I knew the Twins had stumbled out of the All Star break but I was shocked when I looked at the standings today. 15 games under .500, 3.5 games behind the Tigers! I think I've blocked out how bad it's gotten.
Maeda on the mound for the Twins, let's hope he's well rested after scoring the winning last night. Someone called Tyler Alexander for the Tigers and he looks about as mediocre as a Tigers starter would be as expected to be.
It's stinky hot and muggy tonight so not very pleasant at the ballpark if out in the sun. Let's play ball!
Twins Line-up
2B - Polanco
LF - Rooker
3B - Donaldson
C - Garver
RF - Kepler
DH - Sano
1B - Astudillo
CF - Celestino
SS - Simmons
Entering the game, it was frustrating to have an usher enforcing an incorrect interpretation of the line rule (small coach purses are allowed in the no bag line, the sign says exactly that!). It was even more frustrating that the misguided usher was Bob Collins!
Hit the shower after the first ½ inning, got back after the bottom of the first - I'm taking a little credit for this
Running the bases last night Maeda been the right thing.
Rooker 3-for-3 so far, slowly dragging that BA up to almost .200
Rhu_Ru was a day early on Robles.
Heh
Ransel Hopeless
Robles is a "closer" in that if you have a healthy lead, he'll make the score a lot closer. I'm going to pronounce it like that from now on
Good night everyone. I don't care.
I'm sitting in corner, and Max is quite disgusted with Robles
I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie before.
Garver hit by pitch on the hand and he has to come out of the game.
Expletive
I like how they happened at opposite ends of the game: the first and ninth.