Game Thread: Twins v Royals, 9/8 @ 4:10pm PT (6:10pm CT)

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

not sure Duffey makes it to 2019

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Hey now, what's this "comedy" stuff suddenly going on...

[VATwinsFan]

Beautiful.     A perfect game through 7.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

good through 7

[LaBombo]

Couple more games like this and Falvine will have to cross "Pummel the Royals" off their list of ways to maintain a fig leaf of competitiveness for this team.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

The question isn’t were they new to me. Were they new to you?

Did he tell it six times? Or only five.

 

 

In all that excitement, we kinda lost track ourselves...

[mrmpls]

Cant listen to Roy Smalley, radio on watching Gophers, Hope the nono goes into the 9th at least!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

The FOX tv broadcast is displaying that game note PERFECT GAME THROUGH ____

 

 

Not sure if that’s a comment on the Twins, or a taunt to the fans, or what ..

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I see Berrios almost kept pace...

 

We are just gonna have to out hit 'em then, eh?

[LaBombo]

If the Twins manage to avoid reaching base, this game will almost rival the embarrassment of the Twins' quad-A stiffs getting perfecto'd by inebriated gastropod David Wells in '98.

[Blake]

I'm on the edge of my seat over this one and I'm a Twins fan!

[mrmpls]

3 to go!!!

[LaBombo]

 

The FOX tv broadcast is displaying that game note PERFECT GAME THROUGH ____


Not sure if that’s a comment on the Twins, or a taunt to the fans, or what ..

 

Why not both?

[mrmpls]

 

I'm on the edge of my seat over this one and I'm a Twins fan!

you hope he gets it ?? i do

[Blake]

 

you hope he gets it ?? i do

Yes, I do. Perfect games are so rare that I've yet to see one. Plus, it's not like the Twins are in a playoff race or anything.

[Han Joelo]

A perfect game in progress, against one of the worst teams in baseball.  Resume builder for sure!

[notoriousgod71]

I just assume he'll be pulled mid-inning because he is already at 100 pitches which is scarier than the apocolypse.

[Han Joelo]

*The above comment is interchangeable for both Twins and Royals fans.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Hey remember when Addison Reed was the set up guy, and the Twins were good, and stuff?

 

Yeah me too, that was awesome

 

http://www.thatericalper.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/maxresdefault-182.jpg

[slash129]

Looks like the Twins have a chance to be a victim of a Dallas Braden-esque perfect game ... The guy only needs three outs ... Lopez just has to make sure none of the next three guys get on ... He hasn't walked anyone yet ... Everything is going to be really well for him.

[Danchat]

Lopez has a career 6.31 ERA at AAA, by the way. Dick's comments about him dominating AAA are not true...

[mrmpls]

Seeing reed again and i think overall it might be the worst of all the new guys this year, with his 2 year deal

[Danchat]

 

Seeing reed again and i think overall it might be the worst of all the new guys this year, with his 2 year deal

I'm not sure what happened to him, but something did happen because he was around his career velocity early and he was dominating. Unfortunately, it's looking like for the contract he has, the only value we got from him was 2 or so dominant months.

[Winston Smith]

Catfish Hunter pitched a perfect game against the Twins back when I was much younger.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Gotta admit, this would be a great warm up act for the Vikes tomorrow!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Last KC no hitter : Saberhagen

 

wow

[LaBombo]

 

Lopez has a career 6.31 ERA at AAA, by the way. Dick's comments about him dominating AAA are not true...

 

Dick was calling the David Wells perfect game and stopped just short of claiming it should be invalidated by MLB due to the abysmally low level of talent in the Twins' lineup.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if Pohlad personally threatened to "release the hounds" on him if he ever disparaged the product on the field that strongly on the air again.

 

So maybe playing up Lopez' ability is just Dick protecting his own professional fanny.  Or maybe it's just Bremer being Bremer.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Shakes off Perez, throws ball four

 

What a rook

[slash129]

Haha

[slash129]

Shakes off Perez, throws ball four

 

What a rook

 

It should have already been ball four.