Author Topic: Twins @ Astros May 4, 2016 (Read 8411 times)

Mr. Happy · « **on:** May 04, 2016, 03:20:08 pm »

Your White-free lineups for tonight's rubber game tilt:

Twins

FDanny Santana (S)
2BBrian Dozier (R)
DHJoe Mauer (L)
RFMiguel Sano (R)
3BTrevor Plouffe (R)
1BByung-ho Park (R)
LFOswaldo Arcia (L)
CJ. Murphy (R)
SSEduardo Nunez (R)

MIN: Phil Hughes (R) (1-4, 4.45)

Astros

2B Jose Altuve (R)
RF George Springer (R)
SS Carlos Correa (R)
LF Colby Rasmus (L)
CF Carlos Gomez (R)
DH Preston Tucker (L)
1B Marwin Gonzalez (S)
3B Luis Valbuena (L)
C Jason Castro (L)

HOU: Mike Fiers (R) (2-1, 4.97)

Knoxbanedoodle · « **Reply #1 on:** May 04, 2016, 04:11:31 pm »

We can punk Hughes.

mrpink · « **Reply #2 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:15:13 pm »

7 pitches. Nice.

believin · « **Reply #3 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:18:54 pm »

Leadoff HR by Altuve. Astros up 1-0.

BizidyDizidy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:22:24 pm »

How many leadoff HRs is that now? He's gunning for Craig.

believin · « **Reply #5 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:24:28 pm »

Quote from: BizidyDizidy on May 04, 2016, 07:22:24 pm

How many leadoff HRs is that now? He's gunning for Craig.

5 on the season. 1 short of the record.

believin · « **Reply #6 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:25:14 pm »

Springer walks, Correa doubles him home, advances to 3rd on the throw. Rasmus drives Correa in.
Astros up 3-0.

BizidyDizidy · « **Reply #7 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:29:11 pm »

13 is the AL and MLB record (Soriano). Interestingly he also has the NL record with 12. I would've guessed Ricky (who does have the career record over Biggio by a fairly wide margin).

jbm · « **Reply #8 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:29:43 pm »

Tucker hits a ton of bullets right up the middle. His average is bad, but he always looks like a competent hitter.

BizidyDizidy · « **Reply #9 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:36:47 pm »

Has Fiers always had that ridiculous tattoo?

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #10 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:40:18 pm »

Quote from: BizidyDizidy on May 04, 2016, 07:36:47 pm

Has Fiers always had that ridiculous tattoo?

It's new this year.

chuck · « **Reply #11 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:40:26 pm »

Quote from: BizidyDizidy on May 04, 2016, 07:36:47 pm

Has Fiers always had that ridiculous tattoo?

Why, what's the matter with it?

hostros7 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:43:16 pm »

Quote from: BizidyDizidy on May 04, 2016, 07:36:47 pm

Has Fiers always had that ridiculous tattoo?

Yes, always tried my best to block out that he has his own last name tattooed on his throwing arm, which no doubt he thinks is a clever homophone.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #13 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:43:28 pm »

Fiers gets two quick outs, then gives up two singles. Gets a punchout to end the threat.

3-0 Astros, middle of the second

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #14 on:** May 04, 2016, 07:53:25 pm »

Springer with a 2-run double...5-0 Astros, one out in the 2nd

austro · « **Reply #15 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:02:02 pm »

Quote from: chuck on May 04, 2016, 07:40:26 pm

Why, what's the matter with it?

Um, it's a tattoo? Unfortunately, I won't be around when these guys get old and saggy, but you guys who will be around should get a pretty good laugh.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #16 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:02:40 pm »

B2

Valbuena grounds out 4-3...now 0 for his last 18
Castro walks
Altuve singles to LF, Castro to 2B
Springer doubles to LCF, Castro scores, Altuve scores
Correa...works the count full, and flies out F8, Springer tags and moves to 3B
Rasmus singles to RF, Springer scores
Gomez grounds into FC, Rasmus out 5-3

Astros up 6-0 after two

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #17 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:06:12 pm »

Ding Dong!

Castro takes one off the nuts.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #18 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:08:49 pm »

Couple of knocks and the Twins have runners at the corner with nobody out...

