Casey Mize
vs
Kenta Maeda
The Twins are 5-4 against the Tigers. As much as it would amuse me for them to finish 5-5 against another Central team, winning helps a lot with earning home field advantage for the wildcard round. Let's score a bunch so Rogers can get some work in without risking the win.
On the board!
Station-to-station run - whaaaa??
Twins winning. Yankees losing.
The world is happy for now.
That needs to happen on Tuesday too. They don't even have to be playing each other.
I'm greedy - I want the Central title at this point
Walk number 19 for Rosario. Three more to tie last season's total.
Oops. Mize lets the ball drop but Candelario forced out Sanó rather than tag Rosario to get the right out first.
Yankees are playing an awful game. 3 errors that have lead to 2 (maybe 3 ive had game on in background) of Torontos 5 runs. Bases loaded 0 out and a couple of bad at bats to get no runs. Tanaka was pulled in 4th or 5th inn with ~90 pitches thrown.
Game not over yet of course.
Robe time!
We be robin'
Cleveland just walked off against the Sox.
Cleveland rocks!
Wait, if we pass Chicago, we have to play Cleveland in the round? Hmm.
Not if Cleveland also passes them
Of course, we've bested Cleveland this season...
Honestly, the AL playoffs are going to be stocked with good teams, all of which have enough starting pitching for a best of 3 series.
Byron Buxton has as many stolen bases as walks.
*checks Yankees-Blue Jays*
I like this score.
I picked up Tanaka for a spot start on my team tonight. Not crazy about his result, but I'll still take this over all.
Vegas lost some cash on that one.
Apparently the Twins win a 3 way tiebreaker for the division.
Mass chaos rooting activated.
Outs are cool.
More outs would be cooler
Is a 4-run lead in the 8th safe?
Is Rogers pitching?
Not yet.
Ok, the prank LaTroy pulled on Morneau is pretty hilarious
For those of us not in the know....
When they were both Rockies in 2013ish, Morneau logged into whatever system the team used for players to reserve tickets for friends/family and forgot to log out. LaTroy somehow stumbled by and proceeded to reserve tickets in Morneau's name for every game for the rest of the season for Shania Twain, Wayne Gretzky, and any other famous Canadian he could think of. Morneau didn't find out until a couple of months later when he learned he owed about $15,000 in tickets that hadn't been used.
oh mannnn
Well, that ended up closer than it needed to be.
First place!
That was Tayloresque, Romo.
He earned the save