Cleveland Indians vs Minnesota Twins Gamethread: Game 1/4

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inb4 Salazar shits the bed again

Already wrote all this out so I'll just dump it here

Minnesota Twins (40-64) vs. Cleveland Indians (60-42)
Monday, August 1, 2016, 7:10 pm ET
Jacob's Field, Cleveland, OH
MIN TV: FSNO - Radio: Go 96.3, TIBN
CLE TV: SportsTime Ohio - Radio: Indians Radio Network, WMMS 100.7, WTAM 1100
78 degrees (Feels like 79), Sunny, Wind 8 mph N

Batting Order:
Santana
Kipnis
Lindor
Napoli
Ramirez
Chisenhall
Davis
Naquin
Pérez

Salazar P

1. Brian Dozier, DH (.259, 19 HR, 54 RBI, 8 SB)
2. Robbie Grossman, LF (.272, 6 HR, 23 RBI, 1 SB)
3. Miguel Sano, 3B (.241, 15 HR, 40 RBI, 1 SB)
4. Kennys Vargas, 1B (.333, 4 HR, 10 RBI, 0 SB)
5. Eduardo Escobar, SS (.269, 4 HR, 25 RBI, 1 SB)
6. Jorge Polano, 2B (.257, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 1 SB)
7. Danny Santana, RF (.246, 2 HR, 13 RBI, 12 SB)
8. Juan Centeno, C (.257, 2 HR, 16 RBI, 0 SB)
9. Byron Buxton, CF (.199, 1 HR, 16 RBI, 9 SB)

SP: Jose Berrios, RHP (1-1, 10.20 ERA, 20 K, 12 K/9, 7.20 BB/9)

With stats!

1. Carlos Santana, DH (.242, 22 HR, 56 RBI, 4 SB)
2. Jason Kipnis, 2B (.289, 17 HR, 58 RBI, 7 SB)
3. Francisco Lindor, SS (.304, 12 HR, 52 RBI, 13 SB)
4. Mike Napoli, 1B (.247, 24 HR, 72 RBI, 3 SB)
5. Jose Ramirez, 3B (.293, 5 HR, 42 RBI, 11 SB)
6. Lonnie Chisenhall, RF (.300, 6 HR, 32 RBI, 5 SB)
7. Rajai Davis, LF (.259, 9 HR, 35 RBI, 25 SB)
8. Tyler Naquin, CF (.335, 12 HR, 32 RBI, 3 SB)
9. Roberto Perez, C (.080, 0 HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB)

SP: Danny Salazar, RHP (11-3, 2.97 ERA, 130 K, 10.14 K/9, 3.82 BB/9)

This Day in History:

>Cleveland Indians
1948 -- After losing to the Sox 7-8 in the series opener two days prior, then evening the series the next day via a Joe Gordon single in extra innings (10-9), the Indians would decisively take the doubleheader on this day by outscoring the Sox by 15 runs in both games (2-12, 1-6), winning the 4 game series. Though still 4th in the AL, the Indians would go on to win the World Series this year agains the Boston Braves.

>Minnesota Twins
1986 -- On the day the Twins are celebrating their 25th anniversary, in a game which also features Kirby Puckett hitting for the cycle, Bert Blyleven becomes the tenth major leaguer to record his 3,000th strikeout. The Minnesota right-hander, who tosses a two-hitter, reaches the historic milestone by whiffing Mike Davis in the fifth inning, his eighth of the game, en route to a career high of 15, in the team's 10-1 victory over Oakland at the Metrodome.

Go Tribe!

How's errybody doing?

Thanks!
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Nice and full. You?

inb4 5IP/100 pitches by Salazar

Oh, God damn it

Holy shit Danny, try going one day without imploding in the first.

Even first place the Twins kill >us.

man Salazar sucks

No problem my man

Not bad, would be better if Danny could get his shit together and not let Indians lose to the Twins

lmao fuck off

>Not bad, would be better if Danny could get his shit together and not let Indians lose to the Twins
Is he doing... subpar or are the Twins just up on his shit?

Indians rotation always, ALWAYS, sucks ass in the first and gets light out as they approach their exit. On the good days anyway, which have been plenty this year.

Also yeah Twins see the Indians a lot, they shouldn't be fooled by this point.

there may come a day we have to sell Lindor at the deadline

BABYFACE AND LONNIE HITS-EM-ALL COMBO

Literally never, not even to rent, he's a lifer.

I think he's still having the same elbow issues that held him out of the All Star game.

That's not until like 2021 (if even then). Don't worry about it.

Thank You Based JRam & Chiz

now we need an SDI

Welp

absolute ASS

They're saying he might have lost weight and power from the flu?

If he gives up any more runs they'll have to pull him. I'd like to see Big O-tero get a fireman session but they'll probably used Anderson?

Naquin will untie it

>flu
That sucks but definitely better than a hurt elbow

Yeah, probably use Anderson if it comes to that.

>Berrios actually pitched a 1-2-3 inning

Holy fuck just pull him Tito

time to DL him

Jesus fucking Christ, Danny just go to the DL

If he's really sick they shouldn't have started him.

