Finally the schedule flips as the Twins take on the struggling Miami Marlins while Cleveland hosts the Astros. Miami has the worst record in the NL and a -97 run differential so here's hoping the Twins can take advantage and win all three of these interleague games. They will have to do it without the hot bat of Nelson Cruz as no DH this trip and Baldelli has no plans to play Nelly at First Base.
Jake Odorizzi on the mound for the Twins and he's definitely regressed to the mean after a monster start to the season. This Miami lineup seems like the perfect time to get back to the Odo we saw in May. Marlins have rookie Zac Gallen on the mound, who has pitched competently for a last place team. Last outing against the White Sox was stellar as he threw 7 scoreless innings. Hopefully it was due to the line-up and not that he has found his way.
Marlins stadium (whatever its called) not super conducive to the bomba so the Twins may have to score runs the old fashioned way this series.
Game time at 6:10p.
Twins Lineup:
RF kepler
SS Polanco
C Garver
LF Rosario
3B Sano
2B Arraez
1B Gonzalez
CF Buxton
P Odorizzi
Good lord, this ballpark is every bit as hideous on television as the Trop.
Of course Curtis f***ing Granderson would end up on this against the Twins.
At least the first obligatory error didn't hurt anything.
There are definitely benefits to him being in Florida and not New York.
No Hitter Alert
cancelled
4Bux!
Whoo, Buck!
Aw...next time
Pretty nice rip for an AL pitcher.
Even now Sano is schooling him on launch angles
And hopefully odorizzi is ignoring him on how to hit breaking balls.
Seems like this season might be the end of the line for Curtis Granderson. He’s 38, and his .179/.269/.354 line equates to a 67 OPS+.
He's been a thorn in our side long enough.
Still is.
Finally another member in the 10-HR club.
Might be the final member too.
I believe this means the 2019 Twins will have tied the 1962 Twins for most qualified players with double-digit homers (8), and tied 2016 for most players, period, with double-digit homers (11). To pass the ‘62 Twins, either Castro, Garver, or Sanó will need to qualify, and to pass the ‘16 Twins, Adrianza will need to hit 6 more homers.
Nope, I was wrong. They won’t catch the ‘62 Twins with Buxton’s homer, since he hasn’t qualified. Since this is game 106, he would need to be at 329 PA at the end of the game to be qualified.
That stat about most home runs in the last nine days was kind of amazing.
No idea anything about the game so far.
I'll take Max.
Rosario.
This is quite the at bat by Arraez
And as I got send he strikes out.
Ugh, granderson
Too many Castros In this game
Dang. Well, next time!
Duffey not intimidated by Granderson
When Frank Thomas comes up for Half-Baked Hall, I'm docking him for the Nugenix commercials
You already voted for him on July 2nd
TOO MUCH FREE TESTOSTERONE!!
Someone hacked our Netflix. How is that helpful to them?
Ours was slow-play hacked a few years ago. They would every few days watch a bit of, well, some particularly saucy romance movies, which would then appear in our “continue watching” queue. This caused us to check with the kids to see if they were watching inappropriate shows/movies.
It was strange.
I don't know what they were watching because they somehow switched the email account/ password for the login.
I had that happen, too. I called and switched it back immediately. Not sure what they thought they'd accomplish.
Well Cleveland lost, so that's nice.
Sucks to play a real team, eh?
And the Indians trade Bauer, get Puig.
The stadium depicted in Gameday looks like the Marlins' home park, but it's full of people, so it must be somewhere else...
Fine job, Mr Rogers
3 game lead
Good Jake, Romo hold, Rogers save, a Bomba, a win. A good day.
And a Cleveland loss!