Game 126: Athletics @ Twins
by Jesse on Aug 20, 2008 12:00 PM EDT
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PrintOakland Athletics at Minnesota Twins, Aug 20, 2008 1:10 PM EDT
No Mauer in the lineup today, but Delmon Young is back in left field. With a lefty on the mound for the A's, Jason Kubel sits, too.
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Alright Franchise
wrap this up before we go on the long road trip….
Can you beat Slowey’s 12 K performance yesterday? I hope so!!!!!
The Road trip
Really doesnt Scare me, We play 3 Dogs in Seattle, Oakland and Toronto, and then the Angels, an Angels Team that is trying to avoid being Swept by a Longoria and Crawford LEss Rays Team.
Yeah, but...
Don’t forget the last Seattle series. shiver
If we play Toronto and LAA the way we played in Seattle, this could be one ugly road trip.
totally agree
3 dogs they may be but the one nearly swept us at Safeco!!! Never underestimate a team! especially ones playing for pride!
Angels at home
will be tough and you know Torii will be up for that series…
Toronto has the kind of pitching that can shut an offense down…
I think it will be a challenge but ya’ got to believe!
I've been trying to find one
But Twins affiliates that stream online don’t stream the games. I suppose mlb wants people to pay for their radio service. Oh well. Gameday is my friend today.
WNAX
Out of Yankton South Dakota has an online Stream that does broadcast the games, just lately on the Day games, they havent been broadcasting, its worth a try. just google search WNAX and you should be able to listen in.
Better Yet, Found this nice site
http://www.thegamelive.com/baseballmlb.html
you just need a player like Real Player and Click on the Yankton SD Link.
Lineups Courtesy of Lavelle E Neal
Athletics (57-68): 1. Mark Ellis, 2B. 2. Kurt Suzuki, C. 3. Emil Brown, LF. 4. Frank Thomas, DH. 5. Jack Cust, RF. 6. Bobby Crosby, SS. 7. Rajai Davis, CF. 8. Daric Barton, 1B. 9. Cliff Pennington, 3B. Pitching: Dallas Braden.
Twins (71-54): 1. Denard Span, RF. 2. Nick Punto, 2B. 3. Mike Redmond, C. 4. Justin Morneau, 1B. 5. Delmon Young, LF. 6. Randy Ruiz, DH. 7. Brian Buscher, 3B. 8. Brendan Harris, SS. 9. Carlos Gomez, CF. Pitching: Francisco Liriano.
Casilla will be Activated from the DL Following the Game today, Rumor is that Everett will go on the DL for Precautionary Reasons, then Be Activated when the Rosters Expand.
Enjoy the game thread guys
I am off to work.
I hope to see a Twins win and good game thread when I return at 6 PM!!!!!
I can't remember what year it was
but Thomas was still w/ them and there was a series in Aug/Sept and the Twins just took it to them.
I wouldn’t mind seeing that happen one more time
I road trip worries me but I think they’ll be ok, I think that last series at the Dome may be what decides it.
Game Time
Woot!, Lets Go Boys, Frankie is on the Mound, Lets Kick Some Athletic Ass, and Go Mariners Today only!
Ellis Scores
Single by Cust, And Punto Throws the Ball like 10 Feet from Redmond. Ellis would have been out by a mile.
Nice defense
You know, he’s the guy who does the little things right. Right?
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Sounds like
Little Nicky didn’t have a very good half-inning.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 1:24 PM EDT reply actions
He needs to unpucker the ol' sphincter
He’s afraid he’ll be back on the pine when Alexi comes back. Well, that’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Another Lefty
The Twins have seen more than their share in the past few weeks.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 1:26 PM EDT reply actions
Is anyone else still floored
By how all the sudden Span can work the count in 2008 when he showed no signs of doing so throughout his minor league career?
It’s like he read Moneyball over the winter and decided this was how he was going to market himself to other teams if the Twins eventually ditched him.
Please Nicky
Don’t bunt unless the mgr. tells you to.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 1:26 PM EDT reply actions
Not that it ever made any sense...
…but with the way Ruiz has been swinging, how do you justify Redmond hitting 3rd?
