72 thoughts on “2021 Game 23: Minnesota AAA Twins at Cleveland Baseball Team”

1. It's time for some positivity! THE MINNESOTA TWINS ARE GOING TO WIN THIS BASE BALL GAME!!!!!!!

   1. See, I told you so!

2. Twins on pace to win infinity to zero.

   1. Donaldson doing his part to continue the trend.

      1. And Polanco.

         1. All of these outcomes are true!

3. Game on YouTube.

4. nice to score more than two

5. Who are these guys?

   1. Not that correlation always relates to causation, but the last time I watched the Twins regularly was before FSN cut off Sling TV midseason 2019. This is the first game I've watched this year.

      Logical conclusion to Twins: make games more accessible!

6. Twins had three home runs total against LHP entering today. They were flailing with a .210/.310/.338 slash line.

7. Eventually Garver is going to guess right.

   1. Well, you are correct.

   2. Indeed

   3. At least Garver runs into one once in a while. Jeffers has been completely lost. I'd sure like to see Astudillo get some chances to catch, especially when Sano returns and Astudillo won't be needed at first base much.

8. All of this optimism just makes it burn more when they lose.

   1. 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

9. 2Bux was sliding into second while Rosario was throwing the ball back in. Amazing.

   1. What, it's not that hard to get a double out of *checks* a grounder up the middle.

10. I get very entitled very quickly, I guess. I feel like Cruz deserved a grand slam there.

    1. so close! But I'll take it, anyway

    2. I wanted to see the velo on that want.

       1. According to Gameday, Cruz's single off the wall was hit at 106 mph.

11. I had to run an errand at lunch so I thought I'd turn the game on the radio in the car. Tuned to my 5 state superstation in Yankton, SD and got the midday farm market report instead. The market report takes precedence over baseball and the game will be joined in progress after the market report is done.

12. Bomba flashback

13. 

14. This is raising the difficulty level of the inevitable bullpen collapse.

15. Shoreview native, Sam Hentges, in for Cleveland.

16. The commentary is pretty bad.

    1. It would be fun if I was a neutral

       1. i have video on one device and radio on another. in a happy accident, they synced up perfectly without adjustment.

          1. You're lucky because one of them just dropped a "played the game the right way".

             1. It might have been JI

                JIM THOME that dropped that. I suppose I could give him the benefit of the doubt.

                1. oh, it was

    2. yeah, half the time they're stepping on each other

       1. Are they announcing from different locations? It sounds like a Zoom meeting where no one knows when to talk because there's no body language cues.

          1. that could certainly be the case; it's been awkward at times

             1. They showed them at one point and it looked pretty clearly like they were separate. Also, Jim says "You know" too much and, somehow, Dick makes Hawkins better.

17. Garv Sauce!

18. good lord, garver.

19. Garver guessed right.

20. I'd want a ten run lead to make this game bullpenproof.

    1. Nice call

21. lol wow this is awful

    E1 🚨 🚨 🚨

    Most bizarre “error” of the year pic.twitter.com/oFB81HNMkl

    — MLB Errors (@mlberrors) April 28, 2021

    1. MLB really needs some system of disciplining umpires. I know, they have to deal with the union, but stuff like that shouldn't happen.

    2. My Brewer's fan friend said its been pretty brutal overall today.

    3. I don't understand. What was the final call?

       1. I guess the ruling was the pitcher interfered with the baserunner's path, but if anything the reverse of that was true.

          1. Yes. You can see the ump pointing to where the pitcher and the runner came close to each other. But the runner was clearly not in the runner's lane, plus he's allowed to be in the baseline to field a batted ball, so there's no way you can call that interference on the pitcher.

             1. yeah, he had the ball!

                1. On a positive note, it lead to this:

                   Ump makes an incredibly unnecessary call, a breakdown pic.twitter.com/Aojtehgovs

                   — Jomboy (@Jomboy_) April 28, 2021

22. Time for Buxton to get his first triple of the year.

    1. He's working his way over there at least.

23. whoa -- TWO split the wickets

24. The double Buckner

25. Garv sauce'll be hitting the roulette wheel tonight

26. Lol at that Rosario chart.

27. How long before Rocco pulls Happ for Colomé?*

    *accidentally or not

    1. Fortunately, if that's the word I want, Colome threw enough pitches yesterday that Rocco won't be tempted to use him today.

28. 2Bux

29. 5 hit day aint to shabby

    1. 10 total bases plus a steal

    2. Game's not over yet

    3. Remember a few years ago, when some people were seriously trying to argue that the Twins should get rid of Buxton and play Jake Cave in center field?

30. Good gravy Buxton. Shame it wasn't to the opposite field.

31. This Buxton kid looks like he might be pretty good.

32. I was looking at his BBRef page earlier today and there's almost no black because Trout.

    1. Buxton would be leading in slugging if he had enough ABs to qualify.

33. I'm more nervous about how this game could end than I should be.

34. Dobnak is finally looking more Dobnaky today -- I hope he's over whatever he had going on before.

    1. He's done pretty well all year in his first two innings. The problem comes when the Twins try to use him longer than that. He might be a guy who just gets you through one time around the batting order.

       1. He looked very good going longer in spring training. I wonder if he's either optimum as a short reliever or a starter -- long relief might not be a fit for him, at least for now.

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