GAME THREAD 5/21/2021: Twins @ Cleveland, 6:10 CDT

[bighat]

Sano!

First time this year I'm having a freaking blast watching this inning.

[ashbury]

Is sending Kirilloff on that double, with 8 runs already in the inning, in violation of some unwritten rule of baseball? Asking for a friend.

[Squirrel]

omg ... I go to take a shower and wash my hair and I missed all this!

[stringer bell]

7 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Donaldson needs a big hit here. In another thread I questioned what the Twins biggest inning this year was when they didn’t hit a homer. I’m pretty sure a 5-spot would be as good as they have done. 

Absolutely certain they haven’t scored nine in an inning without a homer in the  inning. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 minute ago, Squirrel said:

omg ... I go to take a shower and wash my hair and I missed all this!

One hopes there will be more...

[Rigby]

3 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

omg ... I go to take a shower and wash my hair and I missed all this!

We're Head and Shoulders above the Indians....

[Squirrel]

2 minutes ago, Rigby said:

We're Head and Shoulders above the Indians....

heh ... so glad I gave you a good opening for that line It was very Chief-like

[sampleSizeOfOne]

8 minutes ago, ashbury said:

For those hoping to see the Twins put up a crooked number this inning, I regret to inform you that a '6'  is rather roundish.

/ update - and an '8' is even more so

Hush... We don't wanna give Cleveland any round number ideas....

[Twodogs]

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.  If they can go 28 and 15 they could get to .500 by like game 86.  That would be a little past half way.  We can dream!

[Rigby]

2 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

heh ... so glad I gave you a good opening for that line It was very Chief-like

Chief is my muse? Rut-roh.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

The screen has both a 1 and a 0 by the TC icon.

 

I'm not used to that.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Leave to put my kids to bed with the score at 4-0.

Come back right now…

[Mike Sixel]

Should teams be allowed to just walk off and end the game? Move on with life?

[ashbury]

It's only the 4th inning. Plenty of time for heartbreak.

[Mike Sixel]

That loaded twenty tweets..... Rethink?

[Squirrel]

Geez, @Brock Beauchamp, if I wanted to be on Twitter I'd go to Twitter ...

[ashbury]

11 minutes ago, Rigby said:

We're Head and Shoulders above the Indians....

Josh Donaldson, Bringer of White Rain

[sampleSizeOfOne]

3 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Should teams be allowed to just walk off and end the game? Move on with life?

No! No walk off tonight!

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, Squirrel said:

Geez, @Brock Beauchamp, if I wanted to be on Twitter I'd go to Twitter ...

Yeah, I just learned not to embed a Twitter profile on the site…

[LVTwinsfan]

Okay I feel it’s safe to turn this one off, if the Twins don’t win I don’t want to see it anyways

[Brock Beauchamp]

I don’t know if this team will put together a “good” stretch of baseball this season but it feels like we’re past that atrocious stretch. 

[stringer bell]

Dobnak gets through the fourth after watching the offense score nine in an inning. I'd like to see Rocco let him go for at least six innings.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

2 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Yeah, I just learned not to embed a Twitter profile on the site…

I haven't read Anna Karenina yet... if you are looking for an encore.

[LVTwinsfan]

Dobnak is the Twins best starter

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 minute ago, LVTwinsfan said:

Okay I feel it’s safe to turn this one off, if the Twins don’t win I don’t want to see it anyways

Like the opposite of a catch 22.

[stringer bell]

1 minute ago, LVTwinsfan said:

Okay I feel it’s safe to turn this one off, if the Twins don’t win I don’t want to see it anyways

Personally I want to see Kirilloff and Larnach get more at-bats no matter what the score.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Simmions with the old baltimore chop.

[h2oface]

Too early to talk about a long winning streak? Hey. This season is nothing a 20 game winning streak won't cure.....

[h2oface]

Wow. The shift worked. 

[h2oface]

That was a pathetic swing by Kepler. Missed the ball by about a foot.

Why can't we have pitchers make their MLB debut and look like Mejia? More and more it is looking like Falvey didn't have much to do with the success of Cleveland pitching. They continue to produce pitchers, and we talk about producing pitchers without him, but after 5 years? or is it 6? just still talking about it and not seeing it here.