NeilT · « **Reply #19 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:09:49 pm »

Castro's probably talking higher too.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #20 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:10:23 pm »

Dozier with a 3-run homer...6-3 now...still nobody out in the 3rd

austro · « **Reply #21 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:12:26 pm »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on May 04, 2016, 08:10:23 pm

Dozier with a 3-run homer...6-3 now...still nobody out in the 3rd

That escalated quickly.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #22 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:17:23 pm »

T3:

Nunez doubles to LCF
Santana hammers one to 1B, knocked down by Marwin, but no play...Nunez to 3B...saved a run for now
Santana steals 2B
Dozier homers to LF, Nunez scores, Santana scores
Mauer singles to LF
Sano flies out F9...Springer ran a LONG way for that one, nice play
Plouffe lines out F7
Park strikes out swinging

Twins cut the lead in half....6-3 Astros

chuck · « **Reply #23 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:27:39 pm »

Quote from: austro on May 04, 2016, 08:02:02 pm

Um, it's a tattoo? Unfortunately, I won't be around when these guys get old and saggy, but you guys who will be around should get a pretty good laugh.

A pitcher's not allowed to use a glove that's considered distracting nor a baseball glove on his glove hand. I've always wondered what the result would be if a pitcher deliberately got a distracting tattoo on his pitching arm. I guess he'd always have to wear a sleeve.

I am very grateful that I am a bit too old for tattoos. I don't know when exactly they began to be a necessary accessory, nor do I know if they still are. All I know is that I would not want anything permanent on me. Particularly not something I thought was cool when I was 20. It's a good thing I don't still have the same haircut I did when I was 20. Only someone like Dark Star can pull that off.

Anyway, I was riding my bike along Miami Beach one afternoon and I saw a woman jogging in front of me. She was in excellent shape and as I got closer to her I realized that she was well into her 50s, at least. The vast majority of 20 year old girls would sell their best friend to have a body like this woman did. She must have been wearing a bikini top because her back was exposed. She had an oriental tattoo that covered virtually all of her back like some sort of Yakuza boss. It was nothing new, mind you. She'd been carrying this around since she went on a self-exploration backpacking trip through Indonesia in 1972, you know? It looked fucking terrible. It was fucked up and faded and the way skin naturally ages just blurred the whole thing into something Monet might have painted in his 80s.

So I imagine in 20 or 30 years there's going to be a lot of Navin Johnson reads his mail in the bathtub sorts of echoes as people try to figure out what everyone has scrawled all over themselves.

I saw a cook in Montevideo once who had on his forearm a bunch of random, Jackson Pollock style squiggles in various colors. I thought, hell, if I ever had to get a tattoo that's the route I would take.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #24 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:30:19 pm »

Castrofly!!!

hostros7 · « **Reply #25 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:30:31 pm »

Jason Castro eat any burgers in Mexico recently?

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MusicMan · « **Reply #26 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:32:11 pm »

We've secretly replaced Jason Castro with a major league hitter. Let's see if anyone notices.

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HudsonHawk · « **Reply #27 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:32:21 pm »

B3:

Fien in for the Twins

Tucker strikes out swinging
Marwin grounds out 4-3
Valbuena singles off of Park's glove...snaps his 0 for 19 streak
Castro homers to LF, Valbuena scores
Altuve chops back to the mound...1-3

8-3 Astros

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #28 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:33:51 pm »

Quote from: chuck on May 04, 2016, 08:27:39 pm

I saw a cook in Montevideo once who had on his forearm a bunch of random, Jackson Pollock style squiggles in various colors. I thought, hell, if I ever had to get a tattoo that's the route I would take.

I don't have any ink, but I've always said if I ever got a tattoo, it would be an anchor on my forearm.

austro · « **Reply #29 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:37:57 pm »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on May 04, 2016, 08:33:51 pm

I don't have any ink, but I've always said if I ever got a tattoo, it would be an anchor on my forearm.

See, there are some small things that I can kind of understand, but these folks who look like the illustrated man confound me. But, then, I'm an engineer type that probably confounds those folks, too.

jbm · « **Reply #30 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:39:35 pm »

Fiers insists on fucking up an enjoyable game.

chuck · « **Reply #31 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:40:23 pm »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on May 04, 2016, 08:33:51 pm

I don't have any ink, but I've always said if I ever got a tattoo, it would be an anchor on my forearm.

