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2015 Twins Game Recaps

Game 38: Rays 11, Twins 3

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Once again, the Twins seemed more than willing to allow fans to lose interest early and spend time with friends and family on a Sunday afternoon. The Twins had already won the other two games of the series and homestand against a good Rays team, so this again could be considered a case of losing efficiently.

This was the first time in about a month that we didn't see Good Kyle Gibson. However, he only gave up three runs in five innings. It was the middle relievers that got hit hard and turned the game into a blowout. This was not the Bad Kyle Gibson we had seen last year. If this is this year's version of Bad Kyle Gibson, he and the Twins could have a very good season.

One thing I noted recently is that manager Paul Molitor is showing his preference about veterans vs. non in his lineup construction. The five most veteran hitters for the Twins have been occupying the first five spots in the order. This has led to Kurt Suzuki and his career .375 slugging and 88 OPS+ batting fifth regularly and occasionally second and fourth. Suzuki had Sunday off, so at least Molitor dropped light-hitting Chris Herrmann down in the order, unlike previous manager Ron Gardenhire, who often seemed to have lineups with preprinted positions on them and would fill in the names of backups in the same spot in the order. Continue reading Game 38: Rays 11, Twins 3 →

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Game 37: Rays @ Twins

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Trevor May takes the mound for the Twins today. I'm hoping he has a "progression to the mean" type start, so that his ERA can eke its way out of the abyss, and we can start talking about what to do with Nolasco (and Pelfrey, once he completes his transformation back into a pumpkin). Those seem like better places to trim rather than looking for excuses to not find out exactly what we have in May. If he's a reliever, that's fine, but it would be nice to actually, you know, find out for sure.

The Rays, meanwhile, are sending out Alex Colome, a pitcher who seems to be running low on chances to really catch on with the team.

I'm sort of expecting a bloodbath. Fearful prediction: Twins 8, Rays 2. May pitches like he ought to, and the top of the lineup comes through.
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2015 Twins Game Recaps

Game 36 recap: Twins 3, Rays 2.

It looked like it was going to be one of those games where a Twins starting pitcher goes strong but the offense cant score enough runs.  But, thats not what happened as the Twins rallied in the 7th to win 3-2 at Target Field Friday night.

The Rays took the lead in the 2nd on a David DeJesus solo home run. The Twins answered back  in the 3rd with a Brian Dozier birthday blast. In the 5th is where things got frustrating. 2 outs and a runner on second and Kevin Keirmaier hits a soft pop up to left field. Eduardo Escobar looks like he had a play on it, then pulled up and let the ball fall in and Joey Butler easily scores. Im pretty sure Delmon Young makes that play.

I like Double E, but is it worth having a guy whose career batting slash line of .254/.297/.365/.662 and playing wobbly, but average defense out there when the potential future mainstay Eddie Rosario is up and sitting on the bench (although he made a pinch hitting appearance tonight)? I suppose if the team is winning more games than losing you dont want to rock the boat too much and keep the same guys out there.

Anyway, the Twins took the lead in the 7th on a Aaron hick single, Danny Santana triple, and Brian Dozier sac fly. Blaine Boyer pitched a scoreless 8th and Glen Perkins saved it in the 9th.

 

NOTES

- Glen Perkins now has 100 career saves. Joe Nathan, Rick Aguilera, Eddie Guardado,  Ron Davis, and Jeff Reardon are also in the 100+ Save as a Twin Club.

-The Twins have hit at least 1 triple in 3 of the last 4 games (5 total in that span)

-Phil Hughes was credited with a win, his 19th as a Twin. Other Twins players with 19 wins include Keith Atherton, Matt Guerrier, Ron Davis, Roy Smith, and Scott Diamond.

-Did Brian Dozier score a run? Yes. He is now at 26 for the season. A little bit behind last years pace where he had 34 runs scored after 26 team games.
2015 Twins Game Logs

Game 36: Twins hosting Rays. 7:10pm.

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The Twins are coming of a disappointing series in Detroit, only winning 1 of 3 games. Overall I would say the season is a bit surprising on the good side. It just may by one of those deal where Detroit is a real bad matchup for us and they are going to win 14 games against us ever year.

The Twins come home to play Tampa. Phil Hughes starts for the Twins. Jake Odorizzi throws for the Rays. Odorizzi has an interesting transaction history as he has been part of two mega deals in 5 years. First the Zach Grienke to the Brewers trade (a trade decidedly in favor of the Royals) and the second trade was the Wil Myers/Ordorizzi to the Rays and the Royals get James Shields/Wade Davis. That trade seems to have worked out for both teams (Myers being spun off tot he Padres this past off season). Further down the road, it will be interesting to make a Odorizzi Trade Tree.

Go Twins Go.

2015 Twins Game Logs

Game 33: Twins at Tigers

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Gibson (3-2, 2.97 ERA, 5.13 xFIP) vs. Simon (4-1, 3.44 ERA, 4.16 xFIP)

After a day off, the Twins get to head to Detroit for a series against the sometimes in first place, sometimes not Tigers. (currently not). Things haven't gone too swimmingly for the Twins against Detroit this year. Part of that could be things like letting Stauffer pitch to Cabrera (or anyone, but Cabrera especially). Of course, that can't happen this series.

Gibson looks to continue a pretty good start to his season. I am less optimistic he will tonight because it looks like he's been fairly lucky so far. He's striking pretty much no one out, even for a guy who doesn't really strike many guys out to begin with. That doesn't bode well if those FB's starting turning into HR's (6.5% HR/FB right now).

Fortunately, I think that first series of the season was the outlier for the Twin's offense, so it looks like they can, at least, score some runs against Tigers pitching.

I am assuming (hoping) Hicks will get the start tonight, although I can't seem to get any access to any lineup information because clicking "preview" on the Twins site sends me to season ticket information. Nice work guys.

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Game 32: Native Indigenous Persons 8, Dual Siblings 2

It was so nice of the Twins to make it easy to stop watching this one early so we could spend more time with our families. Happy Mother's Day, moms!

Trevor May was bad. Danny Salazar was very good. That's about all you need to know about this one.

It was also nice of the Twins to win the first two games of this series. I don't like the Twins to lose any game, but I also realize no team is going to win every game (despite JeffA's brightest hopes) and so I try to look at the season series by series to get a better idea of how a team is doing. So I always very much want to win each series, so it makes it nice when the Twins have the series wrapped up before the finale.

It also was nice of the Twins to put all of their sucking into one game. If you play poorly in one aspect of the game, you're probably going to lose. If you're not going to hit, you might as well be bad at pitching and defense as well and get it all over with in one game. That would be efficiently sucking. Of course, you don't want this to be a consistent thing. Then it just becomes the last four seasons.