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It’s do or die time.
Twins @ Tigers
Game 4 of 4
1b: Cuddyer
2b: Punto
3b: Harris
Ss: Cabrera
RF: Kubel
CF: Span
LF: Young
C: Redmond
Pitching: Baker, Rauch, Mahay, Guerrier, Mijares, Nathan
PRE-GAME:
Already having a heart attack. Hoping to not let Detroit clinch their first title in 22 years, since I’m stingy and don’t like to share things. Like ALC titles from year to year.
TOP OF 1st:
Span is out very quicky. Ohhhh, no.
Joe “Apparently I Tip Pitches” Mauer is the DH today. Um. Pops up for the 2nd out.
Uh, 1-2-3 inning. I’m scared.
BOTTOM OF 1st (0-0):
Jim Leyland cracks me up. My dad tells me stories of back in the day when you could smoke in the dugouts, and if the Tigers were down, he’d be chain-smoking pack after pack and screaming at the players. MY HERO!
The sun in Detroit is insane today. Hopefully it blinds all the Tigers in the outfield. I mean, GOOD GAME! BEST WISHES! SPORTSMANSHIP!
Okay, so MLBlogs censors your naughty-talk, so I’m going to have to come up with some substitutions for swears. Such as: SON OF A BENCH, why has Baker given up two hits and let runners get on the corners?
Eh, Baker strands the runners. Okay, Shake-N-Bake, keep that up.
TOP OF 2nd (0-0):
Agh, Kubel’s thrown out at 1st.
I’m wearing my Crede shirt, which makes me miss my little ginger-snap. He was one of my favorite Twins … all five games that he actually played.
And Harris doesn’t even put up a fight. Oh and then Granderson, AKA The Beast, catches Reddy’s hit. I may need to just pretend this game isn’t happening.
BOTTOM OF 2nd (0-0):
WOW. Looks like we picked up some Little League player named “Young” for the outfield. Nice.
So far it looks like Baker’s trying to give away the game.
Wow, the hecklers in Detroit are INTENSE.
Tigers score the first run, unsurprisingly.
TOP OF 3rd (0-1, Tigers):
Oooh, Span nailed by a pitch. He looks PIST.
“You gotta know that Punto can fly.” On the back of a unicorn, perhaps?
Mauer bats in Little Nicky and ties the game.
Whoa, Cuddy bats another in … do I smell a rally?
Fly ball brings in Dreamyburns.
Aw ship, Cuddy’s thrown out at third. But hey – hello lead?!
BOTTOM OF 3rd (3-1, TWINS):
Everyone looks like a super-dork with both eye-black and sunglasses. I’m looking at you, Kubel and Punto.
I’m still laughing at all these stories about Mauer stealing signs. I think that these two stories have a pretty good rebuttal to all of it.
Uneventful.
TOP OF 4th (3-1, Twins):
Throw gets by Inge and Harris takes 1st. And Reddy gets a hit! And Baby Nick moves them to 2nd and 3rd with a sac bunt! WORD!
Oh, nice, Span hits Harris in from 3rd. 4-1!
BOTTOM OF 4th (4-1, Twins):
Baker nails Thames with a pitch. Only his arm, but I don’t see Bake do that sort of thing often.
Thames takes out his slide on Cabrera – O-Cab and Thames are having words. Oy. Replay shows he obviously misses the bag and tries to slide into Cabrera.
Bases loaded with two outs. PUT HIM AWAY, BAKE! And Reddy catches a straight-up pop! LOVE IT.
TOP OF 5th (4-1, Twins):
Apparently Cabrera is still upset in the dugout, explaining what happened. In reality, watching that replay a few times, Thames is blatantly trying to slide nowhere NEAR the bag and HARD into O-Cab. Luckily he hopped over Thames‘ body on time.
Whoa, very quick 1-2-3 inning.
BOTTOM OF 5th (4-1, Twins):
Double-play, babies!
And Thames comes up for another piece from Baker. The funny part is Bert was hinting that maybe Thames needs to get nailed by a pitch again … haha. Another pitch sails by his face … Redmond has to tell him it was off-speed.
If Baker so much as taps Thames‘ cleat with a pitch, there will be blood. But he gets him looking, so uh, no brawls this inning.
TOP OF 6th (4-1, Twins):
I have a feeling some Twin is gonna get beaned this inning.
Or not.
BOTTOM OF 6th (4-1, Twins):
O HAI BIG RAUCH. OK BYE BIG RAUCH.
Ma-hay-hey? Jesus. But he holds it down for a scoreless inning.
TOP OF 7th (4-1, Twins):
Little Nicky spanks one into left. HELLO.
