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Category Archives: 2015 Twins Game Logs
Game 130: Houston @ Minnesota
Time for the Twins offense to wake up. Four runs on eight hits in the previous two games.
Time for Santana to start pitching. From the FourLetter:
The veteran right-hander holds the majors' highest ERA (9.12) among qualifying pitchers since Aug. 3, and has lost four straight decisions while Minnesota has dropped five of the last six games he's started. During his six-start swoon, Santana has failed to escape the third inning twice.
Opposing pitcher will be recently recalled rookie Lance McCullers (pitching in AA last week).
Game 129
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Game 128. Astros at Minnesota!
I think the phrase "biggest game at Target Field in 5 years" is a bit overblown, but hey its sports, everything is hyperbole!
No Mauer (tough matchup against Kazmir) and no Sano (tender hamstring) tonight for the Twins. Kind of a bummer, but whatever the Twins have dealt with worse. Like the evaporation of a starting pitcher getting more than 15 outs.
Kyle Gibson will try to buck that trend, again.
Game 127 Twins at Ray
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Game 126: Twins with a few fans in Tampa
Go Twins!
Game 125: Twins at Rays
Santana (2-4, 5.53 ERA, 4.99 xFIP) vs. Karns (7-5, 3.44 ERA, 3.81 xFIP)
Interestingly, Santana's ERA and K/9 are the same. He's also not pitched well since starting his season. It'd be nice of him to reverse that tonight.
The Twins face Karns who's having a pretty good year. Hopefully that means he's not a middling Jeremy who will dominate the lineup. That said, I fully expect Sano to punch a couple holes in the roof at the Trop tonight.
Game 124: Twins at Orioles
Last night's win got Minnesota back over .500, within a game and a half of the 2nd Wild Card spot and only a half-game behind Baltimore, one of the three teams ahead of them in that race. At this point, the Twins are not likely going to catch Kansas City for the Central, and are five and a half behind Toronto for the first Wild Card spot. If they can pass Baltimore, they're still chasing LAA and Texas, and have a series with Tampa this week who they're currently neck-and-neck with. Despite some misgivings about management's plan for the club, it sure is fun when they actually look like a real, live MLB team.
Today sees the Twins' most pleasant surprise pitching-wise, Mike Pelfrey (6-7, 3.62 ERA - 2.25 ERA in four August starts) facing off against up-and-coming Baltimore pitcher Kevin Gausman (2-5, 4.48 ERA). A win today results in both a series and season sweep of the O's. Git 'er done Billy Smith.
Game 123: Twins at O’s
Time for the hometown 9 to hrlp their playoff chances and hurt Baltimore's.
I was going to make an actual post, with Twins on Leaderboards and whatnot, but the little one has to decided to do the opposite of napping for the past few hours, so instead you get some half-baked goodness.
Gibson vs. Tillman. Go Kyle.
Game 122. Twins at O’s
I was working on an introduction, but work called and I had to go away. Then I lost my train of thought.
Hopefully, the Twins will preform better at baseball than me at writing.