Astros (Burrows) vs Twins (Ryan): 5/20/26, 12:40pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Go for the series win today, and inch closer to .500. Keep winning series, and sooner or later, this team might actually reach that mark.

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Yoendrys Gómez	7	11	0	11	0	29
Travis Adams	0	0	0	0	19	19
Taylor Rogers	23	0	8	11	0	42
Simeon Woods Richardson	0	0	0	18	0	18
Luis García	0	0	22	0	0	22
Kendry Rojas	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eric Orze	0	26	0	19	0	45
Anthony Banda	8	0	18	0	16	42
Andrew Morris	24	0	12	16	0	52

[Chris Hove]

Lineups for today's rubber match. 

Other Twins news- Matt Bowman and John Brebbia were both granted their release.

 

[Patzky]

Buck (DH) Larnach (LF) Bell (1B)

Clemens (RF) Keaschall (2B) Caratini (C)

Grey (3B) Kriedler (SS) Outman (CF)

New spots and a needed break for Lee and Martin. Day.off tomorrow.. the new toys will watch form the bench today.

Take the series! Win Twins ♊ 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

The bats have to wake up for this one. Right?!

[MN Brian]

45 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Yoendrys Gómez	7	11	0	11	0	29
Travis Adams	0	0	0	0	19	19
Taylor Rogers	23	0	8	11	0	42
Simeon Woods Richardson	0	0	0	18	0	18
Luis García	0	0	22	0	0	22
Kendry Rojas	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eric Orze	0	26	0	19	0	45
Anthony Banda	8	0	18	0	16	42
Andrew Morris	24	0	12	16	0	52

I know it's a grey zone since the pitches were thrown in a starting capacity, but given the intent of this chart it feels like Rojas' pitches on Monday need to be included to have a reasonable picture of who is available?

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 minutes ago, MN Brian said:

I know it's a grey zone since the pitches were thrown in a starting capacity, but given the intent of this chart it feels like Rojas' pitches on Monday need to be included to have a reasonable picture of who is available?

Yeah, it's a bug in the system. It's really hard to sort out "starts" versus "opens" without manually inputting the numbers every day.

[Western SD Fan]

Big update for today's game.  The Astros have moved ahead of the Twins in bullpen ERA.  The Astros are now 28th and the Twins are 29th.  All the Astros needed was to face the vaunted Twins lineup in order to better their lot for the season.

[Western SD Fan]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Yeah, it's a bug in the system. It's really hard to sort out "starts" versus "opens" without manually inputting the numbers every day.

You just need to sell it better.  Sell it like you're adapting Twins Daily to the way that the Twins are treating pitchers in their farm system.  Since they are piggybacking starters, everyone is essentially a reliever!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I hope we win!

[krink]

27 minutes ago, Western SD Fan said:

Big update for today's game.  The Astros have moved ahead of the Twins in bullpen ERA.  The Astros are now 28th and the Twins are 29th.  All the Astros needed was to face the vaunted Twins lineup in order to better their lot for the season.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

I had forgotten how annoying Jeremy Pena is...

[ziggy]

38 minutes ago, Western SD Fan said:

Big update for today's game.  The Astros have moved ahead of the Twins in bullpen ERA.  The Astros are now 28th and the Twins are 29th.  All the Astros needed was to face the vaunted Twins lineup in order to better their lot for the season.

I thought the Twins would be dead ass last in bullpen everything.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Luckily for the Twins, the anemic line-up is slowly making people forget about the bullpen!

[Peter]

Let’s go Twins!!!

[Patzky]

Damn. He just got back.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Morneau chomping at the bit to talk about Burrows and that dominant change-up...

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Larnach scuffling of late. Will need his bat with Jeffers out.

[Patzky]

3 minutes ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Morneau chomping at the bit to talk about Burrows and that dominant change-up...

It's working though 

[krink]

@Western SD Fan so who's bullpen is currently 30th?

[Patzky]

It took all game to get a guy to third base last night. Progress!

[Western SD Fan]

1 minute ago, krink said:

@Western SD Fan so who's bullpen is currently 30th?

The Angels.  Give you an idea how bad it is.  They still have Topa and Sands as our 'closers' by committee. 

[jaimedude]

This team needs more speed on the basepaths. I don't know why we are carrying Arcia, Gray, Kriedler, all three of them are utility guys. Would have rather seen Ross or Culpepper get these opportunity's. Outman is fast but nothing else, not a good arm or hitter. Four older guys not really worth it to carry that many bench guys. At some point Ross or Culpepper will play there way on to team. 

[RpR]

Just now, jaimedude said:

This team needs more speed on the basepaths. I don't know why we are carrying Arcia, Gray, Kriedler, all three of them are utility guys. Would have rather seen Ross or Culpepper get these opportunity's. 

Watch the Saints games.

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, jaimedude said:

This team needs more speed on the basepaths. I don't know why we are carrying Arcia, Gray, Kriedler, all three of them are utility guys. Would have rather seen Ross or Culpepper get these opportunity's. 

A month ago we were pushing hard with SB and taking the extra base. Well that's when Keaschall and Martin were getting on base regularly...

[Patzky]

There are some long ABs by Houston.

[RpR]

With this line-up , fielding - should - not be a handicap.

With the wet base paths, sliding head first should be like playing in a mud puddle.

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

With this line-up , fielding - should - not be a handicap.

They did well in that regard last night.

[jaimedude]

4 minutes ago, RpR said:

Watch the Saints games.

At some point you need to find out if they are major league capable Ross or Culpepper. I'm not saying there ready, I'm sure Zoll and field staff know better than I. Just Arcia, Gray, Keiedler all seem at the same level, platoon guys. At least the bullpen seems to be improving. 

[Patzky]

Ryan needs to coax some outs out of these guys 

[Patzky]

3 minutes ago, RpR said:

With this line-up , fielding - should - not be a handicap.

A couple infield hits later.. it's the way things work lol.