Red Sox (Early) vs Twins (Woods Richardson): 4/15/26, 12:40pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Sorry C Gangster, starting the thread tomorrow, need to be out of the house all morning. Hey, this team is... fun? How'd that happen? Whatever, I'll take it.

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Taylor Rogers	30	0	0	0	22	52
Kody Funderburk	0	17	0	0	0	17
Justin Topa	12	0	12	0	0	24
Garrett Acton	0	0	0	33	0	33
Eric Orze	0	0	0	23	0	23
Cole Sands	0	22	0	0	15	37
Anthony Banda	36	0	0	0	0	36
Andrew Morris	0	0	67	0	0	67

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Didn't realize that Sim was battling some kind of illness on Friday night. Here's hoping to a rebound today. Break out the brooms!

[strumdatjag]

I’m going. I hope other fans take advantage of this beautiful day (sunny, 60s) and seeing the hottest team in baseball. 
I’m shocked at how many who won’t go today will be eager to go in early August when it’s 98 degrees and sweltering humidity - throwing their sweaty bodies into a sea of other sweaty bodies.    

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I hope we win!

[Patzky]

6 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

I hope we win!

We got the series we want a clean sweep!

[ashbury]

1 hour ago, strumdatjag said:

I’m going. I hope other fans take advantage of this beautiful day (sunny, 60s) and seeing the hottest team in baseball. 
I’m shocked at how many who won’t go today will be eager to go in early August when it’s 98 degrees and sweltering humidity - throwing their sweaty bodies into a sea of other sweaty bodies.    

Twins Baseball: Catch The Whiff!

[amjgt]

I wonder if Morris is considered available

[stringer bell]

Last day of a 15 games in 15 days stretch. The Twins have a relatively rested bullpen and with the day off tomorrow (and another on Monday), just about everyone should be available.

Most of the right handed hitters get another start. I wonder if Wallner is the left handed hitter in the lineup. There are often lineup surprises on day games after night games, so I wouldn't count on Shelton putting in a "copy and paste" righty heavy lineup.

 

[stringer bell]

Pretty much a copy-and-paste lineup:

BuxtonCF	R	3	4	0	.246	.768
MartinLF	R	0	2	2	.294	.842
Keaschall2B	R	1	9	3	.232	.593
JeffersC	R	2	10	0	.317	.952
Bell1B	S	3	14	0	.250	.844
CaratiniDH	S	1	8	0	.255	.698
WallnerRF	L	3	6	0	.200	.647
Lee, BSS	S	3	10	0	.240	.723
Kreidler3B	R	1	1	0	.125	.625

[Patzky]

20 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Last day of a 15 games in 15 days stretch. The Twins have a relatively rested bullpen and with the day off tomorrow (and another on Monday), just about everyone should be available.

Most of the right handed hitters get another start. I wonder if Wallner is the left handed hitter in the lineup. There are often lineup surprises on day games after night games, so I wouldn't count on Shelton putting in a "copy and paste" righty heavy lineup.

 

Wallner is in, the lineups have been pretty consistent for awhile now, a reflection of or perhaps a reason for the success of late. 

Buck Martin Keaschall

Jeffers Bell Caratini

Wallner Lee Kriedler

 

Kriedler keeping Royce's nine spot warm for him 😁

[Chris Hove]

The Twins should be used to LHP by now. Although they're only hitting .235 against lefties, they do lead the league in PA, AB, R, H, BB, RBI, and tied-2nd for HR. I think it's good seeing this many lefties early in the season. Let's sweep these clowns!!!!

[RpR]

[Patzky]

Tigers sign rookie phenom McGonigle through 2034.  Be seeing lots of him!

[shortround81]

In first place . . .

[sampleSizeOfOne]

2 minutes ago, shortround81 said:

In first place . . .

I am uncultured... What is the reference?

[shortround81]

6 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

I am uncultured... What is the reference?

One of my favorite shows: Peaky Blinders. It's on Netflix if you're curious. A couple of the seasons do get a bit convoluted 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

7 minutes ago, shortround81 said:

One of my favorite shows: Peaky Blinders. It's on Netflix if you're curious. A couple of the seasons do get a bit convoluted 

Ah, so it has a plot.

 

Cool!

 

I have my own set of entertainments, but i'll watch it if an opportunity presents itself.

My recent distractions (beside the Twins) include getting a new (to me) John Scalzi book and finding out there is a recent translation of Yoshikawa's epic serialized tale of Miyamoto Musashi. So i may be reading a lot despite the fine spring weather.

[shortround81]

Quasi-Related: Happy Jackie Robinson Day!

[Parfigliano]

Another HUGE crowd.

[Peter]

Lets go twins!! 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Nasty pitch, Sim.

[amjgt]

At this point, mentioning the attendance each game feels like if I got on 35W at 8am every day and went on to the 35W discussion board to mention there there was traffic. 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Eh. Good velocity but find the plate...

[Peter]

Not a good start!!! Can’t walk batters 

[Tlaker]

5 minutes ago, shortround81 said:

Quasi-Related: Happy Jackie Robinson Day!

I may have missed it all, but I think Atteberry just said SWR is just one of 8 African American starting pitchers in MLB?! Is that possible,,, or did he say one of 8 starting today on Jackie Robinson Day?

[The Great Hambino]

Hey, playing the infield in worked!

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Way to go, Sim!

[Chris Hove]

Wow, living on the edge early. Let's jump on them right away.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

1 minute ago, The Great Hambino said:

Hey, playing the infield in worked!

I don't know if Lee made it look harder than it was, but seemed to be more than just a routine play there and he did a good job.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

7 minutes ago, amjgt said:

At this point, mentioning the attendance each game feels like if I got on 35W at 8am every day and went on to the 35W discussion board to mention there there was traffic. 

Which has it's value for those of us out of towners whose sole connection to Minnesota is reading these posts.

 

But yeah, water remains wet.

No surprise there.