There's a baseball game tonight. I'm unwilling to predict 6 more mashed taters, though I feel confident in stating that there's a 50-50 chance we'll see at least one!
Kendall Graveman vs. Hector Santiago (back from bereavement - Buddy Boshers optioned to make room on the roster).
Aggressive running by Dozier
Vargas' bat died a hero.
On the board!
Hector Santiago slows the pace of the game when runners are on base. Not Mike Pelfrey slow, but he is in the area.
Eddie Rosiario's hits streak reaches 13!
Graveman is at 55 pitches through 11 batters faced. Even Bert can do that math.
KENNYS!!!!
Attaway!
Told ya!
Joe Mauer had 5 walks on the season coming into today , he has got two tonight.
He's had 3 walks in his last 3 games now. Prior to that, he had 1 walk in his previous 16 games (but only 2 strikeouts).
Also only has six strikeouts so far this year. His contact percentage is 93.7% and in the zone, his contact percentage is 97.8%. His swing percentage is below his career average and the last several years, but not below some peak years in the mid-2000s. He's swinging at less than recent past but making contact. I wonder if his batting style is transitioning into a high-contact, low-walk/strikeout batter.
Vargas has all 5 RBIs in this game. Sano came within an inch against the Royals of driving in all 6 runs of that game. I wonder what the record is for most RBIs in a game in which the batter drove in every run.
9, by Mike Greenwell
Holy Buxton!
My God.
Now that catch looks even bigger.
The A's CFer made a poor route to cut off that ball.
Triple for Buxton!
That face Buxton made when the ball got past the outfielder was amazing.
Old Friend alert! Liam Hendriks in.
I was a year too early on my Sano prediction.
But he started in the outfield last year so it doesn't count.
Excellent point -- I'll allow it.
Yes, Castro is batting south of .200, but just look what he has done with the Twins starters, with Sano's batting and defense, with the batters' new found patience at the plate; he has to be the MVP of the team so far, and the Twins' FO are due some awards for picking him up. #yeahwhateveritwasstillagoodmove
That had to have been wrong: Gameday showed the first pitch ball to Dozier right in the heart of the strike zone.
This is getting hairy.....
I miss the days of only one obligatory.
I was going to say the same thing.
A double play would look really good right now.
I'll take it.
Back in 1st place!
Plouffe GIDP. Drink!
We're still on track for 151-11!