Admit it, you’re nervous. Sure, there are only twelve games left and the Twins have an easier path than the LAAAA but man can the Twins just pull off a nice 5 game win streak? Can they take advantage of facing a pedestrian Jaime Garcia and win the first game of the series against the Yankees? Can’t the Angels just fall on their face for 4 games or so and then we can all relax? In my estimation Twins need one win at the Yankees and one win at Cleveland then take at least 5 from the lowly Tigers to assure a playoff berth.
Tonight we get old versus young, fat versus skinny, $25,000,000 versus $507,500. CC Sabathia against Joes Berrios. Live from Yankee Stadium at 6:10p.
Game is on ESPN, so of course there is a rain delay.
AAA Championship game on NBCSN for filler.
The twitters machine say 7:10 central time start.
I'm enjoying the close captioning on the TV here at Old Chicago. Apparently Roy Smalley's uncle is Gene Motte! TIL
Kirby Pocket, Calvin Griffey... I'm learning all kinds of stuff tonight
Twins TV studio: Roy Smalley
On neighboring TV, Yankee's studio: Doucheira
Advantage: Twins
BUNT! lol
dammit, that's how you bunt!!
On the board.
On the 4ltr!
No spanquis on that yanquis.
Headlights for Headley. Har.
Yankees K first!
Me and my big fat
mouthfingers.The problem with the top of the first inning is that there just wasn't enough bunting.
If they're going for hits against the shift, I hope they bunt all night
Berrios hitting 96, 98. Mmmmm.
Bert's already questioned the band box's gun speed.
I think they all use Statcast these days so should be quite accurate. They do measure a bit closer to release than before so everyone's velocity is up.
They questioned Aroldis' 104 last night too
Everything is bigger in the Big Apple.
Texas says, "Hold my beer..."
ESPN guy paying attention, lauding the Twins' OF defense.
But not so much there. Hit. The. Cutoff.
Too many pitches.
COOTY'S RAT SEMEN
Warning Track Judgement.
MAX
Hey, Twins on the big screen. Kepler mashology.
Fahrvergnugen!
For all the give backs, I like a take back every now and then
Dayamn.
Too. Many.
We're going to lose this game 4-3
Got the 4 part done.
Yankees games are sooo tedious.
Seriously.
Give a player five strikes and whadya know, he walks
So. Many. Balls.
A combined 50 out of 117 before Buddy showed up
Ooof Joe.
Damn it
Gold Glove.
J. Lannister-like.
Joe'll say he should have had it, but he's getting a lot of excuses from the booth. And Doucheira!
Let's go Buck.
and now we need 2 runs against Robertson, Betances, Chapman. yay
If you wanna be the best, you gotta beat the best...or something.
Or in the alternative, throw in the towel which is what it seems like Pressly's intent on doing.
Uno.
Damn it.
We're getting Presslied.
Gaack.
That's at least the third pitch this game that has been right down the middle that the ump has called a ball
Are we all sick of Gimenez, or is it just me?
I feel like his hands aren't great. He seems to not-catch a lot of things. He blocks some, but it seems like lots of other catchers would actually glove them?
Gimenez not really impressing either. Maybe he should be on the mound.
There's something poetic about losing now, to win the one game playoff in two weeks, right?
So...you're saying the Yankees are going to lose now?
Long game.
Of course, it would also be poetic to miss the playoffs by a game.
well, we're ⅔ of the way through this game, so it should wrap up ~2AM or so.
Have I mentioned lately that I despise the Yankees?
See, Gimenez's terrible catching led to that play at the plate
Who is this Curtiss guy? Seems like he can bring it.
lotta bad swings that inning.
At least the Angels are losing
okay, twinkies, let's beat this wife beater.
i am very sorry for this last LTE. it was his girlfriend, not his wife.
Easy mistake. Your correction is forgiven.
They sure did hit a shit-ton of balls hard ... and directly at fielders tonight, didn't they?
i would bet $50+ dollars that the twins will not win tomorrow's game.
Getting swept by the team you'll need to beat in a one-game playoff play-in is the new market efficiency.
In '87, the Twins got destroyed by the Tigers in a series in Detroit, 35-3 or something like that, and it was brought up a lot before the Twins played the Tigers in the ALCS. Of course, it helped that the Twins had homefield advantage that year, but they still won 2 of 3 in Detroit.
I hope they do so the Yankees will win the East. Their reward would be to play the Astros. The Twins would then play at Boston in a one-game playoff, and if they win that, would go to Cleveland, who they know very well and have swept a series in Cleveland.
My closest friend who likes baseball is a life long Red Sox fan. This would be awful for us haha.
Sign stealing!