Wow, what a difference a week makes. Last Tuesday at this time we were all grumpy about the Twins, their lack of movement at the trade deadline, uninspired baseball, and inability to take advantage of an historically bad division. Now the Twins are riding high off a 5-game winning streak, the bats are responding and all of a sudden the Twins are sitting on a 5.5 game lead. Also they now have a better record than both the Yankees and Red Sox.
Sonny Gray on the mound for the Twins coming off his first win since April. Eduardo Rodriguez for the Tigers. He is arguably their best starter and has put up decent stats. I'm a little worried the still strikeout prone Twins batters may add to his healthy K/9 totals.
Game time 5:40
I had not heard about Jim Price. I'd noticed he wasn't there a lot of times this season, but I thought maybe he'd just cut back on his schedule. Sad news.
Twins with the first inning White Sockery.
Came to say the same
oooohhh man, that doesnt look good for Solano
Im surprised he could stand up the way he jammed his leg
We seem to be in the Sonny Gray meltdown inning.
Just doesn't seem like this is going to be the Twins' night.
A sprained knee sounds really painful.
at least the Loons match is on a channel I get!
QS: check
No walks and a lot of strikeouts bodes well for future starts.
file this game under "welp, cant win them all"
yeah, that was offsides.
that's disconcerting.
2-0 lead, the most dangerous in all of soccer
and after all...