41 thoughts on “2019 Game 133: Minnesota at Chicago White Sox”

1. This is here.

2. I would have preferred five straight homers, but five straight singles is also acceptable

   2. What’s this singles bullshit? pic.twitter.com/PSOyRXfBgt

      — DEC (@freealonzo) August 29, 2019

      [ed: fixed to make it load]

3. Maybe I should have waited to hit ‘Publish’ ... about the only worse outcome from Cave woulda been a triple play. 🤬

4. no hitter alert

5. no-xbh alert

6. 

7. Twins working on the "O" part of OPS today instead.

   1. and now working the other side of the equation

8. If you had Jake Cave as your prediction, your name is Jeff or you cheated.

   1. I aalllllmost picked Cave today. D'oh.

   2. I get accused of cheating a lot for not being near first place

   3. Not me. I went with JC, but it was Jason Castro.

9. Wind-aided Caveman.

10. Wind-aided Crony

11. Twins set major league record for road home runs.

    1. It's a short Bomba list now.

       1. let's get it over with today

          1. Break multiple records then.

12. I like this version of Berríos so far. Assuming the score remains 8-0, I'd be fine pulling him after five or six even if not close to 100 pitches. Save some pitches for the postseason and let a mop-up guy get the save.

    1. and get him a moral victory

    2. I jinxed it.

13. not a bad pitch, but he hit it

14. (Jeff's not seeing all these, is he?)

15. Well, he has a nice FIP at least.

    1. Still a quality start.

       1. That's a 4.50 ERA to go with a 1.50 WHIP and four passed balls. Not something I want the #1/2 starter to be at regularly.

16. Cave dweller

    1. okay, I cheated

       1. it's for a good cause

17. Nice to see the Twins beating the bottom-dwellers again after that frustrating week, particularly since the Clevelands did so as well.

    1. technically they're not bottom-dwellers, but yeah

       I kind of want the Indians to do well; it makes the Central Twins' empire look better

18. Alright, Twins back to 11 ahead of the Yankees and still 2 games in hand. Hopefully the A's can shut them down this weekend

19. Somebody better tell Polanco we play nine innings around here.

20. Polanco doing his best to shut down any of this "three inning save" talk.

21. Saw on Twitter (Brandon Warne) that the Twins are 32-6 on the road when they hit 2+ HR in a game.

    Which is kind of one of those overly detailed stats, but also a .842 win% is something.

    (They are 54-20 overall in games with 2+ HR)

    1. And I saw this on Twitter and think it might be really important.

       This is nuts. pic.twitter.com/tWzeA07d80

       — Bryce Marlin (@BryceMarlin) August 29, 2019

       1. Hall of Fame season then?

22. More home run over analysis:

    Yankees out homered the Twins by 1 during this past series despite facing a much worse pitching staff.

    Twins have 29 games left and 16 on the road where they hit a lot more homers than they do at home.

    Yankees have 27 games left and 15 on the road. Surprisingly, they also hit more homers on the road though the split isn't as large.

23. Twins clinch a winning record.

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