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At least we made Suzuki look awful for once.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 03:34 PM) So it was trap the umpire called him out and then replay showed a trap and the guy gets second? It's dumb. It's like they're emulating what would have happened had they made the right call or something.

Wow, awful. Plouffe would have been out at second easily.

lol why would he challenge this? Plouffe would have been out at second anyhow.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 03:25 PM) Alright Webb hold them 2 runs in 3 innings is not impossible Minnesota's bullpen is actually pretty decent.

Good thing Jones wasn't named the closer.

Can we please figure out how to pitch to Suzuki? He's a career .250 hitter. Other teams aren't getting burned by him like we are.

Paulino's still out there.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 02:47 PM) He didn't want to stack 3 leftys b2b2b. If that's really the case, then he could have just went Sale, Quintana, Johnson/Paulino, Danks, Johnson/Paulino.

Eaton sure loves hitting a lot of ground balls.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 02:43 PM) I'll take that start. If he's this years Hector Santiago I'm cool with it.....Perhaps pitching him behind Sale is a good idea with the thought that a lot of the bullpen gets the day off the day before. That's the idea. Our top 3 starters are Sale, Q, and Danks. But Robin spread them out so the bullpen can have some rest in case Johnson and Paulino both have short outings on back to back days.

That might be it for Paulino. Good outing though. The second inning was painful to watch, but he was pretty good.

Plouffe must love hitting off Paulino. He's hit the ball hard all three times today.

He gawn!

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 02:38 PM) and one in the middle At least the other one walks and hits the occasional HR.

Where was that pitch?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 02:36 PM) what did eaton do Ground out and sac fly.

It's definitely bad that we have two ~.200 hitters at the bottom of the order.

Alexei with a rare walk.

What a crappy throw by Flowers.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 02:12 PM) Is this a serious post? Your giving Semien 6 ab's? This is why I try to stay out of game threads. lol I'm one of the last people who will judge players based on a small sample size. Just because I don't like what I've seen so far doesn't mean I don't think he'll ever succeed. The thing with Semien is that Beckham is still the guy at 2B. Unless he can wow the coaching staff in his limited time, he's not going to take 2B from Beckham.

Dunn's looked awful so far.

I'm not too thrilled with Semien thus far. He's had one solid hit thus far and hasn't looked particularly good at the plate. It's still early, but I don't see Semien getting PT over Beckham when Gordon's back.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 01:59 PM) What the f*** is Tyler doing not catching that ball at home plate and tagging Kubel? Sure it would have been close, but it was a perfect throw..... What a jackass. Probably because you can't block the plate if you don't have the ball now. He took it a bit too literally though.

It's pretty simple for Paulino. If he dicks around and throws a bunch of off-speed pitches, he'll miss, get behind, and serve up hard hits because he has to throw fastballs and fastball counts.