Article: Game Thread: Twins@Royals 6/30@7:10PM

[Aggies7]

25 pitch first inning and our leadoff man swings at the first one he sees.

 

Now 2 more pitches for the second out

[yarnivek1972]

6 pitches.

[yarnivek1972]

One would think that Castro, of all people, should know better than that.

[70charger]

"Gordon goes into a slide (probably didn't need to)"

 

Dick getting a little passive aggressive out there.

 

[70charger]

 

25 pitch first inning and our leadoff man swings at the first one he sees.

Now 2 more pitches for the second out

 

Well but on that pace, we'll be doing great by the eighth or ninth inning.

[Jerr]

 

25 pitch first inning and our leadoff man swings at the first one he sees.

Now 2 more pitches for the second out

[Aggies7]

Making it easy on vargas

[70charger]

 

Well but on that pace, we'll be doing great by the eighth or ninth inning.

 

And Santana with half the pitches that inning. Again, we'll be doing great by the eighth or ninth inning.

 

 

Wait, these things are perfectly linear, right?

[70charger]

Aw man, that was Dozier's best shot at an oppo homer this series this year ever.

[yarnivek1972]

Poor camera work. That is usually an easy call and I never even saw the ball on the replay.

[nicksaviking]

Camera work at Kaufman is sometimes like watching an old VHS. Really, there was no better angle or zoom function to check the Dozier foul ball?

 

At least they fixed the outfield camera that would get drenched by the waterfall every time there was a gust of wind.

[Deduno Abides]

Escobar and Kintzler are good, under-appreciated players, but when they are your clean-up hitter and closer (and Gibson and Santiago are two of your three veteran starters), you really need to do more than trade prospects for a starter.

[70charger]

 

Escobar and Kintzler are good, under-appreciated players, but when they are your clean-up hitter and closer (and Gibson and Santiago are two of your three veteran starters), you really need to do more than trade prospects for a starter.

 

Put a severed horse head in a team owner's bed?

[Jerr]

Circus Boy update:

 

Twins 1

KC      0

[spinowner]

 

I tried to find a Chinese restaurant in Ames one evening. It was not easy. Ames is a huge city!

House of Chen on East Lincoln Way.

[Deduno Abides]

Put a severed horse head in a team owner's bed?

[spinowner]

 

I tried to find a Chinese restaurant in Ames one evening. It was not easy. Ames is a huge city!

You're doing it wrong. Look for barbecue and go to Hickory Park on Duff, just north of US30.

[Aggies7]

UGH

[Aggies7]

We're toast.

[yarnivek1972]

Well, that turned ugly quickly.

[70charger]

What an absolutely awful run of luck there.

[Aggies7]

What an absolutely awful run of luck there.

You can call it luck, or you can call it a continued failure to make crucial plays in increasingly important games. Polanco last night, Ervin here. We aren't a good enough team to do that.

Edited July 1, 2017 by Aggies7

[spinowner]

Oh, FFS.

[spinowner]

Yep, this is on Ervin, part fielding and part pitching.

[Aggies7]

[yarnivek1972]

The Twins might have to get the pen up here.

[Aggies7]

The defense has been the biggest turnaround this season. Makes up for the weak pitching and relatively weak offense. We are seeing what happens when we don't get solid defense.

[Aggies7]

The Twins might have to get the pen up here.

With a DH tomorrow? No f-ing way. Erv made this mess. 63 pitches. Get out of it buckaroo

[yarnivek1972]

With a DH tomorrow? No f-ing way. Erv made this mess. 63 pitches. Get out of it buckaroo

He's not getting outs. I would have to imagine there is stirring already.

[wsnydes]

With a DH tomorrow? No f-ing way. Erv made this mess. 63 pitches. Get out of it buckaroo

Yup. He's the ace. He's got to eat some innings here.