!

13. TWINS BASEBALL!!!
    I hope folks don't mind me using this non-facetiously.

14. That was odd

    BUT YAY TRIPLE

    1. Maybe, anyway. Still pretty sexy.

       1. Yup.

       2. I thought a piece of the wall broke, but it was some kids glove falling off his hand.

          1. Me too ... like an analog scoreboard number or something.

15. LOLOLOLOL

    Rosario scored on a 110 foot fly ball.

    1. And dazzle is pissed about it.

       1. Because thats not the proper way to play baseball?

          1. Not so much that as that the Tigers were playing dumb baseball.

       2. Well, if McCann fields the short hop, he is out by like 6 feet.

    2. "Sacrifice" fly

16. MIN 4 1 0
    DET 0 3 2

    1. Frickin weird game, man, this baseball.

    2. As if the Big Pelf strikeouts weren't weird enough.

17. How hum, another OF assist, another triple

18. All right Mike Pelfrey, your job here is not to pitch to score.

    1. He tried his best, but made it through the inning.

       1. Pelf wriggled harder than a fresh leech on a fish hook there.

          1. Ooh, Nice imagery.

19. /enters room

    We all realize that Greinke can opt out of his contract after this year, right?

    /leaves room

    1. 

20. Time for the Blaine Boyer Experience.

    1. It was a better experience than I expected.

21. MIN 4 1 0
    DET 1 7 2

22. If Joe doesn't get on base today, I blame that sac bunt.

23. Too bad Mike Pelfrey is not to in strike out Miggy,

24. This escalated slowly.

25. 🙁

    1. Yup

26. Cripes

27. If I was superstitious, I'd take the blame for this. As I'm not, you'll have to find another whipping boy.

    (I vote hj.)

    1. Don't we usually vote for nibbish?

       1. Well, sure. We'll round up all the usual suspects.
          httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtSmfws0_To

          1. I expected The Usual Suspects poster with some shooping magic

             1. You expect too much...

                1. what, we aren't entitled to free art?

28. Time for a Dozier HR

29. C'mon Joe Sano

30. It's a good thing someone filled the Tigers' gloves with pudding.

31. Could go for Adobe Pauer here

    1. Damn autocorrect.

       1. Damn lack of hits

          1. Would have been nice if Detroit could have shared some of theirs.

32. Oooooooof
    this one hurts.

    1. WOooooof
       FTFY

33. Well this is no good at all.

34. Alright, we can blame Perkins and call it a night,

    1. Done.

       1. Yup, I think it's time for the whiskey.

    2. If I find out he's still pitching hurt I'm going to be really pissed

       1. Nothing he threw looked particularly nasty so I think it's entirely a possibility.

       2. He has 6 strikeouts in his last 4 1/3 innings pitched over his last 4 outings, so it hasn't hurt his K rate. Could be just rust from time off and not being able to go on a rehab assignment.

35. We're going to need to score some more runs without hits like we've done so far if we want this...

    1. Well ii is due up, so the no hits thing is definitely a possibility.

36. Well I'd say that qualifies as a bad loss.

37. Houston loses, still 1 1/2 back, but now 1 game back of Angels.

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