Game Thread: Twins @ Astros 7:10pm cdt 8/23/2022 ad

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

“Good bye, Mister Bregman”

Read in Hannibal Lecters' voice.

[USAFChief]

7 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

Lets think positively: Arraez did lead off the game with a deep fly to shortstop.

AKA medium deep left field.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Nice at bat by Miranda.

97.3 mph line out to deep right 

[AceWrigley]

No strikeouts that inning, Verlander is losing it.

[USAFChief]

15 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

At this rate, Verlander will pitch a perfect game with 21 strikeouts.

If he can get a rebate on that missed strike 3 to Gordon. 

[Winston Smith]

19 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I remember when Verlander was traded from Detroit.

Multiple folks here were dead set against the idea of the Twins getting involved. 

"Too old"

"Decline phase"

Hahaha

Folks on here have been known to be wrong a time or two.

[Danchat]

10 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

With 3 catchers, Cant wait to see Leon and Sanchez bats both in the lineup, Pretty bad we cant bring up some o.f. help from ST Paul,  any A.A. maybe ?

Uh... the best options I see are Chris Williams or Roy Morales. We really don't have much left, Maybe if we still had Spencer Steer they could stick him at DH and probably do better than this.

[USAFChief]

Just now, Winston Smith said:

Folks on here have been known to be wrong a time or two.

  Not Me.

Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken. 

[AlwaysinModeration]

2 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

If he can get a rebate on that missed strike 3 to Gordon. 

Is this your way of saying it’s not a perfect game?

[AceWrigley]

I take it Dazzle isn't in the booth tonite "recovering" from this weekend?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Too soon for the “Buxton catches that” jokes?

[USAFChief]

One breaking ball after another. Mancini just ignored any other possibilities.

[RpR]

As I said earlier in this thread, WHY is Gordon in center, and not Cave.

[LVTwinsfan]

Buxton gets that

[Winston Smith]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

  Not Me.

Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken. 

When you thought you were wrong you were wrong?

[AceWrigley]

it bounces off the 409 sign . . . sigh.

[USAFChief]

Just now, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Too soon for the “Buxton catches that” jokes?

Yup.

 

But not "Cave catches that."

 

Hahahababa

[Aggies7]

So we really are gonna get no hit, eh?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

One breaking ball after another. Mancini just ignored any other possibilities.

Yeah he’s throwing straight breaking pitches aint he

[AceWrigley]

2 minutes ago, RpR said:

As I said earlier in this thread, WHY is Gordon in center, and not Cave.

Because when you put a Cave in CF, the ball can get lost.

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, Winston Smith said:

When you thought you were wrong you were wrong?

 

[LVTwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Too soon for the “Buxton catches that” jokes?

Is it a joke though 

[wsnydes]

Just now, USAFChief said:

 

 

[AceWrigley]

Question: would Wes Johnson even consider 8 straight breaking balls?

[Mortimerkenny21]

5 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Too soon for the “Buxton catches that” jokes?

No. But no Abe Lincoln jokes please.

[AceWrigley]

So . . . the Astros scored a run on only 2 hits . . . huh.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

59 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Concur.

 

...

 

We're knocking him out way before that.

I'm back. Time to make good on that.

[USAFChief]

33 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

I didn't either until I literally heard knocking at my door as I was reading "knock knock" in a game thread!

What really drove it home was the fear that it was @USAFChiefthat was knocking!

Knock knock

[LVTwinsfan]

6 minutes ago, Winston Smith said:

When you thought you were wrong you were wrong?

A rare case of two wrongs make a right

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

2 minutes ago, Mortimerkenny21 said:

No. But no Abe Lincoln jokes please.

Other than that, how was the game thread tonight?