Tanner Bibee
vs
Sonny Gray
Day game alert!
Final game of an almost 12-game homestand. A loss today guarantees the Twins pick ahead of the Giants on the waiver wire. The Diamondbacks play the Dodgers tonight so not counting on them winning that. I'd still prefer a win to keep the Guardians well behind in the standings and make the division look a tiny bit less sad.
Jordan Montgomery
vs
Bailey Ober
Game in progress. Scoreless top of the first.
Dane Dunning
vs
Sonny Gray
The egress window must have defeated Philo today so you get a short game log tonight.
Scoreless top of the first is better progress than yesterday's game.
Kenta Maeda
vs
Corbin Burnes
I'm convinced the Twins cannot be more than six games above .500. If they win a bunch, then they will need to lose a bunch to never be too far above .500. They're back to +4 games so a win is again safe.
The extremely short "road" trip ends today. Texas is next on the schedule so they can bank some losses before the Guardians visit.
Game in progress.
Borucki
vs
Keuchel
Reese Olson
vs
Kenta Maeda
Rematch from a week ago. Maeda had a quality start, only giving up a single run over his six innings. Floro didn't do so well but it didn't matter with the Twins batters scoring nothing. This is the final game against Detroit this season. They've already lost the season series but they can at least get close to .500 with a win to make it 6-7.
Sonny Gray
vs
Ranger Suárez
Donovan Solano is back in the lineup and someone named Luplow hit a home run for the Twins.
Game in progress. Good news is the Tigers haven't scored. Bad news is the Twins also haven't scored. Each team has a single hit through the 3.5 innings.
Bailey Ober
vs
Alex Faedo
Ober's quality start run came to a crashing end in July, lasting only four innings and giving up six runs. His start last week against Arizona didn't qualify due to pitching five innings but his game score of 50 is exactly average. Ober's only start against Detroit fit the quality start metric exactly with six innings and three runs allowed. That would have worked on Monday but only Haddix perfection had a chance to earn a win yesterday.
Alex Faedo might be the guy to fix the offense. A former first round pick, he finally made it to the majors last year. He has a career 5.70 ERA, and 4.70 FIP, in 89 ⅓ innings for a negative WAR but good for him to make the majors at 26. He faced the Twins once last year, earning a no decision with two runs given up in five innings that the Tigers eventually won 3-2.
Joe Ryan
vs
Dakota Hudson
Yesterday's game marked two-thirds of the season. Pro-rating to the full 162 games puts the Twins at 82.5 wins, a mere tenth of a win below their preseason forecast. FanGraphs is more optimistic now, projecting them at 83.5 wins.
Cardinals tore it down while the Twins did nothing (on deadline day). I can't really blame them after making big trades last year that did poorly. Sure would be nice to have Steer's .320/.377/.602 versus lefties with the Twins this year.
