Twins continue their latest hot streak by taking care of the woeful Chicago White Sox last night and look to continue tonight in the second game of their 3 game series. Twins doing little wrong lately, especially mashing the ball and avoiding strikeouts. It's fun to see a bunch of young players make huge impacts and makes one think the future is bright. Also not only has this hot streak brought the Twins within 5 games of the Guardians, they are sneaking up on the Yankees too for third best record in the AL. Should be a fun summer for baseball, sure would be nice if most of us could watch it on TV.
Bailey Ober on the mound and he continues to impress as a solid #3 or #4 starter. Since I can't see the games on TV, I didn't know that he's 6'9" That's neck tat territory. Wow. Erick Fedde for the Whities and he is easily their best pitcher with 6 wins for a 26 win team and respectable WIP, ERA, etc.
Game time at 7:10 but there's a good chance for rain all evening. Will be interesting to see if they get this in. Rainy tomorrow morning but looks like they could do an afternoon/evening doubleheader on Wednesday.
Rain out. We can use this tomorrow at 1:10.
I like to think that the good ball the team has been playing will carry over against better teams. Not sure about our pitching staff though. Well, let's keep feasting on the Sockery teams and worry about that when the time comes
I forgot that Jon Rauch was 6'11". I know he's on various lists for involving tallest players such as pitcher v. pitcher or pitcher v. batter along with height differences of the same category. He and Johnson were on the Diamondbacks in 2008 too.
Nothing like loading the bases to start off the game and stranding them all to set a tone for the game
Well, at least Carlos get a can hit
I'm so old, I remember when Ober hadn't given up a hit.
Not shutout!
Wallnered.
27 straight
If only that was outs the Twins pitchers had in a game.
A sweep today would wipe out any good will we had going into this series.
28 straight games with a home run.
The record is 31 by the 2019 Yankees
hmm, that one would look nice on the mantel next to the HR season total record...
Is this a good place to say how much I hate the contact play?
So, what are they gonna do with Brooks when Royce comes off the shelf? I don't see them DFAing Farmer, but 🤷
Thought I heard Farmer still had option(s)?
The only option he has is a mutual option for 2025.
He can't have much trade value, but the Twins seem like the kind of organization that would try to make something happen for him.
Gallo was never released last year but did finish the season on the IL.