So, I fell asleep on the couch during the top of the ninth.
What'd I miss?
Category Archives: 2013 Twins Game Recaps
Game 51 Recap: From the Livejournal of Cole DeVries
May 31, 2013
Mood: Hungry XD
Music: Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky
Well here I am in Rochester working out my game so that I am ready to rejoin the Minneosta Twins! My rehab is going really well, I feel great and I am throwing the ball good and Coach Glynn says that it's only a matter of time before I get the Big Call and get the Twins back on track to the playoffs! I pitch tonight and I'm so pumped, I think I'm gonna have a good outing.
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Game 48 Recap: Twins 6, Brewers of Yellow Beer-Like Substance 3
I went to this game. Some observations:
1) Don't pitch to Carlos Gomez. I doubt these numbers will last but he is in beast mode right now.
2) There was only one person in Miller Park that thought Mauer didn't hit a home run.
3) According to the attendance, that was over 38,000 people.
4) Beyond four players at the top of the order, the Brewers are a very, very bad team.
5) That is when Braun is starting. Yuniesky Betancourt was batting cleanup today.
6) Any team that bats Yuniesky Betancourt cleanup is a very, very bad team.
Take Away Notion:
7) It's time for the Twins to crawl out of the basement by winning games against teams like the Brewers.
Game 46 Recap
And so, the Twins pushed their losing streak to...
Wait.
They won?
Would you look at that...
2013 Game 41 Recap: Minnesota Twins 1, Anachronistic Racist Chanters 5
Winning Streak: -6
Days Since Joe Mauer was booed for the Twins' sins: probably 1
Days Until the Universe folds in on itself: days will no longer be relevent since the Earth will be long destroyed
Days Until this losing streak is over: 1 day after that
It's been a long week since the Twins started losing last Tuesday. It's hard to remember since the pups came out and the fireworks were lit. But some day the sun will shine again. The ass-bats will explode into splinters and the gopher balls will dip and dive and swerve around opposing bats.
Until then though keep your head down. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Game 40: The Beast(s) 5, Play(ed) Baseball Like [a] Girl(s) 1
Joe Mauer did not continue his hit streak and struck out 3 times, the last one coming in the 8th with the bases full of Twins.
Petunia homered with a little help from Consensual Pork...I'm not in the mood to look, but hasn't this happened to Josh before?
Our boys are now on a five-game skid with a record of 18-22, good for last in the AL Central, though still only 6 games behind first place Cleveland.
Next up, the Twins head to Atlanta for some interleague play. Lucky for them, the front office brought in some NL pitchers during the offseason for just such an occasion. Hey, at least the #9 hitter sporting a .119 average isn't named Butters!
2013 Game 35 Recap: The Aaron Hicks Show 10, Sucky Sucky South Siders 3
Days since Joe Mauer's 30th Birthday: 24
Days since Aaron Hicks got his man bat out: 0
Days since Gladden called a coherent inning: imaginary number
I was in the car for the first 2 hours of this game, so the time in between Hicks' amazing catch and his second homer was spent walking from the car to the house. Listening to Gladden call a game is a lesson of keeping things remembered in your head plus having a healthy active imagination, but from what I gathered the Twins destroyed the Sox and then almost let it get away before a one man beatdown by the name of Hicks.
The innings I saw on TV were a lot more fun. Let's continue this.
Game 34: Twins 0, Orioles 6
As noted by AMR, it's been a pretty good week for birds. Diamond looked anything but sharp allowing 6 earned runs on 9 hits in 5 2/3 innings for the Loss. Wei-Yin Chen was workman-like allowing no more than one hit in each of his 5 innings. He left after feeling some pain in his side...no matter, the O's bullpen was solid the rest of the way.
The Twins had the leadoff man on first 4 out of the first 5 innings but couldn't move them. On the day, they were 0-9 with runners in scoring position and collectively struck out 8 times while only taking one walk. It was only their second shutout of the season.
Surprise: Joe Mauer was 2-3 with a walk, hit another double, his tenth in the past 8 contests, and extended his hitting streak to 11 games.
In other news: Tiger won The Players Championship at Sawgrass, closing the day with 2 pars to finish -13. It is his fourth win this year. With 78 career PGA wins, he is now four short of Sam Snead's record.
Game 28 Recap: Twins 5, Red Sox 6
Number of games under .500: 2
Number of days since Joe Mauer's 30th birthday: 17
Number of guys who didn't know not to run on him this game: 2
Number of days since the Twins won the World Series: 7862
Games like this require that you look at the positives. The Twins lost the lead and then got it back again, punished the Red Sox by making them play a couple more innings. Snappleback pitched some scoreless innings. The Twins had arguably the worst outfield defense in the history of baseball, and it held the tie for a full inning.
Eat it Red Sox, the moral victory belongs with the Twins! It won't show up in the stats, but cybermetrics is a Boston thing anyways.
Game 27: Twins 4, Indians 2 (& the WILD WIN A PLAYOFF GAME!)
Pelfrey strikes out 7 in 6 innings while allowing only 4 hits and 1 run. One of his better outings.
Plouffe! with his 4th homer on the season, a 2-run shot in the 2nd.
M&M Boys with the other 2 RBI.
Perk 'n Play with his 7th save (though he did allow a couple of hits and a run on a solo HR by Santana.
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