My dad had a heart in light blue ink on the inside of his left wrist. He gave it to himself at some point for who knows what reason and it was just barely visible. I could go that route, too, I guess, a subtle nod to the old man.

This guy just hates pitching with a big lead.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #32 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:40:36 pm »

T4:

Arcia bloops a Texas Leauger into shallow LF
Murphy strikes out looking
Nunez singles to RF, Springer bobbles it, Arcia to 3B and Nunez to 2B on the E9
Santana grounds out 4-3, Arcia scores, Nunez to 3B
Dozier grounds out 6-3

8-4 Astros

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #33 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:43:31 pm »

I don't care for tatted up women, say while I'm watching porn, for example. I don't find it sexy at all. Not even a little. Mrs. Hawk has a "aTM" on her ankle, but luckily I'm not Rex Ryan.

chuck · « **Reply #34 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:43:49 pm »

Quote from: austro on May 04, 2016, 08:37:57 pm

See, there are some small things that I can kind of understand, but these folks who look like the illustrated man confound me. But, then, I'm an engineer type that probably confounds those folks, too.

The chick who got banned from social media for posting her (pretty good) painting (I think it was) of Trump with a micropenis has a project where people all over the world send her phrases or designs or who knows what for her to tattoo on her body. She's reserved most of her body for this.

Like you, I realize that a lot of these people do shit like this to put some distance between them and me but what was wrong with wearing stupid clothes and having a fucked up haircut?

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #35 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:45:38 pm »

Correa!!!!

NeilT · « **Reply #36 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:46:07 pm »

I once slammed a fountain pen into my palm, and have a blue dot in the middle of the left hand. It's a very nice tat. Correa, it's about damn time.

hostros7 · « **Reply #37 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:47:18 pm »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on May 04, 2016, 08:33:51 pm

I don't have any ink, but I've always said if I ever got a tattoo, it would be an anchor on my forearm.

What you would identify as a "hipster" has already ironically coopted this exact tattoo. Any tattoo artist in Park Slope worth his or her weight in sublimated gravalax should be able to knock it out in 15.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #38 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:49:53 pm »

B4:

Springer pops to shallow CF
Correa homers to RF
Rasmus flies out F9
Gomez strikes out swinging

9-4 Astros

MusicMan · « **Reply #39 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:50:54 pm »

GOOD GAWD ALMIGHTY THATS CARLOS CORREA'S MUSIC

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chuck · « **Reply #40 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:52:29 pm »

In Park Slope you could find a nice locally sourced seaweed bruschetta with invigorated butter but for a hipster tattoo I'm pretty sure you'd need to go to Bushwick.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #41 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:52:41 pm »

Quote from: hostros7 on May 04, 2016, 08:47:18 pm

What you would identify as a "hipster" has already ironically coopted this exact tattoo. Any tattoo artist in Park Slope worth his or her weight in sublimated gravalax should be able to knock it out in 15.

Fucking hipsters. They've already tried to coopt my hat into the ultimate douchebag symbol. If they ever learn what irony actually is, they'll be hard to stop.

chuck · « **Reply #42 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:53:50 pm »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on May 04, 2016, 08:52:41 pm

If they ever learn what irony actually is, they'll be hard to stop.

Well, that's the irony of it.

MusicMan · « **Reply #43 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:55:08 pm »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on May 04, 2016, 08:52:41 pm

Fucking hipsters. They've already tried to coopt my hat into the ultimate douchebag symbol. If they ever learn what irony actually is, they'll be hard to stop.

Don't worry. They learned from Alanis.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #44 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:04:47 pm »

Asbhy: If you win the run differential, then you have a pretty good chance of winning the game. Brilliance.

mrpink · « **Reply #45 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:05:03 pm »

Quote from: chuck on May 04, 2016, 08:27:39 pm

A pitcher's not allowed to use a glove that's considered distracting nor a baseball glove on his glove hand. I've always wondered what the result would be if a pitcher deliberately got a distracting tattoo on his pitching arm. I guess he'd always have to wear a sleeve.

He does, it's the Justin Miller rule.

