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ROYALS @ TWINS
3rd to last game (or not?)
1B: Cuddyer
2B: Punto
3B: Harris
SS: Cabrera
RF: Kubel
CF: Span
LF: Young
C: Mauer
PITCHING: Manship, Crain, Mahay, Guerrier, Nathan
PRE-GAME:
As of the top of the 4th, the White Sox are ahead of the Tigers, 2-0. YES, PLEASE.
I am gonna miss the Dome. Even before my family ever moved to Minnesota, back when I was just a tadpole, my first memories of this state are of the Metrodome. Wish I could be at that last game.
My dad just ultra-depressed me by saying “I wish Kirby could be here to enjoy all this.” Excuse me, something in my eye …
On a lighter note: MANSHIP???????
TOP OF 1st:
But seriously. Manship? Oh, boy. But at least I can tell him apart form Duensing now: Duensing is pretty good and a looker. Manship is eeuuhhh and has a huge neck.
And with a runner on third and one out, we get a beasty double play. Heyooo.
BOTTOM OF 1st (0-0):
DiNardo pitches to Denard. MY HEAD JUST EXPLODED.
Oh hey, Sox up 3-0. I love you, A.J.!
HAHAH, FAKE SIDEBURNS! I ask for them every Christmas, and apparently no one thinks sideburns are a good gift for a young lady. Squares.
1st and 3rd with one out, and Kubel’s at bat. HITS IT! TWINS SCORE!
Dicky B just called Cuddyer hitting a 3-run homer. Um … no. Walked.
DELMON YOUNG HITS HIS FIRST GRAND SLAM!
I guess Dicky B was off by one batter. So awesome!
TOP OF 2nd (5-0, Twins):
Hilarious, Teahen has “Circle Me Bert” on the wrists of his batting gloves!
7-0, White Sox? Am I in Heaven?
BOTTOM OF 2nd (5-0, Twins):
Commercial break and the Sox score one more.
Um, bases loaded, new Royals pitcher, and they still walk Cuddyer. Well, uhh, whatever you gotta do, guys.
Oh look, another two runs.
TOP OF 3rd (7-0, Twins):
Oh. I forgot there’s a game going on.
BOTTOM OF 3rd (7-0, Twins):
“Just keep winning ballgames and hope you get some help from the White Sox,” says Bert. So far, I’d say we’re doing just that.
1-2-3 inning.
BOTTOM OF 4th (8-0, Twins):
Kubel cranks a huuuuge homer – very deep and very high. Wow.
Sweet Jesus, Delmon drove in 5 of the 8 runs? I guess we have to get Mijares to piss him off more often.
Um, hello Harris. Hits a double of the Stanley sign, drives in Cuddyer. Sexual Harris-ment, FTW!
Another run hit in by De
lmon. I’m pretty sure he’s making up for the suckitude earlier.
Awesome, just awesome.
TOP OF 5th (10-0, Twins):
Oops, KC scores one run. EVERYBODY PANIC!
Oh, and another run. Hope we don’t get careless now.
BOTTOM OF 5th (10-2, Twins):
Eh.
TOP OF 6th (10-2, Twins):
Unfortunately, this game is getting less interesting since we’re pretty much assured a win.
The ‘Ship sets sail into the sunset, hopefully picking up his first Major League win. But OH SNAP, CRAINWRECK?!
Yeah, and he’s choking pretty well. Bases loaded. Oh cool, and two runs scored.
Hahaha, the foul ball landed in this dude’s cup, and he gave a cheers and took a drink.
Oh cool, more runs! 10-5.
And Ma-hay-hey gets the final out. Gross.
BOTTOM OF 6th (10-5, Twins):
At this point I gotta give a shout-out to by partner in crime, J-Schoon, who last weekend drew my attention to why “K” stands for a strikeout. Not so much that, but why there’s backwards K’s and regular K’s. So, three K’s would be rather offensive to a lot of people, so is that why there’s backward ones, we wondered? Nope. Turns out, a friend told J-Pain that a backwards K means caught them looking. DUH.
1-2-3 inning.
TOP OF 7th (10-5, Twins):
I feel weird longing for the innings when Manship was pitching. But now Keppel is in, and so far so good.
