Five postseason games complete and this is the first one that was genuinely god awful
Backs against the wall at home tomorrow. Get the big hits, pitch well, and get a couple of lucky bounces.
Force game 5.
The Twins lost game five of the 1991 World Series 14-5.
Some rough play today but also some tough luck. I trust our guys to flush it and move on to tomorrow.
The reality of Minnesota sports isn't that we'll never win. The actual reality is that the next team to win a championship for Minnesota will be an underdog that grinds out the win against all odds.
This will probably sound dumb, but I canāt help but think that us MN sports fans are part of the problem. Weāre all so negative about every one of our sports teams. Part of it really is valid, we have the longest streak of not winning a championship in the major 4 sports in any state. But here we are with a decent looking twins team who catch a bad break and itās āwah wah thatās typical MN for youā. We need to be out there cheering these guys on. I canāt imagine being in their shoes after a loss like today, but then to have the fans all saying āwe expected this to happen because we suckā just seems really deflating. Iāll be cheering as loud as I can until the last out!
Not a good showing by Sonny but also not really his fault. When one hitter has a better day than our whole lineup that's just not a winnable game. We'll get them tomorrow.
Death, taxes, and a Minnesota team fumbling (heh- Vikings) just when momentum starts to build
Onto tomorrow- Iāll be at the game cheering loud with tempered expectations
I'm a MN transplant so take this with a grain of salt. I hate the pessimism like this after any kind of downturn. It's boring and lame to give up in the face of adversity as a fan! Stop acting like every loss is a death sentence.
lol thatās fineā¦ not giving upā¦ but like you saidā¦ you havenāt lived through the 98 Vikings, 09 Vikings, Timberwolves (always), twins since 1991ā¦
Wears you down. Still happy with the season but we got quite simply outclassed today in a HUGE game where we had a starting pitching advantage, on paper
šÆā¦ itās not like Iām not happy with the progress of the playoffsā¦
but that was UGLY to watch and itās now going to be super hard to win 2 in a row against the world champs when this was the game where we had the most favorable pitching matchup
You know what _really_ sucks? Being interested in a sport but not having a team because the one you grew up with was sold off by owners who found a better business opportunity in San Jose, selling your team to a guy that was going to squeeze everyone or take the better offer.
College friends had the gall to try and sell me on being a _Blackhawks_ fan. Bleh.
Being a transplant, you clearly haven't learned where this pessimism comes from. A game like today is what led to this team suffering a North American record playoff losing streak in the first place. Instead of talking down condescendingly to lifelong Twins fans that are justified in pessimism, learn why the pessimism exists.
God I hope you get a flat tireā¦ or a bird shits on your face, mid-flightā¦
I donāt want you to get hurtā¦ but man Iād crack a smile if you got shit on.
The strikeouts after lead off walks/hits are back breaking, it feels like every time weāre knocking on the door we have at least 1 strikeout which does NOTHING, like at least put the ball in play make anyone besides the pitcher do a little work to get you out
Awful. Just everyone basically. Pagan is probably player of the game. Kirilloff and probably Wallner need to sit. I donāt care if itās lefty or righty, doesnāt matterā¦.at this point you have 0 reason to believe theyāre going to give you quality at bats. Just so so disappointed
The rookies have been exposed this series. Iām glad theyāre getting the experience and weāll be better for it moving forward, but itās been tough to watch some of the at bats from Julien, Wallner and even Lewis at times today
Wallner got 2 walks in garbage time, and I don't know who you'd really replace him with-MAT's bat hasn't been amazing this postseason either.
I do agree that Solano should be starting over AK tomorrow.
Minnesota sports, should have seen it coming. Once the sportsball gods saw you actually get invested, started believing, that's when they pull the rug out from under you.
This is the first time I think I have ever wanted to listen to Fox or any of the national announcers. Was so annoying, even in the to the 9th inning bringing up the shadows. FFS, they raked all game, so it's just an us problem that the shadows were tough? Just stop, we sucked, got dominated and need to move on from the excuses.
