Twins head down to St. Pete to play the scorching hot Rays for a three game series. Rays by far have been the best team in MLB this year with a 43-19 record and only six losses at the horror dome known as The Trop. They are doing this with the 3rd lowest payroll, at $73.2 million, or roughly the cost of two Carlos Correas.
Louie Varland on for the Twins and he's showing signs that he can be a serviceable number 4 or 5 guy. Zach Eflin for the Rays and of course his 7-1 record is going to reflect how well the Rays are playing but his WHIP of 1.0 and nearly a strikeout an inning may play havoc with the assbats the Twins seem to be lugging from town to town these days.
First pitch at 5:40p
Nice of the Twins to give Kepler a lift to his home state before releasing him.
That's more offense than I've seen tonight
former Twins minor league camp legend Brooks Raley
The Rays are good at baseball.
surprised they sent Louie back out for the 7th
Lost cause at
fivethreeany runs so might as well get as many innings out of the starter as possible.This team feels like the 2022 late season model.
I'd be shocked if they are above .500 when they return from this road trip.