Berrios
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Anderson
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85 thoughts on “Game 86: Twins at Athletics”
Buxton
Here is my hot take: Luis Arraez is better than Glenn Williams
Arreaz is a singles machine.
The ol "score a run because bases are load then catcher's interference is called" TWINGO
Boy, just a little bit was all it took (I'm a few minutes behind).
We'll take a run any way we can get one.
Schoop juuust missed a dinger. ☹️
Nice play by Sano and pick by Adrianza on the leadoff hitter.
Twins are missing some good chances early on. Hope it doesn't come back to haunt them.
Would like to see a little more patience at the plate with this guy.
That was a heckuva scoop by adrianza.
Ayyup.
This is where I complain about replay being used for anything other than home runs.
Ooooh. Yea, he was safe.
On super slow motion replay, I agree. I kind of enjoy the human factor on plays life that, though. Replay takes the fun out of that part of the game.
Never put a name in for the Spooky contest. I will take Kepler if its not too late.
game's still on -- you're good!
What the hell was that?
TOOTBLAN
I don't understand what Cruz thought he was doing there.
That had to be a hit and run call, right? I can't think of any other reason to put someone like Cruz in motion.
Good lord MLB's Gameday is lame. Format is horrid, at least in Chrome on my PC. Think I'll use someone else's.
Nellie is responding well to the night off.
Base running excepted.
After giving up thirty-eight runs yesterday, the DSL Twins gave up just two today. Unfortunately, they scored only one, so they still lost.
"Drill Sergeant" isn't very good, but it's still less annoying than "Carnival Barker".
That one was totally clueless, see?
Word to Rocco: you should get a run out of three consecutive singles.
I'm sure he agrees.
So say we all.
Polanco & Adrianza’s caps have the NL logo on them.
Marney says they arrived in the box that way.
I hope Topps or some baseball card company runs baseball cards with the player wearing those caps.
Topps is the only company with an MLB license, so "some other company" can't show team names or logos on their cards
Looked like Bux caught a spike? Or just mis-judged?
Attaboy and Dazzle did not say anything about catching a spike.
Yeah, I thought it looked like he snagged one, too.
He was getting ready to dive and changed his mind. Looked awkward.
This is what Dazzle said.
Hilarious. 100-year old vet who threw out the first pitch is in the stands messing with his smartphone.
Spanish-American war?
One run may be enough for Berrios today, but I'd prefer not to put that to the test.
I guess it won't be.
time for a run or 8 .
SEND HIM!!!
THEY DID!!
I'm not down on an umpire if he misses a bang-bang play or misses a pitch by an inch. But I still like getting the calls right.
Yeah, that would never happen in Test Cricket.
Gameday is still in the last inning and is displaying roman next to the MLB logo. Was ist?
Yeah, Gameday has gone down hill every year the past few.
Let's not have Cruz try to steal third.
Wild pitch? That’ll work.
Little League steal is, however.
Day Cruz.
If Arraez can cause one more of those we'll have the lead back!
Kind of weird seeing the infeld in with no outs in the 5th.
I wonder what Sanó thinks of batting fifth, behind Arraez as the cleanup hitter.
He should think about delivering the damn fly ball is what.
At least Adrianza came through with two outs.
I'm sure he thought about it. He just couldn't do it.
What's with the popups, Miguel?
Pop ups are the new checked swing.
Twins take the lead back!
That didn't last long.
Ribeye, thx dude.
Lots of singles today. Bring on the Bombas!
Wrong team!
Semian looks like a stud player. He's good, but seems like he should be a superstar.
Yuk.
This does not look good.
Get your focus back, Berrios.
Hammerhead sharks and blood in the water. Just sayin.
Damage limitation.
Well, I will take that patience from Bux. That's three walks the last two games.
Still waiting on the lineup to pick Berrios up.
We’re going to have to wait some more.
Littel got a better result than he really earned.
"Julio beck-AIR" with the only PH GS in Twins history? I seem to remember it pronounced Julio BECK-er
nope, it's correct: Becquer is "beck-AIR"
Mike "No" Morin
Well, so much for this one. Wasted too many chances, and eventually it caught up to us.
Since about the middle of June it's felt like something is a little off with the Twins, like they're just not quite right. Maybe they were just playing over their heads before and are coming down to earth, I don't know. But I sure hope the all-star break does them some good and they get back to being the team they were earlier.
I sure put a jinx on Polanco by picking him. I think I just won't pick anyone the rest of the season.
The CVS ad makes me wish there was one around here, so I could deliberately not patronize it.