>Adams

Terry wants the division race to get interesting

Absolutely pathetic. I love you Danny but think on your sins.

Why, Danny?

Weren't you guys making fun of other teams for losing to us? We aren't as bad as we were in April.

They weren't looking at his elbow I'm the dugout so I'm hoping it was just the flu.

>ANOTHER loss to the Twins

Fucking baseball

he's sucked since June so it's not the flu

>Weren't you guys making fun of other teams for losing to us?
We're down to you overall.

I made fun of Tigers fans saying they'd get free wins off of Twins desu.

Kepler is based

Nope. Indians were one of the few teams who struggled with the Twins in April, and you guys obviously are playing better.

Then idk. Maybe it really is the elbow still.

>tfw want to watch the game but computer needed to update and now it can't so it's reverting changes

Life is suffering Tribebros

Well the Tigers did this year

>We
were losing to Twins the whole season, doesn't make sense to make fun of other teams losing to them. That said Indians shouldn't be losing to Twins, I can't explain it.

You might want to skip this game. Salazar is in full regression mode and Tito resigned the game to Austin fucking Adams.

and that's game

I can't explain it either, except for maybe that the Twins can actually hammer the ball against the Tribe (even Park raked)

>shouldn't be

Yeah I'm watching Gamecast on my phone. Think I'll just keep listening to ESPN Cleveland and watch some Jewflix later.

Seems like the pitchers are always shit.

Right, the best team in the American League shouldn't be losing the season series to the worst team in the American League. I don't mean that to be mean, it just seems to defy logic. But that's baseball.

could be in 2nd by the end of the week

I want to say no. Not sure who's pitching next but they're not going to shit the bed like Salazar. But it's the Twins.

Well no shit they could be. Do you honestly think that'll happen though?

No reason to go full-blown panic over one game (which by the way isn't even over yet).

yes

Why can't Berrios just not be shit??

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TOMMY

Okay, well, the Indians are going to win at least one, it's a four game series. Tigers might win two in their White Sox meet up. I think the Indians will take two of three against Yankees although that's a bad historical match up too. They won't be second but the lead will shrink. Worst case scenario, anyway.

Then your faith in this team is extremely weak.

Something HAS to go wrong. Can't we just have one year?

I thought with a championship and a first place baseball team in August that you guys would stop being sad sacks when faced with some adversity, but I guess not.

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JOHNS

There's one sad sax in here desu.

rip

not all of us care about basketball friendo and it doesn't mean things can't go wrong

>Danny's arm dead

damn..

oops he reposted it

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...

So let's say Danny is tommy john's kill, we Clevinger?

Well then he's really busy posting and seems to be almost giddy about it.

Go root for another 4 or 5 win Browns season.

Right, that's the adversity part. There's no contender that isn't faced with it at some point.

come on Crockpot I believed in you

It sucks to be at the top and consistently die to the (statistically) worst team in the league. No offense to Twins fans

>Big Juan is gone

I am sad, but hopefully Guyer will be a more productive hitter. Statistically he should be anyway.

We had a better July record than your team so we aren't as bad as the record suggests. We were woefully bad the first couple months.

Offense picking up the bad habits of last year.

They scored 8 runs yesterday. Are you coming to this conclusion just from 4 innings?

So this is what Berrios is supposed to look like...

Whew babyface, please don't kill yourself can't lose you and danny

I'm honestly just talking about this game, it looks like they're getting frustrated and not getting quality ABs. We're allowed to criticize our team, relax my friend. Though they have had a less impressive offense for most of the past month up to the last series.

>tfw got a political survey call

reeeeee I'm not in the mood!

at least it was short

Who did you select? And do you know which company it was?

Will they win it all?

WHEW LONNIE

Trump ofc. Not sure. There was a lot of background noise at the start and she didn't seem to hear me at first.

It was mainly just political affiliation, opinion on Obama, who I would vote for if the election was tomorrow, my race and education, etc. She was quick getting off the phone but yeah I should've asked again what she was from so I could see the results.

I hope so. This is probably the best chance though next year should look good too.

I think at least make it to the WS

Trump wall is going to keep anime out you know this right?

Hopefully you said you were a gender and race fluid human

Regardless, it'll likely be Shill ahead because le ebin Nazi xD and corrective polling. You did your duty though

Jesus can we get some runs please?

Good job, Twins. Let's at least split the series
Of course not

At least the Tigers don't play today. Gonna need some late inning magic for this one.

no he'll just have them pay us for our military presence with more anime

I wasn't asked for gender but I was read a list of races to pick from.

depends on their scope of area they're surveying but probably

Kepler is elite as fuck

>Anderson

Good game Sox. Now please don't fucking kill our year.

Kepler is so fucking based holy shit

wtf is it with the Tribe and the Twins?

lol our absolute scrubbiest relievers have to get it done ugh

Don't want to rain on your parade but >we hand wrapped this for him.

Anderson is legit shit and I have no idea why he's still with this club. Last year was last year, if you have faith in him put him in the fucking minors.