Magic number is still 7.
Montgomery on the hill for Kansas City.
Gibson toes the rubber for Minnesota.
Playing Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit in the final weeks of the season got me thinking. Every team in the American League Central has played in the World Series ... except Minnesota. Every team in the Central has made an appearance in the past 15 years (though the only teams to win it was were Kansas City in 2015 and Chicago in 2005) and in the entire league, only Seattle has seen a longer absence from the ALCS than Minnesota, by 1 year (Milwaukee, who made the NLCS last year, last reached the ALCS in 1982).
Not to put the cart before the horse - gotta win the game, then the division, then (lord willing) the league first - but I’d say Minnesota is due.
*corrected
(though the only team to win it was Chicago in 2005) *
*Royals have one from a few years ago
*corrected. Thanks wattsy - I made a mental note to remember their 2014 loss and forgot to include their 2015 win.
Te only reason I remember the win is because I remember the awful gold numbers on their jersey the following year
Gibby has a tidy inning, yet is extended because of catcher interference. Seems about right.
Garver did him a favor. That was a hanger. I was trying to figure out how that pitch didn't end up in the second deck until Dick called the interference.
4 pitch walk to 507 OPS
YDNROLA!
Get him out of there Rocco
Rocco. FFS
oofta
Rex Hudler going on about how Gibson was smarter to walk Soler rather than surrender a slam. Like those were the only options.
In Soler’s case, I think there’s one other option.
I’m inclined to be very sympathetic to Gibson’s health issue and the additional challenges it creates. That doesn’t mean I enjoy watching him pitch.
I'm sympathetic to Gibson. Not to Rocco for leaving him in there when he had nothing
Very fair.
BOOM
cHRuz
That’s a man who knows his damn job.
Cru-BOOM!
Sa-Boom?
KA-BOOM!
OMG. Prodigious. Homeric.
oh my goodness
I hope Sanó cleared that ball’s flight path with the FAA.
Yankees hit four homers today. Currently up by one.
Gloves dropped.
Don't read how Twitter is treating Gibson. Oof
Don't read
howTwitteris treating Gibson.This.
Yep.
Hmm. I remember from high school to not cause the 3rd out on the base paths.
He just wanted Garver to have a fresh count
Worked out!
A disaster - bases loaded and zero outs. Zoinks, Scoob!
Thorpe got out of that mess somehow.
Sauce!
points!
Garve-tastic!
Probably should not throw a fastball right down the middle to GarvSauce
On second though, keep pumping those meatballs
Yeah and pitch 5 (strike) was way outside.
C’mon Rosie. I could really use the trifecta today.
Full Monty.
Dazzle relating how Montgomery got tossed, where he and his Hnos got soap in their mouth. Har.
Adventures in lip reading.
E-8?
It seems reasonable to expect the ‘pen to hold the Royals to five runs.
I dunno. The 'pen giving up 5 runs seems like a lot.
Lots of back and forth in this game. Hope Thorpe can get through one more without any more back,
Thorpe earned his Budweisers tonight.
Fosters, no?
Fosters yes!
Broomy McBroomerson takes it looking.
BOMBAS
Cruuuuzin!
BOOM BOOM!
Cruzhed!
Nelson Cruz: "Bite me, Yankees"
Yowzer!
We need a Ray Miller inning, Trevor. Work fast, throw strikes.
Smile more, talk less
Nice
Lopez for MVP.
May really needed that.
Provus doing the Gordo on the foul ball. If I only had better Latin skills.
Foedum facere Provus Gordo in pila.
Sed libera nos a Morris.
Quod iustum est.
Why bring Romo in now?
Romo can do the broken wing trick. Fantastiche!
Not that it was a bad thing....
Last night I picked Cruz for two.
Twins have a $12 million option on Cruz for 2020. I’m thinking they exercise that puppy.
Great, the swoops have awoken.
Quiz for the evening: which player has the highest current OPS?
A) Mitch Garver
B) Nelson Cruz
C) Ryan LaMarre
Yeah, me neither!
Tyler Austin still 4th!
.721?
.900 for Minnesota
Not the question!
HJ with 44 points already tonight.
Good correction on a game that went sideways early. So, who pitches tomorrow? Dobnak hasn’t pitched since Sunday, so he’d be my first guess.
They made it sound like a bullpen game again.
Every game is a bullpen game if the guy starting is a rookie, according to Twins announcers.
Or Gibson, at this point.
I gotta wonder if the e coli at spring training didn't contribute to his current GI problems. After all this, he can't be at full strength.
Boaty McBoaterson seals the deal.