Oh, nice. Span drills it into right for a double and Punto moves to 3rd. Jim Leyland out to the mound again … haha.
Heard some heckler yell, “Cuddyer with a K, baby!” Kuddyer? That IS mildly amusing. And he does strike out.
Now’s the time to shine, Kubel. Bases loaded!
AHAH. Some guy on Twitter: “I’m certain Cuddyer struck out because of the guy yelling ‘Cuddyer with a K, baby…Cuddyer with a K!‘”
Aw, Kubel with a K strikes out.
BOTTOM OF 7th (4-1, Twins):
Whoooaaa, Le Warrior, what are you pitching here?
Oh you’re KIDDING. Guerrier, Harris, and Cuddyer go after a pop up over the mound – Harris and Cuddyer call Guerrier off, he doesn’t hear and Harris grabs for it, DROPPING IT.
Oh boy Leyland on the field after a double play where Santiago gets doubled off.
TOP OF 8th (4-1, Twins):
Young gets a nice single to start the 8th.
Span up with two runners on. I like where this is going … and Leyland makes a pitching change, putting Seay in. WHO?
Full count, aaaand … WALKED!
Bases loaded for Cabrera. AND HE HITS IT OFF THE WALL! THREE RUNS SCORED!
OH MAN, Mauer bats Cabrera in. Seven run lead? If we gotta …
So all the bad things I’ve said about the White Sox? Yeah I take it all back. Sweep the effing Tigers this weekend. Win your faces off.
BOTTOM OF 8th (8-1, Twins):
So you’re SAYIN there’s a chance!
…
A chance of another error despite Harris taken off of 3rd and replaced by Tolbert? Yes.
Mijares replaces Le Warrior.
Oh boy … Leyland in the ump’s face about Mijares almost nailing a batter and getting a warning. This should end well …
He’s ejected, and the Tigers are crawling back with 2 unearned runs.
TOP OF 9th (8-3, Twins):
Young gets nailed in the knee by the first pitch! Laird is ejected. Delmon is PISSED, and points angrily toward the Twins‘ dugout.
BENCHES CLEAR! But no punches thrown. God, I’d give it all to see Joe Nathan punch out Verlander or Nick Punto headbutt ANYONE.
BOTTOM OF 9th (8-3, Twins):
J-Nate up in this weird game. Shut it down.
A walk. Oh, God. I think Nathan needs a vacay.
And with a fly ball caught by Young, we win!
FINAL: 8-3, Twins
VERDICT:
Double you tee eff. This is probably one of the most tense, weird games I’ve EVER seen involving the Twins.
I offer this gem from Journey:
DOOOON’T STOP, BE-LIEEEE-VIN!
Ahh, nostalgia:
Dirt McGirt.
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{page:Section1;}HOW dirty was that game last night? No, I’m not talking about the loss, 8-10, to
the Tigers. No, not about the
sprinkling of errors (MORNEAU! HOW COULD YOU??) or the MIA players (CREDE!).
I’m talking about those umpires. RIDICULOUS.
Gardy received his 46th career time-out. I saw the tirade, and I assumed he was in
the wrong. He has several gifts as a
manager, one being explosive expletive power.
But after several questionable calls, I have to wonder …
Basically, after two possible balks by Galarraga in
the first and second innings, Gardy and the dugout were not amused. Gard-dog went to umpire Wendelstedt
for the second time about it, and was tossed out.
Here’s what Gardy said after
the game, though:
“He threw me out, and he said, ‘How do
you like that?’ ” a still-hot Gardenhire fumed. “Well, that’s
the second time I’ve run into this with this guy. A lot of problems with Hunter
[Wendelstedt]. He’s got an attitude. At home a few years back he said,
‘You’re just out here for showtime.’
“He’s got a smart (expletive) mouth, and tonight was
ridiculous, really. A lot of calls, (were) no good. He had a bad night. He
didn’t probably think so because he’s god as umpires go, but not good, really
not good by him. I was really disappointed. There was no reason for me to get
thrown out of that game tonight.”Gardenhire stopped his tirade there, but
seconds later, when asked a question about a different questionable call — they
were numerous on Friday night — he relaunched.“Calls are calls,” he said. “Sometimes they go
your way; I just get real disappointed when an umpire has an attitude like that
and thinks he’s a big shot and throws you out and feels good about it, feels
good about a game in the second inning. That’s too bad, too bad. It doesn’t
have to be that way, shouldn’t have to be that way, but I’ll get fined, and
he’ll be fine. He’ll be fine. Anything else before I get suspended here, if I
already haven’t?”
