Your Minnesota Twins are currently a .500 team.
In most divisions, that would rightfully place them right around the middle of the standings. In the AL east, it would have them in dead last place.
Ah, but we don't play in any of THOSE divisions...
Joe Ryan takes to the mound to keep the modest winning streak (currently at one game) alive. The Blue Jays are going to send Alek Manoah......'s temporary replacement, Bowden Francis. This will be Francis's first major league start, and considering he hasn't completed five innings in a minor league start yet this season, I wouldn't get too accustomed to seeing him in the mound today. I would bet he doesn't get more than eight or nine strikeouts.
After last night, the Twins are 28-11 in games where they score 3 or more runs. I think I see a sneaky key to the game: score runs. I'm hoping Rocco has seen something similar and am curious whether he'd exploit a strategy which allows them to take advantage of it.
Go Twins!
The Jays are actually going with an opener, with Bowden Francis taking on the bulk work.
two runs might be enough for the Jays today
And tomorrow
George Springer is destroying Twins pitching
Solo HR can never
hurthelp youJulien having a nice game
bases loaded no outs siren
CARLOS CORREA HECK YEAHHHHHHHH
C4!!!!
The hell...!?!
Hey Sean, you should check the site, there are weird comments about the Twins hitting a grand slam.
I must've forgot to disable the April Fool's plugin.
MAX KEPLER??? MAX KEPLER!!
It's spelled "max kepler."
i can't quite make out who, but i love that one of the bullpen pitchers makes a leaping grab to take the ball away from a blue jays fan.
Good eye jobu - looks like #87, José De León is the guy.
Just before he was called in to pitch the bottom half of the inning.
We were in the elevator that faces the field descending through the CN tower just as Max hit his homer. It was a pretty fun sequence of "We can see the field ... oh, something happened on that pitch ... hey! Everyone is jogging around the bases!" as we went down.
Big plus was that we timed it to beat the exodus of Jay's fans and got to eat at Pai with a minimal wait (I got the Gaeng Hunglay with oxtail, Mrs. Ghost got the Khao Soi - both phenomenal)
I was at a bar in Madison with a Twins fan bartender who informed me of the dingers. Home run aside, the general opinion here of Max Kepler appears to be common throughout Twins fandom.