126 thoughts on “Game 1: twins @ brewers”

1. This exists.

   Arraez got a hit stolen, Donaldson already came up limping. Good times.

2. Raise your hand if you were shocked Donaldson winced running the bases

3. Zoom call is open; three of us currently.

   1. pretending to work, here at the office.

4. Thanks, Bally. What the Twins TV broadcast didn’t need was a CNBC-style ticker for its score bug. Why do we need to see out-of-market, non-MLB game info? Who is betting on sportsbooks and doesn’t have a smartphone?

   1. My loathing for Sinclair Broadcasting knows no end.

5. Who had 1 inning in the "how long before Donaldson gets hurt" pool.

6. After 2 batters, Maeda on pace for 600 k's this year.

   1. It will only take 300 innings.

7. Donaldson’s calf. 🙁

   

   1. At least its his hamstring?

      1. 

         1. now that's a pulled hammy I can get behind!

         2. I'll take pulled over shredded?

8. TWINS BASEBALL!!

9. TWINS BASEBALL!!

   Good sequence all around from Cave.

10. TWINS BASEBALL!!

11. The Dazzleman Special!

12. They're making Woodruff work for it, anyway. Getting the pitch count elevated early.

13. First TWINS BASEBALL!! of the season!

    1. Love it. First run is a TWINS BASEBALL!!!! run.

       1. I would like the second and third to be Bomba runs

          1. That's ok too

14. All right cooking up some 2 out ribeye

15. Didn't know runs were allowed without homers

    1. Neo-pirhanas

       1. I was going to say, that inning was some prime piranhaball.

          1. It was just missing a bunt.

       2. Neo-rhana?
          Smells like team spirit?

16. Need an out here, King Kenta.

17. I am happy the network that shall not be named is still on my cable package at the joint. Can't watch at home anymore, so I guess I will be working more game days. Speaking of game days, the wife and I are considering going to next Sunday's game against Seattle at Target Field. Anyone else going?

18. This half inning is not as much fun.

19. My phone has an FM tuner, and it picks up 106.9 out of Dassel pretty well, so I've got it AUX'd into the record player and got the game going that way.

    1. I'm at work with my old early 90s Sony Walkmen cassette player.

       1. Working from home rules. I'm watching on my 65" QLED.

          1. If I was at home, it would just be a slightly better radio.

             1. At least you wouldn't have to look at the awful Bally Sports graphics.

          2. Ah, "QLED." A pretend thing that Samsung convinced people is some sort of official technology.

    2. no MLB At Bat radio?

       1. Free is free

          1. Yes I am.

20. More piranhaball! This one even had the bunt!

21. It's been a few seasons since the Twins had a shortstop wearing #9 who can't keep his helmet on his head

    1. I thought Punto was #8

       1. Eduardo Nuñez

          1. Yeah, I've been so out of the loop these last couple years.

22. Kenta is not going to pitch a complete game.

    1. I imagine the only thing he'll complete is the fourth inning.

23. Six in the Zoom chat; no punches thrown

    1. Let me know when you have a zooom chat.

       1. heh heh

       2. Still at five right now.

24. 2 out triples are sexy

25. Kepler would like to remind you all that spring training stats are meaningless.

26. Dammit, Dick referenced the Pirhanas. Its not funny anymore.

27. I am digging the Brewer's patch with the wheat as the seams.

28. Kyle Gibson was spotted a five-run lead in the top of the first, but he has managed to give back 4 runs (including 3 walks) before being yanked after just one out.

29. I feel like there's only one true outcome left for Peralta to achieve this inning.

    1. You'd think

30. Man, first game and I get to start up the Trade Sano train.

    1. I think the Twins already lead that train without success.

       1. Please leave trains out of this thread.

          1. Yeah, let's not get off track here.

             1. Just give me a signal if I go too far.

                1. We'll engineer something.

                   1. I was Reading this Short Line of comments, and I thought, "well, I'll B. & O, that's clever." Then I decided I'd keep it chugging along by Pennslyvaniaing this quick comment.

    2. Yeah, who would want to keep a guy that reaches base twice and makes several nice plays in the field.

31. Adventures in Gameday:

    

    1. Might have something to do with the umpiring.

       Twins' Sano with "Strike 1" called with two outs and runner at second. I wonder why he swung at that fourth pitch? pic.twitter.com/62wsHVpkG7

       — TexasTwinsfan (@TXTwinsfan) April 2, 2021

       1. Anecdotal, of course, but Sano seems to get a lot of bad strike calls against him.

32. Apparently Kepler was just saving all his hits for opening day.

    1. saving all his opposite field hits for opening day

       FTFU

    2. He's a cagey veteran now.

33. HOLY BUCK-ETS!

34. Holy smokes. Buck clobbered that thing.

35. I love the random vocabulary Honest Abe picks up at kindergarten (knowing full well that feeling will quickly change) . When Buxton homered, he let out a "Yeah, baby!"

