Martín Pérez hopes to bounce back from his bad start against the Rays. He's lost some of his luster from the beginning of the season. Before the Rays was a workable start against the Angels and a good start against the Mariners (but, Mariners).
Carrasco is an unfortunate late scratch because of health. Cleveland has opted for a bullpen game opened by Clippard.
Insert the rest of what free wrote yesterday about beating Cleveland and driving their probability to win the division to 0%. The Twins already project to have the weakest rest of schedule with an estimated .477 win percentage. The team with the next weakest are the Astros at .481.
Castro is hitting a homer tonight!
I'm still riding Max's HR bandwagon
That wagon is a go-kart right now
to the bank, dude, to the bank
I'm going with sano
Cheese louise, walk the lead off on four pitches? I don't like that strategy
I say 4Bux
Wooooooo!
Winner winner chicken dinner!!!!!!
Boom, baby!
An inauspicious start here.
That inning was much more auspicious.
Double-double!
Grinding beef for burgers is a far more difficult job with a very entitled cat in the house.
The Twins have four runs without hitting a single.
Somewhere, Nick Punto is grinding his teeth to dust.
Boomstick'd
This all feels much more familiar.
cHRuz
Dammit, Castro
Passed ball? Riiiiight.
Uuuuggggh, end this inning please
thank you
Pérez is still throwing harder but doesn't seem to be fooling people anymore.
Jorge!
Twins have yet to hit a single; Indians have only hit singles
They can't possibly let Lindor stay at second on that.
That is some bullshit
Sanó’s effort on the throw looked pretty nonchalant.
Cubs sign Kimbrel.
Well, now he's damaged goods #Ex-CubsFactor
This has not really been Castro's day
No-out bunting Lindor to third? Thanks for the free out
The bunt was the key to the rundown
Polanco fields and then runs right at Lindor; text book rundown - well done
Hell's bells, this isn't how an elite team plays.
This is frustrating.
Future reliever Pérez.
My thoughts exactly.
Laz Diaz, everyone.
It's okay by me if Cleveland calls the game now.
Time to call it, blue.
I'd take a 6 inning win here
Bedtime. I'm assuming a win, and if someone screws it up, I'm going to be pissed
Ill do my best.
The twitters machine says 1020 start time
Fake news?
Eastern time
Dick just announced “Juan Castro” as the next Twins batter. I hope not.
Laz Diaz is not a good umpire.
Apparently the strike zone doubled in size during the rain delay.
Laz Diaz is a bad umpire.
Good patience by Kepler. Terrible walk - how do you not throw strikes to a guy who is 0-20?
Practice?
Niiiice!
But boo on the base paths.
C’mon, Max.
My god Kepler..........I guess it's been so long since he's actually been on base he forgot how to handle it.
We really.....REALLY....need to improve the bull pen.
FFS.
uuuffff
da
dumb
Parked
Ugh.
Time to give this meat the hook maybe? Jesus Christ.
...heh - let's drop it into the middle of the strike zone to confuse them - wait, what?
Bullpen = Achilles heel.
It really is and it's the reason no one is thinking this team is any kind of post season threat no matter how good the offense is.
Maybe more like a Trojan Achilles heel? The results tonight are what I expected from the group opening the season. The results through 50+ games have been much, much better, but yeah.
Laz Diaz is awful.
The on screen strike zone is not friendly to Mr Diaz.
The crowd cleared out so you can hear individual idiots yelling. Always fun...
Guy’s walked two batters in a row, and you swing on the first pitch?
Jeebus, Duffy.
Do we still have those Crain Wreck jpegs around in the files?
Bad result.
I'm pissed.