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Yup. To recall the movie quote stuff from 2 threads ago... (and the only line i remember from the movie...) "Coffee is for closers."

Can an error be charged to the official scorer?

What's to keep them from pitching around him to get to Joe? (My napkin calculation says if Dozier has 4 and is on pace for 58, Mauer with 1 must be on pace for... 14.5. I guess that's 14 and a ground rule double?) Oh right. He can run too! Is there anything he can't do?

Ya got me good! Anyway, i still look forward to tomorrow's game!

Good to hear. Yup, it is always wise to know the limitations of your tools. Brought up the Field view in game day, and yeah, that is an awful lot of outs to the left side of the infield. Thanks for the additional info.

Looks like i missed a good game, if not a close. (and i thought i'd be here for most of it) A Mauer 3 run dinger and a Dozier dinger backed good Nolasco pitching, leastwise from the box score. Anything else of greater excitement? (I always like good fielding, and highlights are less prone to include it. And i guess i'll read the rest of the thread soon enough...)

1. Wait. Do we have to score runs on rainy days? I thought those games were rescheduled... Alas, imagining a game where you could save runs for when you needed them most would just be weird. "It's the September, the Tigers are 7 games ahead, which isn't insurmountable, but they have 90 runs in hand..." 4. That's cleanup, right! Colabello! Square up perfectly on the ball! (and, as i'm commenting on perfect squares...) 9. Lipstick. (always confused me why thoughts only went up to 5 with that 9 floating down there in the signature. But yeah, 5 are hard enough to write well on a regular basis. Gotta pace yourself for the whole season.) Anyway, go twins!

Ah, here's a good movie quote (though i'm not good enough to get it in its full glory) "Failure should not lead to despair, for despair looks only to the past"... "to fail (fall!) and rise again!" -(which is what brought it to mind) "uptity-toenails!" is somewhere in it too...

Agreed. (Though i did like seeing them tie the middle one in the 9th.)

Ah, well done. "That baseball hit the glove, and I was never here." And it is kind of challenging to come up with movie quotes relevant to the game. Good exercise...

Right on! (And movies are interesting, as i expect TD folk span a large enough group that not everyone has seen everything. I think i got ~2/3rds, but will be glad to learn what the rest are from)

(Catching up on the game...) It does look like we're hitting the ball. Plouffe does seem to be doing well. And Kubel too. (Though i think he smoked one off a left handed A's starter too, so not too surprising?) Anyway, I can't complain about the crooked numbers when we're not pitching.

"yeah, tell him about the twinkie."

I read it, and thought it was a set up for a guitar joke. And a timely one too. Isn't Gibson pitching next? (Someone's avatar already makes that joke though.) Regarding Coach Gardenhire's tenure. I personally expect the team to turn around enough this season and the next that his seat isn't as hot as some think it is. I may be a stary-eyed optimist, and I'm okay with that.

Not this time i guess... Anyhow, Thanks all for the company!

... 6 runs in less than 3 outs... can we do it?!

Don't know. (and am too lazy to research) but it is an interesting question. I believe the first one (Punto) was a little deceptive, as the announcers said Lowrie got caught off first, and somewhere in that rundown, Punto broke for home, and they threw it in to stop the run, and Punto stayed in a rundown long enough for all runners to move up, at which point he was run back to 3rd by Pinto. (And i just thought it fun to say Pinto tags Punto with, um the ball, in the conservatory...) But yeah, you can't tell that from the box score.

So... Pinto tagged Punto out at 3rd after Lowrie got caught off base. And it all comes around, as Lowrie gets tagged at the plate. By Pinto. 6-1, pending ump powow...

I too am a fan of Rudyard. And now, back to the game, where i hope to see a twin or two go Rudyard...

(Reference already explained by ashburyjohn) But yes. Good glove work is important in all fields, especially science. I approve.

Maybe it was a fire hydrant of a different color? (Hope i am figuring this qoute thing out. And my, what a complex sequence of thoughts... i think it calls for indiscriminate use of "like" button...)

Kubel rips it again!

Isn't that like asking what the crocodile has for dinner?

He got it! Bottom of the inning coming up. (and i think it was a Punto walk... Just as glad they didn't bean Punto. But either way, bases were loaded with two out and top of the order. Now their not, as the inning's over.)

Lead was nice while it lasted... (3 singles did it.)