Guardians vs Yankees, 12:07 p.m. on TBS
Shane Bieber vs Nestor Cortes
Braves vs Phillies, 3:37 p.m. on FS1
TBD vs Aaron Nola
Dodgers vs Padres, 7:37 p.m. on FS1
Tony Gonsolin vs Blake Snell
Guardians vs Yankees, 12:07 p.m. on TBS
Shane Bieber vs Nestor Cortes
Braves vs Phillies, 3:37 p.m. on FS1
TBD vs Aaron Nola
Dodgers vs Padres, 7:37 p.m. on FS1
Tony Gonsolin vs Blake Snell
The baseball gods must have had a good laugh last night. Yeah, real f***ing funny, guys. Yuck it up, you must be so proud of yourselves.
Today the Twins try to shake off the worst loss of the season in a matinee that pits Chris Archer against Shane Bieber. Despite a couple of disappointing losses, and a chance for another before this 5-game set wraps up, the Twins will leave Cleveland with the division lead. And hopefully they can embiggen it today.
Play ball!
20% of the baseball season is over. That's kind of surprising.
Even more surprising? The Twins are in first place.
Winning streak!
Today, our beloved Twins try to extend their winning streak to 3 games for just the second time this year, and the first time since....game 4.
To that end, they'll send out last year's Cy Young award runner-up to take on last year's winner. Man, both of those pitchers were pretty great last year. One of them has been pretty great this year, too. Too bad it's the other guy.
Yes, King Kenta has just been off all season. Last time he took on the Clevelanders, it was utterly infuriating. Let's hope he's able to do better against a lineup that the Übermensch dominated last night, and the lineup manages to run into something against the Popstar.
Not so surprisingly, the Twins are one of the three best teams in the league by record at the time of this writing. More surprisingly is that the other two are the Rockies and the Padres.
It feels very strange to write about the Twins right now as if I believe the season will just go on, but for now, I foolishly remain hopeful that we had our one misstep and from here on out, it's smooth sailing. Cleveland, who's apparently mulling a name change also, sends Shane Bieber against Jose Berrios in what should be a good matchup, assuming Berrios goes ahead and forgets what happened on Opening Day (for his part, Bieber threw six scoreless against the Royals, with 14 of his 18 outs being of the strike variety. Bieber is extremely prone to giving up the long ball, however, so let's sit back and enjoy the three true outcomes tonight.
The next in our new feature installation of GOSO game logs.
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After the Twins deal Dozier and Lynn (and Mauer?), they go on a crazy run with house money but ultimately fall short after improbably winning their Wild Card game.
In any case, Jeremy Bieber is pitching.