***Official SF Giants @ Struggling Twinkies thread***

[weimy froob]

pagan just might pitch himself out of the league tonight. better figure it out fast.

[weimy froob]

emilio comes back with two strikeouts. good job. now get this third out.

[weimy froob]

RandBall
@RandBall
11m
Rocco Baldelli might not want to check Twitter after this one

[weimy froob]

[jffl_commish]

I can't wait for Denny Hocking to PH for Correa or Buxton.

[weimy froob]

rally caps in play?

[weimy froob]

garlick goes yard. second deck. rocco looks like a genius now.

[weimy froob]

DanHayesMLB
@DanHayesMLB
Kyle Garlick homers. Still not sure I understand the moves. But it's absolutely hilarious that Garlick and Donovan Solano have combined to reach base four times of the #MNTwins' seven tonight.

[weimy froob]

[weimy froob]

farmer comes up as the tying run. rally caps in play now.

[boxter432]

Castro taking 3 strikes is pretty cool.
B2b Ks when just a doink and getting Gallo up is all you want. Pathetic at bats.

[weimy froob]

the rally fizzles--but you can't put it on rocco's substitutions. is this right? 17 strikeouts tonight? that's what yahoo's telling me.

[weimy froob]

11 pitch AB and counting.

[weimy froob]

sands gets the strikeout.

[weimy froob]

yazstremski is 0-17 going into this AB.

[weimy froob]

sands does his job. all the relievers did their job. rocco's substitutions worked. everything else has been mediocre at best. still have the bottom of the 9th to change the story though.

[weimy froob]

HBP is as good as a hit. and then michael a. taylor hits into a DP.

[weimy froob]

that's worse than a strikeout.

[LwnmwrMan222]

I think a pinch hit for Vazquez in the bottom of the 9th would be a better play than pulling Kiriloff in the 3rd.

[weimy froob]

ober's terrible first inning cost them the game. he needs to be better when he takes the mound to begin the game.

[boxter432]

ober's terrible first inning cost them the game. he needs to be better when he takes the mound to begin the game.

Sure it was bad but zero runs given up in the rest of 8. Pitchers gave the batter a chance. Almost every loss is on the batters. 4 Runs is nothing in 2023
Baseball.

[Sidewinder2k2]

ober's terrible first inning cost them the game. he needs to be better when he takes the mound to begin the game.

He sucked that first inning, but I do admire him being able to settle down and get 5. Not going to win many games scoring only 1 run.

[weimy froob]

the point about ober was in reference to all the twitter chatter about rocco. rocco's moves actually worked out pretty well.

[salamander]

Oh man, these 3rd place in their division teams sure are tough to beat.

[Hummdrum]

LaMonte Wade is old news but it's still fun to see players who the Twins thought were their trash and watch them flourish on other teams.

https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minn ... ts-r14273/
After a west coast swing that coulda, woulda, shoulda been, the Twins come back home to face the San Francisco Giants. From an opener in the opener, to the return of Lamonte Wade Jr. to Target Field, this series has some interesting storylines. Let's begin!

The Giants won the Wade Jr. trade, and his seven home runs and .901 OPS would be enviable in center field for the Twins this season. Byron Buxton missed Sunday's game with a sore leg/knee, and is questionable to start the homestand.

[weimy froob]

wade jr. put together good ABs while he was with the twins. not surprised he's doing well with the giants.

[salamander]

wade jr. put together good ABs while he was with the twins. not surprised he's doing well with the giants.

Nope! I stand with Twins management and defend the Pohlad's pockets! Clearly Wade Jr. is trash.
Even if he's not trash, he'd have cost too much. We are the clear winners in that trade.

[ForCaleb]

J. Gallo 1B
C. Correa SS
A. Kirilloff RF
B. Buxton DH
E. Julien 2B
K. Farmer 3B
W. Castro LF
C. Vazquez C
M. Taylor CF

[feekdogg]

Wonder if Julien will get to bat today?

[weimy froob]