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Riverbrian

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White Sox: SP Hector Santiago

 

Alejandro de Aza CF

Gordon Beckham 2B

Alexei Ramirez SS

Adam Dunn DH

Paul Konerko 1B

Avisail Garcia RF

Jeff Keppinger 3B

Dayan Viciedo LF

Josh Phegley C

 

Twins: SP Samuel Deduno

 

Brian Dozier 2B

Joe Mauer DH

Josh Willingham LF

Justin Morneau 1B

Ryan Doumit C

Trevor Plouffe 3B

Oswaldo Arcia RF

Wilkin Ramirez CF

Pedro Florimon SS

 

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yup. so there's no reason to even try any more. mwahahahaha.

It's not like some of us could try any less.

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Squirrel GOAT

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You gotta be kidding me! 1st & 2nd, no out, and they get nothing?

 

What, do they work on this in practice - how to hit for futility when it really counts?

 

No kidding. and on top of that, I have to listen to Hawk gloat about it.

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What, do they work on this in practice - how to hit for futility when it really counts?

 

But to respond seriously: considering that the 2012 Twins offense was second lowest in Ks, and in 2013 they are second highest, the natural assumption is that Tom Brunansky has instilled in his pupils the attitude that strikeouts don't matter that much. If you look at the teams leading in strikeouts at bat, futile offenses of Houston and Minnesota are at the top, but the next three are pretty potent. Hitting for power leads to runs, and also to strikeouts, so there is something to this approach. However, it can also lead to innings like this one.

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They really need to re-evaluate how they hand out errors in Major League Baseball. Between Viciedo, Beckham and Konerko, Viciedo is the last one that should've received an error on that play, but it by default goes to him.

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It was supposed to be a day off tomorrow. I'd have said get Deduno out of there, put in your long reliever (Swarzak presumably) and think about whether to DL Samuel or what. But the Mets makeup game probably means Samuel has to gut it out a while longer.

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It was supposed to be a day off tomorrow. I'd have said get Deduno out of there, put in your long reliever (Swarzak presumably) and think about whether to DL Samuel or what. But the Mets makeup game probably means Samuel has to gut it out a while longer.

 

And us with him.

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