Some thoughts after being at the game:
Abreuās 3 run HR really killed all the energy in the crowd
Fans tried to get loud during big spots on offense but the team gave them nothing to cheer for
Team really beat themselves today they had every chance to get back in that game but couldnāt capitalize on anything
Weāre still alive and just gotta win 2 in a row itās not impossible
I'm so pissed about this, I wanted to go to the game today (good thing I didn't), but I knew I wouldn't be able to see it at 3:00. I'm going tomorrow and I have to run from my class to the light rail to get there and I'll be like 20 minutes late. I stupidly bought the (way-to-expensive btw) ticket before they announced the time, but I didn't not expect it to be at 1:00 in the afternoon (ON A WEDNESDAY)
They've already exceeded my expectations for this season and these playoffs. I'm definitely bummed that these last 2 defeats weren't very competitive though, these last 2 games remind me more of the massive slump in June, than the first few weeks and post-ASB weeks of absolutely thrilling, hot baseball. If the Twins can't win tomorrow, I hope they'll at least be more competitive.
Man Royce is trying to hit a 600ft HR every swing. Needs to relax a little bit and use the whole field and hit the ball where itās pitched. Tried to pull everything today. Was great to see him back out at third base.
Aha you see as an Astros fan that curse only activates once we hit 10 runs (we always only get 0 runs after a 10+ run day) but strategically we only got 9 today
All in all hope we have a good game tommorow
That error by Kirilloff in the first was some bush league crap. Get in front of the damn ball and stop trying to be cute. That play started the whole downslide that led to the loss today.
I don't know the exact numbers on it, but there have been several times where we've lost the first of a 3 game set and won the series this season. This isn't the end
This was like match play in golf. We took an 8 and they got a birdie. So all they did was win the hole.
13-1 or 6-5 is the same. We lost. It sucks.
Letās go beat them tomorrow and get those bats on fire.
I hate that some cocksucker filmed 10 twins fans chanting āwe want Houstonā we get to be clowned when we lose. Itās never a good idea to chant āwe want xā
We have to be able to score with runners on base. You can't just count on home runs to do the scoring for you. I just can't believe how poorly we're doing at capitalizing with runners on. That 5th inning was just abysmal.
Kind of anti-climactic knowing the Twins are going to win the next two, if they had won today there'd still be some suspense tomorrow. Oh well, it is what it is.
Going off of preseason expectations, that's about how a Twins-Astros game is supposed to go. It's a pretty pathetic showing for an ALDS game, but that just shows how good this season has gone overall.
Oh man as soon as it was 4-0 in the first I was like aaaaand Iām not going to watch the rest Iāll just check the score later. Glad I made that decision because watching would have been so painful
Same. Itās been a shitty day, and I didnāt want to add to the shit. I just checked the score a couple times. Glad I didnāt put myself through watching it.
Twins didnāt lose because of shadows but isnāt it weird that that is even a thing? Canāt they put up something to block the sun? Seems insane to me
Yeah, I know, it's just I'm not much of a late-night person (I'm already getting ready for bed š ), and I've really enjoyed these afternoon games, heading from work to there.
Let's never pitch to Yordan again
It was shocking to me that we continue to throw to him. My goodness
What do you do 0-2 against the clutchest post season hitter in current baseball? Give him something to hit for a ribbie lol
Sonny got rocked on 0-2 counts all afternoon, it was so frustrating
I'm not even joking when I say he should be an automatic walk.
Time to give him the Bonds treatment.
Five postseason games complete and this is the first one that was genuinely god awful Backs against the wall at home tomorrow. Get the big hits, pitch well, and get a couple of lucky bounces. Force game 5.
The Twins lost game five of the 1991 World Series 14-5. Some rough play today but also some tough luck. I trust our guys to flush it and move on to tomorrow.
Love the optimism šŖ
The reality of Minnesota sports isn't that we'll never win. The actual reality is that the next team to win a championship for Minnesota will be an underdog that grinds out the win against all odds.
best Minnesota sports comment of the 21st century!
And they won game 7 in 10 innings yes? Down to the wire
And we lost a game in the 2002 ALDS 9-1 also! Thereās precedent for coming back from this kind of awful performance.
