Game Thread: Twins vs Royals 6:40 cdt 8/15/2022 ad

[sampleSizeOfOne]

The ruby slippers intorduction:

Things to think about.

 

1. Sometimes the house lands on ya. Sometimes its merely a glass of water. Hard to say which is worse though....

(But y'all been paying closer attention to our road woes than i. I'm on the road now, so you can attribute my brevity to that.)

 

2. There's no place like home!

(Tap heals) There's no place like home!

There's no place like home!

 

Isn't a good haiku

Relaxing to read these days?

Go ahead. Write one!

 

3. Kansas City... How are they these days? We often do well against them, but even when they aren't winning world serieses, they tend to play us tough. Maybe they want their local references back? 

 

4. Is 2 added to itself. Which is what multiplication means? So it is also 2 times itself. Which is what raising to a power means. (i know, i'm a square too) Which is also raised to itself, and i think that is where most math folk get bored, and turn on the game.

 

5. Woah! The game's on! And it's in colour, unlike some of our dreary lives. Let us all gather round the screen and enjoy!

 

(Well, it will be... It will be...)

 

Them:

0. Kris Bubic (L) P

1. MJ Melendez (L) LF

2. Bobby Witt Jr. (R) 3B

3. Salvador Perez (R) C

4. Vinnie Pasquantino (L) DH

5. Michael Massey (L) 2B

6. Nate Eaton (R) RF

7. Nick Pratto (L) 1B

8. Kyle Isbel (L) CF

9. Nicky Lopez (L) S

 

Us:

0. Joe Ryan (R) P

Team of Mystery...

(a little help, please?)

 

O E O.

Bed Owe Um!

[CRF]

According to MLB, here's our lineup:

Arraez 1B

Correa SS

Buxton CF

Miranda DH

Polanco 2B

Gordon LF

Urshela 3B

Kepler RF

Sanchez C

 

[D.C Twins]

Let's get a Kepler Break Out Game!!!!

[D.C Twins]

Baldi... I need you to go to the chalkboard and write the following 100 times before the game:

 'it is ok to leave a starter in past 5 innings if they are pitching well no matter what my spreadsheet says'

[wabene]

Today the run starts!?

[LVTwinsfan]

2 minutes ago, wabene said:

Today the run starts!?

That’s funny, I expect KC wins this series

[sampleSizeOfOne]

30 minutes ago, wabene said:

Today the run starts!?

Run Forest! Run!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

30 minutes ago, wabene said:

Today the run starts!?

Run Forest! Run!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Driving with a full arc rainbow on hand.

 

Someday i'll find it....

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Bay Plall!

[SanoMustGo]

and just like that...

 

[Winston Smith]

Center cut 93 mph go a long way.

[MMMordabito]

Nice start.  Turn it on. Down 2-0.

 

[MMMordabito]

I see the Royals were able to get a win against the Dodgers.  Twins got the most chances, but are the only AL Central team that went O'fer against them.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

4 minutes ago, SanoMustGo said:

and just like that...

 

Okay if i give it a sad face rather than a like?

[SanoMustGo]

Just now, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Okay if i give it a sad face rather than a like?

LOL

[Winston Smith]

Umpire can't seem to find the zone so far.

[SanoMustGo]

Is this currently the worst pitching staff in baseball?  Remember I said currently.

[SanoMustGo]

2 minutes ago, Winston Smith said:

Umpire can't seem to find the zone so far.

Ryan did...LOL  oops

[bighat]

Buxton would bat 8th on any of the top 10 teams in MLB. 

[MMMordabito]

Another also-ran with 0 WAR this season looking like a Cy Young candidate against this pathetic lineup.

[bighat]

Nolan Ryan - er, Kris Bubich - strikes out the side. 

Looks like another miserable night to be a Twins fan. Here's hoping things turn around. 

[SanoMustGo]

looks like 4 games out after tonight

[LVTwinsfan]

2 minutes ago, bighat said:

Buxton would bat 8th on any of the top 10 teams in MLB. 

The Twins are not on that list

[USAFChief]

Season. Over.

 

//relax. It's an old BYTO thing 

[TWTwinsFan]

Correa will take tons of walks when Buxton bats ahead him

[SanoMustGo]

1 minute ago, TWTwinsFan said:

Correa will take tons of walks when Buxton bats ahead him

and he will still be at 1st after Buxton bats

[mrtwinsfan]

Max you watch that from Gordon?

[mrtwinsfan]

2 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Max you watch that from Gordon?

Thank You Max

[LVTwinsfan]

Why is Gordon not on 3rd? For a guy whose been around ML baseball his whole life he sure has terrible instincts.