Hey, look at that, another free MLB.tv game! And our old friend Plouffe! will be in the booth the whole road trip.
The Twins walk into Dodger Stadium while the home team maintains a nine game win streak in their arena. On top of this, the Twins have lost ten(!) games in a row against the Dodgers.
Syndergaard is not at his best this season and López is at nearly half his ERA. While the Dodgers have decent pitching overall, let's hope the Twins can get to Noah early.
The Assbats® seem to have taken the weekend off, and hopefully they didn't make the trip out to LA.
oh really whoa i should get up to the booth
Dont get stuck in LA traffic!
Q: How do you spot a true Dodgers fan?
A: They’re the ones who don’t start leaving until after the 5th.
They won't be booing Carlos -- they're saying "Ploooooouffe"
Per FanGraphs, the Twins have the best starting pitching in MLB. I like their chances in this series.
My bad. I'll see myself out and catch up in the morning.
not an ideal start
Tough start, but not nearly enough yet to challenge our double digit final score
I assume these early timeouts are attempts to mess up Syndergaard’s timing?
not a shutout!
cheese louise
Maxed out again.
Syndergard isn't exactly blowing anyone away. What's he topping out at? 93? 94?
Carlos, if you want to ruin those boo birds’ night, you know what to do.
Two-out rally cap time. Correa with the bases juiced.
TWINS BASEBALL!!!!!!!!
woof.
Indeed. That -0.68 WPA won’t raise itself.
they TWINS BASEBALL!!!ed a run out of it at least.
I am looking forward to seeing a competitive 8th & 9th in the box score tomorrow morning.
Night all.
What, not gonna stay up for midrats?!
No-out Rally Cap Time!
Larnach!
yeehaw!
LarKnocked!
Royce Lewis cannot get back fast enough.
Organist just played a little "Funkytown" riff on that first grounder Muncy fielded this inning. "Muncytown"?
I’ve noticed he’s played it a few times tonight, but haven’t connected the dots yet.
Vasquez is officially having a good night. Three straight hits.
How many times do you see a guy tie a game in the top of the eighth by launching a homer and then rob a guy of an extremely long foul ball in the bottom half?
yeehaw!!
Tie game!
Bux!
cycle watch!
Larnach for more heroics?
Duran, then Manfred Time.
Find the plate, dude.
Better.
Painting with 99.
Dick is begging for a buntgasm.
And he gets one!
Need a crooked number.
TWINS FREAKING BASEBALL!!
Bickford channeling his inner Wild Thing.
TWINS BASEBALL!!!
Watching while working all night. Some game, eh?
Really wish Joey were up here instead. But....
Eff Cuzzi.
Fucking Cuzzi.
Egregious strike call, goodness, that was bad.
Would like to see Cuzzi's scorecard for tonight. He's been
erraticCuzzi.The devil you know still sucks to deal with.
And the pitcher was missing his spots all inning. Cuzzi straight-up robbed Kirilloff.
Just absurd. The catcher even had to stab at the third strike, not like it was close and exquisitely framed or anything.
Cuzzi could blow a call on a number programmed on speed dial.
He misses so bad he's got chronic Peyronie's.
I laughed.
Now what? Lopez?
Ooh. A second inning of Duran!
Only 9 pitches in the 9th.
Well, crap.
Nothing like getting beat with your third best pitch.
Yup.
Wow. Two pickoffs tonight for Twins' pitchers.
That was a GTFOOTW strike swing.
Ack!
Crap. I think we're out of bullets.
boys are tuckered out.
That was a strike on 0-2.
Not quite dead yet.
Looking like Lopez might go 2 innings as well. The bullpen is gonna be gassed for tomorrow.
Bad. Bad bad bad.
And that's the downside of bunting. Not actually bunting.
Bickford seems like he's found himself.
I spoke too soon.
He got some boost up, maybe.
Make Cuzzi pay, AK.
Crap.
Crap.
If Trayce Thompson walks this off....
Where’s the give-back strike three, Phil?
For stupid.
I hate an uncontested finish like that. Throw a strike and take your chances.
Especially with Trayce F. Thompson at the plate.