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GameChat – Yankees @ Twins, 7:10

Posted on 1 July, 2013 by CapitalBabs

The Yankees are Coming! The Yankees are Coming!! oh wait.. that’s someone else.. something to do with the East Coast though right?? 😉

(I’m in a historical mood this holiday week)

Anyway, these aren’t exactly the Yankees we were always concerned with though so.. let’s hope the boys remember that.

[EDIT] LATE scratch kids: Willingham is out completely, Plouffe is moved into the DH spot and Carroll will be manning 3B

NY Yankees	@	Minnesota
Gardner, B, CF		Thomas, C, CF
Nix, J, SS		Dozier, 2B
Cano, 2B		Doumit, C
Wells, V, RF		Willingham, DH
Hafner, DH		Morneau, 1B
Almonte, LF		Plouffe, 3B
Overbay, 1B		Arcia, LF
Stewart, C, C		Parmelee, RF
Adams, D, 3B		Escobar, E, SS
Pettitte, P		Diamond, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
NY Yankees	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	4	10	14	1
Minnesota	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	8	2

I got home to find the Twins up 4-3 after seven innings and wow did things go down the drain quickly after that!

Wasn’t the bullpen supposed to be… what’s the word?… good? Ugh.

GameChat – Royals @ Twins #2, 7:10pm

Posted on 28 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

who knows, I MAY be able to catch up on the end of tonight’s game… but I’m not making any promises there.

There’s been on and off rain during this afternoon but all of that is supposed to be done before the game actually starts so there shouldn’t be any delay – at least not much.

Let’s see if the boys can’t give us Twins fans another win tonight!

Kansas City	@	Minnesota
Gordon, A, LF		Thomas, C, CF
Escobar, A, SS		Mauer, DH
Hosmer, 1B		Doumit, C
Butler, B, DH		Willingham, LF
Perez, S, C		Morneau, 1B
Moustakas, 3B		Arcia, RF
Cain, L, CF		Plouffe, 3B
Johnson, E, 2B		Dozier, 2B
Lough, RF		Florimon, SS
Shields, P		Walters, P, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Kansas City	3	1	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	9	11	0
Minnesota	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	10	0

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GameChat – Royals @ Twins, 7:10pm

Posted on 27 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

what a beautiful night for baseball.. sadly, by the time I get a chance to watch baseball again, it will be time for the All-Star break..

Let’s hope we can do better against the Royals than we did against the Marlins.

Kansas City	@	Minnesota
Gordon, A, LF		Thomas, C, CF
Escobar, A, SS		Mauer, C
Hosmer, 1B		Willingham, DH
Butler, B, DH		Morneau, 1B
Perez, S, C		Arcia, LF
Moustakas, 3B		Plouffe, 3B
Lough, RF		Parmelee, RF
Johnson, E, 2B		Dozier, 2B
Dyson, J, CF		Florimon, SS
Guthrie, P		Deduno, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Kansas City	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	7	1
Minnesota	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	x	3	6	0

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GameChat – Twins @ Marlins #2, 11:40am

Posted on 26 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

What an absolutely ridiculous start time for a midweek game.. can’t imagine what the already sparsely populated new Marlins park looks like today.

Obviously, I’m at work and won’t be able to follow along today because yeah, work is work and LOTS of deadlines right now.

Good luck?

Minnesota	@	Miami
Thomas, C, CF		Ruggiano, LF
Dozier, 2B		Lucas, 2B
Mauer, C		Stanton, RF
Willingham, LF		Ozuna, CF
Arcia, RF		Morrison, 1B
Plouffe, 3B		Polanco, 3B
Parmelee, 1B		Hechavarria, SS
Escobar, E, SS		Mathis, C
Diamond, P		Koehler, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Minnesota	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	1
Miami	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	x	5	11	1

couldn’t watch the game so I have no idea what happened… obviously, we lost – Go Mike Redmond.