BAM, inning over.
BOTTOM OF 7th (10-5, Twins):
WOW, Tolbert with a triple.
But a 1-2-3 inning? WHUH?
TOP OF 8th (10-5, Twins):
Okay, things are unraveling quickly, and they put in Mijares. Yes, that pitcher that fired up Delmon, who was fined $500 for last night, who almost started WWIII: Midwest Edition.
NO WAY. MIJARES HITS THE BATTER. And then almost beans the next. Wow. Just wow. Guerrier is warming up, bases are loaded.
And Mijares gets the first batter out. Cool, because I just had a stroke.
And he lets two go. 10-7, and two on base. Wow.
BOTTOM OF 8th (10-7, Twins):
SO, uhh … this is not what I pictured in the 5th.
The crowd chants “MVP” as Mauer takes the plate. Love it.
1-2-3 inning, though. And J-Nate returns. Please, I already went into cardiac arrest today; no funny business.
TOP OF 9th (10-7, Twins):
2 outs, 0-1 to the batter … 2-2 … 3-2! … and TOLBERT CATCHES IT FTW!
FINAL: 10-7, Twins
VERDICT:
Why must our bullpen constantly give me a vapors? Why must we almost blow a 10-0 lead? Oh well. The point being, WE WON. TIGERS LOST. Love it!
Thank you, helmet.
Well, I suppose the bright side is that the Twins, 2.5 back from the Tigers, won 7 of their last 8 games, including a 7-0 shutout last night against the White Sox.
The bad? Poor Denard Span. Watch this video and tell me that’s the grossest sound to hear in conjunction with a pitch hitting someone’s head:
http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_35168/uiconf_id/1002330
As the title of this post indicates, I am a big fan of batting helmets. Although not those creepy new ones.
Luckily Numero 2 has just a mild concussion and is listed as day-to-day. And on a another side-note, it sorta melted my icy little heart to see none other than A.J. Pierzynski rush over to make sure Span was okay. Well, I mean granted the guy was right behind him when the pitch nailed Span, but my usual searing hate for AJP subsides a little when I see that on the video. He’s not ALL bad, folks.
Anyway, hang in there Denard. Hopefully our lead-off hitter can be back in ship-shape soon.
EDIT:
Well THIS is disheartening.
Color me excited.
Here’s to another win
today, this time against the Shite Sox. Because of our
awesomeness this evening, we’re 3 ½ games back from the first-place Tigers and 2 ½ ahead of the Sox.
Color me excited:
Okay, the opposite of this.
Another reason to be
excited: JOE CREDE AIN’T
RETIRING. Although he’s been
battling a seemingly endless list of injuries this year with the Twins, and despite his current status on the disabled
list, my dearest Joe isn’t
ditching out of baseball just yet:
Joe Crede heard the rumor speculating that he may retire after the end of
this season. After all, the 31-year-old third baseman has had two back
surgeries and is currently on the disabled list with more back problems.
…
“I read that article the other day. I don’t know
where they based that off of,” Crede said about the original speculation reported Sunday in
the Chicago Tribune.
The Other Joe, No, Not that One, Or That One, the One on Third, says he needs to give his back a bit of time and
rest, hoping to come back soon to help the Twins push their way into the playoffs. It’s a bummer he seems like he’s made
of glass, but it sounds like he’s still eager to get back in the game:
Crede got a second epidural today and said before the game it was
already working. He also shot down a speculative report out of Chicago that he
might retire after this season.
“I
think in baseball years, I’m still fairly young,” the 31-year-old said.
“I know I have more years in me left. I still love the game. I still love
coming to the ballpark everyday. I have no plans of retiring.”
GOOD! We love you, Joe! Even
my dad doesn’t complain about you (which can’t be said about Cuddyer, Gomez,
basically all of our pitchers except Joe Nathan, Young,
some of the batboys, … etc.)
More things that make me
smile: HOMERS! The third inning
tonight was pure gold; what, with Mauer hitting that huuuuuge solo homer into the upper deck, and then Kubel following his lead with a two-run home run:
But with two outs in the third, the Twins were able to strike.