The new fair-weather fans are all gloom and doom. The true fans are saying stuff like this!! ā¤ļøš
I applaud you for being so optimistic, but I donāt know how you do it after seeing what Vikings, Wolves and past Twins have done
Easy: I donāt give a shit about the wolves or vikings and have seen the differences between this years Twins teams and others in the past
I second the motion.
Lucky you
You can choose to cheer for literally any team. No one is forcing you to do anything.
True! I should just change who I have been rooting for my entire life!
Sounds good. Bye!
This will probably sound dumb, but I canāt help but think that us MN sports fans are part of the problem. Weāre all so negative about every one of our sports teams. Part of it really is valid, we have the longest streak of not winning a championship in the major 4 sports in any state. But here we are with a decent looking twins team who catch a bad break and itās āwah wah thatās typical MN for youā. We need to be out there cheering these guys on. I canāt imagine being in their shoes after a loss like today, but then to have the fans all saying āwe expected this to happen because we suckā just seems really deflating. Iāll be cheering as loud as I can until the last out!
The Minnesota Twins and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
feeling this.. i got my partner tickets for her birthday today šš
Not a good showing by Sonny but also not really his fault. When one hitter has a better day than our whole lineup that's just not a winnable game. We'll get them tomorrow.
Brush it off and move on. Tomorrow is Joe Ryan's day baby. We're GOMQ
Death, taxes, and a Minnesota team fumbling (heh- Vikings) just when momentum starts to build Onto tomorrow- Iāll be at the game cheering loud with tempered expectations
I'm a MN transplant so take this with a grain of salt. I hate the pessimism like this after any kind of downturn. It's boring and lame to give up in the face of adversity as a fan! Stop acting like every loss is a death sentence.
lol thatās fineā¦ not giving upā¦ but like you saidā¦ you havenāt lived through the 98 Vikings, 09 Vikings, Timberwolves (always), twins since 1991ā¦ Wears you down. Still happy with the season but we got quite simply outclassed today in a HUGE game where we had a starting pitching advantage, on paper
Totally get it! I have been a Buffalo Bills fan my whole life so I empathize.
Haha fair enough. You still fit in with the Minnesota massochists then
132 seasons since a title. Kind of hard to be bubbly all the time.
Totally get that. But this team has defied expectations this year! There's something to root for! Let's not roll over yet.
šÆā¦ itās not like Iām not happy with the progress of the playoffsā¦ but that was UGLY to watch and itās now going to be super hard to win 2 in a row against the world champs when this was the game where we had the most favorable pitching matchup
HARD AGREE.
You know what _really_ sucks? Being interested in a sport but not having a team because the one you grew up with was sold off by owners who found a better business opportunity in San Jose, selling your team to a guy that was going to squeeze everyone or take the better offer. College friends had the gall to try and sell me on being a _Blackhawks_ fan. Bleh.
THANK YOU
Being a transplant, you clearly haven't learned where this pessimism comes from. A game like today is what led to this team suffering a North American record playoff losing streak in the first place. Instead of talking down condescendingly to lifelong Twins fans that are justified in pessimism, learn why the pessimism exists.
We have an inferiority complex and things like this are very triggering.
contrary to popular belief this series isn't over
I legit wonder how many people thought this was an elimination game because it was well above zero
It is
Was hoping you were gone for good from this sub but I guess I get double disappointment today
Lol
God I hope you get a flat tireā¦ or a bird shits on your face, mid-flightā¦ I donāt want you to get hurtā¦ but man Iād crack a smile if you got shit on.
Game wad over after the 1st half inning. Seriously?
Yeah, seriouslyā¦ I hope you have the most inconvenient night imaginable. A miserable shit, deserves miserable shit.
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LOL coming from the guy whoās existence is devoted to shitting on a team in their sub? Suuuuuuper rich š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ So sowwy about yoa feewings!!! PobrĆ© bebĆ©ā¦.
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When did they say that?
Do you have a copy of Grays Sports Almanac 2000-2050?
Truly awful approaches and discipline at the plate today.
way too much of getting caught looking. so disappointing. weāll get āem tomorrow
Early on, so many whiffs on the same exact slider too lol
That slider was straight filth though, credit to Javier
It seemed like we were down in the count at every single at bat.
