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So ... now can we fire Hinch and the hitting coaches?

If the Twins hadn't collapsed, we wouldn't have been in there.

Stinky McStinkface was also very good, as was JHM, but they did not get many at bats. Jake was also pretty solid, more than he is normally. And, of course, Parker. Almost makes up for the horrific trade for his brother. The one guy with the playoff experience, Vierling? Huge disappointment. Couldn't stop striking out. Also, all the other rookies hit like rookies. Just about everyone else was within margin of error for average. All in all, a mixed bag offensively.

Epic.

The Twins are in disarray, with talks of a sale, so I wouldn’t expect a full court press by them to win the Central or else next year. I think we will see more of the same in the offseason: continue to improve with tactical free agent signings, minor league free agents and waiver wire pickups, and trades. One big thing I think has a good chance of happening is Tork getting traded.

Close: just as I got off the train at Clark and Lake, Skubal plunked Ramirez. Before I got out of the building, Skubal had grooved one to Lane Thomas. It was already 5-1 by the time I got to the Goodman, and it actually relaxed me a little since I figured it was a long shot to get back out of the hole. But I was able to sneak a peak at the phone between set changes.

No … please … not the offseason thread … for the love of god, please, not the offseason thread …

Because baseball is ironic, we got a bunch of guys in scoring position and couldn’t score them, and the guy we scored was not standing in scoring position.

They want him to hit again.

Oh baby what a shot by Carp

Riley owes Skubal dinner every night for the rest of the year for pulling his ass out of the jackpot.

Too early for Carpenter, probably because we can get maybe one high-leverage AB out of him today.

Malloy runs like an old-timey Tiger from the 2010s.

Not only do they not anymore, they actually never did.

It was Sweeney who had the rookie strikeout to end the game Thursday. And now we have stranded two in scoring position.

Honestly, just make them all hits, already. Batters are literally hitting the ball into play, after all. And assigning errors have become such a subjective exercise that it's fair to wonder how much in-game and -team politics influences the decision.

Parker meadows making it happen with a steal of third!

****ing Tork. Trade value dropping with each at bat.

So the Sweeney error on the easy ground ball is a hit now. Huh.

See? I was right. 😁

OK, post-error, those were three quick outs.

Yes, I did say you were going to love watching Baez.

Oh boy, this is not good when the side gets struck out and then we can't get routine grounders.

Those swings are telling us they're not really seeing Boyd.

Keep your beat poetry out of the baseball thread, you hippie freak.