Game Thread: Twins vs Chicago White Sox 7/14 6:4O PM

[Irishman]

Twins do not have much success with bases loaded.    

[SwainZag]

14 minutes ago, Mill1634 said:

Lineup should be (against RHP)

Arraez DH

Correa SS

Buxton CF

AK 1St

Polo 2nd

Miranda 3rd

Kepler RF

Gordon LF

Whoever catches

 

Polanco has been getting on base like crazy.  Since June 1, he has an OBP of .385, 2nd on the team only to Luis.  He needs to be hitting 2nd or 3rd IMO.  Arraez-Polanco-Correa-AK-Buck-Miranda-Kep is how my order would go

[Tlaker]

2 minutes ago, Dave The Dastardly said:

Life is cruel. Especially true for Twins fans.

Truth brother 

[MMMordabito]

Gray just getting dinked and dunked other than the Abreu hit.

[Irishman]

9 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

Busted my hump to make a 5 hour drive home from Madison into a 4 and 15 minutes,so I can enjoy the game and it’s 2-0 already??

When I was raised in Worthington, our family drove to old Met stadium in Bloomington to watch games every year.  We had great memories.   

[MMMordabito]

Will take that Texas-Leaguer.

[MMMordabito]

GIO!

[Mill1634]

GIO!!!!!

[Mortimerkenny21]

Keep it rolling!!!

[mrtwinsfan]

Luis Roberts,  Cueto and me Thank You

[Mill1634]

Looked like he got under the tag...hell of a throw anyhow.

[h2oface]

How did Urshela not get a triple on that hit? Then he can't score from second on a single. Sloooooooowwwwww? Or just poor baserunning. Conservative. OK. But this is how runs are wasted.

[Mill1634]

I'm not sure how you don't challenge that

[Aggies7]

He was safe….

[Mill1634]

Sox TV agrees that Urshella was in before the tag. Unbelievably incompetent to not challenge. 

[TwerkTwonkTwins]

Urshela is the Twins worst baserunner, according to FanGraphs. We saw a bit of why and how there. 

[mrtwinsfan]

Sox tv guys are calling SAFE, Why no challenge ROCCO ??????????????????????????

[h2oface]

And then a slide that was not deceptive and thrown out. Can't even score on the tag/sac fly. We are terrible on the bases.

[Aggies7]

No one unravels scoring threats quicker than our bunch

[Mill1634]

Just now, TwerkTwonkTwins said:

Urshela is the Twins worst baserunner, according to FanGraphs. We saw a bit of why and how there. 

Being a poor baserunner plus being unbelievably slow is a bad combo, but that was simply a great throw (he was safe anyhow)

[rwilfong86]

1 minute ago, Mill1634 said:

Sox TV agrees that Urshella was in before the tag. Unbelievably incompetent to not challenge. 

Typical Twins decision. Not sure if Jayce or Rocco made that call but it was a bad one for sure. That foot looked like it touched the plate before that tag came in.

[kydoty]

There’s no reason not to challenge that where the difference could be a run (and the game).  If you lose the challenge, who cares? It’s very unlikely you’re going to get a chance with more on the line than that.

[Mill1634]

Just now, rwilfong86 said:

Typical Twins decision. Not sure if Jayce or Rocco made that call but it was a bad one for sure. That foot looked like it touched the plate before that tag came in.

yeah, that's not on either of them. It's on someone down in the video room. 

[Tlaker]

Base running, base running, base running….sigh

[mrtwinsfan]

Sox tv guy says ===  and our review shows he was EVEN more safe,  

[Mill1634]

I didn't think that had any chance to stay in the park...

[Winston Smith]

2 minutes ago, kydoty said:

There’s no reason not to challenge that where the difference could be a run (and the game).  If you lose the challenge, who cares? It’s very unlikely you’re going to get a chance with more on the line than that.

Well you never know it may be a play that might happen maybe sometime that would allow several runs. Rocco always likes to look down the road, surprising he doesn't have 3 catchers just in case.

[Sutter50]

11 minutes ago, h2oface said:

How did Urshella not get a triple on that hit? Then he can't score from second on a single. Sloooooooowwwwww? Or just poor baserunning. Conservative. OK. But this is how runs are wasted.

He never would have scored on that single

[Sutter50]

Just now, Sutter50 said:

He never would have scored on that single

 

[Sutter50]

Just now, Sutter50 said:

 

And nobody gets triples on balls down the line in left