38 thoughts on “2017 Game 98: Minnesota Twins vs. Los Angeles Dodgers”

1. Positive: Colón in a Twins batting helmet.
   Negative: Jack in the box.

2. The header image for this post – and the growing number of references to the historicity of this series/nostalgia of Dodger Stadium – has me thinking about los desterrados' side of the story of Chavez Ravine.

3. Oof, Wilson Ramos has no manner of luck. Hit in the head with a broken bat requiring six staples.

4. Well, that was anticlimactic.

5. Got a good friend at the game tonight; tomorrow I'll have to post the photo he texted me

6. I heard the losing starting pitcher has to buy the winning starting pitcher a pasta dinner.

7. That's a great picture up above

   1. I only went to one Dodger game when I lived in LA, and the traffic trying to get out of there after the game traumatized me enough not to go back.

      1. My new (to me) car was hit in that parking lot; the driver left the scene. Witnesses took the make/model/plate of the truck, so I called LAPD. They "investigated," and when the owner claimed he had been at home in San Bernardino, they just shrugged.

         1. Did you have them check Larry Sellers's alibi?

         2. I went to two dodgers games around six years ago and was totally mystified by the lack of traffic planning. Two parking lot rage incidents happened while we were staying in Pasadena that summer, one, iirc, resulted in a death.

            1. In the game L.A. Noir (which takes place in the late 1940's) there's a scene with a cop looking at the proposed freeway grid and he comments that finally the city is going to be doing something to relieve traffic.

               1. That was a weird, fun little game.

                  1. Little? :o) I got overwhelmed after about 10 hours

                     1. I finished it, but didn't bother with 100% as I normally do.

               2. also inside joke in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

8. It's spelled RYU and they're pronouncing it roo-EE?

9. Grossman is safe

10. That was a bad call.

11. wow, hope that run doesnt come back to bite.

    1. Solo HR next inning for Pastaman instead, I guess.

    2. As you were saying...

12. guys in the truck: more slo-mo shots of colón running, please.

13. I'm watching with the sound off. Did Bremer audibly orgasm after that Colón sacrifice bunt.

    1. There was some back-and-forth about "why more major leaguers can't get a bunt down." Jack obliged, of course.

14. Uffda.

15. This is my fault. I turned on the TV literally AS grandal's ball went over the fence.

16. why is grossman trying to bunt for a hit?

    1. Apparently because he can get one

    2. Stupid is often surprising.

17. Look at that shut-down bullpen!

18. Kintzler pitched yesterday? What kind of idiotic move is that? He want more than an inning the day before so you use him in a game that even if he had a scoreless outing the Twins had maybe a 30% chance of winning? That's some kind of stupid. Smells of desperation. I wonder if Molitor was trying to convince the FO to complete the Garcia trade? The move backfired and they did it anyways.

    1. Because Duffey threw six ineffective pitches, so Molitor couldn't let him start a new inning.

19. That hurt.

20. Well, I've seen enough.

21. Cody Bellinger, Greatest Player Ever.

    1. When he pokes a previous pitch foul down the right field line, after an 0-fer-the night to that point, the at-bat had a "This only ends one way..." kinda feeling.

22. Twins option Kyle Gibson to Rochester.

    — Phil Miller (@MillerStrib) July 25, 2017

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