Rangers 16, Twins 3: Twins Blasted by Rangers Again, Drop Fourth Series in Five

[Brett]

Jonah Bride has thrown more pitches than anyone else in the bullpen in the last 5 days. If someone could give me a silver lining to that, I would appreciate it.

[jmlease1]

49 minutes ago, LambchoP said:

Sure looks like Ober isn't right and there will probably be an IL trip soon. Our rotation, which was a supposed strength with plenty of depth, has very quickly fallen apart. With no solid AAA options, and dumpster diving the waiver wire for bullpen innings, I think we may need to kiss the playoffs goodbye.

well, it was a strength and it did have depth (YMMV on what constitutes "plenty").  The starting pitching so far this season has been really good, pretty much what we reasonably could have expected (not perfect; SWR wasn't great and was properly sent down, but the rest did well and we saw some promising things from Festa and Zebby). 

This is why the Twins have been so reluctant to move on from marginal veterans in the last few years: if a bunch of injuries hit at the same position at the same time, it can get ugly fast. We were in a pretty good position to whether losing Pablo, but losing one of your top 2 starters is a huge blow to every team in MLB. Seriously, who in MLB isn't going to be impacted by losing the guy who is arguably your ace? 

When Pablo goes down at the same time that you'd sent down your 5th starter for performance issues and the guy you'd called up goes on the IL, and one of your other top 3 rotation guys may have an injury as well...yeah, I think the depth is going to get depleted. Not because it was "supposed" depth, but because it was a lot of injuries all at once. 

 

[Chris Hove]

21 hours ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Double digit losses ...

in the past 8 days and 7 games , the twins pitching has surrendered 3 double digit losses , they have only surrendered 3 all season ( 1 in Sacramento and 2 at hone against Texas ) so since Lopez went on IL list  , what's happening to our pitching  ...

The twins hitters on the other hand have won 5 double digit wins this season  , so we are up 2 in that department  ...

Man this game was another pathetic  , pitiful, putrid , piss poor played game , even my streaming was lost for the game ...

Trying to score and the pressure once again is to much ...

bases full and no outs and all 3 get stranded , still not enough consistency in the clutch ...

new pitcher Wentz's orientation to Minnesota's bullpen Didn't go as planned , better luck next time  ...

Coloumbe still has not given up any of his own runs  and one has to have some concerns about Ober's pitching , his velocity loss and his control , to many walks today ...

Jeffers for a catcher that sees alot of pitches , sure is a bad guesser in recognizing opponents pitches ...

Well here's wishing we beat up on Houston in Houston that are leading their division once again ...

Houston also has the best home record in the American League.

[David HK]

2 hours ago, Blyleven2011 said:

 

Remember when twins were ahead 10-0 over Cleveland and viola pitching , I believe it was 1984 , Cleveland came back and won that game 11-10 , any chance of catching Royals late in the season finished with that loss ...

 

Arrrgh!!! 😭😭😭 I've been trying to forget that night for decades!! 

*cough* Ron Davis*cough*

We were watching the end of that one in the lounge of the restaurant where I worked, after closing, and when that game got blown the way it did, I DESTROYED a chair.  That was expensive. 🙄