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Winnah Winnah Chicken Dinnah!!

Rosario!!!!!!

Giving Kepler a Thumbs up on his last at-bat!

I like the idea of Torii having a role with the Twins organization....but absolutely not GM!!

Didn't expect it now...but I'm not really surprised.

Sorry about including Gordo in yesterday's Game Thread...guess he will be honored today prior to the game.

Games Past Midnight This is the 3rd time in less than 2-weeks (even counting the All-Star break) that the Twins have played a rain delayed game past midnight. They won all three, A’s 11-4, Rangers 8-6 and last night 5-4. All three came after a previous night’s loss. The first two they won the following day…A’s 4-0, Rangers 15-5, I don’t think we be asking too much to simply keep going for continuity sake. Talking about rain delays and games past midnight, here are some games that might put last night’s game in perspective. 1. Aug. 12, 1990, Chicago, 7 hours, 23 minutes Hosting the Rangers, the White Sox waited that long before finally postponing a Sunday afternoon game without a pitch being thrown. Roughly 500 fans remained in the stands when the game was finally called off at 8:58 pm. Said White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, "The weather man kept saying it'd stop." 2. July 2, 1993, Philadelphia, 5 hours, 54 minutes The Padres and Phillies endured nearly six hours of rain delays in this game which was, get this, the first game of a doubleheader. The game was delayed at the start by an hour and 10 minutes, by nearly two hours after the third inning and by two hours and 48 minutes after the fifth. The game started at 4:35 pm and ended at 1:03 am. Then the two teams took a 25 minute break and started the second game at 1:28. The game had no delays, but it did go 10 innings and take more than three hours to complete, finally coming to an end on a walk-off single off Padres rookie Trevor Hoffman by Phillies closer Mitch Williams. When Pete Incaviglia crossed home plate with the winning run, it was 4:40 am in Philadelphia, making the second game the latest game in major league history. 3. Milwaukee, 5 hours, 45 minutes, Oct. 3, 1999, Note the date. The Brewers and Reds had to get this game in because the Reds were just a game behind the Astros in the National League Central and tied with the Mets for the NL wild card and this was the final day of the regular season. So, with the benefit of this being a Sunday day game, the two teams waited five hours and 45 minutes before finally getting started at 8:50 pm. Cincinnati won, 7-1, but so did Houston and New York in their respective games. The next day, the Reds and Mets played a one-game playoff for the wild-card in Cincinnati. Al Leiter threw a two-hit shutout, and the Reds lost 5-0. 4. Philadelphia, 5 hours, June 9, 1980 This Monday night affair between the Phillies and the Giants totaled five hours of separate rain delays, all in the bottom of the fourth inning. Talk about a tease. The game was first delayed for an hour and 28 minutes after the final out in the top of the fourth. After the players came back on the field, Bob Boone hit a leadoff home run for the first run of the game, but two batters later, the tarp went back on and the game was delayed for an additional three hours and 32 minutes. All the while, Steve Carlton had four perfect innings under his belt. So, when the top of the fifth came, around at 1:30 am, five and a quarter hours after throwing his last pitch in the top of the fourth, Carlton went back out there (his manager, perhaps not coincidentally, was notorious pitcher-abuser Dallas Green). The second hitter Carlton faced in the fifth doubled, but he pitched the sixth as well, holding the Giants scoreless all the while only to have Dickie Noles blow the save in the eighth as the Giants went on the win 3-1. The last out came at 3:11 am. 5. Detroit, 4 hours, 1 minute, Aug. 24, 2007 This was a real head-scratcher. Yes, this was the Yankees' last trip to Detroit this season, and with just a month left in the season, the pennant races heating up and both the Yankees and Tigers in the thick of the wild card race, this was a game that needed to be played. On the other hand, it was also a Friday night affair and the first game of a four-game set. Yet, rather than schedule a doubleheader for the weekend, the Yankees and Tigers waited until 11:06 pm to start the game, which then went 11 innings and took 4 hours and 24 minutes to play. When Carlos Guillen ended it with a two-out, three-run home run in the bottom of the 11th to give Detroit a 9-6 win, it was 3:30 in the morning on Saturday. The Tigers then followed through with the promised post-game fireworks, though they weren't the latest fireworks in major league history. Those came after the July 4, 1985 Rick Camp game, which had just two hours and 11 minutes of rain delays, but lasted 19 innings and finished at 3:55 am, after which: fireworks! Lineups: INDIANS Carlos Santana (S) DH Jason Kipnis (L) 2B Francisco Lindor (S) SS Mike Napoli [R) 1B Jose Ramirez (S) 3B Lonnie Chisenhall (L) RF Tyler Naquin (L) CF Abraham Almonte (S) LF Yan Gomes [R) C Josh Tomlin (R] P TWINS Eduardo Nunez [R) 3B Robbie Grossman (S) DH Kennys Vargas (S) 1B Brian Dozier [R) 2B Max Kepler (L) RF Eddie Rosario (L) LF Eduardo Escobar (S) SS Kurt Suzuki [R) C Danny Santana (S) CF Kyle Gibson (R] P Game-time forecast: 79 deg F, partly cloudy, 15% chance of rain, and winds at 12 mph from the W. Go Twins!

