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2012 Twins Game Recaps

Game 87: Twins vs. A’s: The Video Game!

Yes, now you can relive the excitement of yesterday's Twins/A's game anytime you like. Just copy the following code and enter it into a QBasic shell, then run it. Exciting text baseball action!

10 PRINT "Welcome to today's game pitting the visiting A's against the Twins.
20 PRINT "It's a scorcher out here - hot as hell, really. I don't know how these guys are going to do it."
30 PRINT "Cole De Vries takes the mound, looks in for the sign, and here's the pitch."
40 PRINT "It's a thigh high fastball out over the plate, and the batter crushes it for a home run."
50 LET X=X+1
60 PRINT "The score is now" X$ "to nothing"
70 GOTO 30

You've got all that you need for a riveting game of baseball. Go to it.

2012 Twins Game Log

Game 87: Twins and A’s

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Coles De Vries takes the ball for the Twins tonight. I could have absolutely sworn when he was sent back to Rochester the first time that we'd seen the last of him. However, as it turns out, he's been pretty persistent, and here he is making his sixth start. He's rapidly becoming a semi-fixture in the rotation, and the fact that he's the second pitcher starting off the post-All Star break seems to imply that he might be here a while.

Is that a good thing? I suppose if we had an ideal major league roster, a 5.17 FIP (4.37 xFIP) wouldn't get my heart all aflutter, but looking over some of the rest of the rotation - Duensing (who I wish would just get left alone in the bullpen), Hendriks (is he still with us? It's always so hard to tell), Blackburn (I know he's not in the majors, but you know it won't be long...) - it's hard to say that he's the first person I'd drop.

The A's are sending out Tommy Milone, who's gotten decent results in his rookie season, but seems to be pretty heavily built up by a super low walk rate. If the Twins can hit some line drives, he'll be toast, and De Vries can pick up his third win. Not bad for someone I figured would be kicking it in Rochester for the remainder of his career.

2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game 86: Oakland Athletics at Minnesota Twins (Cities)

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A.J. Griffen
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Francisco Liriano

Griffen makes his fourth career start tonight. He's pitched 18 innings and has a 2.00 ERA, but no win thanks to the A's offense.

The Twins have company at the bottom of the AL: the Mariners. They're tied at 36 wins but the Mariners are ahead in losses: 51-49. Along with the Royals, they are the only teams with fewer than 40 wins. With some good play against the A's and O's, the Twins could move into 23rd place! They're already ahead of four NL teams: Astros, Cubs, Rockies, and Padres with the Phillies narrowly ahead of the Twins.

2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game 85: Twins at Rangers

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For some reason, the Twins merit one of the two late games tonight, so here's hoping we can enjoy three innings of Twins baseball before we all inevitably switch over to the much more important and intriguing Yankees-Red Sox game. Cole DeVries, who has a last name that is pronounced annoyingly, faces Roy Oswalt, who also has a last name that's pronounced annoyingly. And the similarities don't stop there! Actually, they probably do.

It hasn't been much of a first half, but I'll agree with other Citizens of late...it isn't like last year, where the team looked directionless and pathetic in the second half, and it hasn't become a chore to watch my favorite team play my favorite sport. Though they're behind last year's pace by a game or two, this team isn't likely to once again put up a historically awful final couple of months leading into a 99-loss campaign.

Thanks for another enjoyable half-season of game logs, Citizens, and SBG: as always, thanks for making this community possible. Bring this one home, gents. I have a night shift that will rob me of my rightful Sunday ballgame.

Go Twins.

2012 Twins Game Log

Game 84: Twins @ Rangers

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Let's all welcome Sam Deduno back to the big leagues. Even if this if probably one of only one or two starts he'll ever make for the team, I'm interested. For the most part, this is because he's not at all a typical Minnesota Twins starter. Through his minor league career, he's struck out lots of batters, walked lots of them, and not given up many home runs. I'm not expecting much, it'll just be interesting to see how another anti-contact pitcher works out.

Deduno's opponent will be Derek Holland. He's making his first start in a month or so. It's going to be sort of boring to look up much info on him, so just imagine a guy who strikes some people out, walks some folk, and gives up some home runs. There. Now you're either picturing Derek Holland, or pretty much any other major-league capable pitcher.

Hopefully Deduno's first major league start is a solid one, and the 'Sam Deduno' tag that I'm debuting today gets to be used for a while longer.

2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game 83: Minnesota Twins at Texas Rangers

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Liriano
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Perez

I was thinking about the general good vibes about this season's team. In April they were awful, managing a meager six wins. May was a big improvement, with the Twins tripling their win total. June was helped by Interleague and the Twins finished 13-12 for the month. Comparing through 82 games last year, the Twins are actually a game behind: 35-47 versus 36-46 from 2011. Last year, however, had The Suck(tm) of August and September: 7-21 and 6-20 for the final two months. With the team healthier this year, they might be able to avoid the free-fall and have a chance to lose fewer than 90 games.

2012 Twins Game Recaps

Game 82: Twins 3, Tigers 7

These games are bound to happen. The Twins relief corps have been pretty effective this year. Not so much today. After 7 mostly sharp innings by Diamond, Gardy gave the ball to Burnett who gave up the tying run. Robertson then hung a 1-0 slider which Fielder smashed out for a three run homer.

The Twins had 15 hits in the game. They also had three men thrown out at home.