This series marks the beginning of a very important stretch of games for the Twins. We're two games into a ten game stretch of games against our central division rivals where the only opponent with a winning record is....well, nobody. It's the Royals and the Clevelanders and the utterly terrible White Sox. Then things toughen up against the Padres and the surprisingly beatable Dodgers.
All the time, this is our time. 7 wins in these 10 games won't be enough. These are three of the four worst offense in baseball (the other, of course, is the Tigers). Allowing so much as a runner in scoring position against these teams is nearly unforgivable.
You hear that, Over? I want a perfect game today. A. PERFECT. GAME. Get it done.
TWINS BASEBALL!!
A 3’ bunt double yesterday, a 328’ single/TOOTBLAN today.
The baseball gods giveth, the baseball gods taketh away.
I was expecting Buxton to take the field earlier than May. Now I wonder if it'll happen at all in the first half of the season.
There seems to be a bit more to the story of his DH-only stint than has been reported.
Obviously the specifics of their health situations are different, but Buxton gives me Eric Davis vibes.
YDNRORJ!
Let's go Carlos
Man, Correa is really hard to watch in these situations right now.
And "these situations" are any time he's at the plate.
BUXTON!
atta Bux
Uh, say what?
There we go!
The difference between Morneau or Hawkins in the booth compared to Smalley is sooooo vast. Its kind of amazing how much harder this booth is to listen to.
Yeah, I'm a bit surprised they keep bringing him back. It's such a slog when he's in the booth.
He lets Dick ramble and that's bad.
yeesh.
this was supposed to be in reference to the wild pitch, but sure.
I don't see how it could be worse than having to listen to Rex Hudler on the KC broadcast.
I am going to take your word for that and not do any research on it whatsoever.
Smart move. Inane MLB blackout rules won't allow me to use my mlbtv for games against the royals. Evidently Nebraska is in the greater KC metro area.
There's definitely a reason why I consider MLB tv's "stadium sounds only" to be the greatest advancement in sports broadcasting history.
Why are Twins pitchers allowed to pitch to Salvy Perez?
Throw strikes for cyring out loud, its the freekin Royals!
The Royals have matched the Twins season total in stolen bases, today.
unnnnnnnnggggggghhhhhhhhh
The inability to throw a strike is not helping here.
well, also, the inability of the ump to call a strike.
Maybe having a guy throw after he commutes to Ft. Myers & back in 24 hours is a bad idea.
IBB Pasquantino makes me ill
SEND HIM!!
No, do not!
I use the tools I'm given.
TWINS FRACKING BASEBALL!!
Uffda.
Good grief. Defeat from the jaws of victory.
sadness
Just looking at the box score (I missed the game), the Twins had sixteen baserunners (ten hits, five walks, one hit batsman), and scored just two runs. One of them was on a home run, so you could say they had fifteen baserunners and scored one run. That's not easy to do.
And the other on a wild pitch.
And while the pitching wasn't extraordinary, they did lower the team ERA