It's not often a BODSHC gives a catcher the Boyfriend of the Day award for his baserunning speed--no matter that Joe Mauer had two doubles on the day, one accounting for the Twins first run of the game. It was in the ninth inning when the Chairman truly earned his stripes--no, not when he gave up the passed ball that eventually resulted in the O's go ahead run, that wasn't so cool--but in the bottom of the inning with another pathetic one-run loss looming over our heads, Mauer came up and drew a walk. A walk! The next batter struck out, but Mauer headed for second on strike three, so shocking catcher Eli Whiteside that he threw the ball into center field. Mauer took third, then when O's closer B.J. Ryan played a little Crazy Pepe's Chug and Toss, Joe scored on a wild pitch, tying the game, saving the day, and giving himself the Boyfriend of the Day.
Field/Readers 16, Sooz/Stewie 9, Jeb/Lewwww 8, Goober/Dr. Morneau 6, Batgirl/Joe 5.
Posted by Batgirl at July 19, 2005 10:30 PMThat was the most confusing yet pleasing inning I've seen in a long time. Kudos to Mauer.
Nod to the defense as well. I think each posistion turned in a great play at some point.
Posted by: Torhu at July 19, 2005 10:52 PMYesss! Congrats Joe!
And the Bitch Sox lost! Things are looking up today...
Posted by: annun at July 19, 2005 10:52 PMI think that was the best twins game ever. Kudos to Joe, he really deserved it tonight. Hopefully this will give the twins the much needed momementum in the second half of the season.
Posted by: Hannah! at July 19, 2005 10:53 PMI... um...
Yay, Twins.
I'm just glad I'm not on the beltway tonight. :-(
Posted by: CarrieICL at July 19, 2005 10:56 PMThat was waaaay sweet tonight. I pretty much bit off all my nails in the 9th though.
Posted by: Jason T at July 19, 2005 10:57 PMI like how Joe scored without the benefit of a hit. That amuses me!
Posted by: Just Beth at July 19, 2005 10:58 PMAs a former catcher, I have to stick up for the Chairman and say that the passed ball was as much Jessie "Mixed Signals" Crain's fault as it was Mauer Power's.
That being said, this was an awesome victory. One we didn't necessarily deserve, but one we desperately needed. Hopefully it was the kind of win that sparks us on some kind of 20 wins in 24 games type streaks. *knock on wood*
Posted by: TBird41 at July 19, 2005 11:19 PMoh, man, what a game! up and down and crying and cheering... and on my way home, I said, "Joe Mauer is SO the BOD." what an excellent performance by the Chairman! and Jesse Crain picks up win number 9! hooray!
Posted by: kafumbly at July 19, 2005 11:20 PM'fumbly, I said exactly the same thing as WE were leaving. God, what a game!!!!!!! And Kristie was happy to see Romero pitch since she has no idea how long that opportunity will be available to her...
I saw you guys way up there but we were too lazy to climb up there and there were other people I knew tonight sitting by us. I waved though.. *smile*
Posted by: CapitalBabs at July 19, 2005 11:27 PMCONGRATS to the Chairman! What a great night for him.
Posted by: Sam at July 19, 2005 11:33 PMThe standings are a true story of baseball.
You've got two teams tied for the Wild Card...
$200 million Yanks
vs.
$57 million Twins
It's literally Moneyball vs. Small Ball.
Posted by: Torhu at July 19, 2005 11:34 PMWhen I opened up "Bat-girl) and saw there was a BOD I was elated. I gave my tickets for tonights game to my daughter and HER boyfriend. I could not face another potential loss. (my man was out of town for work and a friend and I went to the movies instead) I feel so ashamed that I could not make myself go to the dome but the sucking has been so very unpalitable of late. I didn't watch and they won (serves me right). AND There is a day's boyfriend in Joe.
The good news, of course, is that I have brought my colleage aged daughter andher man to Twins baseball and they always say yes to our season tickets and are learning to love the game as we all do.
Bless you Bat-girl, batlings, and bless that boyfriend of the day.
cheers, kal
Posted by: kal at July 19, 2005 11:51 PMI'm sorry, Carrie, but I love it when an opposing pitcher decides to play Crazy Pepe's Chug and Toss. Especially when there are Twins in scoring position.
Posted by: mk at July 19, 2005 11:54 PMWay to go Joe! Or Chairman! I agree with MK.
Posted by: Hannah at July 20, 2005 12:17 AMGO JOEY!!! :)
Posted by: Candace at July 20, 2005 12:30 AMThe win was nice and all, but isn't it kinda sad that even when we outscore the other team, we still can't hit? I mean, without the catcher's error, we might be looking at another one run loss.
BG, enjoyed Gardy's blog. If only the guy would get worked up a little. How he stays so calm in the midst of all this, I don't know.
Torhu - Agree with you on the hitting coach. What does he get paid to do if its not to help our lads hit?
LTLC
Posted by: likeTwinsluvCubs at July 20, 2005 01:43 AMI have chronicled the Chairman's slide (along with the post-game mosh-pit and Lohse 2.0's stellar pitching) in comic book form!
http://public.freeworld-airways.net/dhruv/twinscomic.jpg <- HERE
Posted by: DhruvK at July 20, 2005 04:09 AMI'm sorry, but that game was ugly. But I will take whatever I can get at this point. Let's do it again today!
Posted by: sacky at July 20, 2005 09:40 AMOh, and DhruvK, that comic was awesome. I'd love to see more recaps like that! Between that and LegoVision, who needs to watch games on TV?
Posted by: sacky at July 20, 2005 09:44 AMRight...well Batgirl can keep providing us with LegoVision (I don't have a Legovision-capable encoding device here unfortunately), and I'll keep doing the comics occasionally :P
Posted by: DhruvK at July 20, 2005 10:35 AMWow. Praise from the High Commandress herself!
I might have to consider turning the comic into a weekly occurrence. They don't take that long to make :D
Posted by: DhruvK at July 20, 2005 04:55 PM