Mauer continued his own hot spell, belting his 26th home run of the
season which also doubled his previous career high of 13 from 2006.
…
Justin
Morneau followed up Mauer’s homer with a single to right field. Kubel then added his second two-run home
run in as many days, blasting a 437-foot shot deep to center field to give Minnesota a 3-0 lead.
That was so glorious. But those hits were definitely not
purely what won the game; Blackburn
had a surprisingly good outing, probably one of his first in at least a
month. He’s obviously been
struggling, but something tonight was definitely going well for him, and I
suspect it was his newly-sprouted facial hair:
Donning a
new beard, one that teammate Kevin Slowey suggested he should keep, Blackburn turned things around by getting back
to what had made him successful earlier this year.
[ I knew it! ]
“I
still wasn’t making good pitches the entire night, but I was able to get away
with it,” Blackburn said. “My stuff was sharper tonight than it had been in a
long time. The stuff [pitching coach Rick Anderson] and I have been working on in the
last couple weeks finally kind of set in and started working for me. “
Hopefully he can keep it
up, because he was absolutely amazing earlier this year. I was at the Dome for one of those games in June when he pitched the
whole thing (might’ve been against the Pirates?).
And here’s my final happy
note: ALEXI CASILLA! Seeing all these great things that he
can do out on the field is making me swoon. I was super bummed earlier this year when he was sent down
not once but twice for just plain sucking. More than anything, I’m pretty sure it was his attitude (I’m
95% sure I read that in an article, so I’m not making that up), but whatever it
really was, he’s changed it.
I also love not having Photoshop …
And the hits Casilla’s been getting have been great, too … I want to
attribute it to a million different things, like being back on the team with Gomez, the fatherly presence of Orlando Carbrera (Padre Orlando!), maturity from learning from his previous
mistakes … whatever. I’m rooting
for that little Dominican dude, because I think the more he plays, the better
he plays, and the better the team is for it. He and Gomez
are going to pose a serious threat in the future – mark my words!
So, here’s hoping we
continue this fierce battle-to-the-death attitude:
“It’s a
completely different feel around our clubhouse, and I think everybody’s pretty
excited about the way it’s going,” Kubel said. “That’s what we’re
focusing on right now, how we go about our own business.”
I want to see us take the
AL Central away from the frickin’ Tigers. They may be admittedly
playing well, but after the BS we’ve made it through this season and are
starting to overcome, we deserve it.
PS. Mike Redmond‘s TRIPLE yesterday?! Hilarious.
One batter
later, catcher Mike Redmond — who earlier in the game hit just his third career triple –
hit a chopper to first base that was fielded by Hank Blalock.
The whole team was
cracking up in the dugout, watching Reddy round those bases. Aww!
Swept away.
Wins, losses, and roadtrippin’.
Sweet Jesus, I bet all three of you that still read this were scared I’d given up or was living on the streets or you actually never thought about it until now.
I think we all neede a little more Crede.
Oh, Joe Crede. Can you BE any more awesome? Last night, Crede managed to hit two homers against the Shite Sox, helping the boys get at least a little closer to winning. But, they fell short, 7-8:
It took several innings, but the Twins finally seemed to find their offense in the fifth on the first off Crede’s two home runs. The former White Sox third baseman blasted a three-run shot against starter Gavin Floyd that scored Justin Morneau and Jason Kubel, who both singled ahead of Crede.
It was Crede’s eighth game against his former squad, but he insists that wasn’t in the back of his mind during either of his home runs.
“I never really thought about any of it, other than the fact that we’re just out there trying to win ballgames,” Crede said.
Oh, and WHO was that Crede superfan chick in the stands with “I Neede Crede” painted on her face? THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME. I’m at LEAST fifty percent creepier than her.
Anyway, Crede was pretty much the only highlight of a game gone wrong, full of bad pitching and good playing from the White Sox. But with the series split going into the game this afternoon, it looks like the rest of our lineup took Crede’s lead, winning with a very nice 13-7 final score:
The Twins delivered an early offensive outburst against a pitcher that’s given the team plenty of trouble in recent years, tagging White Sox left-hander Mark Buehrle for eight runs without any help from the club’s top two hitters Joe Mauer and Morneau.