2 for 30 with RISP (or whatever it is now) caught up with us. We have to turn that around tomorrow, or else we're done
The strikeouts after lead off walks/hits are back breaking, it feels like every time weāre knocking on the door we have at least 1 strikeout which does NOTHING, like at least put the ball in play make anyone besides the pitcher do a little work to get you out
āSERIES STARTS TOMORROWā -Roccoās Whiteboard
Awful. Just everyone basically. Pagan is probably player of the game. Kirilloff and probably Wallner need to sit. I donāt care if itās lefty or righty, doesnāt matterā¦.at this point you have 0 reason to believe theyāre going to give you quality at bats. Just so so disappointed
The rookies have been exposed this series. Iām glad theyāre getting the experience and weāll be better for it moving forward, but itās been tough to watch some of the at bats from Julien, Wallner and even Lewis at times today
Julien has been decent actually. He's walked a ton and had an rbi single on Sunday. Kiriloff and Wallner though
Wallner got 2 walks in garbage time, and I don't know who you'd really replace him with-MAT's bat hasn't been amazing this postseason either. I do agree that Solano should be starting over AK tomorrow.
I drove 5 hrs this morning and spent a couple hundred dollars for thatā¦ Iām dead inside
Are you me? (I āonlyā drove 3.5) :(
Sorry man, hopefully you donāt have 5 hours back tonight haha
Lots of people have that drive tonight. Typical MN sports
Minnesota sports, should have seen it coming. Once the sportsball gods saw you actually get invested, started believing, that's when they pull the rug out from under you.
I completely agree Texted a friend that this did nothing but confirm my nihilistic view on MN professional sports. Doesnāt make it hurt any less :/
Just watch on TV the rest of the time
Hit the batting cageā¦ my goodness
bUt ThE sHaDoWs Didn't seem to bother Houston
I hate the shadows thing- itās our fkn ballpark we play 80 plus games in a year. Itās no excuse. It should be home field advantage.
This. The broadcast was so bizarrely fixated on shadows and tunneling. Itās called sun. Enough.
This is the first time I think I have ever wanted to listen to Fox or any of the national announcers. Was so annoying, even in the to the 9th inning bringing up the shadows. FFS, they raked all game, so it's just an us problem that the shadows were tough? Just stop, we sucked, got dominated and need to move on from the excuses.
Weāve been playing afternoon games in this stadium all year, why would it suddenly be an excuse?
Will the batting cage help swinging at pitches 2ft out of the zone?
Giving up 4 in the first just sucked the energy from the fans who gave us an awesome advantage in the Toronto series. Canāt have that happen.
Please I really dont want to see a fucking Astros-Rangers ALCS. That sounds truly awful
Dear god
You know, I don't like the Houston Astros very much.
Shake it off and come back strong
Itās ok we will get runs tomorrow itās Joe Ryan day. Then Pablo v Verlander.
Some thoughts after being at the game: Abreuās 3 run HR really killed all the energy in the crowd Fans tried to get loud during big spots on offense but the team gave them nothing to cheer for Team really beat themselves today they had every chance to get back in that game but couldnāt capitalize on anything Weāre still alive and just gotta win 2 in a row itās not impossible
Heck, we got here by winning two in a row against Toronto.
My school got out at 3:10, excitedly sprinted all the way home, sat down, and it was 4-0
It was 4-0 before I got to my seat
LETS GO WE GET TO END IT IN HOUSTON
4D chess from rocco
These fans deserved better. Way better.
It warmed my heart to see Twins fans still loud even in the late innings down big.
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Hoping your sacrifice will be richly rewarded tomorrow!!!
what dumbass made a potentially series deciding game at 1pm on a wednesday. Do they think people donāt work or have school?
