Well, it's official. Our favored team needs to play better than .500 the rest of the way out to avoid 100 losses. I don't feel that it's particularly doable, but hope springs eternal and all that.
Today, the twins take on the mestball. Our only decent starter goes up against a rookie who had a 4.28 ERA in the minors. My hopes for this one are modest - Brian Dozier hits three home runs, and Mauer hits a walkoff grand slam to cap off Santana's 13k no hit shutout.
Provus Gordo'd that one. The way he was talking about Kepler's drive, you'd have thought it was second deck.
1-2-3 innings are Sexy.
I had no idea Polandball extended to sports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eeXSXLttL0
I think mestball was a pretty short lived spinoff.
I saw this one right after Joe Nathan's arm exploded (and when the Mets were paying Francisco Rodriguez $12M a year) , so it spun off while the iron was still hot.
The intro reminded me that the Race to the Bottom needed to be resurrected.
The only ballgame I've seen in Target Field was #99 in 2011; I want that to stand.
With 13 games left after today, they have room to top, er, bottom 1982. Assuming they continue their .371 pace for those final games, they will finish at 101.2 losses.
*wiggle wiggle*
leaving the bases loaded is sexy -- well done, Erv
Yeah, that strikeout sort of reminded me of the Magical Zoomball game where Deduno struck out Trout to end a big jam.
Santana wasn't chewing on his necklace as he threw the pitch, though. Points off for that.
There's the wild pitch record, so we have that going for us...
aaaaaand Santana's great game is once again wiped out
He's got to be one of the hardest luck pitchers this year.
Don't know if this got shared.
Dozier on his future in Minnesota.
Humor from the comments section:
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on Guy Fawkes Day, J.T. Chargois doesn't need to wear a mask
Rosario punto's his way into first base, potentially hurt. Of course.
Whelp. See you next year, Eddie.
For crying out loud. Headfirst slides into first...
The Twins have won fifty-five games.
They have used forty-nine players to do so.
I wonder if that's close to some kind of record.
BUXTON!!!
Holy crap, that was hammered.
The clock has struck midnight on Kintzler, I think.
Wimmers struck out three, all swinging and walked one. Clearly he can only go one inning and have to bring in the closer.
...whew.
Twins now with two blown saves. I wonder what the record is for a game.
The Astros had four in one game.
Not here.
Clearly the closer can only go one innin.....oh, thank goodness.
Sure.
Twins and Mets each used eight pitchers. The Mets at least have the excuse of their starter only going five innings.
Will this be remembered by Mets fans as the Granderson game? Sandberg had a similar game with 2 dramatic homers late (both tied game or one tied it and the other won it, can't remember which) and it's referred to as the Sandberg Game.
I'll remember it as the NSFW game.