***Official Stinky Twinkies vs. FernandoMania thread***

[weimy froob]

castro with a good AB--but santana's swing on that 3-1 pitch? bad.

[Hornets]

Not sold on Wallner....not at all.

[Hornets]

OK, let's go steal this one!!

[LwnmwrMan222]

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[weimy froob]

johnnie longhair does his job. strikes out ohtani.

[Hornets]

Phillips throws some nasty stuff....Jeffers had NO chance.

[LwnmwrMan222]

Rocco really pulled Ober at 68 pitches?





Jeffers stares at 3 straight pitches. 0-13 lifetime against the Dodgers. Good thing Rocco put him in as DH.

Not sure what the sabremetrics say to put him in, other than he's right handed.

[Hornets]

Well, at least they finished before the rain becomes a problem.

[weimy froob]

18 up and 18 down after buxton's single. twins lose. twins lose.

[D_H]

Wooooohoooo

Another loss the twins now three and five well on their way to 100 loss season! Hopefully no one shows up in this summer and this crooked, lying POS ownership group gets a message.

[weimy froob]

you can count the good and decent ABs in this game on one hand and a couple of fingers on the other. the decent ones ended up being outs anyways.

[SKOLMN]

3 hits lulz, how long till Royce demands a trade?

[boxter432]

Didn’t understand why we were favored to win the division coming in after becoming a worse team than last year…and we are going to have like an 8-10 game hole to dig out of (if lucky) when Lewis comes back. They are for sure getting swept this week so will be 3-7 heading into the weekend. Cle likely 10-2.

[Sidewinder2k2]

nice button pushed rocco. 4 runs are probably plenty against this offense right now.

He's so bad, it's just ugh! He may be a surprise firing at some point this season. One can hope...

Keep dreaming my friend.

He's signed through 2025. Zero chance that cheap fuck Jim or his equally cheap fuck nephew Joe want to pay two managers at once. They let Gardy and Molly both be lame ducks. The earliest Rocco goes is summer of 2025.

[D_H]

We finally won a playoff series for the first time in 20 years with the 17th highest payroll in the league. One would think ownership would add to that and try and do better but they did the exact opposite — fuck them.

[Tuck ya in]

nice button pushed rocco. 4 runs are probably plenty against this offense right now.

He's so bad, it's just ugh! He may be a surprise firing at some point this season. One can hope...

Keep dreaming my friend.

He's signed through 2025. Zero chance that cheap fuck Jim or his equally cheap fuck nephew Joe want to pay two managers at once. They let Gardy and Molly both be lame ducks. The earliest Rocco goes is summer of 2025.

It's probably the case, I was thinking about what most ownerships would do. I love baseball, but the ownership fights me on it at every turn!

[Sidewinder2k2]

He's so bad, it's just ugh! He may be a surprise firing at some point this season. One can hope...

Keep dreaming my friend.

He's signed through 2025. Zero chance that cheap fuck Jim or his equally cheap fuck nephew Joe want to pay two managers at once. They let Gardy and Molly both be lame ducks. The earliest Rocco goes is summer of 2025.

It's probably the case, I was thinking about what most ownerships would do. I love baseball, but the ownership fights me on it at every turn!

Agreed. If they are that worried about the money they lost Post-Covid, they should sell the team to someone that gives a shit.

[The Lizard King]

Go Doyers!

[Sidewinder2k2]

Go Doyers!

I like you 362/363 days a year. Only when the Twins play the Dodgers do I get annoyed.

[Tommy_Hawk]

League worst Team Batting Average and Slugging Percentage. They suck, and the lineup was supposed to be their strength.

[Sellingguy]

But you have pontoon seats now and next year they are putting in campfire rings!

[weimy froob]

ober looked great after the first inning. miranda had a lot of good swings. of course, rocco was afraid of letting bailey face ohtani a third time and the pinch-hitting made sure that miranda didn't get another AB.

