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

[cHawk]

And now the rain.

[IndianaTwin]

Gladden: “Ground ball, foul, inside the third base line.”

 

[MNT1996]

Donaldson is locked in

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Someone is going to get one of these stingers airborne... and look out..

[Diesel]

Slegers is still not great

[Brock Beauchamp]

Slegers’ breaking ball refuses to break.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

And another double play.

 

At least they waited until ww got a lead.

[cHawk]

How about that. The second we get a lead we’re about to give it right back.

[Danchat]

Our relievers seem to have a 10+ ERA when we have the lead, and then something like a 2 ERA when we trail. I don't think either team is done scoring yet.

[cHawk]

****

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

welp

[Aggies7]

What a shutdown inning

[cHawk]

Dobnak was cruising Inning 1. Inning 2 he can’t throw strikes. What’s the reason for this?

[Brock Beauchamp]

Dobnak has basically done nothing wrong and induced weak contact from two great hitters for exactly zero outs recorded.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Trouts was a ground ball through a hole

 

What can you say

[cHawk]

If we’re doing what Donaldson just did in big games we’re toast.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

I was just thinking to myself, “Self, I haven’t seen anyone drop a pop up in a while..”*

 

* batter was OUT on infield fly anyway

 

Edit: actually no it wasn’t infield fly, regular force out at second, sorry, watching with half an eye

[MNT1996]

Nice try, Donaldson. lol

[cHawk]

Rally time.

[MNT1996]

Speaking of Pujols. What a disaster of a contract

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

Trouts was a ground ball through a hole

What can you say

On a drawn in infield no less..

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

On a drawn in infield no less..

No more and no less

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

I was just thinking to myself, “Self, I haven’t seen anyone drop a pop up in a while..”*

* batter was OUT on infield fly anyway

Edit: actually no it wasn’t infield fly, regular force out at second, sorry, watching with half an eye

At least the announcers thought infield fly was called and Trout was still running from first.

 

They may have been confused...

 

My understanding is it shouldn't have been called an infield fly...

[cHawk]

I wonder if they’ll do something with the opportunity

[Aggies7]

Slump buster for sano

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Sano splits the difference with a shallow pop up.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Kepler beats the shift!

[cHawk]

Ffs they’re not pinch hitting for Cave...smh

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Warming up in the Twins bullpen

 

[cHawk]

Dammit