With any luck, I'll get to see my first few innings of the season today...damn wiener work schedule. Today the Twins start a new 8-game winning streak against the Orioles, as Good Kyle Gibson faces former mostly-Brewer Yovani Gallardo. I'm typing this in the car on my lunch break, sooooo...wow, it's time to get back. Hopefully I can join y'all toward the end of this one.
It's very quiet here this year.
Everyone having kids will do that. Plus the Twins have sucked and just fewer active citizens.
Damn wiener kids.
It's almost like Sano doesn't know how to play outfield
Rosario really hates not swinging, eh?
Not having any luck getting this broadcast on MLB Gameday.
Finally got in thru two different ways - 1) gameday, and separate 2) audio, two different feeds. Ratch.
Oliva-esque AB by Buxton there, nice job pally.
Crax, WTF.
So, ugh, not good Gibson tonight, it would seem.
Gibson's outta there, also Gallardo maybe part of one more.
Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of nibbling.
A solid strategy with a good catcher. Unfortunately, he's at first now.
PLOOOOOOOUFFFFFFFFFE!
Plouffe-Da!
Dazl: Swing of the bat ties the game!
Me: How about we move him to 2nd.
Sano is about due, right?
derp.
I got a good feeling about this.
I gotta stop having feelings about things.
It's almost like Suzuki is terrible at framing pitches. I wonder if anyone has ever researched that... (not that Dick'n'Bert would be aware of gobs of studies showing his deficiencies).
Double E
You know, pinch hitting for Suzuki with, oh, I don't know, arica, might have made some sense.
Britton is a lefty though.
I just realized that. However, my point was that Suzuki should not have been hitting there. I'd have taken Santana, even.
Mostly, I'm just ready for the Murphy era to start.
Ditto.
If you're not going to pinch hit for Kurt Suzuki in a high leverage situation like that, why pinch hit at all?
I mean, let's say he got hit on base. They'd immediately pinch run for him, right? I'd take my chances with any of the bench bats over Suzuki.
Come on, Joe Pauer...
I'm terrible at this.
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At least they scored runs both games!
On the plus side, Buxton got a couple of hits, Abad was good, Fien was fine, and Pressly was impressive. And the Twins are WAY ahead of last year's run-scoring pace. We'll just have to settle for 160-2!
I'm pretty sure that April games don't count. Only games "down the stretch" count.