Second game with the Indians in this home stand, hope it goes better than the first! Here are some thoughts about the game. 1.Hall of Fame Day Two notables will be inducted into the Twins Hall of Fame today…that seems more interesting talk about than last night’s game… 2.Torii Hunter Hunter was selected by the Minnesota Twins with the 20th overall pick in the 1993 MLB draft. He made it to the Twins Major League club in 1997 and did the Rochester shuttle through that season and ’98 (much like this year with many of the young prospects) before becoming the starting center fielder in 1999. Hunter continued to improve and by 2001 he began to be a league leader in many categories. Hunter left via free agency in 2008 and played five years with the Angles and then two years with the Detroit Tigers. He returned back to Minnesota his final year and finished his career a .277/.331/.461 hitter with 2,272 hits, 353 homers, 195 stolen bases and 1,391 RBIs in 2,372 games, nine Gold Gloves and two Silver Slugger Awards. 3.Favorite Torii Memories While he often took ill-advised positions and made public statements that were strange, I will remember the 2002 MLB All-Star Game when he robbed Barry Bonds of a home run in the first inning, running over catcher Jamie Burke in a late-season matchup with the rival Chicago White Sox, taking a swing at a struggling Justin Morneau in 2005 and, of course, creating dance parties after every home win at Target Field. 4.John Gordon Gordo began as a baseball broadcaster with a Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, in 1965. From there, Gordon worked for the Baltimore Orioles, did a three-year stint broadcasting football and basketball at the University of Virginia and then returned to baseball. Gordon spent 1977-81 working for a Triple-A affiliate first with the Pirates and then with the Yankees. That led, in 1982, to a job with the big-league Yankees under the ownership of George Steinbrenner. Gordon joined the Twins in 1987, just in time for a World Series title run. Gordon called Twins games for 25 seasons running through 2011. Of course, my favorite memories of Gordo was listening to KQRS back in the late 80’s when they would regularly poke fun at him as being a little clueless using a fake Gordo voice in regular skits. 5.Rock & Roll HOF The Indians and Twins sent an autographed lineup card and the purple wrist bans worn by Michael Brantley and Joe Mauer from April 25th's game to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The game was played on Prince Tribute Night in honor of the rock icon who had recently died. The Twins ended the game in style with a walk-off victory on Oswaldo Arcia's ninth-inning homer! _____________________________________________________________________ Lineups: INDIANS Carlos Santana (S) 1B Jason Kipnis (L) 2B Francisco Lindor (S) SS Mike Napoli [R) DH Jose Ramirez (S) LF Lonnie Chisenhall (L) RF Juan Uribe [R) 3B Tyler Naquin (L) CF Chris Gimenez [R) C Trevor Bauer (R] P TWINS Eduardo Nunez [R) SS Joe Mauer (L) 1B Miguel Sano [R) 3B Brian Dozier [R) 2B Max Kepler (L) RF Kennys Vargas (S) DH Eddie Rosario (L) LF Juan Centeno (L) C Byron Buxton ® CF Tyler Duffey (R] P Game-time forecast: 78 deg F, mostly cloudy, 0% chance of rain, winds at 12 mph from the S. Go Twins!

Maybe Erv doesn't want to be traded?

Tied up!!

Thank goodness...finally got out of that inning.

OK, 1-0 works for me!

1-2-3!!

Alright....and it begins!!

First a feast...then a break!

Hate being a Doubting Debbie...but I don't think the team will score 20 today...maybe Texas will lend a hand...

Uhhhhhhh, just woke up from a nap....did I miss anything?

You're right about T. Jay listed as the starter in Ft. Myers, their website claims Jay is the starter, but he's not on their roster.

Wow, another Home Run!

Kinda excited about one unusual stat....last night was the 1st time this year the Twins held a losing streak to ONE game! That's is a big improvement in my mind.

The problem with my preferencefor a trade is that the team needs a willing trade partner AND there needs to be a return of some value. This team has wonderful potential of having a 1-9 lineup that will be great to have on the field….but pitching….that’s another thing. I really don’t think that Twins future will be solved by trade deadline, in fact, I’d be shocked. I now think the team has to change their philosophical approach to free agency and go after one of those 5+ year +100 $ million proven starters to be in a I’m finally all in on trying our best to trade Plouffe…which I have been lukewarm/cold on in the past. The Sano in the outfield was clearly a failure and he will be ready to return by the weekend series. It is looking like simply sending Park to Triple-A is the obvious and common opinion of how to solve the short term issue….but Rosario has proven that he deserves a promotion after getting his act back together. OK, that could be solved by sending Buxton down again (as he is struggling again), but the team should be planning for Sano to stay in the infield or DH. My “obvious candidate” trade list includes Plouffe, Milone, Nolasco, Abad and Nunez because there is value to these guys and the Twins might be able to get a prospect in return. I would LOVE to include Jepson on this list, but he’s worthless and should be DFA’d at this point. My value player the team would get in return for a trade includes a low-A starter, a mid-level minor league reliever that can throw fire or an upper minor leaguer that could break the majors as a platoon player (not really interested in this player, prefer pitching). I’d even go further to say Dozier, Suzuki and Erwin Santana should be on the trade table, if there was a promising prospect that could be had for the offering.

Twins win!

I was at the game....a "slug-fest"!!!

Someone say Dinner?

Giggle, giggle, giggle....