Somehow, I can’t really blame Gardenhire. Harris’ tag was right there; Granderson
was SO out. Mauer DEFINITELY
tagged Guillen out before he reached the plate. And yeah, you can’t have instant replays and
change the ump’s call, but those were two glaringly wrong calls that cost us a
game. And even so, a fan touched the
ball when it got away from Morneau, and the two possible balks by Galarraga
weren’t even questioned.
Well, here’s what the ump had to
say:
“The only questionable call of the whole night that he
might have is whether the fan might have touched the foul ball down the line,
which we couldn’t see on the tape; everything else we were 100 percent,” Wendelstedt
said after reviewing the game tape. “And then when I get my ball and
strike disk, I’ll bet I’m 97-99 percent, and we’ll look at that tomorrow.”
On Gardenhire’s assertion that Galarraga was
balking, Wendelstedt said, “I would challenge him to sit down and
watch the replays. Because he was wrong on whether the pitcher was balking or
not, and we can sit down, and I’m going to invite him to my umpire school, if
he wants to learn what is a balk, he can come down in January to umpire school
and we’ll teach him.”Wendelstedt said he warned Gardenhire
“numerous” times and that the dugout complained “five times in
an inning and a half” about the alleged balking. He went on to say that he
“is not a pincushion,” and that Gardenhire’s ejection was a
simple decision to make.“There was some not-so-kind things said to me, which is why
when he was ejected, and that’s when I said, ‘How do you like that if you’re
going to be that way?’ ” Wendelstedt said after Minnesota
fell 5 1/2 games back of Detroit in the AL Central race.
Seriously. “Umpire school?”
So
here’s the deal. We need to win REALLY
bad tonight and hopefully tomorrow.
This is out of control – literally – and hopefully Gardy won’t,
um, get a longer time-out for his kind words above. And hopefully new jack can help us with the Tigers, too.
NOTE: I will not be continuing liveblogging for a while since, like the genius my mom tells me I am, I smashed a chapstick in my MacBook, cracking the screen. So, no more live comments about the snugness of Nick Punto‘s pants until that screen is fixed.
Royally Screwed.
1B: MORNEAU
2B: PUNTO (!)
3B: BUSCHER
SS: HARRIS
RF: CUDDYER
CF: SPAN
LF: YOUNG
C: MAUER
PITCHING:
- BLACKBURN
PRE-GAME:
Oh, Denard. You are awesome on camera.
Also, any blog title about the KC Royals from this point on will be a Kansas lyric … because really, there’s only that one song about Kansas City and I already used it. And Kansas (the band) is sweet. Excuse me, I’m going to go hop in my Camero and grow a mullet now …
TOP O’ THE FIRST:
Morneau looks huge in this camera angle. I mean, he’s tall, but like ESPECIALLY gigantic tonight. Could be the wacky angle, like I said. Or maybe he and his brother Luigi found a mushroom or two while scaling pipes, saving princesses, and killing turtles … I’ll stop now.
Ooh, that was an un-productive at-bat for the Twins. Ouch.
BOTTOM O’ THE FIRST (0-0):
Um excuse me, WTF? Where’s Crede? Buscher on 3rd? Okay, actually, I’ve talked some bad noise about Buscher, when really he’s not an awful player. That homer a week or two ago shut me up REAL fast.
And the first non-eventful inning goes by.
TOP O’ THE SECOND (0-0):
An anagram for “Delmon Young” is “Demon lung, yo!” I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but I think it’s pretty awesome. I also looked up “Nick Punto” but the results are a bit dirty … observe.
BOTTOM O’ THE SECOND (0-0):
Lookin’ fly, Blackburn.
There are some absolutely LOUD fans behind home plate. Or at least near a mike.
OH SNAP. One run scored because of an awful error by Cuddyer. The ball gets past Morneau, Cuddy nabs it and chucks it to an imaginary fourth outfielder in extreme left field. Bummer. It’s okay Cuddy, just don’t do it again or have fun in the minors!
I hate this Pepsi commercial with the “Forever Young” song remake set to baseball video and whatnot. Heres the deal: I see mmaaaaaayybe one team other than the Yankees. Please, guys. There’s more to life than Jeter and Co.
TOP O’ THE THIRD (0-1, Royals):
Harris reaches first on account of a high throw from third. Will this be another “take advantage of errors” night?
BOTTOM O’ THE THIRD (0-1, Royals):
Deltron 3000 makes a nice sliding grab.
Okay, for real – this game better pick up soon.
TOP O’ THE FOURTH (0-1, Royals):
My wish came true: stand-up double care of Mr. Cuddyer.
Apparently Crede’s back has been tightening up on him again, which is why he was pulled shortly before the game. Informative, thy name is Richard Bremer.
