I noticed this earlier too. It appears that they've still got a bit of a problem with leaving runners on base.

Poor Boo doesn't get credit for his inning. But the old guy gets a Win!

1) Very hot. 2) That is classic - I'll take it.

Ummm, that's a lot of runners LOB.

/just sayin'

They only batted 6 times in this rain-shortened game. They had at least 60 guys reach base, or 10 per inning not counting walks, errors, or hbp. Two guys scored. Fifty eight did not. Ending each inning with a triple play would account for 18 outs. Two of the 60 scored; oh, wait I said that. If they hit three singles to start off each inning, then hit a base runner with a batted ball three straight times, that would be 36 hits, plus 2 run scoring hits makes it 38, so there are 22 hits unaccounted for. Gardy should look into this more deeply.

Meanwhile, the KC/Seattle game today actually ended with a 15-15 score. And Denny Hocking had 3 hits, including a double! Some real weird shit happening in the cosmos today.

We must have looked like the Bitch Sox the way we were running into outs on the bases.

holy crap.

The Star Tribune says 6 hits. Somebody needs to be more careful about throwing zeroes around!

At first, I was a little dismayed to see Ford batting so far down in the lineup. But then, I realized that with Cuddyer batting behind him, those two could be a nice little end of the lineup run producing combo.

I think you nailed it, Pepper. The 0 was meant to come before the 6.Never mind, Gardy.

Has anyone been following the news? Have they added six extra bases to run this year or allowed more than one runner per base? Someone needs to check into this.

And I like that batting order. A lot.

Bitch Sox Watch:

Frank Thomas had the following comments about the Twins yesterday on the Dan Patrick radio show.

"On paper, they won three out of the last four [division titles]."

Johan Santana is:
"a very good big league pitcher."

but when pressed by Patrick who was a better -- Randy Johnson or Johan . . . he picked the Big Unit.

Patrick thinks Cleveland will win the A.L. Central.

We'll see . . .

Frank Thomas says the Twins won the division "on paper." I remember distinctly that they won it on the field. In fact, they clinched it in Chicago, right there in front of Frank Thomas and a rather subdued Sox crowd. The Twins even showed some class by not having an on-field celebration (although Lovable Lew Ford cam back out near the dugout, gave a hug to some of his family and a high-five to my son).

On paper, indeed!

Jim H.

On paper, on grass, on turf....

On Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. On Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen.....

Dan Patrick is correct, Cleveland will win the A.L. Central. :-)

Mark,

Please tune your TV in to channel 80. I think you're mistakenly watching HBO. A little hint to tell the difference: Wesley Snipes is not on the Indians this year.

Helpfully yours,
YankeeFan

Actually Yankee Fan, the Indians won the AL East in "Major League". That was pre-wild card, you see. And if memory serves, they beat the Yankees. God what a great movie.

Helpfully,
cubsfan36

Actually, not so many men LOB.
Luis hit into a 6-4-3-4-3-6-4-2-8-3-6-4-9-2-4-5-1-7-3-4-3-5-3-2-1-6-4-3-5-4-7-2 icosahedric play in the fourth.

You shoulda seen it.

Brilliant.

Reminds me of when the website for my fantasy baseball league listed Griffey, Jr.'s stats for one game last season as 2-3 with 1 HR and 113 R and 22 SB. Which may explain why he injured his hammy again a few weeks later.

Oddly enough, it made very little difference in our standings.

I kind of agree that the Indians present a threat in the AL Central. They're a good ball club - but it's the Twins' division to lose.

I almost called BALCO today and left a message as Luis Rivas - hoping that they'd call him back and help the little guy, and the Twins, out (I mean, who would ever suspect) - but I lost my nerve and said "Rollie Fingers" instead.

Priceless. Nicely done, BG.

BSP,
Ilk

To be fair to Darth Thomas, the Chicago papers probably did print the AL Central standings for their readers, so that's probably how he knows who won the division in three of the last four years. The last few years he's probably read articles in the papers about the Twins in the playoffs, too. Four years ago, are we sure he could read?

The box score for today's game has the Twins with something like 90 hits and 30 errors!

http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050324&content_id=975798&vkey=spt2005gamer&fext=.jsp&c_id=min

That final score doesn't look right, either, unless we're calling ties wins now. Or the article just made up the entire bottom of the ninth.

Maybe they are using the typist from American Idol.

90 Hits. 30 Errors. Haaa.

Well, I might believe the 30 errors part; there've been days....

k-bro

The bats are really coming alive in FLA! Looks like they need to focus a little on their fielding though...30 errors is just too many, even with 90 hits. I can see 15 or 20 errors but 30 is just plain silly.

Well, Juan Castro was playing...

LOL @ Haplo! That's the only explanation!

I think they counted the hits from batting practice? Naked batting practice, perhaps?

Ouch.