It has been well established that this year's Twins are very streaky. They've currently won 2 games. Thus, they will win a minimum of 21 more in a row before losing.
Bailey Ober against Logan Gilbert
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2024 Game 63: 100 Left and they start at the Pirates
100 games into the season and I feel like the Twins have gotten all of the hard stuff out of the way - the injuries, the best teams, the long losing streaks, etc. I know that's not how it really works, but that's how it feels. These next 100 are going to be great.
We start with Joe Ryan against Mitch Keller.
2024 Game 57: Twins Get Revenge At Astros
"Hey, these are the jerks who eliminated us from the playoffs last year."
"Hey, yeah!"
"It is them!"
"I thought so!"
"Let's get 'em guys!"
And so they did.
Starting with Pablo Lopez finding his stuff against Ronel Blanco, who lost his.
2024 Game 50: Texas Teams At Minnesota Teams
Bailey Ober pitches for the Twins against Jose Urena.
Then the Wolves play. Go Minnesotas!
2024 Game 44: Twins vs. Not The Yankees (Guardians)
Good thing it's not the Yankees today. Inauspicious history of Twins/Yanks on this date...
Woods-Richardson against McKenzie.
2024 Game 38: Minnesota at Toronto. Then Nuggets at Wolves
Time to head back out on the road and continue the success they've been having lately. 15 out of 17!
Joe Ryan starts against Yusei Kikuchi.
2024 Game 31: Red Sox at Twins
As HJ pointed out in the Cup, this 10 game winning streak doesn't exactly make us feel like we're going to keep winning. I guess, in that regard, the test begins... now.
Tanner Houck, who has been very good, pitches for Boston. Chris Paddack who has been... present... pitches for the Twins.
2024 Game 25: Twins at AAAAngels
Bailey Ober starts against Patrick Sandoval.
At 11-13, with injuries to many key players, and plenty of painful at-bats, this season has probably been a disappointment for most. But for the School of Athens (the Philosofer household) it really hasn't been so bad. Circumstance has us with a new, much larger TV, and somewhat frequent access to the games as the secondary household on a subscription. Add in the fact that Aquinas and Nietzsche both had their best years of baseball last year, and we've got some eager learners in the house. The girls are getting involved too, asking great questions as the games progress. And Philosofette is excited to actually start getting to put names with faces after too many years of not really knowing who the players are.
Throw in Cory Provus' narration and, well, this has been a great year so far. Lots of baseball to go, and hopefully they keep the streak going now that they're not playing the Sox!
2024 Game 18: Tigers at Twins
Coming into this year I expected Joe Ryan to take another big step forward. Or maybe a small step, depending on how you already felt about him. Point is, I expected him and Lopez to really lead the way.
That's been the case so far, and hopefully he has another great outing tonight, as the Twins' bats try to do something - anything! - against Jack Flaherty.
Also, I'm just putting this out there: the only two batters hitting at all are Buxton and Jeffers, right? And they're the only two batters who look willing to go the opposite way. I'm thinking we've got some (recurring - we've seen this before) institutional issues in our batting approach that have to get fixed.
2024 Game 11: Twins at Tigers
Pablo Lopez gets to pitch again. Unfortunately our batters get to hit again... and against Skubal, who is apparently very good too.
It's okay though, I'm just glad they're playing again.