One eye on baseball, one eye on the USMNT match.
A Twins series win would really put a blow into KC's playoff chances. So lets do that!
Former Royals great Dillon Gee goes for the Twins. With reinforcements on the way (Mejia, whatever September callups), he could be pitching to keep his spot in the rotation.
Mitch Garver's a catcher?
A dick special!
ALL RIIIiiighh...awwwwww, geez.
Or if you're Lorenzo cain:
Awwwww maaaa..... Oh shit!
I loved how he had settled in to watch it fly over, then had to scramble.
And Dazzle rightly so got on his case about it
Yeah, that addition to his leadoff HR list didn't happen
BY JORGE!
I like no doubters better.
Polanco is in the zone! jeepers!
It's fun listening to Cory and Dazzle sing Jorge's praises while the scoring update from two pitches later scrolls across the top of my phone
With the leather.
Thanks for showing up, USMNT. yeesh
Nice to hear Bruno get some credit for his coaching. I wonder if there are some hard feelings on his end; I don't believe he attended the '87 reunion this summer.
It has not been a good week to be one of Vargas's bats.
Booo, Buxton would've had that.
fastball down the middle usually results in the ball going over the fence.
Moustakas ties Bye Bye Balboni.
Someone get Nathan out of the radio booth - it's been nothing but KC runs since he got there
Well this sucks
Another double for Mauer!
393 for his career
I'd love to see him break 400 before the season ends.
The way he is going, probably reach that by the third week of September.
Kirby is #1 on the Twins list with 414
Since when are singles counts as doubles? /strib'd
28 in 134 games means 33.8 over 162 games, leaving him one or two short. He's only played in 115 out of 134 games though. If he plays in every game to finish the season, then he'll finish at 34.8, either reaching 400 or one shy. If we assume he performs as he did in August for all of September, that puts him at 35.5 for the season, so 400 or 401 for his career. So, I too would love to see him reach 400 because it means he finished the season well.
960 games finished in the TV booth right now.
Pretty awesome, eh?
Almost six seasons' worth of games. Pretty dang awesome.
FSN show have a show where its just former players talking baseball. No hosts or anything, just 4 players in a chair chewing the fat.
The Hawk talking about Brad Lidge's slider and Nathan saying he loved that, I wanted to hear more!
I want to hear Sweet Music, Bradke, and Johan talk changeups. Or Thome, Morneau, & Hrbek talk about mashing taters.
I second that idea!
I saw something like that on TNT with the '08 Celtics - Garnett, Paul Pierce, Perkins, Rondo and Big Baby. It was not as much about the game of bball so much as recollections of the season, but it was pretty cool.
Sheesh.
This is Ryan Pressly's 219th career appearance. That is 26th most in Twins history.
That's at least 100 too many.
I love that Everyday Eddie trails only the Big Train on the franchise list.
But, Johnson has a 5200+ inning pitched lead over Eddie.
That's 578 complete games' worth...
Kennys off the schneid.
Molitor's going to pinch run for Kennys here, right? Right? Paul?
Apparently the plan is for Granite to knock a single somewhere and Dozier hit a three run homer.
Second base dude never had the ball.
I'm with LaTroy on criticizing MLB for not having all safe/out calls be reviewable.
Ball.
Now would be a great time for Kennys to mash a tater.
Granite's plate discipline is pretty sweet.
Dick: "The reality is, there are three runners in scoring position because Buxton is at first."
Me: "I actually agree."
Joe!
Huh. No sign of distress from Herrera. Not sure what this is all about.
Looks like mild arm discomfort
So close.
Went to a Rancho Cucamonga Quakes game tonight on $1 hot dog, soda and ice cream sandwiches night. Quakes scored 7 in the second inning to take a 9-2 lead. I spent more time on my phone on Gameday keeping track of the Twins than I did the Quakes game. When I saw In Play, Runs for Mauer in the ninth, I really got excited. I sure was hoping for at least another double. Oh well. It's probably not a good plan to wait till the ninth to tie or take the lead every game. I'm sure the narrative for this game is the Twins never quit, but Mauer's hit was the only one for the Twins. The rest were handed to them by the Royals on an error, 2 walks and an hbp.