AGH, it’s so good to see Little Nicky Punto! Although he popped one up for the third out, stranding Cuddyer.
BOTTOM O’ THE FOURTH (0-1, Royals):
zzz. zZZzzz. zzzzZZzz. zzZZZZZZWHAT? What?? The game is still going? Oh. Okay.
TOP O’ THE FIFTH (0-1, Royals):
I wish I had a pillow. Yawn.
BOTTOM O’ THE FIFTH (0-1, Royals):
WHAT are we doing out there in the field?? Buscher, I’m looking at you.
Ooh, Span and Young, steppin’ on each other’s toes. Maybe the’ll have a battle in the outfield. A battle … ROYALE?! HA HA HA HA OMG I SUCK!
TOP O’ THE SIXTH (0-1, Royals):
Oh, Gardy. The hat’s off … did the ball hit Kubel’s foot? … ANOTHER ump steps in … Gard-dog is majorly worked up … shady, ump. And Gardy’s kicked out.
BOTTOM O’ THE SIXTH (0-1, Royals):
One homer, two homer. I need something to puke in. Blackburn looks like he’s about to cut someone. Oh, he’s not the only one: Morneau looks stabby, too.
TOP O’ THE SEVENTH (0-3, Royals):
I am currently crying tears of blood.
BOTTOM O’ THE SEVENTH (0-3, Royals):
Dickey’s pitching.
Oh, fancy that, another run for the Royals.
On a lighter note, Harris made a sweet play and ended the inning, so … there’s that.
TOP O’ THE EIGHTH - BOTTOM O’ THE NINTH (2-4, Royals):
Really bad baseball happened while I was on the telephone. Well, except for Morneau hitting a two-run homer. A homer in two consecutive games? NOICE. I am from now on calling a Morneau homer a “morneaumer.”
FINAL: 2-4, Royals.
VERDICT:
All aboard the failboat.
EDIT: Apparently, I am receiving my 15 minutes of fame. Or 15 new stalkers … either way:
HEYOOO!
So, two catchers and two managers walk out of a game …
The tossing of both catchers and managers of the Twins and Sawxwas all over the news today. Apparently for an ump, being 32 is young and he has a short fuse:
The 32-year-old Tichenor, up from the Triple-A Pacific Coast League, gave the boot to both catchers and both managers during a wild seventh inning that ended with Red Sox starter Josh Beckett giving a dismissive wave toward home plate in disgust.
What I didn’t understand at the time was how Redmond could’ve been tossed, since the man had approximately 2 seconds to say anything to the ump. I saw no f-bombs, just like … two words. Like, “excuse me, my dear umpire, but I believe perhaps I had tagged this young gentleman before he had extended his limb upon the home plate.” Alright, maybe not that polite, but this is how Redmond put it:
“I couldn’t believe he threw me out, honestly,” Redmond said. “I don’t go out there, ever, to get thrown out. Especially knowing that Joe’s DHing. I can’t get thrown out. I really can’t get thrown out. I didn’t swear at him. I didn’t do anything. He just had a short fuse I guess.”
Redmond, after trying to say he tagged the runner before he hit the base, got tossed. And that’s when Gardy, who’s been tossed 40-plus times, came in:
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire jumped out of the dugout to defend Redmond and was ejected himself.“I just thought he had a quick gun there,” Gardenhire said. “He just pulled the trigger too quick, and I went out to defend and he threw me out too.”
BAM. Then Varitek and Francona got booted:
Things escalated in the bottom of the inning when Beckett threw a pitch that Varitek tried to frame for strike three on BrendanHarris. When he didn’t get the call — replays showed that it appeared to be outside – Beckett seethed. Varitek stood up to intervene, turned around and got in Tichenor‘s face.
Generally, I think it’s in your best interests, Mr. Catcher, to not TURN AROUND to FIGHT with the UMPIRE. I could just be wrong. Oh wait, no I’m not. Well, then ejection numero quattro came to fruition:
“I just said it was uncharacteristic of him,” said Beckett, giving the clean version. “It was all caused by me.”Then it was Francona‘s turn to defend his player.
See ya.
Too funny. Well, at least Crede had a homer:
Joe Crede hit a home run in his return from a three-game absence because of a bruised hand, but Beckett (5-2) was too much for the Twins. He allowed one run on three hits with four wal
ks and eight strikeouts in seven innings.
In other news, Punto had a sore, nagging crotch (teehee); Baker is likely starting tonight; and we’re in Florida tonight to play some Rays.Heh, Rays. The Tampa Bay Sea-Bugs.
Aw, Gawwwd!
The 7th just ended, and so far:
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