Kenta Maeda goes for the Twins as they pursue their second sweep of the season.
Let's talk series wins this season shall we?
* There were those first two series, when the beat the Brewers and the Tigers. Followed by 5 series without a series win
* Then they won a series against the Royals at the end of April. Followed by 6 series without a series win
* Then they beat Cleveland two out of three and swept the Orioles. Followed by 6 series without a series win before arriving in Texas.
Enough of that. Yuck.
Amazingly, the Twins have managed to split enough Friday-Saturday games (they've done that 10 times while never winning both days or losing both days until this weekend) that they could end this weekend with .500 or better records on all the weekend days.
Friday 6-5
Saturday 5-5
Sunday 4-5
It's weird to be excited about .500 records, but here we are.
Luis is just so leadoffy
Bux is just so HRy
BUX
He is hitting a home tun roughly once in every 10 at bats.
Should have noted that the Twins are not currently in last place in the AL Central. Another one in the "weird things to be excited about" category.
Luis is on a roll.
There has been
20 days without an injury.Kenta, meet wall.
He hung one pitch. That's hardly a wall. The first home run was just tip your cap to a guy who is probably going to own the Twins for the next decade plus.
I guess that's what Rocco thought, too?
84 pitches yesterday, 76 the start before, then a single rehab start of 54 pitches. Baldelli said Maeda is building up his strength again and may have hit a wall yesterday.
Clownball!
I'm guessing Colomé for the 9th?
Fun.
Your butt, hold on to it
NM, Robles instead.
For the third day in a row?
Here we go!
It worked!
That Gallo is in the lineup for his bat and not his defense should surprise no one.
He won, rightfully, a Gold Glove last year. He had a +7 UZR and a +13 DRS in 2020.
All on display today
How quickly they forget (or blot out the horrors to save sanity).
We got a genuine win streak going on!
Robles gets a win, a hold, and a save in this series. The Made-Up Stat trifecta!
Bullpen this series -
11.2 IP, 2R (1 of those being a Manfred runner), 7 H, 2 BB
That makes a difference.
The other run was Garcia hitting a 100 mph fastball down and away on the corner with 2 strikes out for a home run to the opposite field. That was insane, so the bullpen pretty much flawless.