Minnesota @ Chicago GameThread, May 7, 2008 8:11 PM EDT

Game 32: Twins @ White Sox

by Jesse on May 7, 2008 7:15 PM EDT in Game Threads

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 8:11 PM EDT
U.S. Cellular Field

Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing from right to left field at 5-15 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 65.

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2008 - Livan Hernandez	4-1	7	7	0	0	0	0	42.2	53	23	21	7	9	17	4.43	1.45

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2008 - Mark Buehrle	1-3	6	6	1	0	0	0	36.2	43	21	18	3	8	23	4.42	1.39

Lineup

Minnesota Twins @ Chicago White Sox

05/07/08 8:11 PM EDT

Minnesota Twins	Chicago White Sox
Carlos Gomez - CF	Orlando Cabrera - SS
Brendan Harris - 2B	Carlos Quentin - LF
Craig Monroe - DH	Jim Thome - DH
Justin Morneau - 1B	Paul Konerko - 1B
Michael Cuddyer - RF	Jermaine Dye - RF
Delmon Young - LF	AJ Pierzynski - C
Mike Redmond - C	Nick Swisher - CF
Matt Tolbert - 3B	Joe Crede - 3B
Nick Punto - SS	Juan Uribe - 2B

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Tonight

hopefully the Twins batters will come alive again and start hitting…last night was unexceptable….

Hernandez must keep the ball low in the zone and induce alot of groundball outs…MUST!!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 7:47 PM EDT 0 recs

We'll

We’ll see if this game happens. It’s raining pretty hard outside my window as I type this.

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."
~ Earl Weaver
"In God we trust. All others must provide evidence."
~ Billy Beane

by AdamOnFirst on May 7, 2008 8:46 PM EDT 0 recs

first pitch . . .

3rd pitch HOMERUN GOMEZ

Peyton's good but have you ever heard of Jeff George?

by halfchest on May 7, 2008 9:57 PM EDT 0 recs

What the...

Right now, I’m getting Detroit vs. Orlando on TNT instead of FSN. What the crap for crap is going on?

by Jon Marthaler on May 7, 2008 10:00 PM EDT 0 recs

It’s Comcastic!

Monopolies are awesome.

formerly known in these parts as adamb

by ravenfly on May 7, 2008 10:08 PM EDT up 0 recs

Whew.

Things were fixed about the third inning or so.

by Jon Marthaler on May 7, 2008 10:46 PM EDT up 0 recs

Punto

If anybody else in the lineup bunts and then gets thrown out because they don’t run to first, they get immediately benched. I propose that the same standard be applied to Nick Punto.

He’s lucky Gomez saved his bacon with a two-out triple.

by Jon Marthaler on May 7, 2008 10:51 PM EDT 0 recs

agreed

Punto stands around arguing (I think) instead of running it out and then arguing if he really wanted to….get benched Punto!!!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 10:58 PM EDT up 0 recs

Just when you get mad...

Punto goes and totally redeems himself.

Forget we said anything, Nicky. Three-run doubles are a good way of making up for screwing up.

by Jon Marthaler on May 7, 2008 11:07 PM EDT up 0 recs

yeah...

how bout Gomez though??? he is totally hot right now!!!! OMG…if he didnt trip around first base he probably would have gone all the way around! Inside the park homer potential!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:09 PM EDT up 0 recs

Gomez just a single away from the cycle

The Twins haven’t had a cycle since August 1, 1986, when Puckett did it…

by Jon Marthaler on May 7, 2008 11:10 PM EDT 0 recs

why

not have another CF do it? two of the best CF in the game and in Twins history with cycles…that would be fun!!!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:11 PM EDT up 0 recs

Gomez

is a single away from the cycle folks!!!!

1 HR, 1 3B, 1 2B!!!

Will we see a Twin get a cycle tonight???? LETS GO GOMEZ!!!!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:10 PM EDT 0 recs

GD COMCAST

you are so very incompetent.

formerly known in these parts as adamb

by ravenfly on May 7, 2008 11:12 PM EDT 0 recs

Buehrle

Haaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha!

