Game Thread: Twins @ Phillies 4:05PM PT (6:05 CT) 4/05/2019

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Also, Polanco rips one!

[Don Walcott]

Hip, hip . . . .

[Vanimal46]

Hip, hip . . . .

Polanco!

[bighat]

Atta boy Jorge.

[ashbury]

POLANCO!!!!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Martin Perez batting, bunting situation

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Lol, got the job done?

[VATwinsFan]

You don't see that every day.

[Puckett34]

Not exactly how you draw that sac bunt up...

[Mike Sixel]

Not exactly how you draw that sac bunt up...

Describe please

[NorthwestTwinsFan]

I hate the NL rules more than anything in the world.

[ashbury]

Good wheels, Cave!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Good hustle Cave, good call

[Vanimal46]

Describe please

Perez got it down. Fielded by the 2B I believe. Lead runner out at 2nd but they threw the ball too low for the double play. Scoots by Hoskins and Perez runs to 2nd.

[Don Walcott]

Safe!!

[Puckett34]

 

Describe please

Step 1: Sac Bunt

Step 2: ????

Step 3: Profit

[operation mindcrime]

Yeah Cave & Perez!!!

[VATwinsFan]

Slooooowwwwwlllly coming back.......

[Richie the Rally Goat]

Not exactly how you draw that sac bunt up...

sac bunt to the third baseman isn’t a sac is it? That’s just trying to bunt for a hit and almost getting doubled up....

[drock2190]

Rain letting down? 

[TNTwinsFan]

Rain should be stopping soon

[Puckett34]

 

sac bunt to the third baseman isn’t a sac is it? That’s just trying to bunt for a hit and almost getting doubled up....

Not sure if sarcastic or not but a sac bunt is defined by the batters act of deliberately bunting the ball, before there is to outs to advance a runner that is on base.

 

I don't think it matters what side of the infield it goes to.

[bighat]

Perez walks a guy on 4 pitches and falls behind 2-0 on the next guy. C'mon dude, get it together and get the final out of the inning here.

[bighat]

Castro and his "framing skills" didn't come in too handy on that borderline pitch just now. Could have been strike 3, instead the guy walks.

[bighat]

Perez should have been pulled a batter ago. He needs to go now.

[Vanimal46]

Perez should have been pulled a batter ago. He needs to go now.

Rocco concurs.

[drock2190]

Martin Perez doing an early season impression of Lance Lynn.

[twins_89]

Perez on the season has now thrown 154 pitches in 6.1 innings. He's going to have to do something different going forward because averaging over 24 pitches an inning just won't work as a starter.

[bighat]

 

Martin Perez doing an early season impression of Lance Lynn.

 

So is Jake Odorizzi apparently. Between Gibby, Odorizzi, and Perez the Twins might need to start thinking about either using Mejia in the rotation or go back to the drawing board and sweetening up a deal for Keuchel.

[bighat]

Is this a 3-run Twins v. Phillies game, or is Dick moderating Talking Volumes with famous author Justin Morneau, in studio discuss his debut novel: "Baseball Memoirs"? 

 

I dunno, maybe I'm just ticked off still about Perez. Sorry Justin.