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Gulp. Hope Adrianza is okay. Hit by a back foot slider.

Jeffers Draws a walk. (No at bat... No punctuation, but deserves comment as he gets to first)

But 2 teams bat every inning... Mind you, i got no desire to see you proved wrong.

6-2-5 double play!! How often does that happen?!

With great power comes great responsibility, not to mention great strike outs. Use it wisely!

Tie game... And welcome to the second page of the thread.

Another base runner! Baby steps...

Is that better or worse than pitching to contact?

Maybe it wasn't his style?

Chicago tied it just as i switched over...

Buxton!!!! Can jog if he wants to.

That was on the ol' Babbage analytic engine, no? Dredging some high school reading on history of computers... The Game thread graders would also have accept an answer of "yes" to that question (to the first 3 of questions, for that matter, ensuring passing grade)

A couple(5) of posers* to offer by way of opening this book club discussion... So, is this game Homer's Illiad, or Odyssey? Was Lord Byron a better politician or poet? Would a Rosario by any name smell as sweet? How did Josh hit one over the walls of Jericho? What are orbital routes of certai spheres as projected by Kepler? 0. Tarik Skubal ( L) P 1. Victor Reyes ( S ) CF 2. Willi Castro ( S ) SS 3. Miguel Cabrera (R ) DH 4. J. Candelario ( S ) 1B 5. Brandon Dixon (R ) LF 6. Niko Goodrum ( S ) 2B 7. Austin Romine (R ) C 8. Isaac Paredes (R ) 3B 9. Daz Cameron (R ) RF Twins: 0. Homer Bailey (R ) P 1. Byron Buxton (R ) CF 2. Josh Donaldson (R ) 3B 3. Eddie Rosario ( L) LF 4. Miguel Sano (R ) 1B 5. Mitch Garver (R ) C 6. Max Kepler ( L) RF 7. M. Gonzalez ( S ) 2B 8. Ryan Jeffers (R ) DH 9. Ehire Adrianza ( S ) SS *posers, not refering to their difficulty, unless you are trying to figure out why anyone would ask them in the first place. And the answer is that i am being a poser, makin' myself out to be a high brow turtleneck wearing intellectual type to good to get my hands dirty in a good ol' down to earth american past time.

I've picked more than my fair share of nits, so no worries. Yes, i did mean to include "by the batter" in my description. Your clarity in distinguishing what i meant from what i said, and to answer both is greatly appreciated. And i'm just as glad the Twins ended their curiosity where they did.

Winnah.

BB. What are other non-in play ways to get on base? Catcher's interference has been relatively popular thus far this year...

The ump?

Almost there... K/PB and HBP does not bode well.

Thanks for the warning. Hmmm... I thought i'd watched a fox broadcast on mlb... But maybe i was driving and listened to it on the radio. Or as Fox is locally broadcast, maybe i turned that on without checking mlb? I am confused, and now prepared for disappointment come October. Thanks for the heads up.

Gonzalez!! Kepler!!!!

Spice of life...

Well done Donaldson. We kept the runner from scoring. Huzzah.

Mutter mutter... Is every espn game blacked out for the entire country on mlb? Sigh. I did not reckon with this when i splurged an mlb membership. Does ESPN cover playoffs? I shall be put out.

Go Twins! (I gotta zoom for a bit. Be back soon)

I nodded off a bit somewhere in there. And then ran out of phone battery, and tried to post here with the same device i was watching on. It didn't always turn out well. So thanks all who took care of the game for me! This makes up a little for Thursday...