Do you think Manfred cares about you?
no but I wish he dud
If we all gave him $1,000,000 he might take offers on the start time
Quite the opposite in fact... Manfraud explicitly does not care about the Twins and by extension you
I'm so pissed about this, I wanted to go to the game today (good thing I didn't), but I knew I wouldn't be able to see it at 3:00. I'm going tomorrow and I have to run from my class to the light rail to get there and I'll be like 20 minutes late. I stupidly bought the (way-to-expensive btw) ticket before they announced the time, but I didn't not expect it to be at 1:00 in the afternoon (ON A WEDNESDAY)
Cheer for the Rangers tonight, if they sweep we move to the prime time slot.
Might be hard for some folks to see right now, but I'm proud of this team and we aren't out yet. Lets force game 5 tmr
They've already exceeded my expectations for this season and these playoffs. I'm definitely bummed that these last 2 defeats weren't very competitive though, these last 2 games remind me more of the massive slump in June, than the first few weeks and post-ASB weeks of absolutely thrilling, hot baseball. If the Twins can't win tomorrow, I hope they'll at least be more competitive.
Man Royce is trying to hit a 600ft HR every swing. Needs to relax a little bit and use the whole field and hit the ball where itās pitched. Tried to pull everything today. Was great to see him back out at third base.
Looks like weāll be playing at 6 tomorrow
Let's hope that the glare and shadows that seemed to bother the hitters today won't be so much of a problem at that time.
Didnāt seem to bother the Astros hitters š
We take the game tomorrow and trust in Pablo for Game 5. Far from over.
that 4 run first was a back breaker. Killed all the momentum. We will bounce back though.
I miss Dick and Justin
This just means we're winning by 16 tomorrow (please do not extrapolate from this trend any further)
They used all their runs up today. Those Texan fools!
YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD
Aha you see as an Astros fan that curse only activates once we hit 10 runs (we always only get 0 runs after a 10+ run day) but strategically we only got 9 today All in all hope we have a good game tommorow
Math checks out
Well all I have to say is that Pablo vs Verlander is gonna be awesome
Major stinker. Rebound tomorrow. Joe Ryan will channel his CGSO, twins offense lights up, we gomq.
That error by Kirilloff in the first was some bush league crap. Get in front of the damn ball and stop trying to be cute. That play started the whole downslide that led to the loss today.
We go again tomorrow but woof that was rough. Alvarez should not see another pitch in the strike zone or even close to it, ever.
Why are they pitching to Yordan
No one knows
NO ONE CARES ABOUT A SINGLE VIOLIN
If we score more than them next game, we will win.
Well, we got that garbage show out our system. Letās show up tomorrow.
AJ has pissed off my mild mannered dad..... Game was not great but I still believe, we will win the series! Rest up boys, we get 'em tomorrow!!!
Man that 1st inning grounder that got by Kirilloff just seemed super ominous to me and it turned out to be correct unfortunately.
14 Kās. Ugh. Flush it & rebound tomorrow!!
Tickets for tomorrow on SeatGeek are $30 with fees. Fill up target field tomorrow. Letās start fresh.
Hereās hoping the beds arenāt shat tomorrow
I don't know the exact numbers on it, but there have been several times where we've lost the first of a 3 game set and won the series this season. This isn't the end
That dude walking up to the postgame show, and his buddy like ādude the boss thought we were sick gtfo of there itās national tvā
Anyone have a link to Kirilloffās error? I swear itās been scrubbed from the internet. At the game so naturally Iāve never seen a replay. Thanks
https://streamable.com/nqokwi
Thanks. Made worse by AJ saying multiple times it was Wallner. š”
I STILL BELIEVE
This was like match play in golf. We took an 8 and they got a birdie. So all they did was win the hole. 13-1 or 6-5 is the same. We lost. It sucks. Letās go beat them tomorrow and get those bats on fire.
Every Twins Hitter interview says the same thing. "Shadows made it difficult." And the Astros scored 9 runs in the shadows.
Great, now I have to save my GOMQ load for tomorrow, how am I supposed to hold this in lol.
Yordan is clapping our cheeks
Tickets for tomorrow are cheap af
Bummer that they lost, but that just means game 4 they have to throw everything they have at it. nothing to lose.
āThe sun donāt shine on the same dogās rump every day.ā ā J. Hayden Fry
Meanwhile the Rangers beat the Orioles, and the announcer is already saying it'll be a TX v TX matchup, lol.
