With a staggering .833 win percentage, the Twins share the league’s best record with the Cubs and the (5-1) Marlins. Their run differential is just off of the Dodgers for the best in the league. None of this is overly surprising and I’m sure you’ve all been seeing that, but it’s still fun to type.
Kenta Maeda goes for the Twins against JT Brubaker, who’s making his first career start after two scoreless appearances as a reliever. Time to welcome him to the big leagues.
Day game alert!
SANOOOO!
Acceptable start
If someone asks you if Sano homered, YOU SAY YES!
Whoopsies
Special thanks to Captain Jetes for influencing another generation of shortstops to do ineffective jump throws against the Twins.
And hey, if this game does interest you, the Wild playoff game is about to start at 1:30 on Thursday!
Also the Loons play Orlando tonight.
Too many sports
Ahh good. I was concerned I wouldn't get enough sports this evening.
BUXTON!
1 Bux!
4BUX!!
Bombas away!!!
I realized we didn't contest this year.
I had, but this season has already been half-bakef enough
I thought about it too, but I'm cool with that. Let 2019 be the special season that it was.
You're probably right. I'm sure the best man won...
Yeah, that's why I never said anything.
A couple more Twins runs wouldn't hurt a thing.
Guys, if you want to bunt, bunt. But don't just give up strikes.
Cory and Dazzle somehow got on the subject of Carlos Gomez. Dazzle said something like, "A lot of players, when they left the Twins, wanted to be the player they thought they were rather than the player the Twins thought they should be." Which is kind of a good summation of the decline in the 2010s.
Ortiz' life story
I still like stolen bases, so that run by Dyson was kind of fun.
Ugh. Really close to another Buxton Bomb.
This is not what's supposed to happen when Rogers comes into the game.
He decided to up the difficulty level.
Well, if they're going to swing at pitches that far outside, not much you can do.
Well, let's see how the Wild are doing... oh. Shoot.
Tough way to lose, but you can't win them all, no matter how much you'd like to. We'll just have to settle for 57-3!
We gotta stop with the Quality Starts
As Maeda's on one of my fantasy teams with QS as a stat, I'm cool with it in the actual one in this case.
Blame the loss on me. I had to leave and missed the 9th inning.