2019 Twins Game Logs

2019 Game 9 — MN Twins at NY Metropolitans

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Twins wrap up a long road trip with a visit to Queens and a two game series with the 6-3 New York Mets. Gibson up for the Twins as he comes off a "bad Gibby" performance of 6 runs in 4.2 innings in his season debut. Hopefully we get good Gibby tonight. It will be especially important as the Mets have reigning Cy Young awardee Jacob deGrom on the mound. deGrom is currently tied with Bob Gibson with for the MLB record of 26 straight quality starts so it would be cool if the Twins bats were active early and often. Mets have a few injuries with Yoenis Cespedes, Jed Lowrie, and Todd Frazier all out of the line up. Also the Mets added Robinson Cano during the off season? I swear I didn't hear about that trade. Huh. He usually plays well against the Twins so that's a bummer.

Game time 6:10p locally. Looks like there might be some rain in the forecast but I bet they get this game in.

Twins Line up:

Kepler RF
Polanco SS
Astudillo 1B
Rosario LF
Garver C
Gonzalez 3B
Schoop 2B
Buxton CF
Gibson CF

156 thoughts on “2019 Game 9 — MN Twins at NY Metropolitans”

  1. I just tried to get the game on mlb.com and am not getting anything. I assume they're in a rain dealy.

              1. She’d rather a Kepler, Polanco, or Rosario. She might accept a Berríos. Her old man, however, is revisiting his feeling that his shirsey days are over.

  8. I walked back into the living room and thought Garver struck out. Glad to see it was the opposite of that.

  11. I do like that Justin is talking about Gibson getting a single like it's something that might actually happen.

  26. We are unexpectedly ahead 5-1 in a game in which DeGrom is pitching. It is therefore very important (in the baseball context) that we actually win the game.

  27. I got in the car and heard Cory talk about how the bottom of the second needs to be a shutdown inning to get the Twins back up quick. I got all the way home without Gibson retiring a batter with all of his stupid nibbling.

  31. I still very much like Cory Provus, but this year he seems to always be talking about "momentum", and I wish he'd stop it.

  32. Is A-Stud struggling at first base tonight, or has he just had some balls that were tough to handle?

    2. That one took a bit of an odd hop, though I think a better defensive first baseman would have grabbed it.

      1. True, true. I made that comment not expecting him to still try with two strikes.

  41. Kepler's looking better at the plate all the time. I might have been hasty about him not being a good lead-off hitter.

  46. I really have no idea where the inside corner is in tonight's strike zone. I don't think the umpire does, either.

  48. You know, you have to throw a few pitches in the strike zone if you want guys to chase pitches out of the strike zone.

    1. I was, too. The only thing is, Baldelli has access to a lot of stats that I don't have access to, so there could have been a very good reason. And May did get them out, so it's hard to criticize him too much for it.

      1. Yeah, I'm not annoyed. But I wonder if he had kept him in had his spot not been up. Either way, not a big deal. Rocco so far doesn't seem the type to whine about not having enough pitchers, and he's willing to bring in his better relievers in high leverage situations, so it's all good.

    1. I was trying to find an image of Smalls's little plastic glove from the Sandlot, but came up empty.

  62. I just tried to move a sleeping trinket to get bed but she instead stood up and walked to the refrigerator muttering something about lunch. Kids are weird sometimes.

        1. Marwen is the pinch you give yourself to remind you you are, in fact, not dreaming.

  65. Once again, I’ve missed most of the fun stuff in the game and caught most of the garbage. I’ll take the blame if things totally go south here.

    1. Catcher perhaps? Castro on the bench or even Astudillo could move behind the plate.

  67. Dick’s making a lot of noise about Polanco throwing sidearm: it’s worrisome because of his shoulder, or it’s “unusual for a shortstop.” Every memory I have of Greg Gagne’s fielding has him throwing sidearm. Gags is the best defensive shortstop the Twins have ever had.

    2. Every pitcher throws sidearm. They tend to bend their back and elbow to make it not look like that, but the upper arm is in line with the shoulders. Extending that to the lower arm seems natural.

  69. Buxton with a terrible swing early in the at bat, and then gets a double. I'm so happy.

  80. Well I'm going to take a risk and aims the pen can hold a 6 run lead and go to sleep.

  81. The last time the Twins beat the Mets was in 2010, Pavano over Santana. So much weirdness in that sentence. (For starters, I’ll bet I haven’t thought of Pavano in years)

    2. They're supposed to be able to out-hit, and pitching is all bonus, right?

      Plus, it's not like there are still amazingly quality bullpen arms who didn't sign in the off-season available, right?

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