GAME THREAD: Twins @ Angels, 4/16/21, 8:38 PM CDT

[Squirrel]

 

 

Cave has no business starting against a lefty but here we are again because Buxton can’t stay on the damned field. Jake may be entirely cooked but it’s too early to know for sure. If he is allowed to be in a strict platoon, I still think he does okay.

Yeah ... Cave is not a starter. And since Buxton isn't on the IL they can't/won't call up a good replacement and go with Cave out there.

[insagt1]

If there is anything more predictable than the sun coming up in the east, its Buxton being hurt on a regular basis, all the time. If its not one injury, its another. He gets hurt just being alive. Never seen anything like it. If he plays 4 games in a row, its time to plan the parade.

 

And the sad thing is he is probably the best player on the roster....when he does play. Meanwhile about half the team can't even hit .200. The numbers are pathetic.

 

but then, a win tonite brings them back to .500.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

How many more double plays is this team going to hit into?

Yet another.

[Squirrel]

 

How many more double plays is this team going to hit into?

Probably a LOT ... I mean, it's only April and we have to go 6 more months

[Brock Beauchamp]

It’s pretty sad how the Angels have so entirely wasted Trout’s epic “best player in the history of the game” run by missing the postseason almost every season.

 

A monster player, a monster payroll, and they still can’t even muster a wild card berth. Ick.

[MNT1996]

Didn't know Ohtani was that fast

[Brock Beauchamp]

Didn't know Ohtani was that fast

Ohtani is good at basically everything.

[Danchat]

Darn. That groundball went perfectly into the one spot it needed to there to get the hit. 

[cHawk]

That’s a BIG lead for the Angels, given the offense they’re facing.

[cHawk]

Can we NOT strike out here or hit into a DP?

[cHawk]

AYFKM

[Brock Beauchamp]

Sigh. Sigh.

[Danchat]

Heaney must be the king of GDPs! 

 

We're at the bottom of the 5th now and we're only at the 1:13 mark... I like a short game, but I don't like how flat our offense is.

[whosafraidofluigirussolo]

Conventional wisdom is that a lefty pitcher facing a lefty hitter with two outs will want just to pitch to the guy and try to get out of the inning... but maybe it wouldn't have been crazy to pitch around Walsh to get to Pujols there...?

[cHawk]

Maybe Dobnak is real gold after all?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Nice alert running Polanco!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Maybe Dobnak is real gold after all?

A 123 inning...

 

As expected.

[stringer bell]

Two on, none out, time for La Tortuga to pinch hit and ground into a triple play on the first pitch.

[MNT1996]

Heck of a throw by Suzuki 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Nice take, Cave LOL

[Brock Beauchamp]

This ump isn’t awesome.

[cHawk]

Smh Cave

[Diesel]

ugh this offense needs to wake up

[MNT1996]

"A tall task". I see what you did there, LaTroy.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Go go Garver plate appearance!

[cHawk]

The Sauce came in when it needed to. How about that.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Garverrrrific!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

"A tall task". I see what you did there, LaTroy.

Slegers was in the Twins system at one point, no?

[Brock Beauchamp]

That’s an out by Garver, right?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Stung that