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Twins 3, Tigers 6: Twins Home Runs Not Enough to Stop Tigers from Roaring

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Nate Palmer

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Image courtesy of © Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Box Score
SP: Travis Adams 5.0 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 7 K (63 pitches, 44 strikes (69.8%)
Home Runs: Ryan Jeffers (8), Trevor Larnach (14), Matt Wallner (15
Bottom 3 WPA: Noah Davis (-0.436), Austin Martin (-0.155), Royce Lewis (-0.138)

Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) 
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Travis Adams got the start Monday night and started the game off on an impressive roll. In the first two innings, Adams collected five strikeouts. The right-hander got to those early strikeouts in large part by inducing whiffs as he went through the Tigers lineup.

Adams exited the game after completing five innings. That becomes his longest outing of the season in the majors. Adams walked off the mound with seven strikeouts and 16 swing-and-misses. An impressive outing by Adams through four innings, but the fifth resulted in trouble.

Tigers bloop and blast
Spencer Torkelson got to Adams with a line drive single with one out in the fifth inning. It was Wenceel Perez who got the Tigers on the board and tied the game with a home run to right field. Rocco Baldelli tried to stretch Adams, who had a low pitch count, and it didn’t work Monday.

Solo Home Run Parade
Thankfully for Adams, when he left the game after giving up the home run to Perez, it was only a tie game. Ryan Jeffers got the offense going in the first inning with a home run for an early 1-0 lead. It was just before the Tigers got on the board, Trevor Larnach joined Jeffers by hitting a home run of his own.

 

Finally, after the Tigers tied the lead, Matt Wallner would not let the score remain there. To put the Twins back up 3-0, Wallner blasted the third solo home run for the Twins. Home runs are great, quickly fans would be reminded why it is nice to make them of a different variety than the solo.

Noah Davis and the bullpen
With Adams out of the game, Noah Davis came in for his second appearance as a Twin. It was an outing Davis will likely want to forget. Before joining the Twins, the former Dodger struggled with giving up home runs, and a home run is what accented a 3-run inning for the Tigers. Davis left a 2-0 pitch for Kerry Carpenter which gave the Tigers a 5-3 lead after 6.

Before the end of the game the Tigers would add one more run to make the game 6-3. As was the case early in the season, the Twins had opportunities in this game they just didn’t put it all together. The home runs were nice, but as the season finishes it will be the job of some of the rest of the lineup to step up and claim their role in the roster.

What’s Next?
The headline for Tuesday is that the Twins will face former teammate Chris Paddack for the first time since his trade. Paddack performed well, completing six innings and only allowing one run. Zebby Matthews is up for the Twins and will try to bounce back from a rough time out before trade deadline day when he went up against Boston.

Postgame Interviews

Bullpen Usage Spreadsheet   

  THU FRI SAT SUN MON TOT
Ureña 0 0 0 69 0 69
Adams 0 0 0 0 63 63
Ohl 0 0 52 0 0 52
Funderburk 0 11 0 35 0 46
Sands 0 20 0 21 0 41
Davis 0 0 0 0 28 31
Topa 0 13 0 15 0 28
Ramírez 0 0 0 9 19 28
Tonkin 0 11 0 14 0 25

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Dman Wichita Wind Surge

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I thought Adams pitched really well.  A lot to be encouraged about.  A bummer giving up that Home run, but even so it was still a solid outing.  Loved the K's he was getting.  Hopefully he keeps it going and the Twins can say they found something.

Nice to see Larnach and Wallner with Home runs.  Some improvement with the bat for both of them would go a long way next year.

On to the next one as guys get more experience they should know who can help next year and who can't.

USAFChief GOAT

USAFChief

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Im as PO'd as anyone about the disaster of a deadline day, but to be fair we can't really expect the bullpen not to suck. 

You can't take the top 2/3rds off any bullpen and expect to be able to reconstruct it in August. 

I doubt you can do it two Augusts from now.

Parfigliano Minnesota Twins

Parfigliano

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1 hour ago, Patzky said:

I believe we are wearing only the road grays from here out because the equipment team will be embroidering new names and numbers on uniforms every day for the rest of the year. No sense double dipping for two sets. 😁

Cutting costs anywhere possible.

Patzky Wichita Wind Surge

Patzky

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10 minutes ago, The Great Hambino said:

I think there's a piece of athletic tape with "Hatch" written on it being slapped onto the nameplate of his locker as we speak

All our moving parts will wear 63.

bunsen82 First Round Pick

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52 minutes ago, Dman said:

I thought Adams pitched really well.  A lot to be encouraged about.  A bummer giving up that Home run, but even so it was still a solid outing.  Loved the K's he was getting.  Hopefully he keeps it going and the Twins can say they found something.

Nice to see Larnach and Wallner with Home runs.  Some improvement with the bat for both of them would go a long way next year.

On to the next one as guys get more experience they should know who can help next year and who can't.

Adam’s took full advantage of the opportunity. He was pounding the strike zone and seemed to be on cruise control until the home run.  Other than Martins 3 for 5 night, maybe the best performance so far by the minor players auditioning for the big leagues.  
 

Whose chances at the show are done- Julien Gasper

not ready for the show - Davis and Kiersey

Not trending well- Roden

 

All of a sudden nothing to play for and Larnach, Wallner and Jeffer start hitting.  

Bodie Draft Eligible

Bodie

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9 hours ago, Melissa said:

Noah Davis is pitching himself off the roster.

Let me be the first person to ever say this... bring back Ron Davis!!!

#givemeheartburn

Bodie Draft Eligible

Bodie

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5 hours ago, h2oface said:

Scripted in advance again by the genius manager.

Rocco just needed to know Bailey Ober's 4 batting practice HRs were a fluke due to facing Davis, or maybe we stumbled onto our 1B!

Riverbrian Cooperstown

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Things have turned around. The Tigers started the year with 18 pre-arb players. 

With the additions of Morton, Paddack, Finnagan and Montero. The Tigers have gone Vet on the mound. This has lowered their current pre-arb numbers to 11. 

The Twins started the year with 8 pre-arb players. Today they have 17 players with less than 3 years experience. 

The Tigers are 66-48 on the year. 

The Twins are 52-60. 

Doctor Gast Wichita Wind Surge

Doctor Gast

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6 hours ago, OvertheHill said:

Fitting, given he doesn’t appear to be a Major League pitcher. 

If CO doesn't want him, heck, maybe we can do something with him. (I'm being facetious)

Doctor Gast Wichita Wind Surge

Doctor Gast

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8 hours ago, Old Crow said:

Sadly one doesn't realize just how many solo HRs it takes to be competitive.

Some think baseball is an HR derby, the one who hits the most HRs wins. It's not. Some think it's Fantasy Baseball, driven by HR bias stats. It's not. Thank God, baseball is far more intricate & interesting; influenced by the human element, interaction & experience. That's why we must get kids into baseball for that human element. Otherwise, we can sit them in a corner & give them a cellphone to play with. If we reduce it to only stats, that's when we get flat & into trouble. IMO, baseball needs to be something organic, spontaneous, & individual, not something cold & uniform. Sorry for getting carried away.

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