2016 Twins Game Logs

Game 34. What is baseball?

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The Twins are 1-11 in their last 12 games. Yuck. The Twins are on a 7 game losing streak and thats not even their longest losing streak of the season. Yuck. The Twins are 5 wins behind the second worst team in the American League. yuck. Why am I still watching? Well I'd rather be golfing but its 40 degrees outside and the river has flooded wiping out some holes. So Its brutal baseball. Yuck.

 

58 thoughts on “Game 34. What is baseball?”

  4. The twins are the free game of the day. I thought they were trying to sell MLB. TV?

    1. And yet, for some reason, I can't get Cory and Dazzle on mlb.com audio. Whether I click on the Twins feed or the Indians feed, I get the Indians broadcasters.

      1. Dazzle must have told the microphone to get off his lawn, and being a microphone, it listened.

      2. It's Atteberry tonight so mlb.com may be lost trying to find the Dazzle option.

  5. Of course, I miss the twins dingers but turn it on in time to see Cleveland's.

  12. Marney Gellnar reported that Tony O and Sano had a chat and Tony said stop hitting the ball to right field and just hit the ball over the fence, any fence.

    Awesome.

  13. Im pretty sure Miguel Sano doesnt know where the ball is half the time and just sticks his glove up in the air hoping the ball goes in.

    1. Probably, but at this point, might as well leave him out there to get used to it. (unless, of course, they end up trading plouffe).

  19. I spookied that one. My internal monologue: "this looks like the kind of putz a guy could hit some dingers off of."

  20. I looked away from TV to log in. Please don't tell me that Park sac bunted there.

  23. You know, based on all the crowd shots I've seen tonight, Brohio is entirely too real.

  24. Bremer says May dropped a pitch he threw as a starter. Just another reason for the Twins to keep him in the pen.

    1. You don't try to set a season loss record by playing an actual center fielder in center field.

    1. What really makes me mad is it was stupid baserunning, not just a misjudgment. How do you take a chance like that when your run means nothing until the guy behind you crosses the plate and if you get thrown out, then the guy batting is no longer the tying run.

      1. The thing is that things like that happen every single game. Every night, there are a couple of things that happen where you just shake your head and say, "What are we thinking?"

        1. That's the frustrating part. It isn't just Santana. It is a huge chunk of the roster. When their are this many mistakes, it is a system failure. Coaching in the minors, coaching in the majors, or scouting/drafting. Or more than one.

          1. I think a lot of that comes from players trying too hard to do t much. That's probably a natural reaction to all the losing. I think, though, that it's made worse by all the roster shuffling and lineup shuffling. It gives the impression that management is in panic mode, and that filters down to the players.

  31. It would be nice I'd Sano and Park wouldn't try to kill a ball three feet off the strike zone.

  32. It's pretty remarkable that the Twins scored six runs and on the radio postgame they're blaming the offense for the loss. Yes, they had chances to score more, but six really ought to be enough.

    1. I'm assuming it was not clutch with RISP, etc., which is stupid because the Twins had like 3 chances all game. One came with 2 outs. The other came when they intentionally walked Dozier to bring up the 7-8 batters. You know, there's a reason they are hitting there. The third we scored on a hit with a RISP. Unfortunately, we were down 2 runs. Also, this was the first time the Twins lost when scoring more than 5 runs. This is the way the Twins season is going that May has been their best reliever other than maybe Abad and has been really good lately. He hadn't allowed a run in his last 8 games and opponents were slashing .121/.194/.152 against him with 11/2 K/BB in 9 IP. However, he never once pitched with a lead in those games. His only Hold on the seaoson he gave up 2 runs in the inning, which was the 16-inning loss. It seems like the whole bullpen is like that. They aren't necessarily bad, just bad at the wrong times. (OK, some of them are bad, but I think you get my point). So either the Twins have been unlucky with this bullpen or the relievers just don't have the "guts" to pitch with leads, which doesn't make sense since Jepsen and May were great last year and Tonkin has been a closer his entire minor pro career pretty much. That's just the way this season has gone.

      1. It was not hitting with RISP, yes.

        I don't disagree with what you said, but another aspect of it is that, as pointed out above, a better centerfielder would have turned Byrd's hit into an out. It was hit well, but better defense would allow a pitcher to make a mistake once in a while.

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