The mystique of Shohei Ohtani has a way of striking fear into the heart of his opponents. He has a larger than life presence that feels almost superhuman in comparison to his peers. It seems like something special is imminent every time he steps to the plate.

That’s why more than 15,000 people showed up to Target Field on Monday night despite overcast skies and the temperature sitting below 50 degrees at first pitch.

Naturally, Ohtani lived up to the hype, putting on a show for everybody in attendance by going 3 for 5 with a solo home run to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-2 win over the Twins. It was the type of performance the Japanese superstar has been known to deliver throughout his career.

Maybe the most impressive thing was the fact that the impact of Ohtani spanned beyond the batter’s box. He even managed to make an impact from the on deck circle as he chased starter Bailey Ober simply by existing.

Never mind that Ober was in complete control only having thrown thrown 68 pitches while stifling a lethal lineup on the other end. He battled through a shaky start that featured him throwing a fastball to Ohtani that left the bat with a exit velocity of 110 mph, followed by a fastball to star first baseman Freddie Freeman that likely would’ve been a goner in the middle of the summer.

After working his way out of the jam relatively unscathed, however, Ober slowly started to settle in, and his excellence on the mound actually had the Twins in position for the win.

“After the first inning, I felt like I was able to get into a rhythm,” Ober said. “That felt pretty good to be able to just go out there and get into a flow state and not overthink stuff.”

It still wasn’t enough to convince manager Rocco Baldelli to let Ober face Ohtani for a third time.

“I know how many pitches he threw; I know it wasn’t 85 or 90,” Baldelli said. “He did everything we wanted him to do today, so we could hand it off to our good bullpen arms.”

Fittingly, Ohtani blooped a double to left field on the first pitch he saw from reliever Steven Okert. To make matters worse, Ohtani came around to score the tying run a couple of batters later, as Freeman and catcher Will Smith both got on base with soft contact.

As frustrating as the result was for the Twins, Baldelli stood by the call, noting that Okert actually pitched pretty well, even if the box score might suggest otherwise.

“He threw the ball the way we would want him to,” Baldelli said. “That’s where we ended up.”

Though he admitted he would’ve loved to stay in the game, Ober understood the decision and was at peace with it.

“You know, at that point, I trust all the guys we’ve got back there,” Ober said. “Whether it’s me or those guys coming in, I have faith we’re going to get the job done.”

Still, that ended up defining the rest of the game for the Twins, as the bullpen struggled to contain the Dodgers. After reliever Jay Jackson gave up a solo home run to center fielder Jake Outman to break the tie, Ohtani put the finishing touches on the win with a towering moonshot that crept into the first row of the bleachers in left field.

Not that Jackson felt too bad about serving up a solo home run to Ohtani.

“It happens,” Jackson said. “He’s strong as anything. That ball got out, and I was surprised. He’s a big boy, so he’s going to hit a lot more of those.”

[Tommy_Hawk]

Rocco, the King of justifying his poor decisions.

[weimy froob]

right. it's a results business--and rocco's decisions didn't get the results. that makes them wrong. we don't know if leaving ober in would've worked--we do know that what rocco tried didn't. just own it and move on. 68 pitches and cruising. you fucked up rocco.

[feekdogg]

1. Julien 2B
2. Correa SS
3. Kirilloff 1B
4. Buxton CF
5. Miranda DH
6. Wallner RF
7. Castro, W 3B
8. Jeffers C
9. Martin LF

Glasnow vs. Screwy Louie

[LwnmwrMan222]

I don't pay attention to other teams. How many other managers manage strictly on analytics like Rocco? Are there a lot of them?

[feekdogg]

Leadoff walk to the early frontrunner for MVP.
Good job, Lou.

[The Lizard King]

Go Doyers!

I like you 362/363 days a year. Only when the Twins play the Dodgers do I get annoyed.

[LwnmwrMan222]

Guy's a bum....strikes out every time I see him.

[weimy froob]

followed by an ohtani strikeout and then after a fantastic pitch for strike two he got the double play ball from freeman. strong inning for louie.