IGT - 9/16/16 Twins at Mets

[Centerfield]

Uncle Bartolo takes the hill. The Twins counter with Jose Berrios and his ERA over 9.

Either the Giants or Cardinals will lose. TAKE SEPTEMBER!

[MFS62]

Carpe diem.

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Berrios was the starting pitcher when I saw the Twins play last month in Minnesota. The Astros knocked him out the box with 6 runs in 2 innings.

Twins do have a couple of hitters. Dozier is having a great year and Kenny Vargas is a gigantic switch hitter with great power. And look out for the return of Juan Centeno! Mostly though low-average punchers.

[Frayed Knot]

Berrios was the Twins top draft pick back in 2012 out of Puerto Rico. He came into this season as top prospect and was a top-20 prospect overall -- but I think it’s fair to say that a 9.27 ERA after 11 ML starts isn’t quite getting it done. 62 hits in 44 innings including 10 HRs is no way to go through life son.


Overall on this year's Twins, 2B Brian Dozier is one of the most ridiculous stories in MLB this year.
He’s had a couple of 20+ HR seasons before and was a 2015 All-Star, but this year he has [u:26ifwikq]22 bombs just since August 2nd[/u:26ifwikq] and trails only Mark Trumbo (42-41) in the ML HR lead for the season. He’s also jacked his BA up 40 points this year in the process.

[G-Fafif]

Gotta beat Those Twins.

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Here's to Mets baseball.

[Lefty Specialist]

MFS62 wrote: Carpe diem. Later

Or, more accurately, Carpe Gemini.

[Frayed Knot]

Twins warming up for their trip to NYC by beating the Tigers 4-1 in the 8th this afternoon.
If they hold on that'll make it 3 of 4 in this series against WC hopeful Detroit so it's not like the Tigers had nothing to play for.
Also Detroit still have distant hopes at the AL Central crown (6 games back), AND had a slightly better record than us this season, AND had been 11-1 vs the Twinkies this season.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Reyes 3B
Cabrera SS
Cespedes LF
Granderson CF
Bruce RF
T. Rivera 2B
Loney 1B
d’Arnaud C
Colon P

[TransMonk]

Terry keeps riding that Rivera train. I might have gotten Kelly Johnson into the lineup today...either in place of Rivera or Loney.

[Edgy MD]

I think Terry likes how Johnson's bat plays off of the bench.

I do too, and that's why I think it might be good to play that bat off the bench four times.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Dozier 2B
Mauer 1B
Polanco SS
Kepler RF
Suzuki C
Escobar 3B
Rosario LF
Buxton CF
Berrios P

[Frayed Knot]

Mini-KTE

Dozier 2B -- so how often does the team's (and nearly MLB's) HR leader hit lead off? But he will run (15 SB in 17 tries) as well as bop.
Mauer 1B -- not quite what he once was offensively, and of course no longer catching which takes a bit more of the value off, but he still can hit and get on base
Polanco SS -- that would be 22 y/o rookie SW-hitter Jorge Polanco. Yeah, I never heard of him either.
Kepler RF -- I know more about 16th century German astronomer Johannes Kepler than I do about this guy. But Max here was also born and grew up in Germany and is having a decent rookie year.
Suzuki C -- Now in his 10th year in MLB and his 3rd w/Minn. Of all the catchers in the league, the Hawaiian-born Suzuki is one of them.
Escobar 3B -- Eduardo Escobar. I hope for his sake that he's got a good glove cuz his hitting stats aren't much.
Rosario LF -- Eddie Rosario, 24 y/o in his 2nd year.
Buxton CF -- 2nd overall pick in the 2012 draft and a top-10 prospect on all the lists every year since ... but he kept getting hurt in the minors and has yet to live up to that promise. Still just 22 though
Berrios P -- Was called-up for his ML debut amid much fanfare in late April, but ERAs approaching 10 R/G have a habit of pissing all over fanfare.

[Guest cooby]

And I never heard of dozier. Except DJ

[G-Fafif]

Twin Kurt Suzuki homered at Citi Field as an Athletic and a National. I'd be wary of anybody who shows that kind of power as an adjective.

[Frayed Knot]

Fuck Kurt!!

oh wait, wrong Suzuki. Never mind!

[MFS62]

Hey!
There's a game going on.

LETS


Later

[metirish]

Oh that was an embarrassing non catch by Cespedes

[Guest themetfairy]

Thankfully it didn't come back to bite us in the ass.

[Zvon]

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[Lefty Specialist]

Really need more runs. This game is too close for comfort considering the competition.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Late to this, of course my first full AB is d'Arnaud whiffing.

[Edgy MD]

Keith just made a Seinfeld reference and nobody in the booth got it.

He may have finally worn out the novelty of being a guest star.

[Edgy MD]

Five-pitch inning. Mercy.

[Edgy MD]

They actually pulled him after 78 pitches.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Hitting for Bartolo. DeAza with a lead off single to open the bottom of the 7th. Need to bring him around to make it worth pulling Bartolo when he was cruising.

Reyes not up to the task. Come on Cabrera.

[Zvon]

Yo with an RBI single. That's big.

3-0 Mets

[Edgy MD]

Now leave De Aza in to play center.

Please.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I go to mix a fresh drink and Cespedes delivers the RBI single. I guess I need to refresh my drink more often. I'm willing to do whatever I can to help the team.

[Zvon]

What a season he's having.

[Frayed Knot]

Another ho-hum, nine pitch, 1-2-3 inning by Reed