    1. are they watching Austin Powers clips in kindergarten?

36. Big Bux! No Whammy!

37. I expected Donaldson to miss a bunch of time, but please baseball deities, let Buxton play a full season

38. so, three hits so far for Max. I guess he was just trolling everyone with his spring training slash line.

39. Taylor Rogers BABIP watch: .000

    1. Dazz not respecting Taylor fastball there.

    2. Them's some high leverage sitiations too!

40. slider down and away, strike out. Drink?

41. SEND HIM!!

42. Ugh

43. Oh boy

44. This could have gone better.

45. GOSO!

46. So maybe take the easy out at first when you have a three-run lead

    1. that was just so, so stupid.

47. Welp, trade Colome

48. The official Zoom call has ended, but if anyone wants to cry in their beer with me, I guess we can start another one

49. Oh, right — this dumbass Manfred rule.

    1. I think the extra inning rule could be tightened or changed, but it's better than 18 inning games.

       1. With the way pitchers are deployed now I agree. Hockey is more fun with 3 on 3 and am glad it's not a slog as players wear out.

          I'd also be fine with ties. Or start the runner on 2nd in the 11th

          1. Ties after, say, twelve innings would be my ideal way to handle it, but American sports are allergic to them.

             1. I swear, the “kissing your sister” analogy destroyed the thought of a simple tie to Americans. Dude, JUST KISS YOUR SISTER AND SHUT UP

                1. or, kiss your sister and talk about how awesome it is

                   1. Is your sister Elizabeth Hurley?

                      1. She's old enough to be my teenage mother, but I get your drift

50. Don't particularly like Cave's chances against Hader.

    1. Donaldson's injury really hurt there. Obviously would have been better to have Donaldson hitting. If Cave had started the game, then they could have pinch hit for Cave assuming they still had two players on the bench instead of just one.

51. Just go ahead and swing at literally everything, guys.

52. Okay, going to call it. Sac bunt, sac fly, game over

    1. Season over

53. No bueno.

54. Baseball is dumb

    1. There's always next year.

55. I blame the railroad jokes. They just derailed the momentum.

    1. I blame JeffA and his "we'll just have to settle for 0 - 162" approach to 2021... (I kid, I kid...)

56. Goso

57. How in the h3ll did Max not get an error in the 9th??

    1. It wasn't a routine play. He left his feet to catch the ball. He should have caught it, but I don't know if I would have scored it an error.

       1. I would have, but people tell me I'm a tough scorer. It wasn't a routine play, but I expect major leaguers to do more than make the routine plays.

          1. the definition of "routine" should be conditioned on the level, with more expected of major leaguers.

             1. I'm going to take time again to advocate for eliminating errors altogether. Baseball has a gazillion easily definable and measurable stats and there's this one that is judged by some guy in a booth.

                1. I'm not sure Statcast even uses errors. It's based on distance and time to get to the ball.

          2. I read that that ball only had a 15% catch probability off the bat. Kepler had such a good jump that he made it look easier than it was.

             1. That's one of the things about scoring errors. On the one hand, you can say he did a good job to get there. But on the other hand, he did get there, and then he dropped the ball.

                1. Yes. Based on current scoring rules, should be an error.

             2. This is a great response, as a supplement with Beau's comment.

                Yes, please. Let's see more routine judgment of defense based on empirics. A slower defender would never have been in danger of committing an "error".

                Get rid of "unearned runs" while we are at it.

    2. How in the h3ll did Max not get an error make that catch in the 9th??

58. It's been a long time since I've seen a game reverse like that so quickly. The Brewers were absolutely dead in the water with 1 out and none on in the ninth. Even after the hit batter, the Brewers fans barely stirred. The one that made me the most mad was Colome trying to throw out the lead runner. Unbelievably stupid. No chance for a DP. Throw to first base! The week grounder to Sano would have ended the game. I'm just glad there's 162 of these this year.

    The good news was how good the Twins were for 8 1/3 innings, so hopefully that's the real Twins and they were just getting one really horrible inning out of the way.

    1. It's been a long time since I've seen a game reverse like that so quickly

       And here I felt like this was just the perfect exemplar of a MN sports event...

59. I figured out why that weird ninth inning happened. It was because Buxton walked twice. The Twins are now 1-6 all-time when Buxton walks twice in a game. The last time that happened was 7/4/19. He only walked twice all season in '20.

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