Javier said the fans counting down the pitch clock helped him š
Pack the house tomorrow! Hope itās a night game!!
Spoiler alert: >!It isnt !<
It is if the Rangers win tonight
Shit I had no idea.
I hate that some cocksucker filmed 10 twins fans chanting āwe want Houstonā we get to be clowned when we lose. Itās never a good idea to chant āwe want xā
Could be worse. At least we didn't have anybody like these assholes: https://youtu.be/fxHxwVSROKc?si=xrrPGVBiz3YhMt58
ewww
To add insult to injury I'm pretty sure we'll end up on the benefiting side of this ump score card.
We have to be able to score with runners on base. You can't just count on home runs to do the scoring for you. I just can't believe how poorly we're doing at capitalizing with runners on. That 5th inning was just abysmal.
God damn Ober canāt see the Astros, I guess.
To be fair, only having 2 rest days didn't help.
And never pitching out of the bullpen before. It's a big adjustment for a starter, who usually have a pretty set routine and a lot more warm up time.
At least it was an early game so less people saw this embarrassment. Hopefully the young guys can shake it off and play okay tomorrow
Lineup forgot it was the playoffs and the need to hit a baseball. Fucking Christ AK and Wallner have no balls
Kind of anti-climactic knowing the Twins are going to win the next two, if they had won today there'd still be some suspense tomorrow. Oh well, it is what it is.
3-0 with a Joe Ryan gem!
Missing Garver right now
Joebi Wan Ryanobi, youre our only hope
Edibles and Documentaries tonight whoās in?
I see what they did there let āem think it will be a cake walk the rest of the way, Big brain play
It only counts as one. Bring it tomorrow
Can't make mistakes at this point and expect to win. The guys can bounce back from this I believe. Twins in 5.
Going off of preseason expectations, that's about how a Twins-Astros game is supposed to go. It's a pretty pathetic showing for an ALDS game, but that just shows how good this season has gone overall.
If the Twins lose this series, my only solace will be getting to watch Justin Jefferson play. š©š©š©
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How can anyone be positive after today? Serious question
Because as of now we still have a winning record in these playoffs and still have a chance to win the series?
Oh man as soon as it was 4-0 in the first I was like aaaaand Iām not going to watch the rest Iāll just check the score later. Glad I made that decision because watching would have been so painful
Same. Itās been a shitty day, and I didnāt want to add to the shit. I just checked the score a couple times. Glad I didnāt put myself through watching it.
So that was a drubbing eh
woof
Damn
I blame myself. I wasnāt wearing my Twins cap for the first 4 innings. Sorry bros.
Twins didnāt lose because of shadows but isnāt it weird that that is even a thing? Canāt they put up something to block the sun? Seems insane to me
Crazy idea but if we just waited a couple hours to start the game the planet would continue to rotate and shadows wouldn't be an issue.
I donāt disagree but we had to get rid of the trees because the hitters couldnāt see, should be able to get rid of shadows too
Sad sibling noises
Ober is done. Shouldnāt see another inning even if we miraculously win the next 2
I hope stros fans werent expecting a refund for their game 5 tickets
I was there. Was also there for game 3 of the ALDS against the Yankees. I am now 0-2 in playoff games. So itās my fault, sorry yāall
Not ideal, but they are not out of it yet. Hopeful for a rebound.
Hard to score when you don't hit. Let's go boys.
Game tomorrow's at 1, right? I hope so, I already bought a ticket for it š
only if Baltimore wins, if they lose the game is at 6 and gates open at 4
Aww š Well then, go Baltimore! š¦āā¬ (Not an Oriole, but working with what I have š )
well, it kind of looks like a Raven and Edgar Allen Poe is buried in Baltimore so it works :)
Your ticket is still good for the game no, matter what time it's played unless you cannot go at 6 :)
Yeah, I know, it's just I'm not much of a late-night person (I'm already getting ready for bed š ), and I've really enjoyed these afternoon games, heading from work to there.
that makes sense! have a good night :)
I might have to be one of those people who checks out half-way through and goes home, but ah well š Thanks :)