So, José Bautista, am I right?
Category Archives: 2012 Twins Game Recaps
Game 32 Recap: Twins 7 – Blue Jays 6
MINNESOTA 7 -- TORONTO 6
Twins Record: 9 - 23 (5th in the Central, 30th in MLB)
Highest WPA - Doumit (1 for 2, 2 BB, 2 RBI), Mastroianni (2 for 4, 3 RBI), Bullpen (4 IP, 1 R, 5 H, 0 BB, 2 SO)
NOTES - Twins hitters drew 9 walks, 5 of those runners scored.
Fangraphs - MLB Recap
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Rain delay pushed this one into a West-Coast game time-slot, and with Blackburn going against the homer-happy Jays lineup, you could be forgiven for turning in early. If you did, you will not be surprised to learn that the Jays hit 4 home-runs (Bautista with 2) that accounted for 5 of their 6 runs. But the Twins, armed with the ability to watch Kyle Drabek and Carlos Villanueva throw lots and lots of pitches (not many for strikes), would put across a bunch of runs without hitting any balls over the fence.
Ryan Doumit, who has been hitting well (last 3 weeks - .275/.350/.549), started things off with a 2-run single in the first to erase the 1-0 deficit resulting from Bautista's first homer. Then a nice mix of walks (Mauer, Doumit, Parmelee) and doubles (Span, Willingham) in the 5th broke the game open for the Twins as Darin Mastrioanni's first big-league hit came with the bases loaded to drive in two and cap the 4-run inning.
Blackburn did everything he could to give all those runs right back, giving up 3 runs without recording an out in the 6th, but got pulled with the score 6-5. Both teams would add a run in the end to get us to the final score, with Capps pitching a scoreless ninth to earn a save.
The HR that Perkins allowed to Encarnacion was only the second time all season that a Twins reliever has allowed a run in a Friday game (3 runs allowed in 16 innings on Friday this season - 1.69 bullpen ERA). If one were only paying close attention to the games that one had to recap on Friday nights, one might conclude the bullpen has been pretty good.
Game 31 Recap: Booooooooooooo
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74GdZs2Ilk4
Final Score: Twins Booooooooooooooo - Blue Jays Boooooooooooooo
New Guy's Special Friends of the Day: Booooooooooooooooo
New Guy's Not-So-Special Friends of the Day: Boooooooooooooooooooo
Game 30 Recap: I can’t take it anymore.
Game 28 Recap: LAAAAAAAAAAA Angels 8, Minnesota Twins 3
Game 27: Minnesota 2, Seattle 5
Blackburn is 0-4.
Ryan Doumit hit 2 home runs. They accounted for the only 2 runs and, with his 4th inning single, he accounted for 60% of the Twins' hits in the game. EDIT - He also walked.
Mountie to the DL.
Dozier & Diamond up from Rochester tomorrow.
Butters on a major league club is beyond ssstupid.
That is all.
I lied, that is not all. I don't like having to work at watching baseball...but I'm almost there and we're only 27 games in.
Game 26 Recap: Twins @ M’s
On the surface, this looks like a tough matchup. On all the other levels, it looks like one, too.
mmhmmm...
On the surface, Marquis giving up two runs in six innings sounds decent enough, but he walked six in his six innings, along with the four hits that he scattered, so without the three double plays, this could've been a lost worse.
Luckily, the Twins got a hit (just one, though) to make sure they didn't get no hit twice in a week.
Golly this team is fun to watch right now.
Game 25 Recap: Twins 3 – Mariners 2
MINNESOTA 3 -- SEATTLE 2
Twins Record: 7 - 18 (2-9 since my last recap, oh boy)
Highest WPA - Mauer (1 for 3, 2 BB, RBI), Bullpen (3 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 5 SO)
Fangraphs - MLB Recap
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Twins win!
Mariners bullpen revealed to be vastly inferior to Minnesota equivalent!
Recap posted much later than expected!
Joe Mauer drove in a key run!
We face King Felix tonight! (focus on the positive)
Game 24 Recap: The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Twins 0, Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 9
WP: J. Weaver (4-0)
LP: Hendricks (0-2)
Fangraphs knew this one was over in the first.
A past ball and a walk were the only things separating Mr. Weaver from a perfect game last night. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Twins Baseball®
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Game 22 Recap: Minnesota Twins 3, LAAAAAAAAAAA Angels 4
half-bakef game notes:
- blackburn had a quality start (you can take that for what it's worth)
- II didn't care
- casilla was strangely effective
- valencia too (though less so)
- morneau left the game injured (wrist)
- burton still isn't a scrub
- close, but not close enough-ish
- i dropped lidge and picked up downs. uhh, score...
UPDATE: aww, nuts.