They watched as that lead was whittled away in the middle innings — narrowing to as little as a three-run gap — before the Twins delivered another offensive punch to capture a 13-7 victory over the White Sox at the Metrodome.
Span, Harris, and Gomez hitting the homers? ME LIKEY! The only thing that bothered me about the game today was Morneau and Mauer’s total lack of power, neither hitting anything good and especially Mauer striking out FOUR times. You REALLY are hitting up the Homerun Derby and All-Star Game? Hopefully it was just a bad day for Dreamyburns, because that’s just sick to see.
But seriously, WOW. The game today helped me forget about that one team we played earlier this week … I dunno, some little group of rag-tag misfits … might rhyme with Blankies …
In other news:
- Mauer accepts the invite to the Home Run Derby, but still has not accepted my marriage proposal.
- Alexi Casilla is called up from the minors, reuniting him with his life partner, Carlos Gomez. Awww.
- Speaking of Gomez, he does not appreciate Milkwaukee’s ghosts screwing with his iPod.
- Fatties love all-you-can-eat! For example: ”I’ve done four hot dogs, three nachos, a pretzel, some popcorn and about four of these pops … It’s only been an hour.”
- Derek Jeter said thinks the Metrodome gives the Twins a home advantage. Meanwhile, the Yanks sweep the Twins.
- And finally, I still hate A.J. Pierzynski.
The Joe(s) Show.
Seems as though my co-Joe-boyfriends, Mauer and Crede, have taken time out of their sexy schedules to be total beasts at bat:
Mauer’s homer was one of a pair of two-run homers Minnesota hit in the victory. Joe Crede belted a two-run shot in the second inning. Mauer’s came in the third and the club’s pitching staff was able to limit Detroit to just two runs to help gain a game on the division-leading Tigers. It was Crede who broke a scoreless tie with his two-run shot to left field off Tigers starter Armando Gallaraga in the second inning to give the Twins a 2-0 lead.
So Mauer‘s all like, “yeah, my back exploded and I guess I healed it with my powers of extreme sideburniness, so barely two weeks after I’m off the DL, I’m just gonna go ahead and hit a million homers. By the way, you must marry me, Neubs.”
The homer was a continuation of the sudden power surge for the catcher, who has now hit a home run in three of his last four games. … And perhaps even more impressive is that despite missing all of Spring Training and the club’s first 22 games, Mauer is now batting .500 (18-for-36) with 12 RBIs since making his return from the disabled list May 1. And CREDE. Good thing he’s back after missing three games due to a sore hamstring:
Crede first felt the hamstring pull while he was running the bases in a game at Baltimore last Thursday. He didn’t play in any of the three contests against the Mariners this past weekend and used Monday’s off-day to give his leg a little bit longer of a rest. The Twins wanted to be cautious with the injury and felt it best to give Crede that time to let the hamstring heal. Thank God he left the Shite Sox and Pierzynski to come and join the Twinsies. Because it appears he is a monster, along with ‘Burns, Morneau, and Kubes:
With his fourth homer of the year on Tuesday night, Mauer is currently tied for second on the team with Crede and Jason Kubel. The only player with more homers is Morneau, who has eight. So, after the win against the Tigers last night, we’re 16-17. Hopefully we can sweep them before we meet up with the YankeesFriday. And hopefully The Joes keep it up, and I actually get to watch these games (no thanks to FSN in Wisconsin – SLUNTS!)
Eh, Jays?
Tonight at 7 pm we’re up against the Toronto Blue Jays. Kevin “Caution: Slow Children” Slowey is pitching against the Jay’s Litsch. Now, obviously, I don’t know anything about this pitcher or really this entire team, but I’m hoping our boys are so mad about the last two games against the Shite Sox that they’ll try a bit harder.
The Unspeakable Game yesterday, which I dutifully liveblogged for because I have no friends, was frustrating enough to watch, and apparently the players and Gardy were just as thrilled as I was:
“It was an ugly baseball game by us,” Gardenhire said. “Blackburn threw the ball very well for us. We missed the ball, which is not the way we do things. We didn’t play good defense, and offensively we just didn’t have a lot of good at-bats.”
