Twins at Rays, Whaddya Say
Game 1 - Crap.
Game 2 - Crappy, crap.
Game 3 - Almost crap then not a crap but crappy for Baker in the ND
Game 4 - In progress. (As I write this, the ump at second needs to be put in an old folks home as he blew a call on Casilla tagging a guy out at second that was ATROCIOUS! No damage but my GOD we need robots umps! ! ! !)
Side note: Highlight of last night's game was a visit to the booth by Bruno (he's working with the Twins organization as a hitting coach in the Gulf Coast League.) Bruno is a great interview, when Cuddy was a hair away of hitting into a triple play (shocker!) Bremer said something to the effect "You know about triple plays, don't you Bruno" Bruno replied "Yeah, great, thanks there Dick" and then referenced this gem of a bit of trivia: "While Brunansky was with the Red Sox, he hit into the first of TWO triple plays turned by the Minnesota Twins on July 17, 1990. This was first time in Major League Baseball history where one team has recorded two triple plays in the same game." Bit of justice, eh? Bruno also talked about Miguel Angel Sano (go to #1 here) Excitement abounds for the kid, Bruno said Sano is (paraphrasing) "a 17 year old kid who has it all and is special, he can play anywhere in the field, SS, 3rd, outfield, great, great arm, hits with power, strong hands, truly limitless potential . . . .but he's also a 17 year old kid."
7 Comments:
Does Bruno still wear the stache?
August 5, 2010 at 2:52 PM
So, Game 4:
Woohoo! Crap. CRAP. Home plate ump, you suck. No, Gardy, No!FUCKING CRAPPITY CRAP CRAP, CRAP!!! Good. Better. Woohoo! Thank you, dumb Tropicana Field architects.
August 5, 2010 at 7:14 PM
I love Bruno. I do want to point out that his career batting average was .245.
That's not a typo.
August 5, 2010 at 7:35 PM
No 'stache for Bruno. For some reason he reminded me of Sam Malone.
Unreal how we were cruising in that game today and then it all blew up. Slowey has been Buerhle-like in his pace the last couple starts and it's worked, he looked really good today minus the 8th inning. BTW - I know this is lame but I watched Jesse Crain strike out Wily Aybar not once, not twice but thrice on pitches that were called balls by home plate umpire home plate umpire Chris Guccione.
August 5, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Dude, that's not lame at all. The first two "balls" Crain threw didn't miss the dead center of the strike zone by more than two inches. He threw nine pitches to Aybar, one of which arguably missed the zone, but the other eight were basically no brainer, right down the damned middle strikes. Guccione squeezed the shit out of him.
It's absolutely karmic justice that we ended up winning on a freak ball off the catwalk. We deserved to have put that game away 20 minutes earlier.
By the way, how badly did Gardy outthink himself bringing in Mahay? For one, well, duh, of course Maddon's going to counter with a righthanded pinch hitter. Three of his regular starters were on the bench, incluidng Bartlett, and anyone who's ever actually seen a sports movie knows that if Bartlett comes up to face his former team in said situation, it's not going to go well for his former team. More importantly, what the fuck, dude? Crain's got the shaky history, but he's been unhittable the last two months. He hasn't allowed a run to score since early June. Leave him in. He obviously got screwed on the walk to Aybar; it's not like he just didn't have his stuff.
When Gardy starts to think, things go wrong.
August 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM
That was a HUGE win yesterday. Getting a split after the way the first two games unfolded should give us plenty of confidence heading to Cleveland. As luck would have it, the Black Sox head to Baltimore...so chalk up another sweep for them.
August 6, 2010 at 1:54 PM
I would think there is now more pressure on the Pale Hoes to keep ahead of us than on our squad to catch them. They know we're coming, just a matter of how we catch them.
BG - I have a sneaking suspicion that the Buck Showalter 3-0 O's are gonna give the Sox some fits, just a feeling as they start to look ahead to their series with us.
August 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM
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