The Twins are looking for another sweep of Baltimore today after taking both ends of yesterday's double header. The offense has kicked in, the bullpen has been improving and the starters appear to be hitting their strides in earnest and getting stretched out a bit more. Paddack is back on the mound today, his last start was damn good and very efficient. Hopefully he can repeat that today. The orange birds counter with Tomoyuki Sugano. The 35-year old righthander is 4-2 with a 2.72 ERA and a low 1.01 WHIP.
Play ball!
Okay boys, if we want #11, we'll need baserunners. Or HRs. You know the recipe.
Why not both?
I appreciate the both including the plural on "HRs".
Booking dot yeah!
Meetings complete, tuning in to a 3-0 Twins lead in the third is a nice way to start the lunch hour.
Collision between Buxton and Correa. Both look shaken up.
Damn, Buxton was moving faster than I thought, that was hard contact.
Damn good catch, though.
Long injury delay. Bux stays in, Correa gingerly walks off.
That didn't take long.
I just tuned in and I see Correa injured.
"Crap. At least it's not Buxton," I think.
Then the camera turned. Blergh.
Cruelly ironic it was collision between those two.
The baseball gods can be cruel playmates.
Cruel, yet not without some sympathy.
Correa is out, probably with concussion, so that's automatically an IL stint. Buxton also out and I would not be surprised for the same reason so another automatic IL. Woods Richardson was sent down instead of the 27th man Funderburk so the Twins are going to have a lot of roster moves by tomorrow.
Willi Castro gets his 500th hit. Nice.
Puppies and fireworks. Nice.
Wolves advance, Twins streak goes on, I'm going to ride this sports buzz for as long as it lasts.
Wow, let's hope we get the Chris Paddock we just saw the last two games for the rest of the season.
Subtract his first two games of the season and he's had a 2.51 ERA since. Even including the second game only puts that at 2.97 ERA over 36 ⅓ innings coming into today.
Some potentially good news regarding Buxton and Correa.