I remember him passing away a few years ago at age 35, but couldn't recall why. A quick google search revealed nothing about his cause of death. Very strange.

mrpink · « **Reply #46 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:06:16 pm »

Quote from: NeilT on May 04, 2016, 08:46:07 pm

I once slammed a fountain pen into my palm, and have a blue dot in the middle of the left hand. It's a very nice tat. Correa, it's about damn time.

I have the same on my right palm from a pencil in the 9th grade.

Texifornia · « **Reply #47 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:11:26 pm »

Quote from: HudsonHawk on May 04, 2016, 09:04:47 pm

Asbhy: If you win the run differential, then you have a pretty good chance of winning the game. Brilliance.

My back of the envelope calculation yields a 100% probability of winning a game when a team wins the run differential in that game.

You got to get up pretty early in the morning to get one past Ashby.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #48 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:12:19 pm »

Twins with the bases loaded and two out...

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #49 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:13:12 pm »

T5:

Mauer singles to CF
Sano grounds to SS, but Altuve has to field it and there's no one to cover 2B. Sano reaches on the FC, as Mauer is out 4U
Plouffe flies out F9
Park, full count, walks, Sano to 2B

That's it for Fiers, no win tonight....Fields in...

Arcia walks, Park to 2B, Sano to 3B
Murphy flies out F7

9-4 Astros

MusicMan · « **Reply #50 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:13:25 pm »

Fiers can't make it 5 inning after his offense gives him 9 runs. No question whose place McCullers takes.

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HudsonHawk · « **Reply #51 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:22:42 pm »

Astros with bases juiced and one out in the 5th...

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #52 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:23:31 pm »

This game is going to take for fucking ever.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #53 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:27:28 pm »

Altuve with a 2-run double...11-4 now

MusicMan · « **Reply #54 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:34:33 pm »

That ball kicking off the bag is the sort of shit that hasn't happened at ALL for us this year.

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HudsonHawk · « **Reply #55 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:35:40 pm »

B5:

O'Rourke in for the Twins...

Gattis, pinch hitting for Tucker, singles to CF on the first pitch
Marwin walks, Gattis to 2B
Valbuena sac bunt, 3U, Gattis to 3B, Marwin to 2B
Castro...infield in...walks

That's all for O'Rourke...Graham in

Altuve doubles off the top of the RCF wall...would've been a triple except Castro stopped for a cigarette at 3B...Gattis scores, Marwin scores, Castro to 3B
Springer flies out F9...Castro holds and the throw almost goes into the Twins dugout
Correa singles to LF, Castro scores, Altuve to 3B
Rasmus walks, Correa to 2B
Gomez rolls one up the middle, it hits the bag at 2B...Altuve scores, Correa scores, Rasmus to 3B on the rare infield double
Gattis strikes out looking

14-4 Astros after five

hostros7 · « **Reply #56 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:36:10 pm »

Really not opposed to a 10 run rule after 6 during the regular season.

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austro · « **Reply #57 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:37:34 pm »

It would be really nice to have the bats finally go on a multi-game tear.

MusicMan · « **Reply #58 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:38:13 pm »

Gomez is second on the team in doubles. How the fuck is that possible?

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austro · « **Reply #59 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:40:27 pm »

Quote from: MusicMan on May 04, 2016, 09:38:13 pm

Gomez is second on the team in doubles. How the fuck is that possible?

He hit a couple last night. That ought to do it.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #60 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:41:33 pm »

T6:

Feldman in for the Astros

Nunez grounds out 5-3
Santana grounds out 4-3
Escobar, pinch hitting for Dozier...flies out F7 on a nice grab by Colby

14-4

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #61 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:45:54 pm »

B6:

Marwin grounds out 6-3 on the first pitch
Valbuena strikes out swinging
Castro flies out F7 at the wall on the first pitch

14-4

Reuben · « **Reply #62 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:51:33 pm »

Quote from: chuck on May 04, 2016, 08:52:29 pm

In Park Slope you could find a nice locally sourced seaweed bruschetta with invigorated butter but for a hipster tattoo I'm pretty sure you'd need to go to Bushwick.