The bad Thing
With Redmond, you know that if he hits it on the ground it’s a GDP!
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 1:28 PM EDT reply actions
Is this seriously...
the level of discourse AM 1500 is expecting people to be INTERESTED in listening to? (re: the soucheray commercial with the 6 year old “it’s funny because it’s not english — why don’t they speak english?” humor.
I;m in the minoriety onthat one
Part of it is, ‘CCO wouldn’t branch out into other markets. That was the main reason the Twins moved: If they owned the ads, they could take as many affiliates as they wanted. So there are like 50 more affiliates now than there were then. With ‘CCO I couldn’t get the signal here in Faribault even though I’m just an hour south of the cities. And, in general, I can get more signals when I’m out and about than I could get with ’CCO.
Part of it is, those ‘CCO side announcers are so full of themselves. I just can’t stand Mixe Match and Dark Star. Especially Max. For a guy with such a pronounces lisp, he sure thinks his shit doesn’t stink.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
I totally missed it
They had a different commercial than the 7 they usually use? I must have tuned out… like usual.
It quoted souchery talking about some Chinese gymnast who medalled...
…whose name was Dong Dong. “Why couldn’t they have given her a real name like Mary?” or something like that. ROTFLMAO. Or not.
These Beijing Olympics are insane
ly Stupid when you really look at it, The Highlight is Michael Phelps (who is God), But you look at it, the Chinese Government is Trying to coverup the fact that their Gymnasts arent of legal age, Chinese TV is already making Doping Allegations against Phelps and Usain Bolt, Youve Got China Biased Judging in some contests, an Athlete Throws his Gold Medal over the Judging, another Dislocates his elbow in Lifting( That was a Very Scary Video), and Youve got a Silver medalist getting his Medal Thrown out for Doping..And the Guy won the medal in Pistol Shooting.
That doesn't even cover the baseball
With all the ejections, beanballs, and catchers getting plowed over.
According to Gameday
Two of the balls to Barton were in the strike zone, but again, it was according to Gameday.
Small strike zone today, too.
Gordo and Dazzle were commenting on the small zone today, and according to Gameday, they’re right.
Truthfully
It’s the sort of thing I’d smile at the first time I saw it on the TV, but to sit there “riffing” on it is just kind of embarrassing. Especially when you start questioning why they don’t have an English name. Um, because they don’t speak English. Socheray’s idea of political discourse is to really emphatically state his positio while adducing somewhere between no and minimal data to substantiate it, so I suppose I shouldn’t expect any more.
Damn it. Come on Francisco.
How do you bring up the strike zone box on Gameday?
On the ESPN gamescast
they have the strike zone box in the middle of the screen, to the right of the player stats and photos
Not Frankie's day
He’ll be lucky to get through five with the lead.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
yes, he just strck out Thomas
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Chatter chatter chatte
Call the friecking game you bozos!
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Thank you
I havent been Paying Much attention to the game the past 2 innings, Watching the San Diego-St Louis pre-season Replay on NFL Network, of all teams ha
If Anyone is interested
In watching our Rivals Play, The White Sox are Playing Seattle, Game is currently on WGN HD, Channel 9446 If you have Dish
Oh man.
On gamecast’s hot zone for punto, he’s ice cold everywhere except right down the middle and high and inside.
in fact
besides those two spots, (.444 and .400 respectively) he’s batting >.200. and less than .150 anywhere that’s not on the lower left side of the plate.
I think the upper right
is the result of a small sample size, being exactly .400 and completely out of whack with the rest of it. Look at it by the end of the season, and it will look like square dartboard.
Does Punto want us to lose?
Lets score more than one run against the Triple A’s today, Twinkies!
"I don't care about feelings." - Lou Piniella
"Stops as he reaches where the ball's going to land"
Did Gordo seriously just make that call or was I hearing things?
What's wrong with Liriano?
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Really laboring out there
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice start for the M's
First two hitters reach, but they fail to score. Now Dickey has faced five, all have reached, two in, bases juiced, none out. Chances of a grand slam > 50% IMHO.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 2:29 PM EDT reply actions
Jeez
Gamecast showed 3 of the 4 balls to Brown right on the line of the strike zone. Can’t get a call.
