2019 Twins Game Logs

Game 103: Duplicates at Bleached Footwear

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Apparently battling the White Sox is easier than battling the Yankees or A's, or... any good team, really. Apparently pitching Jose Berrios helps too.

Tonight Big Mike gets to keep the train rolling, and, more to the point, hopefully the batters do their part against Dylan Cease in his 4th big league start. So far he's faced the Tigers, Royals, and Tampa, none of whom are quite known for their offense in the same way, so... this should be a good test for the kid. Of course, these new guys often present their own kind of challenge, so hopefully the Twins can solve him early and thoroughly.

A few more HRs would be nice too. We haven't passed a previous year's HR total in almost 24 hours.

Also, I adore that the White Sox have a downward facing arrow in their signage. Someone really wasn't thinking there, were they?

53 thoughts on “Game 103: Duplicates at Bleached Footwear”

  1. So, is Keys Cafe really all that, are do they just have a big advertising budget?

  7. Uh-oh. Bases loaded. Let's run wild on the bases or something to get out of this.

          1. Second time this week the Twins made an out to score a run with the bases loaded and then the next guy hit a home run. If you believe this is all random, then you're mad that a runner was removed before a possible grand slam. If you believe the Twins just can't hit with the bases loaded while being the best in baseball in pretty much every other situation, then you are positive that the home run never would have happened with the bases still loaded.

  14. MLB notified me the Twins are the fastest the reach 200 home runs, surpassing the 2005 Rangers, who took 122 games. That's a lot faster.

  15. Why use a challenge on a play at first when you can just get the guy out on a double play?

  16. I want to give a shout out to kia engineers for making it absurdly easy to swap the battery.

        1. A realist would say that the odds of the designers giving a crap about the convenience of the owner doing his/her own maintenance is ... low. So that this was just serendipity.

      2. On the contrary, this is far and away the most reliable car I've ever owned. We've had it for about 4 years now, so that's pretty consistent with the crappier batteries the manufacturers like to put in.

    1. Well, all 3 major metrics have the Twins Top 5 still in the AL in defense. Too many errors but make up for it with plays other teams don't make. And if Buxton stays healthy the rest of the year, it should only improve.

      1. I assume that's a season-long stat. I don't think they'd be in the top five in defense for the last month or so. Buxton staying healthy would help, but his absence didn't make infielders boot easy grounders or throw the ball away.

        1. He also likely has nothing to do with the 1,000,000* passed balls and wild pitches in July

          *approximately

          1. Are you kidding? Not having him in CF totally changes pitchers' release points.

            The count seems approximately correct.

    1. He needs to be leading off. Hard to argue with how good the Twins offense has been and well Kepler has played at the top of the lineup, but it makes too much sense for Arraez to lead off to not consider it. If you just bump everyone down, the lineup could be:

      Arraez
      Polanco/Garver
      Kepler
      Cruz/Garver
      Rosario
      Garver/Sano/Cron
      Gonzalez/Castro
      Sano/Schoop/Cron/Castro
      Buxton

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