Exactly. No room for tattoo parlors in Park Slope anyway, with all the boutique fair trade organic baby accessory shops. The hipsters are still mostly in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick, as far as I can tell, although they've certainly crept their way into Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill, and even Bed-Stuy.

juliogotay · « **Reply #63 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:53:13 pm »

Quote from: austro on May 04, 2016, 08:02:02 pm

Um, it's a tattoo? Unfortunately, I won't be around when these guys get old and saggy, but you guys who will be around should get a pretty good laugh.

It's the modern-day dogtag.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #64 on:** May 04, 2016, 09:54:25 pm »

T7

Mauer...full count...strikes out swinging
Sano flies out F7
Plouffe flies out F8

14-4 at the stretch

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #65 on:** May 04, 2016, 10:00:15 pm »

B7:

May in for the Twins

Altuve pops to 2B, and Escobar clanks it...E4
White in to pinch run for Altuve
Springer flies out F8
Correa flies out F9
Rasmus striks out swinging

14-4 Astros

juliogotay · « **Reply #66 on:** May 04, 2016, 10:03:05 pm »

Quote from: MusicMan on May 04, 2016, 08:32:11 pm

We've secretly replaced Jason Castro with a major league hitter. Let's see if anyone notices.

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I get tired of all the Castro ragging. He is far from the biggest problem this club has.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #67 on:** May 04, 2016, 10:07:19 pm »

T8:

Feliz in for the Astros

Park strikes out swinging
Arcia lines out to CF
Murphy flies out F9

14-4 Astros

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #68 on:** May 04, 2016, 10:28:27 pm »

B8:

Pressly in for the Twins

Gomez strikes out looking on three pitches
Gattis strikes out looking
Marwin...the only Astro without a hit tonight...walks
Valbuena walks, Marwin to 2B
Castro doubles to RCF, Marwin scores, Valbuena scores

Molitor out to make a pitching change, then argues about something... perhaps complaining about the sand in his vagina...and is ejected. Pressly out, Tonkin in

Castro moves to 3B on a passed ball
White pops out F4

16-4 Astros

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #69 on:** May 04, 2016, 10:34:57 pm »

T9:

Nunez flies out F9
Santana grounds out 4-3
Escobar lines out F8

And the Astros win 16-4...get back to back wins for the first time this season.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #70 on:** May 04, 2016, 10:35:34 pm »

And to all a good night.

BizidyDizidy · « **Reply #71 on:** May 04, 2016, 10:55:06 pm »

Quote from: Reuben on May 04, 2016, 09:51:33 pm

Exactly. No room for tattoo parlors in Park Slope anyway, with all the boutique fair trade organic baby accessory shops. The hipsters are still mostly in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick, as far as I can tell, although they've certainly crept their way into Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill, and even Bed-Stuy.

Real hipsters are priced out of Williamsburg now (which is as expensive as anywhere in Manhattan). You're looking Bushwick or further now,

Mr. Happy · « **Reply #72 on:** May 05, 2016, 05:26:17 am »

Quote from: juliogotay on May 04, 2016, 10:03:05 pm

I get tired of all the Castro ragging. He is far from the biggest problem this club has.

I was tired of him hitting .125.

Col. Sphinx Drummond · « **Reply #73 on:** May 05, 2016, 06:56:23 am »

Game 28, another series win!!!

juliogotay · « **Reply #74 on:** May 05, 2016, 09:21:06 am »

Quote from: Mr. Happy on May 05, 2016, 05:26:17 am

I was tired of him hitting .125.

I get that but this lineup should be able to support a light-hitting catcher that pitchers like working with and is at least league-average defensively. The primary DHs, Gattis and Tucker, have combined for a .208 BA and a .382 SLG.

Mr. Happy · « **Reply #75 on:** May 05, 2016, 09:33:49 am »

Quote from: juliogotay on May 05, 2016, 09:21:06 am

I get that but this lineup should be able to support a light-hitting catcher that pitchers like working with and is at least league-average defensively. The primary DHs, Gattis and Tucker, have combined for a .208 BA and a .382 SLG.

It all depends upon what the term "light hitting catcher" means. For me, I measure it by what Ausmus used to produce; anything less than that is light hitting. However, there's a difference between light hitting and anemic hitting, which is where Castro was until recently. I agree with you about DH production.