Game 151 - Twins at Tribe
Posted by Yickit on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Game Time: 7:05 CDT EST and 6:05 CDT
Probable Pitchers:
Twins - Francisco Liriano (xFIP: 4.45 ; tRA+: 136 )
Tribe - Zach Jackson (xFIP: 4.44 ; tRA+: 147 )
Go Twins!
Dazzle goes out on a limb on the pregame show, calling Liriano, "one of the Twins' better young pitchers."
Come on, Mountie. Get your man.
on the board!
A run? Is it the ninth inning already?
Good inning for Liriano.
Nicky P: doing the little things...poorly.
Gomez doing his best Nicky P impression.
WTF? Can't anyone here play this game??
Two in a row!
I finally found a negative for Gameday Mini: The funniest mugshots are a little harder to see, and therefore, slightly harder to chuckle at.
Don't really know why the Twins bothered to come up to bat that inning.
I'm taking exception to Yicket's preview game time.
Sorry. Forgot I live in DC not MN.
F.
Raspberries.
3 run homers are not good
Heavens to Murgatroyd.
Second place isn't so bad. The playoffs are overrated anyway.
Yeah, only those show-off teams go to the playoffs. We'd rather finish second. It fits our humility much better.
oh cr@p. This is not good.
Well, boys, you've got some wood to chop tonight.
I'm thinking the Twins pitchers this late in the season have been more heavily scouted, and we're seeing the consequences with these long balls. It looks like Liriano is overthrowing his fastball (94 mph vice 90-91 earlier), thus losing some movement. We're toast boys.
I think it's the lack of a veteran presence.
Not just toast.
Unfortunately, they've been hitting dingers, not just shingles, twayn.
The last 17 runs allowed by the Twins have come on 10 home runs over the last four games. The Twins have been out-homered 10-2 in that stretch.
As someone sometimes says, this is a big inning for Liriano. He needs to regroup and put some zeroes up if the Twins are going to have a chance to come back.
Leapin' lizards.
The Punto haters have been unleashed
Goodness gracious.
Dazzle talking about a tight strike zone hurting Liriano. He's probably right, but somehow, the Twins only have one run and the Indians have five. Something is going on besides the strike zone here.
melt
down
Well, there's just not a whole lot to say.
We're going to need some of these.
And the Sox well on their way to making this a 2 1/2 game deficit. Good night
Where's the bottom?
I don't think there is a bottom to a black hole, Jeff A.
It would be nice to see the Twins show a little fight here. I'm not saying score seven runs this inning, but even a couple, just to show they haven't given up, would be nice.
That wasn't what I had in mind.
I could go for some Mexican food right now
like a burrito or something
it will help sooth these road trip wounds
Oh man, dw, now *I* want a burrito.
Not a bad inning for Boof, for whatever that's worth.
this game is such a lost cause that Daz and Gordo are talking about two low minor leaguers who have been injured for a couple of years
Well, you have to start somewhere.
And so the comeback begins. Baby steps.
I'm going to say something that is very not me, and is possibly very StatFreakian, which is:
These are going to be some gut-check, season-defining ABs for Mauer and Morneau.
Well, on a Pitchfork scale, I would rate that about a 6.4.
Just when I surrender the living room TV to my daughter, the Twins start something. Figures.
The Twins are trying to climb out of the casket. Morneau's up to bat. Do I dare hope?
Juan Rincon is warming in the Tribe pen
Hope springs eternal.
Well, they're back in it. If they can hold Cleveland where they are, they at least have a chance.
Yankees blew a chance in the bottom of the 5th with bases loaded. Giambi's a chump.
Chump. Doofus. Boob. They all work.
Dazzle, I really don't think they're making bad pitches on purpose. Sometimes you just don't make as good a pitch as you want to make.
defensive double plays are helpful
Well, this is getting interesting.
Mountie up.
This is 2 weeks in a row I've forgotten my game log. I'm real sorry guys. Thanks to Yickit for having my back.
The authorities have been notified.
No prob. Before I edited it Zach Johnson was pitching for the Indians. Damn Drake grads always clouding my memory.
Ah, frack...
However this comes out, at least the Twins didn't just roll over when they got down. I know moral victories don't count in the standings, but at least it makes me feel better.
I think Morneau is something like 0 for his last 15 or something, right?
he was 0-11 after last night's game
Holy Cow! That was the best DP I've seen all year!
wow, I need to pay better attention to this game. i thought we were down by 3, here we are down by 1
This is a big inning for davidwatts.
+1 StatFreakian statement
Gordo, how did Delmon "hit it well" if it was a fly ball to short center field?
it wasn't a weak dribbler to the third baseman
thus, it was hit well, for Delmon's standards
catchers interference?
This is a critical at bat for
DelmonBuscherPunto.Wow what a break.
Addition: Come on Twins make em pay here!DamnTwo walks and a catcher's interference. Now, we just need a wild pitch to tie the game.
Bases loaded without a hit or an error. Twins baseball is back!
This is where a player of the week would drive in runs.
CRAP
The baseball gods giveth and the baseball gods taketh away.
good pull sir.
Neighbor pulled up the game on his iPhone at the band boosters meeting (8-1) and I thought, what the hey, I'll throw the game on when I get home. Nice comeback, guys!