…
“As one of my coaches said, we’re just struggling a little bit,”Gardenhire said. “We’ll see if we can get home and get back on the right track. It was kind of ugly baseball here the last two [days].” (mlb.com)
Ugly: yes. Props to Blackburn and Young, though. Dreamyburns IIdid some solid pitching, and Delmon 3000 gave us our only home run of the day. Fortunately, Cuddyer came at the right time to ruin any good playing by both:
“Up to that point, Blackburn had not given up an earned run in the outing, as the first White Sox run scored on a two errors by first baseman Michael Cuddyer in the fifth inning.” (mlb.com)
First of all, why the frick was Cud-Yer on first? I’m sure there was a legit reason stemming from Morneau needing rest of something, but … CUDDY ON FIRST? That’s an error in itself.
Here’s hoping A.) We do much, much better against the Jays, B.)Slowey can hold it down, C.) Morneau is back in place, and D.) Eau Claire gets the Twins on some channel that doesn’t require me to spend my night at a pub … because I will be drunk if they play remotely anything like the past two games.
HAPPY Easter?? NOPE.
APRIL 12, 2009: 1:05 pm @ Shite Sox 1b: CUDDYER 2b: HARRIS 3b: CREDE C: REDMOND RF: SPAN CF: GOMEZ LF: YOUNG (solo hr) PITCHING: BLACKBURN (6+ innings) BRESLOW (3 seconds) NATHAN (closes) (I started blogging somewhere in the 2nd) Young cranks one into the stands in the 2nd inning … thanks be to Jesus, since I have no idea where he’s been the past week and no idea if we’re gonna be able to put that gross game yesterday (0-8) behind us. Punto hangs out under an easy pop fly, but it flies out of his glove after he gets it. Seriously? Generally I think Punto is pretty good at fielding, although his batting is a little … lacking at times. No worries, bottom of the 4th he redeems himself with a catch that, according to Dick, “stays in the glove.” Yes, Dick, yes it did. GOMEZ catches a hit in the bottom of the 4th, putting one away.Gomez is probably one of my favorite players. Why? First of all, I love his grasp on the English language … which basically isn’t there. Who cares, the man is hilarious. Two, the guy is insanely quick. I’d love to see my fat *** try to sprint from home to first with him. Third, one of my favorite moments from last season was seeing GOMEZ strike out (can’t remember what game it was) and then CRACK – just snaps the bat over his knee. If i were the other team I probably would’ve started to cry. I can’t wait to see what he can do this season as well as in the future. Just for a moment, I’d like to get Denarded in here. Span is quickly becoming one of my favorite players. Dude can crank a decent run here and there and is pretty sick in the field. At the home opener our seats were right next to Span, and I spent the game pretty much staring him down and swooning. Like Gomez, I want to see what this guy can do in these upcoming seasons. Pierzynski. I just … want to … AGH. Okay, fine dude, you’re a former Twin. No need to be a total jackass to not only your former team, but basically everyone you ever some into contact with. And your hair; perhaps you’re a giant Eminem fan? I think for my birthday in two weeks, when I blow out the candles, I’ll wish for the opportunity to punch you in the face. Bottom o’ the 5th, 2:09, hour into the game: Crede. You might become my new Twins boyfriend in the absence ofMauer (or “The Schnoz” as my dad calls him. Way to piss on my parade, dad), since apparently he’s really into being injured and not in the game. Good choice on the number 24, which happens to be my favorite. That means we’re practically engaged, yes? 37 ******* degrees in Chicago? My God. All those guys from down south are probably like, “yeah, listen … trade m Speaking of replacement boyfriends, heeeeey Blackburn. Love you long time. SPAN! Again! CATCHIN’ ****! Burt does NOT like the mascot distracting Blackburn. He X’ed that ****, not thiriled that the mascot is “thinking he’s a bunny today.” Word, Burt. ****, Sox score. Cuddyer - not surprisingly – panicked, chased the ball, misses Morneau, and both runners advance. I just noticed that the word “panicked” contains a superfluous K, because I guess the C can’t stand alone without sounding like