Game 161: She-Cago White Sox at Minnesota Twins
Posted by SBG on Saturday, September 30th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Well, last night was a tough loss. Let's see how the boys do this morning.
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Hmmm...something about morning baseball just doesn't feel quite right.
Agreed. They should have scheduled the football game for 11:00 and the baseball game for 7:00. Would have made much more sense.
considering I have plans from 2:00 until bedtime, I'm happy about the time!
'Attaboy, Garza. Good to see him get the K with his changeup.
Well, Gordo told me it was a changeup, at any rate. I'll just have to trust him.
Game time allows me an extra game beforw flying home. Ill take it.
Wow. No Dye, no Thome, no Konerko, no Crede. Ozzie's got his JV squad in today.
No AJP either. Darn.
This game is blacked out for me on MLB.tv and Extra Innings decided not to pick it up for some reason. I mean, who wants to watch the Twins play the White Sox in a game with the division on the line?
So I called DirecTV and gave them my old address in Excelsior (I live in SoCal now and haven't lived in MN since I was a kid) -- seconds later, I'm watching the Twins game on FSN North.
What a dumb system.
Moss used to get the Vikings games that way when Moss lived in NJ.
7 damn pitches. These guys need to develop some plate patience by Tuesday.
ahh. Apparently Ground-Rule Doubles CAN be a good thing.
Bert: Line drive gap type hitter. I'm gonna need another Bloody Mary.
The defense hit the snooze button one too many times this morning.
Garza handling it well.
Good thing we don't have the Dye-Thome-Konerko troika in the lineup today. This could be a 3-0 ballgame or worse already.
Garza seems to be struggling with his fastball control, but his willingness to throw breaking pitches at any count is huge.
Hopefully we see more patient at-bats by the Twins this inning.
He's getting those breaking balls across for strikes as well as I've ever seen him.
Bert: Line drive gap type hitter. I’m gonna need another Bloody Mary.
Morning baseball = ok
Morning Bert = no liver
Dick: "Had Morneau delivered a hit it would've been one of the greatest moments in Twins history" (paraphrased). Is he Bertin' serious?
If he's talking about last night's game, he's not much off the mark. I was there and it was intense.
Sure it could've given them a lead over the Tigers and possibly kept them in the race for home-field advantage, but one of the greatest moments? No way.
Garland is looking pretty hittable today. But everything we hit hard is right at somebody.
Seemed like we had a handfull of those last night too.
12 pitch inning thanks to Torii`s fouls. Maybe these guys all have tickets to the Gopher game later today.
Just a quick questions--do you think the Twins game will outdraw the Gophers game tonight?
At the start of the game or at the end of the first half when the Gophers are trailing 42-3?
Good one. +5.
Not sure why but ump left. Ah shit.
Apparently he's sick.
bad back
Ump is sick and has bad back.
If it's the guy who called Mauer's 9th inning checked swing a strike last night, I hope its something serious.
looked like his bat crossed the plane on the replay I saw
Phil Cuzzi at 3rd base got both close calls right in the 9th inning last night.
Lot of Michigan fans in town. Have to account for that.
Looks like Silva in Game 4!
So the best thing to do is win it in 3.
This is not encouraging. C'mon Matt.
Geoff is giving us reports from the ball park. I couldn't get tickets, so I'm relegated to the "home office".
Not inspiring confidence for that 4th post season pitching spot.
Especially considering that Garza's facing the "White Sox Lite" lineup.
Yep. He's done. I think he's probably not going to see the post season.
Guerrier up in the pen.
Maybe Garza doesn't wake up until noon.
Can someone give me a good reason NOT to start Baker in game 4 vs NYY? With 2 wins there's more reason to believe he can do something over Garza and Silva IMHO.
Serious question: have the Twins won a game yet in these awful sleeveless alt uniforms? Silva and Garza are the only pitchers who have opted to go with them and I know Silva didn't win his starts. Garza hasn't pitched well at home so I think the Twins are oh-for-sleeveless.
Long way to go but so you all know. Bad luck Geoff will NOT be in town for any post season games
A sign that it's been a bad day:
AB's for Podsednik: 3
AB's for Kubel, Tyner, and Bartlett combined: 0
Maybe they're trying to ice Garland.
+5, Whiffers
That's about as ugly a trip through the lineup as I can remember.
At least LRod came to play today.
I'm higher on LRod than most, I think. Not the right time for this discussion, but if he could give the Twins, say, 85% of Castillo's production at 15% of the cost, he might be an everyday option. He's got a Punto-like breakout season in him, I think. I could be way overestimating LRod's potential though.
Hit followed by GIDP. Grrrrrrrrr. 38 pitches thru 4. This officially sucks. Time to turn it around.
good throw by Cuddyer right to the cutoff man (hey, I'm grasping straws)
Iguchi: Pick me off. Please!
(Apparently in Japan it's courteous to allow oneself to get picked off when the opposition seems uninterested in the actual game.)
AJ is who he is. I actually like him. I think ozziw Guillen is great. But God do I hate white sox fans.
Just a very lackluster game. Makes it easier to get on with the rest of the day, at least.
Soldiers in Iraq are know scoring more than the Twins today.
Well, this is a buzzkill game.
Justin simply not that good at picking up bad throws.
Sliding head first cost Punto a hit when the Twins needed it.
I wish someone could convince Punto of that.
It's not so much that the White Sox have 5 runs that bothers me.
It's the zero that the Twins have scored. This makes 3 games in a row that the Twins have not been able to score in the first 6 innings. And the game before that they got one in the first and then nothing until the seventh (in a 6-4 losing effort)
It will be frustrating if Detroit loses 2 of 3 to KC and the Twins still don't pass them. Here's hoping Detroit loses 3 of 3. It would be payback for when the Twins let Detroit jump all over them to avoid breaking the losses record a few years ago.
These guys do not look ready for the playoffs right now.
A bad day of baseball is still better than most anyday at work. These Twins will be okay come Tuesday.
I'm beginning to think they WANT to play the Yankees. More and more each day.
Man, the U of M, must have really put the pressure on the Twins to finish this game quickly.
At least end the shutout. The sellout crowd deserves that much, doesn't it?
F~$÷ you garland.
Is there a rule against scoring before the 9th?
No doubt. This is getting ridiculous. Let's hope the Twins are just executing a team-wide rope-a-dope strategy, lulling their playoff opponents into thinking the Twins' offense has gone into the toilet.
...and lulling them into a false sense of security.
Holy Crap. Never give up. Dang, Cuddyer is so clutch!
Too little, too late.