Game Thread: Twins (Keuchel) v Rays (Bradley), 9/13/23 @ 12:10 CT

[wsnydes]

[wsnydes]

Gotta love a day game rubber match between two playoff teams!

[IaBeanCounter]

Correa with a day off.  His defense hasn't been up to his standards the last couple of days.

[wsnydes]

Polanco back off the Bereavement list.

[Parfigliano]

19 minutes ago, IaBeanCounter said:

Correa with a day off.  His defense hasn't been up to his standards the last couple of days.

TC has a day off before and after 3 game series next week with LAA.  If possible they should rest Correa that series.  That would give him 5 straight days off and then 6 games left in season.

[SwainZag]

Welcome back, Jorge!  It would be really nice to get on the board early for Keuchel.  I also love the strong getaway lineup going into the 7 game road stretch, go get that division!

[USAFChief]

Let's get that magic nr into single digits.

[USAFChief]

Hope we don't plunk TB's 9-hole hitter, leading to a massive brujanjan.

[SteveLV]

Very interested to see how Keuchel fares against an excellent Rays lineup.

[mrtwinsfan]

45 minutes ago, IaBeanCounter said:

Correa with a day off.  His defense hasn't been up to his standards the last couple of days.

hasn't been up to his standards   or Ours

[Cap'n Piranha]

Two old men had been best friends for years, and they both live to their early 90′s, when one of them suddenly falls deathly ill. His friend comes to visit him on his deathbed, and they’re reminiscing about their long friendship, when the dying man’s friend asks, “Listen, when you die, do me a favor. I want to know if there’s baseball in heaven.” The dying man said, “We’ve been friends for years, this I’ll do for you.” And then he dies. A couple days later, his surviving friend is sleeping when he hears his friend’s voice. The voice says, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there’s baseball in heaven.” “What’s the bad news?” “You’re pitching on Wednesday.”

[mrtwinsfan]

9 minutes ago, SteveLV said:

Very interested to see how Keuchel fares against an excellent Rays lineup.

1-5   yes   6-9  not scaring anyone

[CRF]

Hoping for 5 solid innings for Keuchel, and let the pen take over with a lead. 

[mrtwinsfan]

1 minute ago, mrtwinsfan said:

1-5   yes   6-9  not scaring anyone

meant 7-8-9

[Jocko87]

1 minute ago, mrtwinsfan said:

1-5   yes   6-9  not scaring anyone

Same with the Rangers and several other "scary " lineups.

[Parfigliano]

11 minutes ago, SteveLV said:

Very interested to see how Keuchel fares against an excellent Rays lineup.

So far so good

[Jocko87]

Lots of interesting updates on Do-Hyoung Park twitter about rehab players.  Must have been a data dump at the news conference.

[Jocko87]

Good news that Yandy's Diaz could join us again today after a scary injury yesterday.

[IaBeanCounter]

Bradley has reverse splits, RH hit him better than LH.

[Parfigliano]

WTF Kepler

[USAFChief]

3 minutes ago, IaBeanCounter said:

Bradley has reverse splits, RH hit him better than LH.

Maybe so, but 90 percent of reverse splits are an illusion and the rest will prove wrong.

[Road trip]

Correa yesterday, Kepler today.  I'm starting to believe there are no "official" errors anymore..  Tough plays, but made 95% of the time by major league players.

[Parfigliano]

3 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

WTF Kepler

Miss played "triple" cost 1 run so far

[Jocko87]

1 minute ago, Road trip said:

Correa yesterday, Kepler today.  I'm starting to believe there are no "official" errors anymore..  Tough plays, but made 95% of the time by major league players.

That has to be an error.  Ordinary effort.  Also somehow a 0.590 xBa and I wonder if that plays into it anywhere?  Obviously not a 59% hit rate on that ball but if that figures into scoring decisions it would explain a lot.

[SwainZag]

3 minutes ago, Road trip said:

Correa yesterday, Kepler today.  I'm starting to believe there are no "official" errors anymore..  Tough plays, but made 95% of the time by major league players.

Yeah, just saw it.  That's a play Max makes >95% of the time. Wonder if going from sun to shade had anything to do with it.  Either way, gotta give him a big fat E there.

[Jocko87]

Just now, SwainZag said:

Yeah, just saw it.  That's a play Max makes >95% of the time. Wonder if going from sun to shade had anything to do with it.  Either way, gotta give him a big fat E there.

I was watching the shadow live and thought about it before the miss, like uhoh.  Still doesn't matter, sun in the eyes is an error.

[IaBeanCounter]

Costs us 3 runs now.

[USAFChief]

Not entirely Keuchel's fault, but that's one of the problems when you give up so many base runners. 

[SwainZag]

Yandy Diaz had quite the career breakout at age 31 and what a career year at age 32.  

[Parfigliano]

1 minute ago, IaBeanCounter said:

Costs us 3 runs now.

Yup bad D gave them 3