I do so love Buerhle being a big baby about getting badly beaten by the boys. Maybe this’ll teach him to keep his trap shut. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha!

formerly known in these parts as adamb

by ravenfly on May 7, 2008 11:13 PM EDT 0 recs

Full list of cycles

Kirby Puckett, 08-01-1986
Gary Ward, 09-18-1980
Mike Cubbage, 07-27-1978
Lyman Bostock, 07-24-1976
Larry Hisle, 06-04-1976
Cesar Tovar, 09-19-1972
Rod Carew, 05-20-1970

by Jon Marthaler on May 7, 2008 11:13 PM EDT 0 recs

and maybe

Carlos Gomez, 05-07-2008

GO GOMEZ!!!

They have 9 outs to go. Gomez will be the eight batter….who wants to bet that he will bunt?

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:17 PM EDT up 0 recs

DammmittttTT!!!!!

My friggen cable is out here in Chicago (presumably from the wicked rain we had earlier). We get friggen Fox just fine, but CSN? Noway.

ARRGHGHGHGH

What would my life be like without the '91 World Series?

by MJesser on May 7, 2008 11:15 PM EDT 0 recs

Livan

Livan pitching strong tonight

by DedicatedFollowerOfFashion on May 7, 2008 11:16 PM EDT 0 recs

One note for Jesse/etc.

The lineup widget doesn’t update on its own – I reposted it both nights.

by Jon Marthaler on May 7, 2008 11:17 PM EDT 0 recs

1 out

Tolbert, Punto…then guess who?

Gomez!!!!

Please O Lord let Gomez hit for the cycle!!!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:44 PM EDT 0 recs

Gomez

will lead off the 9th inning!

I predict that he will ATTEMPT to lay down a bunt! GO-GO GOMEZ!!!!!!!!!!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:46 PM EDT 0 recs

alright

here we go people….

This is the question: Will history be made? or Will Gomez fail?

I HOPE that Gomez will get a single in whatever way is possible!!!!!!!

I am sure he is nervous!!! Hell, I am nervous!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:53 PM EDT 0 recs

?

base hit?

http://noblingblings.blogspot.com/

by Aaron Fix on May 7, 2008 11:55 PM EDT 0 recs

GO GO CYCLE!!!!!!!!

by .mnqwerd on May 7, 2008 11:55 PM EDT 0 recs

HE DID IT!

by Jon Marthaler on May 7, 2008 11:56 PM EDT 0 recs

BASEHIT!!!

OMG!!!! Bouncing groundball up the middle off the glove of Wasserman and barehanded pickup by Ramirez but no chance!

CYCLE!!!!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:56 PM EDT 0 recs

Wasserman

should have caught that ball but hey I am not going to beat up on him….he did what he did and I am thankful to him!

GOMEZ is the MAN!!

by 33MorneauMVP on May 7, 2008 11:57 PM EDT 0 recs

Gomez gets the cycle

Take that, Aaron Gleeman.

"I don't care about feelings." - Lou Piniella

by natetheskate on May 8, 2008 12:07 AM EDT 0 recs

5 RBI for Punto

wow.

"I don't care about feelings." - Lou Piniella

by natetheskate on May 8, 2008 12:13 AM EDT 0 recs

Uh, Bert...

Maybe this is why you don’t always leave the starter out there to finish the game.

Hernandez loses the shutout on a Dye home run, then gives up three consecutive sharp singles.

by Jon Marthaler on May 8, 2008 12:24 AM EDT 0 recs

uh?

I believe he finished the game with only that one run given up. Doesnt really justify your point.

by .mnqwerd on May 8, 2008 1:09 AM EDT 0 recs

Yes, he did.

But if the game was close, like 5-0 going into the ninth, the Sox would have had the tying run at the plate, all because the Twins left Livan out there to “finish the game.”

In a 13-0 game, it doesn’t matter at all. But Bert makes no distinction between a 13-0 lead and a 3-0 lead in calling for the starter to be left in.

by Jon Marthaler on May 8, 2008 1:24 AM EDT up 0 recs

irrelevant

It doesnt matter what the score was, you tried to knock Bert’s philosophy by using this game as an example. And according to this game Bert was right. Livan pitched out of it. Of course if it was 3-0 he probably would not have been out for the 9th. And if he was you cant really say the results would have been the same. Different mindframe for both the hitters and the pitcher.

by .mnqwerd on May 8, 2008 1:33 AM EDT 0 recs