Not so surprisingly, the Twins are one of the three best teams in the league by record at the time of this writing. More surprisingly is that the other two are the Rockies and the Padres.
It feels very strange to write about the Twins right now as if I believe the season will just go on, but for now, I foolishly remain hopeful that we had our one misstep and from here on out, it's smooth sailing. Cleveland, who's apparently mulling a name change also, sends Shane Bieber against Jose Berrios in what should be a good matchup, assuming Berrios goes ahead and forgets what happened on Opening Day (for his part, Bieber threw six scoreless against the Royals, with 14 of his 18 outs being of the strike variety. Bieber is extremely prone to giving up the long ball, however, so let's sit back and enjoy the three true outcomes tonight.
Sick curve ball by Bieber to get Donaldson, there
Honest Abe:
[Groaning]: Dark blue? I wish they could wear light blue like yesterday again.
Me, too, Abe. Me, too.
Berrios isn't going deep in this game. He'll be well over 50 pitches through 3.
If he makes it through the inning.
Some 0-2 meatballs from Berrios.
Arraez doing Arraez things.
Found video of the game, with Cleveland announcers. AJ doing color, and they don't suck
AJ is actually pretty good. Of course here we get the Royals on tv and Rex Hudler will make anyone sound good by comparison.
My brother and I watched that feed. AJ is...pretty good.
That's a bad call on the check swing
Unless the lineup has more Luis in it, Twins aren't going to get far while Bieber is on the mound
Luis Rivas is probably available.
He can have barn door Sano's spot
Dazzle: "That two-run homer by Lindor really quieted the crowd."
Fox's gimmicky foul line crowds do nothing for me.
If Littell dropped that intentionally, it was a really smart play. If not, well, as the man said, I'd rather be lucky than good.
LOL just how they wrote up that double play!
rally time
Dazzle: "Here come the fans getting back into it!"
I'll give him credit for being in on the joke.
Im glad Buxton is back. He almost over ran that ball!
He looked like he really wanted to toss that third out to someone in the stands, too
Bux!!!
Can I change my pick for AL Cy Young?
welp, looks like we'll have a sub 3:00 game tonight!
We'll just have to settle for 58-2!