SoxBlanco

Eaton to RF and Sheets to DH against righties?

I can’t remember if it was you or @Chicago White Sox who kept telling everyone to calm down because Grandal would probably end the year with the same numbers he does every year…which are the same numbers he put up last year when people were complaining about the signing. Well done. Thanks for being the voice of reason.

That would be incorrect. I remember a Cleveland/Seattle game several years ago where I believe Cleveland scored 3, 4, 5 in the last three innings to erase a 12 run lead and ended up winning the game.

My guess is that Josh went out there and told Lucas that he’s there to say it to his face. Lucas didn’t have much to say and just smoothed it over. Then Donaldson probably complimented Gio and the Sox and all was good.

This is going to be a shit show of injuries all season long, right up until the playoffs. Then everything will come together perfectly for a deep run.

Interesting mix of capital O’s and zeros.

Bump. Another solid effort from Ryan in a big spot. Love it.

Hitting is contagious.

Wrong!!

If the over/under for Yermin’s hits today was 0.5, I’d be taking the over!

My first thought after reading the initial post was, “Wow, this is a @Chicago White Sox style game thread. Let’s f***ing GO!”

The most impressive thing is that he has an ERA of 0.0 AND 0.38. That’s tough to do.

Big win. If you could go back and change the final score of the game to 7-3, where our bullpen shut them down, would you do it? Or would you rather have it play out exactly like it did? I guess it’s a question of which is more important: Confidence of the guys in the pen or excitement/momentum that a game like that can give our club moving into the next series.

I don’t think that scenario is very plausible. With 55 hits, I don’t think there’s any way that only 5 are of the extra base variety.

Agreed. I think there’s about a 30% chance he calls it a strike. Either way, awful pitch to swing at in that situation. I just posted it in case people were curious exactly where the pitch was.

The pitch actually had the corner of the “strike zone box”. Terrible pitch to swing at 2-0, and it might have been called a ball, but it was not 3 inches outside.

Sore thumb. Just getting more rest.

This is exactly what I’ve heard. So it doesn’t need to touch the back of the glove, right? Who said that?

Do you have a link to that rule?

That’s what I always thought and what makes the most sense, but that’s why what an announcer said (maybe Benetti?) is sticking out to me. I was surprised when I heard it.

On a close play at first base, is the runner out when the ball enters the glove or when the ball touches the back of the glove? I swear I have heard announcers say it just needs to enter the glove, but I can’t find an official rule on that through my various Google searches. Anybody have a link for that rule?

I’m not stating it fact, but I can see how it reads that way. There are some arguments where I can see both sides. But for this argument, I am completely on one side. So I ABSOLUTELY think he should have swung. I’m not on the fence about it.

Once the Twins put a guy out there throwing 47 mph lob balls, then all bets were off. Yermin absolutely should have been swinging there. Taking a walk would be like taking a walk in slow-pitch softball when your team is up by 10 runs. That should be more frowned upon than swinging 3-0. If Yermin had grounded out on the 3-0 swing, there would be zero issue and the Twins would probably be happy that he swung. It's a classic case of judging the result instead of the process. Having said that, I also absolutely think Yermin needs to listen to his signs. He was given the take sign, so he needs to take. The problem is that he should have never been given the take sign to begin with.

Done!