an S. Anyway, Cuddyer pisses me off. I want him to do well, but he just continuously ***** up. Like he could’ve just been charged with a pair of errors right there. The pressure is on when he’s batting – bases are loaded and there’s two outs? You best believe guy’s gonna choke. But I KNOW he’s good, deep down, and I want him to do well. It’s just that I have no hope after all his dumb ********. Also, my roommate, who is a Brewers fan, asks me how to pronounce his last name every day. CUD-year? cud-DYE-er? I choose to tell her the two-syllable option, until he stops sucking someday. Top o’ the 6th: Speaking of nicknames, I totally love that my softball teammate Kevin says “Dirty Punto.” Oh ****, Quentin just did a sick diving catch. Dive, roll, catch, all with style. Morneau is on deck. Listen, dude, help us out. Oh, just kidding, 1-2-3 inning and it’s over. Apparently, according to this commercial, for every hour you exercise you gain two on your life. And according to this commercial, Wyoming DOESN’T suck. News to me. Bottom o’ the 6th: Crede does a slidey-thing to catch Thome’s hit, doesn’t make it, but manages to make me swoon. Two run home-run by Thome. ****. 543rd career home-run. Konerko makes me nervous. But Gomez picks him off for out numero dos. I love his little ninja-mask. Dude’s gotta be mighty cold. God I love that commercial with Dreamyburns (Mauer) and Nathan. I need to remember to send that to my roommate, since she spent most of the home opener making me take pictures of Nathan‘s “hot ***” warming up. Top o’ the 7th: Morneau put away. God. Buehrle is sent away, replaced with this dude, number 26. Apparently that’s Dotel. Duly noted. His first name is apparently Octavio, which is badass. CUDDYER. Can we please do something worthwhile? He looks like my friend Darin. I don’t think Darin is an amateur magician, although he’s very good at making the ladies disappear … OHHHHH! Anyway,Cuddyer for the 2nd out. Good work, tard. Crede. So rugged, so powerful, so wearing his half-pants and tall socks. Yessss. He kinda looks like my ex-boyfriend, which makes me want to hate him, but I CAN’T. After his “All Out of Love” showdown Friday night, I am a definite fan. And he’s walked. Bottom o’ the 7th: Redmond is giving a talking-to to Breslow. Obviously it helped, sinceBreslow beaned the batter. Also, the other two have hit the dirt. Sweet pitching, man. I guess Crain is coming out. Boo, Breslow, Boo. Why can’t we just throw like professionals and actually get some hits? I think they used it all up on Friday. Alright, Ichabod Crain, let’s do this. Oh, what’s that? Your first pitch and another run for the Sox? 5-1, thanks to a slow tag by Redmond. Damn. Top o’ the 8th: C’mon Gomez. Please. Hm … that was a good pitch, but that means a strikeout. Punto gets on base, possibly pulling something. After further inspection, I guess not. Span is out. This is sad. Bottom o’ the 8th: Nathan pitches, Dye hits a homer, Gomez almost gets it. Christ. This is embarrassing. Redmond catches a foul, dude is out. I love Redmond, my little burn victim. Pierzynski … can we please have a crazed fan jump onto the field and like break his arm? Nope, base hit. Number 31 really likes hitting fouls. Dick reminds us 9 hits for the Sox, just 3 for the Twins. Thanks, Dick.I already want to hang myself. Top o’ the 9th: Harris, infield base hit. Whatever, at least we’re on base; although based on my softball hitting skills, I could also be playing for theTwins. Morneau cracks one to center, goes to 1st and moves Harris to 2nd. Oh, look; Cuddyer is up. My dad is already laughing. Prove me wrong. 1-0 … 2-0 … WALKED?? Okay … Jenks: Dad calls him an “ugly sucker.” He doesn’t appreciate the blond beard. Crede: I love you. Make me proud. Bases loaded. MAKE ME PROUD. And … struck out. I hate these Shite Sox fans. Double play, and it’s over. FINAL: 6-1, Sox VERDICT: Shat the bed. Where’s Kubel, Dreamyburns, Casilla? Slow-children-ey? Why is everyone injured? Why are we unable to help ourselves when our bases are loaded or when we have an easy pop-fly? The Sox are a good team, but not that good.
y ***. For real. Somewhere warm. This is retarded.”
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