Ugh...
Looks like the bullpen is going to have to throw 4 innings today.
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
5 innings Max
For Liriano today.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 2:40 PM EDT reply actions
I think the Twins need to score at least five runs to win
Since pitchers not named Joe Nathan will pitch at least three innings out of the bullpen.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 2:42 PM EDT reply actions
Alright
Finish him!!!
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
that'll do
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice to see Liriano
was able to maintain is velocity while going over 90 and 100 pitches
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Nice job, Liriano!
Now get the bullpen some (many, many) runs.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 2:44 PM EDT reply actions
Score'em some runs boys!
Liriano would like a win and the bullpen needs your help.
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
No no, you got it all wrong
Not go down in order…. Bah… Score runs! Lot’s of them.
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Span saw some pitches today
7 in the 1st inning – BB
6 in the 3rd inning – HBP
8 in the 5th inning – K looking.
That’s some pretty good work, if he keeps it up he’ll continue getting pitches to hit.
Boof!!!!
C’mon, put together 2 solid innings bud!
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Butcher!!!
Stop it! Not helping the bullpens confidence there.
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Man...
Can’t he fix that tailing problem he has with his throws?
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions
If the Twins miss the playoffs
I would place a large amount of blame on the defense. Allowing Davis to reach on an error is like giving him a double.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 2:56 PM EDT reply actions
Not the guy you wanted to put on either
this guy is a pest
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Now
a) a distracted Bonser will walk the next guy or
b) he’ll groove a fastball for a two-run bomb.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 2:58 PM EDT reply actions
Alright Boof
go after this guy
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
The A's
They are counting on Beane being smarter than everybody else. We all know that many of the prospects they have received won’t pan out. If enough of them succeed, they will be good in a couple of years at the cost of sacrificing at least two years. If not enough of them are good, Beane will have gambled and lost big.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Hard to develop in an environment with no protection
They have all these prospects but there’s no protection in the lineup
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Reading Athletics Nation
I laughed really hard when they started referring to Gallagher as “NotRich”
And I’m sure in two years the A’s will be back in contention after they sort out who’s on the roster and whatnot.
Oh yeah, and move Cust to DH.
Nasty Boofer
I like it, 95 mph heat!!!!
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Punto
Actually been much better righthanded this year.
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
OMG
Punto stole versus a lefty!
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Red Dog
Clutch dude!!!
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Somebody start the company line
“Well… That’s Twins Baseball!!!”
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions
That Runs on Punto...
evens the score from Inning 1
I don't suffer from insanity...I relish every moment of it!
Crap Young's up
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
Ready first pitch foul
One strike
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Second pitch
strike two
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Another weak groundball
at least he advanced the runners…
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
by caseintheface on Aug 20, 2008 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions
I just saw the video of Harris' play
Good that he was shaded toward second, but that was a really nice play.
by Alexi Casilla All-Star on Aug 20, 2008 3:14 PM EDT reply actions
He seems more comfortable at short
He gets really bad jumps on balls at third, and his footwork stinks at second. So he’s best as a ss.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Buscher
Big at bat for him, could make up for Error and then also make a big step towards playing more regularly
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
"Forgot to take the donut off his bat"
that’s a good one Danny
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Alright then....
Harris we could use a big clutch 2 out hit here
Gardenhire's major league career: Banjo hitting, futility infielder who couldn't lick it.
Rick Anderson's major league career: Strikethrower who never made it happen with his sub 90's fastball.
Really gives a new definition to living vicariously through other people, don't it?
I've been gone since Monday morning....
…nice to see the boys can still win when I’m not on the site 24/7!
7 of 9 before the Republicans
We definitely needed to be at least that good on this homestand
Good timing too
I hate the Los Angeles Angels of Southern Unincorpated Orange County and Outlying Areas.
glad to see
that everybody had a good thread today without the “human gameday” on hand! Great job by all!
Also, kudos goes to Liriano! Pitched his guts out several times. Lets take it to those Angels!!!!
Baker vs. Lackey first game……
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