Well, wasn't that something? I turned off the game in the 7th, because my wife wanted to watch a movie (The new Bourne movie, or, as I like to call it, Very Serious People Walking Quickly), so.... yeah.
I won't be missing today's game, though, because I'm stuck at work on this beautiful day, and I brought my walkman. So I imagine I'll get to finally hear a little bit about this kerfuffle between Boston and Baltimore that no one seems to want to have an opinion about.
Also, I get to listen to a Tepesch start....whatever that is. Hopefully, Molitor isn't forced to use 12 relievers today (he totally could if he wanted to, though, I'm pretty sure we have at least that many on the roster).
Go Twins!
Twins on Leaderboards, the return
Position Player rWAR - Sanó - 4th (1.7)
Position Player fWAR - Sanó - 6th (1.9)
Offensive WAR - Sanó - 3rd (1.9)
Defensive WAR - Buxton - 8th (0.5)
OB% - Sanó - 3rd (.443)
SLG - Sanó - 3rd (.667)
OPS - Sanó - 3rd (1.121)
Runs Scored - Sanó - t-2nd (22)
Total Bases - Sanó - 5th (63)
Triples - Sanó - t-3rd (2)
Triples - Buxton & Rosario - t-8th (1)
Home Runs - Sanó - t-5th (8)
Runs Batted In - Sanó - 1st (28)
Bases on Balls - Sanó - 2nd (22)
Strikeouts - Sanó - t-2nd (40)
Stolen Bases - Dozier - t-4th (6)
Caught Stealing - Dozier - t-5th (2)
OPS+ - Sanó - 3rd (221)
Extra Base Hits - Sanó - 4th (16)
Times on Base - Sanó - 3rd (51)
Sacrifice Flies - Polanco - t-4th (2)
Intentional Walks - Sanó - t-4th (2)
Stolen Base % - Buxton - t-1st (1.000)
Power/Speed - Dozier - 6th (4.8)
At Bats per SO - Mauer - 1st (18.0)
At Bats per SO - Polanco - 5th (9.1)
At Bats per HR - Sanó - 5th (11.6)
WPA - Sanó - t-4th (1.4)
If Sanó is on 19 leaderboards come the end of the year, I'd say he's had a pretty good season.
Pitching rWAR - Santana - 2nd (2.3)
Pitching fWAR - Santana - t-7th (1.1)
ERA - Santana - 1st (0.66)
Wins - Santana - t-1st (5)
Wins - Hughes - t-3rd (4)
Wins - Santiago - t-8th (3)
W/L % - Santana - t-1st (1.000)
W/L % - Hughes - t-6th (.800)
W/L % - Santiago - t-10th (.750)
WHIP - Santana - 1st (0.707)
H/9 - Santana - 1st (3.51)
BB/9 - Hughes - 4th (1.62)
Games Played - Belisle - t-10th (14)
Saves - Kintzler - t-3rd (7)
Innings Pitched - Santana - 6th (41)
Games Started - Santana, Santiago & Hughes - t-5th (6)
Complete Games - Santana - t-2nd (1)
Shutouts - Santana - t-1st (1)
Home Runs Allowed - Gibson - t-9th (6)
Hits Allowed - Hughes - t-6th (40)
Hits Allowed - Gibson - t-8th (39)
HR/9 - Santana - 6th (0.44)
Losses - Gibson - t-1st (4)
Earned Runs - Gibson - 2nd (34)
Hit Batters - Santiago - t-4th (3)
Games Finished - Kintzler - t-2nd (11)
ERA+ - Santana - 1st (610)
FIP - Santana - 7th (3.10)
WPA - Santana - 3rd (1.6)
Four pitch walk. Good way to start!
I know I got pumped up from it.
Tepesch knew that was gone off the bat.
I'm starting to get a one of those days kind of vibe.
It's not a vibe anymore.
#freeberrios
Tepesch nearing 50 pitches and he's on a 75 pitch limit.
He might not get to 75 now.
That error has been a killer
Also, the really, really bad pitching.
Yeah, but how much better would it have been to start the third inning with walk, double, single, double other than it would have been 1 less out for the bullpen to get. I mean, there's no guarantee that the following at-bats would have happened the same, but I hate when a big inning is pinned on one error even if it did happen with 2 outs.
And I'm not saying you specifically were blaming Polanco. I was just noticing how the cameras keep going to Polanco's reactions.
I agree. I've said before it's hard on a pitcher when he has to get four outs instead of three, and it is, but it's not an excuse for allowing the next six batters to reach base.
It's almost like making a guy sit around for 2 weeks is not a good idea.
Now that the Tepesch era is over, let us never speak of it again.
He is no Matt Fox.
More like Mike Smith
I seriously doubt it is over since he had the long layoff that this could be blamed on.
And also since it appears that the Twins would use almost anyone, including some random guy off the street, rather than bring up Jose Berrios.
You volunteering?
I'd be happy to. I'd even play for the major league minimum.
Just before the Chris Young at bat, a group of dbags (non-Red Sox fans, by the way) made me move because I was in their seat (despite the many, many empty seats directly next to us. All but two of the dbags have since wandered off.
On the board!
Why cant the Twins get Xander Bogaerts out?
Breslow must be "tapped out" after those nine pitches.
Ryan Pressly threw nineteen pitches! Better not let him get to twenty!
Nice double, there.
2'nd inning 8 runs - crax.
All we need is two grand slams and a solo homer and we're back even!
Sano does O and D! Righteous!
Are the Red Sox going to retaliate against Sano for making an aggressive-ish tag at third base?
Well, now we need two grand slams and a two-run homer.
Ridiculous.
At this point, I can't even care enough to get upset.
Do we really have to use up our bullpen ace now?
Sigh
o_o
Well,if this "catching" thing doesn't work out...
Now all we need is 11 bases loaded walks to make Gimenez the winner.
There is zero reason for a position player to pitch in a game where the other team has only scored 11. That is bad bullpen management.
And when you have 13 pitches with only four starters.
And when Breslow only threw 8 pitches.
Fake news!
Breslow actually threw nine pitches.
You have your facts, I have mine! (Plus, he also had to throw the ball about sixty feet during the rundown.)
Gimenez has thrown 7 pitches this year, has gotten 3 outs.
He is up to 5 IP in his career, 5th appearance!
Yeah, but his HR/FB ratio is unsustainable.
Now Gimenez can go talk to a pitcher who is struggling to throw strikes and tell him to just throw it over the plate. "Even I can get this guy out."
Tonk out
And there was much rejoicing
Good. I was a little worried they would send out Rucinzki after what turned out to be a decent first outing for him. Didn't start well but he ate up more than 3 innings. He won't be a available for a few days, so I wondered if he would be sent back down like Boshers was the other day.
We'll just have to settle for 149-13!
No 150 this year 🙁