Winning streak!
We might not get a whole lot of these this season, so it's worth getting excited over them, no matter how seemingly insignificant.
You know what would go nice with that winning streak? A long winning streak.
Hughes tries to make that happen tonight. Wade Miley tries to stop him, but other than having a pretty full beard in his bbref photo, I'm not convinced. The Twins weren't supposed to win last night, and they dominated, surely they can take on Grizzly Adams and his 4.51 FIP, right?
Twins on Leaderboards
On Base Percentage - Mauer - 10th (.389)
Base on Balls - Mauer - t-3rd (29)
Base on Balls - Sano - t-6th(26)
Strikeouts - Sano - t-2nd (67)
Stolen Bases - Santana - t-4th (10)
Stolen Bases - Nunez - t-9th (8)
Hit By Pitch - Park - t-5th (5)
Hit By Pitch - Núñez - t-10th (3)
Hit By Pitch - Dozier - t-10th (3)
Sacrifice Hits - Murphy - t-6th (2)
Sacrifice Hits - Rosario - t-6th (2)
Intentional Walks - Mauer - t-3rd (5)
Caught Stealing - Santana - t-3rd (5)
AB per HR - Park - 8th (15.2)
BB/9 - Hughes - 7th (1.664)
BB/9 - Nolasco - 10th (1.904)
Games Pitched - Pressly - t-3rd (24)
Games Pitched - May - t-7th (23)
Complete Games - Hughes - t3rd (1)
K/BB - Nolasco - 10th (4.182)
Losses - Hughes - 1st (7)
Earned Runs - Nolasco - t-8th (32)
Wild Pitches - May - t-2nd (6)
Joe and I share a favorite food.
What's the over/under on Cano HRs tonight?
Whoa. Strike three was up in his eyes.
Miggy Sano!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SANOOOOOOOO
clobbered it
something happened!
gall dang giveback runs
Both Sano and Park in the HR Derby would be kinda cool...
I knew that Santana BB was too good to be true
I wouldnt even give Sano a whiff of a strike here
and now its IBB time
Sano getting some respect finally.
His first intentional walk this year.
Only had 1 last year.
That is a bit surprising.
What's with Hughes and BBs this game? Bizarro
Mariners grabbed the Twins' bats in that inning.
Calling it a night; if I can't get to sleep, I'll count stranded RISPs.
EXTRA BASE HOME RUN HIT!!
Mauer... home run to left center. That's the power stroke we haven't consistently seen in the past. Nice!
we consistently saw it in 2009!
I really want to watch more dongerjacks, but Niblet wakes up at 5:50 no matter what day of the week it is.
So Santana has no range and no arm. Why is he in center?
okay, his arm is redeemed for now
Nice to see Molitor not caring about Hughes's win
Okay, guess I'll go to bed too while they're winning
I dont know about anyone else, but I really really really love this gif.
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Wow. One of the craziest endings to a game you'll see. The old 2-4-5-6 DP to end it. On a double caught stealing. crazy.
I ended up going out to the bar but not being near the tv and jsut caught the ending of the game. Holy balls.
also MAUER PAUER
DANCE PARTY
AHHHH
Something happened and we got some more extra base home run hits! I'm not sure I quite understand what happened on the last play, but maybe I'll see a highlight someplace. At any rate, we're still on track for 128-34!
Here's MLB.com's summary and video.