2021 Twins Game Logs

2021 Game 122: Twins at Yankees

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Game Time - 6:05 p.m. CT

The Twins hit the road today to kick off a 4-game set with the Yankees on the heels of their most successful homestand of the year, winning all three series and going 6-3 against the White Sox, Rays, and Guardians. In three of the last four games, Twins wins came off the bat of Jorge Polanco, who delivered a sac fly and two base hits for walk-off victories. I would love to see the boys extend their winning ways on this road trip, but whenever we head to New York and that bandbox replica stadium, I take all of my expectations for winning, tie them up in a burlap bag, and drown them in the river.

After the game Tuesday night I rode an elevator with John Gant and what I assume is his wife or girlfriend (I don't really know his marital status). Players don't normally use that elevator so maybe he got lost in the tunnels or something, but I knew it was him by the name tag on his suitcase. Just to make some small talk I asked him how he liked Minnesota. He said he loves it so far. I replied with, "Well, we like your pitching. So far."

It sounds like Rocco is going with a bullpen game tonight with Gant getting the ball first. Since joining the team he's had six good outings and one bad one where he gave up five runs over two innings , but the man has strike-'em-out stuff and I'm happy to have him around. Even though I think of him as a relief pitcher, this will be Gant's 15th start this year, his most since 2018 when he started 19 games. He worked exclusively out of the bullpen in 2019 and 2020. I'm guessing he'll throw just a few innings tonight before passing the baton and hitting the shower. Jameson Taillon gets the ball today for New York. He's 7-4 in 23 starts on the season with a 3.89 ERA and a 1.22 WHIP. He strikes out about one batter per inning, and strikes out three hitters for every one he walks, so he's been pretty good. Play ball!

 

22 thoughts on “2021 Game 122: Twins at Yankees”

  1. Maybe the Twins will win tonight. Stranger things have happened.

    Okay, well, I can't think of any at the moment, but I'm sure they must have.

    1. Gant had pitched more than two innings only once in the last two months, and that time he pitched 2.1 innings. It would seem logical to expect that he might have trouble in the third.

        1. Bullpen games do tend to highlight any deficiencies in the rotation. And this bullpen only recently started showing signs of life.

  4. Looks like Polanco's going to have to hit at least a seven-run homer to win this one for us.

  5. Early farm report, where at least so far there's some better news:

    St. Paul leads Iowa 2-0 in the second. Beau Burrows is pitching for the Saints.
    Wichita leads Springfield 6-0 in the second. The top two men in the Wind Surge order, Spencer Steer and B. J. Boyd, are both 2-for-2, as is Andrew Bechtold. Austin Schulfer is pitching for Wichita.
    Cedar Rapids trails Wisconsin 6-3 in the third. The Timber Rattlers have scored two runs in each of the first three innings. Tyler Watson has given up all six runs.
    Fort Myers defeated Dunedin 6-2 in the completion of a suspended game. Jesus Feliz and Misael Urbina each homered. Matt Mullenbach struck out five in 3.1 scoreless innings of relief.
    Fort Myers and Dunedin are scoreless in the third inning of the scheduled game. Casey Legumina has struck out six in three innings.

  6. Huh. Andrew Albers pitched a two-hit complete game shutout for the Twins in his debut season eight years ago this month, on August 12, 2013. Tonight was the first major league inning he's pitched since 2017.

    2. He almost had two shutouts to start his career but was pulled in the ninth in his first start.

  11. Albers matched the total strikeouts across his first two starts in a quarter of the innings tonight.

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