How long is his shirt going to be on the DL?
His shirt and his knees could be in surgery this offseason.
Come on!
The Twins certainly CAN beat the Yankees. After all, this is baseball, where there’s no such thing as an upset. There’s no reason the Twins COULDN’T take a short series from the Yanks. I’d give the Twins a 40% chance of doing just that.
But…
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Momentum simply doesn’t exist.
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There is no way you can pretend the Twins are “fresher” than the Yanks.
Games like last night’s are what make baseball better than other sports, IMO. The drama, the tension, the back and forth scoring, the plays at the plate and in the field. I’m a huge NFL fan, but nothing compares to a close, meaningful baseball game.
Or Polanco getting called out on a pitch a foot out of the zone.
Forecast from the NOAA for tonight’s game in the Bronx
That’s right, the wind is going to be gusting out to right field. It could be ugly folks.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more discussion of Leyland’s decision to send Rodney out there for a fourth inning. I don’t know much about the Tiger bullpen or Rodney’s durability, but that’s asking a lot. He threw 48 pitches to 15 batters.
Does not matter. It is hit by pitch ,when your clothes are hit. How often does a guy get on DL after being hit anyway? It was just one of the bad calls by a South Park umpire. (Stan Marsh)
Ran out of tomorrows. They could have brought in a starter.
<sigh>
The offdays after Game 1. Used to be that a 5 game series would take 6 days to play-not anymore.
Just combating one set of pointless & meaningless cliches with another set.
Randy Marsh. Stan’s Dad.
Rodney doens’t pitch more than an inning very often. Actually, his season high was 2 innings and it was done 3 times this year. The 3rd inning was a bonus inning, but who else could Leyland throw out there? Galarraga pitched the previous game. Zumaya was still hurt. Seay was dinged up. Robertson? Bonderman? Maybe those two, and I’d have preferred to see one of them over Miner can be hit or miss.
Verlander?
That’s a very bad situation alright. He’d already lost the option to pitch Porcello for game one and didn’t want to lose another starter, I guess.
Doyle Alexander?
And they’re underway in Philly. Sneaking in my picks at the last second:
NL:
Phillies over Rockies in five, Cardinals over Dodgers in four. Cardinals beat Philly in six in the NLCS.
AL:
Yankees sweep the Twins, Angels take out Red Sox in five. Yankees over the Angels in seven.
Yankees win the Series over the Cardinals, four games to one.
TBS’s coverage seems very Yankee biased. Too bad Brett Favre doesn’t play for the Twins.
Slated to start game 2 and 5 (if it came to that) of the next series.
He’s partially got the reference, but he messed up the umpire’s name. I’ll call it a ball.