The Twins are 8-15. The Royals are 15 - 8. The Twins were expected to dominate most teams. The Royals were not. The Twins have stars and players you have heard of. The Royals have... I suppose a 25 man roster?
The last few years it has seemed like the Royals played the Twins harder than most teams. Even when they were winning, the Twins really had to work for it. Let's hope this year reverses that trend too, with dominant Twins wins.
For the Twins Pineda will be taking the hill, looking to bounce back from a rough outing last time, but still sporting some excellent numbers overall. Brady Singer will be pitching for the Royals. Keeping up the mirror theme, he had his best outing of the season last time (though he hasn't been a slouch overall), so hopefully he also bounces back to serve up a ton of dingers this game.
Good at bat new guy
Well that was an unlucky double play. But glad he could walk off the field I thought that shattered his leg.
Kirilatakeoff
Nice they landed the plane in time for me to "see" the AK bomba
KiriLiftOff!
Yours is better
Kirilaprizov
Laughed out loud at him muttering "one time" to himself as he rounded first and watched it go out.
Carlos Santana signed with the Royals knowing he get to hit against Twins pitchers 19 games
His best OPS against, with at least 150 PAs, is a .953 against the Royals. He's slightly above his career average with a .818 OPS against the Twins. He has his best numbers versus the Pirates at 1.072 in 104 PAs. Phillies are a close second but with only 52 PAs.
I just seems like every at bat is a home run
Hello old friend Ervin Santana
Byron Buxton is having one hell of a month. Mercy
Double rocket shots
So yeah, Buxton is the best player in baseball right now, right?
If he plays Saturday and Sunday, he might accrue enough plate appearances to qualify for the leaderboards.
This Roquefort kid is already having a better season than Jeffers.
How's his defense?
I seem to remember getting his autograph on a spring training program a few years back
My recollection is Rortvedt profiled as a defense-first catcher...not sure if that means "plus plus defense" or just "probably not gonna be a great hitter". But I don't think there's any doubts he can at least hack it enough to stick back there defensively.
Well, Twins pitchers have a 1.00 ERA pitching to him, so there's that.
That was a good win. Well-played all around.
9-6 in nine inning games.
First consecutive wins by the Twins since the Home Opener, when they improved to 5-2, including 5-0 in real games.
This was the first time the Twins scored 9+ runs in consecutive games since the Bomba Squad did it Aug. 29-30 of '19 when they scored 10 at the White Sox and 13 at Detroit.