Yikes, Twins scuffling right when things getting dicey in the AL Central. The good news? Twins only 2.5 games behind the Guardians. The bad news? The Royals are only a game behind the Guards. Funny how that happens when a team (Royals) makes strategic moves at the trading deadline. Sure would be nice if the Twins picked themselves up and took the next two against Atlanta.
Simeon Woods Richardson vs. Spencer Schwellenbach which not only is a pitching match up with a lot of letters in their names, but a match up between two rookies who have pitched decently this year and could be on the cusp of decent MLB careers. SWR has been particularly good for the Twins and may have saved their season with how well he has done from the bottom of the rotation. Keep it up Simeon, Twins need a victory tonight!
First pitch at 6:40 and looks like the weather should hold off.
I didn't even see that before I wrote up the game log.
Once more, Twins lineup lacks something called "scoring" tonight
This game has been depressing.
The last three games have been depressing
Suddenly interesting!
Crax.
New ballgame
Same as the old ballgame.
Oh, sure. THEY can work the contact play.
Welp.
Thielbar relieving Duran wasn’t on my Twingo
for tonightever.Duran was hittable … after that Julien & Martin defense put him behind the 8-ball.
This is not a team that does the little things well, and it hurts them when they play good teams.
Great point. This has been especially notable with the recent lack of ‘bad’ teams in their schedule.
I’m kinda disappointed in the situation. The young position players they’re relying on are not actually all that young - nearly all are 25 and older, while the young starting pitchers they’re relying on actually are young - 24 or 23(!) in the case of SWR.
Cardinals are not a good team. Walking a sub-.150 batter two games in a row is indefensible.