GameChat – Twins @ Indians #3, 12:05pm

Posted on 23 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

Ok, in my defense, this week my schedule has been RIDICULOUS (I hear Dairy Queen commercials in my head when I type this) so I have missed a LOT of baseball and baseball news. And sadly, today isn’t done with that schedule yet so I still don’t get any baseball.

BUT WHEN AND WHY DID PEDRO HERNANDEZ GET BACK UP HERE???

I’m so lost… I would still hate to see us on the OTHER side of a sweep in the division so can we please hope that he pitches great today?? oh, and boys, hit the ball a lot.

Minnesota	@	Cleveland
Thomas, C, CF		Bourn, CF
Mauer, DH		Aviles, SS
Doumit, C		Kipnis, 2B
Willingham, LF		Swisher, 1B
Arcia, RF		Reynolds, Ma, 3B
Plouffe, 3B		Santana, C, DH
Parmelee, 1B		Raburn, LF
Dozier, 2B		Gomes, Y, C
Florimon, SS		Stubbs, RF
Hernandez, P, P		Carrasco, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Minnesota	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	5	12	0
Cleveland	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	8	0

Ok, what the heck is up with these super slow games in Cleveland??

And just a heads up on the info I didn’t have during pregame: Pedro was up because Pelfrey hurt his back yesterday in warm-ups and is on the DL retro-active to his last start. Thank you to Pedro and his wife for the extraordinary effort in driving 357 miles overnight to be here as the emergency starter today.

I am glad that we got a win though. I was only able to briefly check in on the game at various points and never thought it was very encouraging but it looks like everyone kept firing away and worked hard. I like that they leave on a win and have the day off tomorrow. While there was a lot of contribution from everyone but from the numbers, today belongs to Mr. Joe Mauer.

Sunday Morning Comic Relief

Posted on 23 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

GameChat – Twins @ Indians #2, 6:15pm

Posted on 22 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

Again – got the family over for some fun so I won’t be around for the game…

At least my house still has power – glad the team is on the road.

Minnesota	@	Cleveland
Thomas, C, CF		Bourn, CF
Mauer, C		Aviles, SS
Doumit, DH		Kipnis, 2B
Morneau, 1B		Brantley, LF
Plouffe, 3B		Santana, C, C
Arcia, LF		Reynolds, Ma, 1B
Parmelee, RF		Giambi, DH
Dozier, 2B		Chisenhall, 3B
Florimon, SS		Stubbs, RF
Walters, P, P		Kluber, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Minnesota	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	7	13	0
Cleveland	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	x	8	12	0

well that certainly took a long time…

When the majority of my family left our house, I turned the game day on to see that we were in the bottom of the 8th inning.. at 9:30?? huh? I’m going to guess there was a rain delay.

Despite Parmesan closing it in to a single run, the boys couldn’t quite overcome the deficit they had since the 1st inning.. let’s hope for better tomorrow.

GameChat – Twins @ Indians, 6:05pm

Posted on 21 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

Ok, I kind of wish I was going to be able to see this game tonight but yeah, all that stuff is finally coming due and I won’t be around – deadline day… Sorry for the late post but I still squeaked in before game start right?

Minnesota	@	Cleveland
Dozier, 2B		Bourn, CF
Mauer, C		Aviles, SS
Doumit, DH		Kipnis, 2B
Willingham, LF		Santana, C, DH
Morneau, 1B		Brantley, LF
Plouffe, 3B		Reynolds, Ma, 1B
Arcia, RF		Chisenhall, 3B
Thomas, C, CF		Gomes, Y, C
Carroll, SS		Stubbs, RF
Deduno, P		Kazmir, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Minnesota	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	5	0
Cleveland	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	x	5	8	1

OK I’m going to be honest here, I was at a bar from about 3:30 until after the Twins game finished, so I can’t say I’m real clear on what happened. But I saw Joe Mauer hit a double and I saw Brian Dozier go yard. It also seemed like every time I looked up at the TV, Sam Deduno was striking someone out.

Yet, it also seemed like every time I looked at the TV, the Indians had a bigger lead, so obviously I didn’t see everything that was going on.

