Twins 5, Mets 3: Minnesota Rallies Keep Miserable Mets Reeling

[Wedman13]

6 hours ago, JD-TWINS said:

MANY of the poor performers “showed up” positively on Tuesday night.

Banda was big!

Wallner broke the ice with a hit & then really worked for the bases loaded walk/RBI!

Clemens with a hustle double and then scoring on a base hit with some aggressive 3rd base coaching!

Outman, pinch running and applying pressure with a steal - then hustling to 3B to avoid force out and load bases with no outs!

Cole Sands can’t be overlooked - 2 nice innings to end it with a big Save!

Lee & Lewis, not so much!

Really good post but I find the love for MW drawing a walk pretty hilarious

[Senior Softball Guy]

8 hours ago, JD-TWINS said:

I like SWR …….. I realize I don’t know what pitches he’s not comfortable with in an outing. That said, he threw about 50% more Split Finger pitches than were called for …… could not get the pitch to be “competitive” more than 25% of the time. He walked 3 in 5 innings. He threw the first 3 pitches to Lindor (all Split Fingers) that were not competitive. He shook off Jeffers repeatedly when count was 0-2, to throw another wildly uncompetitive Split. Then he throws 2 fastballs to get back in count - then THIRD STRAIGHT fastball middle-middle. It was difficult to watch - lack of command and poor pitch mix isn’t going to play. Where was the SLIDER?? Where was the CHANGE-UP??

Can’t have success striking a couple guys out with a Split and then throw 50+% Splits for the game! Seemed like sheer stubbornness, not cerebral pitch mix.

Lee - Lewis, our “untouchable trade pieces” from end of ‘23 season ………. underperforming is too nice! I get the starter was REALLY good but one of them has to make contact with the bases loaded.

The product offensively and defensively at 3B has been better with the Gray/Kreidler combo. Think about that. Brooks Lee ABs all night were very non-competitive.  The Culpepper express has cooled a bit, but Brooks needs to hit because the glove is...uh...a bit suspect.

[Jacksson]

Two of the Three Stooges that BLEW the game on 4/18 ACTUALLY came through in this game and Banda, who seemingly was exiled to the very back of the bullpen pecking order actually did his job.

Embarrassing Twins Batting Stats: FIFTEEN STRIKEOUTS = Lee = 4, Buxton = 3, Jeffers = 2, Lewis = 2,  That's 11 K's out of 15 for just 4 batters.

Top of the Ninth, Bases Loaded, No Outs, Two runs in.  Lewis, Lee and Buxton all Strikeout Swinging.

Keep in mind, the 2 runs that scored in the top of the 9th were on base due to walks.  While Keaschall came through with an actual hit, the second run "driven in" was due to a walk.  The win was not due to the Twins offense, it was due to the failure of the Mets bullpen.

Refreshing to see that a Twins player actually knows how to bunt and that (probably) Shelton knows enough about the game to actually call for a bunt (with a tie score and runners on first and second with Zero outs).

Outman showed some value as a pinch runner for the lumbering Josh Bell (260 lbs in his dreams) and stole a base which, thanks to a walk to Jeffers was meaningless.

Top of the 7th, runner on second thanks to a stolen base, 1 out, 1 run (to tie it) in and what can the Twins offense muster?  The left handed batting Wallner grounds out to SS on a changeup followed by Lewis flying out to LF.  This woeful, ineffectual offense will translate into a large collection of losses, a disappointed starting rotation and a fired Hitting Coach as well as the loss of 2 assistant hitting coaches.  Three coaches with their focus on hitting and yet the players have to go to the Twins Gift Shop to try to buy a hit. 

[DJL44]

18 minutes ago, Jacksson said:

Two of the Three Stooges that BLEW the game on 4/18 ACTUALLY came through in this game and Banda, who seemingly was exiled to the very back of the bullpen pecking order actually did his job.

Embarrassing Twins Batting Stats: FIFTEEN STRIKEOUTS = Lee = 4, Buxton = 3, Jeffers = 2, Lewis = 2,  That's 11 K's out of 15 for just 4 batters.

Top of the Ninth, Bases Loaded, No Outs, Two runs in.  Lewis, Lee and Buxton all Strikeout Swinging.

Keep in mind, the 2 runs that scored in the top of the 9th were on base due to walks.  While Keaschall came through with an actual hit, the second run "driven in" was due to a walk.  The win was not due to the Twins offense, it was due to the failure of the Mets bullpen.

Refreshing to see that a Twins player actually knows how to bunt and that (probably) Shelton knows enough about the game to actually call for a bunt (with a tie score and runners on first and second with Zero outs).

Outman showed some value as a pinch runner for the lumbering Josh Bell (260 lbs in his dreams) and stole a base which, thanks to a walk to Jeffers was meaningless.

Top of the 7th, runner on second thanks to a stolen base, 1 out, 1 run (to tie it) in and what can the Twins offense muster?  The left handed batting Wallner grounds out to SS on a changeup followed by Lewis flying out to LF.  This woeful, ineffectual offense will translate into a large collection of losses, a disappointed starting rotation and a fired Hitting Coach as well as the loss of 2 assistant hitting coaches.  Three coaches with their focus on hitting and yet the players have to go to the Twins Gift Shop to try to buy a hit. 

The Twins “woeful, ineffectual” offense scored 5 runs. They’re averaging 5.1 runs per game which is good for 7th in MLB.