Buxton
Here is my hot take: Luis Arraez is better than Glenn Williams
Arreaz is a singles machine.
The ol "score a run because bases are load then catcher's interference is called" TWINGO
Boy, just a little bit was all it took (I'm a few minutes behind).
We'll take a run any way we can get one.
Schoop juuust missed a dinger. ☹️
Nice play by Sano and pick by Adrianza on the leadoff hitter.
Twins are missing some good chances early on. Hope it doesn't come back to haunt them.
Would like to see a little more patience at the plate with this guy.
That was a heckuva scoop by adrianza.
Ayyup.
This is where I complain about replay being used for anything other than home runs.
Ooooh. Yea, he was safe.
On super slow motion replay, I agree. I kind of enjoy the human factor on plays life that, though. Replay takes the fun out of that part of the game.
Never put a name in for the Spooky contest. I will take Kepler if its not too late.
game's still on -- you're good!
What the hell was that?
TOOTBLAN
I don't understand what Cruz thought he was doing there.
That had to be a hit and run call, right? I can't think of any other reason to put someone like Cruz in motion.
Good lord MLB's Gameday is lame. Format is horrid, at least in Chrome on my PC. Think I'll use someone else's.
Nellie is responding well to the night off.
Base running excepted.
After giving up thirty-eight runs yesterday, the DSL Twins gave up just two today. Unfortunately, they scored only one, so they still lost.
"Drill Sergeant" isn't very good, but it's still less annoying than "Carnival Barker".
That one was totally clueless, see?
Word to Rocco: you should get a run out of three consecutive singles.
I'm sure he agrees.
So say we all.
Polanco & Adrianza’s caps have the NL logo on them.
Marney says they arrived in the box that way.
I hope Topps or some baseball card company runs baseball cards with the player wearing those caps.
Topps is the only company with an MLB license, so "some other company" can't show team names or logos on their cards
Looked like Bux caught a spike? Or just mis-judged?
Attaboy and Dazzle did not say anything about catching a spike.
Yeah, I thought it looked like he snagged one, too.
He was getting ready to dive and changed his mind. Looked awkward.
This is what Dazzle said.
Hilarious. 100-year old vet who threw out the first pitch is in the stands messing with his smartphone.
Spanish-American war?
One run may be enough for Berrios today, but I'd prefer not to put that to the test.
I guess it won't be.
time for a run or 8 .
SEND HIM!!!
THEY DID!!
I'm not down on an umpire if he misses a bang-bang play or misses a pitch by an inch. But I still like getting the calls right.
Yeah, that would never happen in Test Cricket.
Gameday is still in the last inning and is displaying roman next to the MLB logo. Was ist?
Yeah, Gameday has gone down hill every year the past few.
Let's not have Cruz try to steal third.
Wild pitch? That’ll work.
Little League steal is, however.
Day Cruz.
If Arraez can cause one more of those we'll have the lead back!
Kind of weird seeing the infeld in with no outs in the 5th.
I wonder what Sanó thinks of batting fifth, behind Arraez as the cleanup hitter.
He should think about delivering the damn fly ball is what.
At least Adrianza came through with two outs.
I'm sure he thought about it. He just couldn't do it.
What's with the popups, Miguel?
Pop ups are the new checked swing.
Twins take the lead back!
That didn't last long.
Ribeye, thx dude.
Lots of singles today. Bring on the Bombas!
Wrong team!
Semian looks like a stud player. He's good, but seems like he should be a superstar.
Yuk.
This does not look good.
Get your focus back, Berrios.
Hammerhead sharks and blood in the water. Just sayin.
Damage limitation.
Well, I will take that patience from Bux. That's three walks the last two games.
Still waiting on the lineup to pick Berrios up.
We’re going to have to wait some more.
Littel got a better result than he really earned.
"Julio beck-AIR" with the only PH GS in Twins history? I seem to remember it pronounced Julio BECK-er
nope, it's correct: Becquer is "beck-AIR"
Mike "No" Morin
Well, so much for this one. Wasted too many chances, and eventually it caught up to us.
Since about the middle of June it's felt like something is a little off with the Twins, like they're just not quite right. Maybe they were just playing over their heads before and are coming down to earth, I don't know. But I sure hope the all-star break does them some good and they get back to being the team they were earlier.
I sure put a jinx on Polanco by picking him. I think I just won't pick anyone the rest of the season.
The CVS ad makes me wish there was one around here, so I could deliberately not patronize it.
Well, that sucked. On to Seattle.
You going to Seattle?