Ah well, Saturday will be better, right? – JC

GameChat – White Sox @ Twins #3, 12:10pm

Posted on 20 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

These day games are really hard for regularly-employed people – I’m always concerned whether I can get a break for a post much less be able to follow the game itself and my current work-load? But since I’m sitting on hold at the moment, up goes a post. (and of course this is the day that they were really slow posting lineups so post delayed)

You might be entertained by this video from Justin Morneau’s HR in last night’s game:

But enough of yesterday, we would LOVE to sweep the White Sox wouldn’t we? I think, yes. It’s great to have the wins we already have and the series win but this is a divisional opponent and every single win matters so let’s not let the heat & humidity or the day game lethargy diminish the effort.

Chi White Sox	@	Minnesota
De Aza, CF		Dozier, 2B
Ramirez, Al, SS		Mauer, DH
Rios, RF		Doumit, C
Konerko, DH		Willingham, LF
Dunn, A, 1B		Morneau, 1B
Viciedo, LF		Plouffe, 3B
Keppinger, 3B		Arcia, RF
Beckham, G, 2B		Thomas, C, CF
Gimenez, H, C		Escobar, E, SS
Danks, Jh, P		Diamond, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chi White Sox	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	4	10	2
Minnesota	0	3	0	2	1	2	0	0	x	8	15	1

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!! Storm clouds may be literally on the horizon but that didn’t mean the boys didn’t want to finish off the White Sox with a bang today. I’m not going to argue with the fact that overall, the hitters made it really tough to pick a BOD today! There were homeruns from Dozier, Arcia, Thomas and Escobar which really makes the lacking look funny at the heart of the order… but again, with a win, who cares?

A lot could be said about the White Sox losing this game because with all the fielding errors, they really just gave us the game but no, we were still hitting and doing the job right for the most part – I’m looking at you Plouffe.

Interesting to me was a bit I got off Twitter: First time Sox swept at Target Field, first time swept at Minn since 9/23-25/08. 12 games under .500 since end of 2007.

Wow… but this is a huge shot in the arm for the boys to take the Sox at home so I hope they take that feeling with them for the next game.

And congrats to Oswaldo Arcia as today’s BOD!

Minnesota+Twins+Photo+Day+Arcia

GameChat – White Sox @ Twins #2, 7:10pm

Posted on 19 June, 2013 by CapitalBabs

Ok this week is CRAZY about deadlines for me – honestly, more than I can actually meet so something is going to have to give somewhere, I just don’t know when or where..

So while I’m working tonight and my brain is frying, I’m hoping that the Twins will at least give me a good distraction AND a good mood lift. Last night’s win didn’t hurt!

Seeing Mauer take on Chris Sale could make for good baseball theater! I just hope Correia is up to the task.. let’s go boys!

Chi White Sox	@	Minnesota
De Aza, CF		Dozier, 2B
Ramirez, Al, SS		Mauer, C
Rios, RF		Doumit, RF
Dunn, A, DH		Willingham, DH
Konerko, 1B		Morneau, 1B
Gillaspie, 3B		Plouffe, 3B
Viciedo, LF		Arcia, LF
Beckham, G, 2B		Thomas, C, CF
Flowers, C		Florimon, SS
Sale, P		Correia, P

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chi White Sox	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	4	9	2
Minnesota	0	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	x	7	10	0

It really is fun beating the White Sox, isn’t it? I mean… just watching the circus that their defense can turn in to at times is just enjoyable.

One thing about being the only person left in the Chat when the game ends is that it falls to me to choose the BOD. There were all sorts of guys up and down the line up that had good games. Brian Dozier with an early, critical home run. Justin Morneau breaking his HR slump. Josh Willingham, Ryan Doumit… the list goes on.

But Kevin Correia gave the Twins a very good outing on the mound, giving up just five hits in 6.2 innings and striking out 6 Sox without surrendering a single walk. That’s the kind of starting pitching that deserves to be rewarded and that’s what we’re going to do!