AlwaysinModeration

I just read the game thread after watching a decent bit of the game game. Neither the announcers or anyone in the gamethread noted that the almost all of the of the Twins hits went the opposite way. They went in against 99mph Cease with a plan and executed it to perfection. Cron doesn’t really do opposite field...so he hit the ball up the middle. Tons opposite field hits, including a Cave HR.

Looking at the division race, Cleveland is 78-55, 29 games left. Minnesota 81-51, 30 games left. Cleveland could finish 29-0 with 107 wins, so the Twins would need 27 wins to finish with 108, so the magic number is 27. If Cleveland finishes 20-9, (a 690 pace) they finish 98-64. Twins would need to go 18-12 (a 600 pace) to beat them.

Twins season by tens: 6-4 7-3 6-4 6-4 9-1 6-4 7-3 5-5 5-5 4-6 7-3 4-6 7-3 2-0 Or, if counting by NFL units, they are 9-2-2. Great record, the only problem is there is another really good team in the same division.

Turns out, Brad Hand isn’t going to blow all of the games.

Big time play by Polanco. Schoop should have gone to first.

Odorizzi is losing it here.

Dear Eddie, please take pitches until they throw you a strike

Who knew that Taylor Rogers is the SHORT brother of the Twins?

First base

BOOM!!!

It was a good catch. Not incredible. On a related note, Buxton catches the lead off double by Leury (Leury?!?) Garcia in the first inning.

I’m not sure that goes over the fence.

The Tigers lineup tonight (facing the Indians) have zero players with an OPS over 750. The Twins’ lineup tonight has nine players with OPS over 750.

Taylor Rogers is the punter. Cruz is probably on the defensive line along with Sano and Pineda. Berrios is strong and agile. He’s my starting RB. I think Polanco is either a DB or Safety. I like Buxton and Kepler both split out wide as wide receivers.

That’s not what he asked.

I declare that, right there, as officially Fun With Numbers.

There are two reasons I hated the Giolito-Eaton trade: the Twins have to face Giolito a lot, and the Nats don’t get to have him in the rotation. Eaton has helped make up (a bit) for the Harper departure, but that is one I am sure Russo would like back.

It kind of seems like a guy named Magill should be playing for a team in Canada.

I’m still trying to get my mind around this one.

dammitdammitdammit

Watch out for flying broken bats.

Romo looking real sharp.

So will Jorge and Marwin bat right? Dave’s top tens are supposed to start with 10 and count down....

I loved sniglets, back in the day. The only I seem to remember is “bedwinds” which (unlike what you might imagine) are the winds that keep a sheet from landing square on the bed when you are making it. Also, back in my day, the front seat of the car was a bench, Kirby Puckett batted lead-off, Herb Carneal called the game, and the reliever were delivered to the mound in a golf cart fashioned to sort look like a baseball hat.

I still want to see him start. He’s had a mediocre year. All is not lost. In some ways I’m glad he’s out of options next year, as they will be forced to give him a chance to make it in the bigsz