Guardians 5, Twins 1 Wallner Debuts as Twins Drop Game One of Doubleheader

Too bad we couldnt have used Wallner while it still mattered. Instead Beckham, Garlick (batting first often), etc were used when it mattered.

Fun to see, if you are a Guardians or White Sox fan.

Not a betting man myself but anyone who wants to make some money bet on the Guardians the next 3 games. Tito vs. Baldelli. Easy money.

Wallner: Nice homer for your first hit. Now, please shave off that scuz fuzz. You don't need to look like a tired 30-something daddy.

Happy for Wallner hitting his 1st HR. Tough luck for Varland. Sanchez pitch well once he got warmed up. I don't think Baldelli knows that many pitchers need more time to warm up for long relief.

Happy for Wallner.  Other than that, it's all over but the cryin'.................

...and with that, the Twins season moves onto the ventilator. 6 games back, 2 games left against the division leader and 17 remaining in the season. Game 2 started now.

Another loss or two in this series and it's time to shut Buxton, Kepler and Polanco down for the rest of the season.

MAN, ALMOST LET VARLAND THROW 100 PITCHES AND GO THRU THE BATTING ORDER A COMPLETE THIRD TIME. 

Still wonder how the Twins, sad to say, screwed up and didn't get Varland any throwing innings in St. Paul, even a two-inning stint in relief last Sunday or Tuesday. 

SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE A REGULAR HABIT WITH ALL THE ROTATION ARMS, RIGHT? Work that third time. Get 100 pitches. A pitcher is going to give iup hits or runs in some appearances. It is a given, folks. Just like a bullpen arm is going to make mistakes or be part of mistakes.

Heck, now...if Sanchez had pitched yesterday with the same numbers, the Twins would've won the game, and all those "other" bullpen arms would be avalable fer sure today.

Pagan takes the hit in the second game, September 17th prediction.

I'm pretty speechless about the collapse of the Twins. Is is worthwhile to try and win second place, have more wins than losses, or just send out guys to play ball. Give situations and at bats and innings mainly to those who will be part of 2023. If throwing-in-the-towell, might as well figure out a way to let Balazovic and Henriquez get major league innings, Sands work out of the pen, and if Helman or Williams MIGHT in in the plans for 2023, bring them up at the expense of guys who won't be on the 40-man.

What do the Twins have to lose?

Gordon earned two errors on that play. 1 fielding, 1 throw. He only got knocked for the throw. Makes up for the BS call last night he had one overlooked today. That was bad.

KC, KC, KC!!!! - perspective - the praise in the last series was fun, but misplaced.  Against good teams we are a bad team.  Varland did okay, not great, Wallner raises the question - why did we wait.  If we go 17 - 0 Cleveland has to go 10 - 7 for us to win.  How will that work out?

Bieber worked 8 innings - Rocco did you happen to notice that?

Cleveland had 2 batters under 249 BA - the Twins had 5.

Game two has Sanchez batting 4 and Celestino 5, Palacios 7 and Hamilton 9.  Have we given up?

Sounds like the Twins played a sloppy game. I’m shocked. 

27 minutes ago, bean5302 said:

...and with that, the Twins season moves onto the ventilator. 6 games back, 2 games left against the division leader and 17 remaining in the season. Game 2 started now.

Another loss or two in this series and it's time to shut Buxton, Kepler and Polanco down for the rest of the season.

Its actually 3 more games. Pretty much need to win all 3.

What did the Twins have to give to the Cleveland fan that caught Wallner’s HR ball ? It looked like they gave him 2 bats? 1 from Wallner & 1 from Correa? Anyone know for sure? It took a couple innings of negotiation to complete 

Pennant drive fading...

Injuries yes, but, I think this series proves that Baldelli is not a leader or motivator, and a replacement is needed. 

Routine grounder to short, booted by Palacios. Very sad because earlier this summer Palacios looked smooth and had improved his offense considerably with St. Paul. Now he looks slow and entirely overmatched on both sides of the ball. I had hoped he was a possibility. Cleveland with the tiebreaker now has an 8 game lead. It's hard to be a Twins fan. 

8 hours ago, bean5302 said:

Gordon earned two errors on that play. 1 fielding, 1 throw. He only got knocked for the throw. Makes up for the BS call last night he had one overlooked today. That was bad.

Hmmmmmm. No picture?

8 hours ago, mikelink45 said:

KC, KC, KC!!!! - perspective - the praise in the last series was fun, but misplaced.  Against good teams we are a bad team.  Varland did okay, not great, Wallner raises the question - why did we wait.  If we go 17 - 0 Cleveland has to go 10 - 7 for us to win.  How will that work out?

Bieber worked 8 innings - Rocco did you happen to notice that?

Cleveland had 2 batters under 249 BA - the Twins had 5.

Game two has Sanchez batting 4 and Celestino 5, Palacios 7 and Hamilton 9.  Have we given up?

Perhaps 1-9 for the day? Another all or nothing guy….. more often a K and nothing? Sano II?

Hometown hope abounds. 

11 hours ago, h2oface said:

Perhaps 1-9 for the day? Another all or nothing guy….. more often a K and nothing? Sano II?

Hometown hope abounds. 

That could be better than our 0 - 9 guys