Seattle in town for a 3-game series and bring your glove if you're sitting in the outfield seats as both these teams on pace to demolish the season home run record. Seattle has 5 games in hand so their 1 HR lead may not hold however. I don't get how another team can have played 5 extra games by June 11th, especially since the Twins have made up a bunch of their early cancellations. Twins coming off a nice 6-4 road trip and now have 9 games at home, mostly against division bottom feeders. A 6-3 home stand would be great and really put the pressure on Cleveland to pack it in for the year.
Mike Leake on for the Mariners and he pitched a complete game in his last outing. For those who forgot, a complete game is where the starting pitcher goes the whole nine innings and gets all 27 outs, no relief pitcher comes in. Not sure teams could do that anymore but apparently Mike Leake just did that just last week. Not a big strikeout pitcher but has done well against the Twins over the past year. Martin Perez on for the Twins, and although he's come down from his lofty early season perch, has continued to pitch quite well for the Twins.
Kind of a rainy day and forecast calls more rain off and on but I'm guessing they get this one in. Back to 7:10p starts.
Twins Lineup
RF Kepler
SS Polanco
DH Cruz
LF Rosario
3B Sano
1B Gonzalez
2B Schoop
C Castro
CF Buxton
I'll take Marwin today
Leake's got good movement today
Single-digit uni number pitcher.
Twins sign Cavaco for sightly under slot.
Marney interviewed him last inning. Seemed pretty at ease for having just become a multi-millionaire. He said he likes the cold. Marney asked what he projected for his career, and he said he plans to be playing in Minneapolis four years from now.
How predictable.
Zero points for that one.
Free gets negative points
So he's at 0 after Schoop?
If he's lucky
I totally spookied that Edwin bomb.
That’s #401 for Encarnación; he’s come a long way from being E-5 in Cincinnati.
Wow 401 HRs against the Twins. How many overall?
I knew that was gonna happen as soon as Santana got a hit.
This would be a good time for Cruz to tie the game with one swing.
Ill take Cruz - preferably right now - but later would work too.
SCHOOP!!!!
Swish & spit!
CASTRO!!!!!!
Man, this team.
Free and Zoom on the board!
I don’t get credit for EE?
You're lucky the clubhouse door wasn't locked
I'm sure Duffy could've gone another, but the HR are a weakness particularly against these guys
Yowza! Nice snag.
I remember 2017 Rosario missing that ball a lot
I know this team is tied for best winning % in baseball.
I also know I am a very pessimistic sports fan.
But games like today are why I have zero faith this team can do anything in the post season.
??
That was lifetimes ago
That actually looks more like me than I'd care to admit LOL.
Ya, gotta have faith!
Polanco pretending to be Buxton today
Polanco is something else tonight.
I keep waiting for him to cool off.
Yay another team with a bad bullpen.
AL worst and not far from MLB worst (28th). Twins are only 21st.
Close, but no cigar.
TWINS BASEBALL!!
TWINS BASEBALL!!
TWINS BASEBALL!!
Mariners playing some TWINS BASEBALL!!!!!
Will Cruz get the Jarvis Brown treatment?
Innings like this are why I think that this team can beat any team in baseball at any time.
Man, this team.
3 runs and nary a HR unless my boy Schoop hits one as I press send.
I love being wrong about this team. And ill be more than happy to continue to be wrong well into October.
Yeah let’s fill the bases for Double E.
Well fuck. An actual closer would be nice to have.
Oh...oh my. That was not a strike.
Blue has a hot date tonight.
Wasn't watching most of the night, but gameday was showing lots of called strikes that looked like that?
wow, major gift from the umpire
Gift strikeout for May.
Wow. Okay, Blue.
Whew.
Let’s not finish a game like that again.
Lots of puppies and pyrotechnics!
I fell asleep after about the fifth, looks like I missed some wild times.