OFFICIAL MINNESOTA TWINS @ CHICAGO WHITESOX GAMETHREAD

Double the Baseball, Double the Suffering.

Game 1: Melville vs Rodon

Game 2: Gee vs Fulmer

First pitch for Game 1 starts 4:10PM CST. Game 2 starts 30 mins after Game 1 ends.

Rodon and Fulmer, maybe some watchable pitching?

Rodon pls be good
I'm really not looking forward to fulmer

Over/Under 200 posts for both games.

I'm taking the under.

Under for sure.

welp, that's not a good omen

Perhaps I set the bar too high. How about 125.

>leadoff walk
oh boy

its a work day and I'm also busy as he'll

eclipse backing up productivity

hoping for a good game from Rodon
not too optimistic on Fulmer, thought he was destined for the pen

hell*

rodon pls

>narv

dang

damn it leury that was ball 4

Walkcada does it again

"Yoan Moncada walks"

Didn't look like Moncada was trying to run at all there. Lazy, or leg still hurting?

based Josavior

get them in nickyd

Third base coach told him to stop and he was already running

oh come on

I mean if he was actually sprinting he should have scored on that no question. And then there's that play, there's no way you don't score on that unless you're hurting.

>avihits

AVIII

not blind after all

yolmeme

>yolmeme*

>he should have scored on that no question.
Not his call, it's the third base coaches
>And then there's that play
He would've been caught easily

Sox you better beat these guys. Take these fools out of our wild card and we will get u some nice new wheels for your tank! :^)

bullpen will make doing that physically impossible

I only care about some offense and more importantly the starters

>non call on low strike
goddamn it

That works.

So what happens when MattyD comes back? Platoon DH?

Hasn't every double header this season been a split?

There's that at least

those were before our bullpen became worst in the league by far

there is literally no one at this game

Christ almight you only have 2 pitchers with a sub 3 ERA in your bullpen?

Engel gets a permanent spot on the bench, Leury moves to center, Nicky moves to left, Matt plays DH.

everyone's down in Carbondale today

though itd probably still be pretty bad even if they werent Monday double header yeesh

Wait we do? Who?

wrong image

How is Leurys D at CF compared to Engel's? Or is this move solely to give leury more reps cause he has more hope for 2018 than Engel?

Oh god i was accidentally looking at the twins.

oh lawd

10 IP 14 BB

Oooooooof

>How is Leurys D at CF compared to Engel's?
Hard to answer. If you judge on the eye test and word of mouth, Engel seems to be better, but Fangraphs and B-Ref like Leury's defense more and Baseball Prospectus likes Engel's defense more.
The big thing is that Leury is a decent hitter (109 wRC+/111 OPS+), and Engel is complete dog shit (51 wRC+/54 OPS+)

I hope the clouds fully blocked it out like it did here. I was out golfing when it happened and some dumbasses just parked in the middle of the fairway and put on their stupid glasses. Then when I was busy trying to pound beers after spending 5 hours swampass humidity, I had to hear people bitching about how their "day was ruined"

why not just watch some 4k+ youtube video of it?

almost makes you wonder how he was even invited to team Israel

Yeah the hitting difference is clear as day. I did hear something about Engel arm too which brings down his overall defense despite great range and catch abilities. Leury does seem to be the way to go.

Thing though is going back our original discussion, can NickyD actually stick in left?

under

Is everyone all Eclipsed out now? the wait for the 2024 occlusion should be kinda tense, in space news terms..
I was right in the umbra, shit was amazing

>this battle

The only way to find out is to give him a chance, and if he can continue to hit anywhere in the same universe as he has been, there's no risk in giving him that chance.

SIU?

...

not surprised he swung at that, what with swinging at anything else too
that was an odd AB

Just keep swinging

Idaho, right up in the mountains
it was fast from hear, but very clear

*here
>hurr

well shit

good morning good afternoon and good night
dat slider
rodon at his finest there

was it cloudy out east?

the only thing we were worried about was some smoke and haze from a wild fire nearby

Oregon was clear sailing, I hear WY was clear skies too

>Are the Twins milquetoast ?? =\

The sky was completely covered in clouds during the eclipse time near Chicago. Sun came out like an hour later.

this was my own pic here in Chicago
it sure was cloudy but the thin clouds helped to see it. then the thick clouds rolled in and it was rip

alright Rodon
the good
1 run 2 hits 6 Ks through 4

the bad
72 pitches...

>tfw forecast from tomorrow onward is all 70s/50s
Feels good man.

leadoff walk nickyds on base continues

whelp... NASA probably got some good shots..

I'm sure a of bunch films and shorts are going to come out shortly as well

I wish baseball had a Martin Shkreli type owner/GM.

yes yes give Rodon more runs

Are you purposely being ignorant

MORE FUCKING YOLMEMES

Wow, a Yolmeme bomb, don't see that every day

YOLMEME

ignorant of what?


>based yellow oakleys man

solar eclipse
Yolmer bomb
what next?
jpetty save?

The bullpen will allow ZERO walks.

Bustcada won't suck.

>muh busts

Engel leaning into pitches again. He knows its the only way he can get on base.

we better pile on more before our bp comes in...

Nope

>bustcada

meanwhile Devers has 8 HRs and well Benintendi, we know

not giving up of course but its... discouraging...

I go to clean out the garage and come back to this?

Keep going sox i told you i believed in you!

bullpens not out yet
but with rodons pitch count that could be soon

I'm pretty sure this is a pipe dream, but I'm really hoping for a 2011 game 162 situation this year.

There's no way everything will line up like that ever again.

87 pitches through 5? Jeez man better have a robot arm

josavior strikes again

Fuck yeah abroo

feels good and bad man. was awesome to see it, but i probably won't see anything like it again

ABRO

JOSAVIOR!!!!

First white sock to record 25 homers in each of his first 4 seasons.


Keep going! But save some for the next game too lol

Avi's on fire

he can go for the 30+

30/100 rather like he did in the first 2 seasons

uh oh it begins

>homeless man interferes with game episode

Rodon pls

let the bullpen blow the game, not yourself

The clouds were perfect for blocking enough of the sun to see the eclipse without glasses, now my vision is all blurry with all these little spots floating around.

How fucked am I?

based rosario

as fucked as Rodon

based rodon

seems you're good then

Kahnle Swarz and Drobs legacy

>Rodon still pitching
hes at 112 for Christ sakes

rodon out

as far as I'm concerned this games over

worst name

bummer
farquhar