Guardians (Williams) Vs Twins (Ober): 7/9/26 12:40 CDT

[h2oface]

The ol’ “just that one mistake” narrative. Is the pitch still a mistake if it is the same meat, but the batter just looks at it or fouls it off or swings and misses or pops it up, etc..? Many more mistakes thrown that don’t get the same designation. And some are just absolutely on purpose and challenging the hitter. Claiming “that one mistake “ is always bogus in my opinion. 

[MMMordabito]

Just now, Peter said:

Only good thing it it’s not a gut wrenching one run loss! Sweep angels and get over .500

Could score two in the 9th

[Peter]

1 minute ago, MMMordabito said:

Could score two in the 9th

No one run losses!!!

[Patzky]

2 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Boy did that'n ever Go!

It Went! Like Carson Wentz

[RpR]

His first home runs as a pitcher, his first strike out, now all he has to do is hit his first batter.

[Church of Kreidler]

Aside from that homerun, Go did pretty well! I remain excited to see more from him, rather than full of fear as I have been for most of our other pickups...

[Blyleven2011]

21 minutes ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Still have 9 outs , going to need them all as we walk it off in the bottom of the ninth  ...

Heard it hear first , sport fans ...

Going to have to retract  , twins suck ...

[mrtwinsfan]

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[mrtwinsfan]

13 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Something about getting to .500 seems to frighten us 

Reality !

[Western SD Fan]

We can at least have another segment for next year called "Denard Span says the darndest things!"

[Hubie29]

Another bullpen loss. 

[Peter]

Laid an egg today-sweep angels and be over .500 at the break 

[Mortimerkenny21]

You know. ups and downs, strikes and gutters.

[mrtwinsfan]

1 minute ago, Western SD Fan said:

We can at least have another segment for next year called "Denard Span says the darndest things!"

or Dumbest

[Mortimerkenny21]

[Aggies7]

Well, that sucked.

[thelanges5]

Good Ober, bad bats and bullpen. 
 

Don’t sleep on the Angels, they’ve been hitting some HRs and scoring runs lately. 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Shelton's been really, really good this year but the Rojas decision confuses me a little bit. Just got recalled. Let him maybe ease back into it. Go with Paredes - was his turn to pitch anyway. But, alas.

[thelanges5]

A closer with 27 saves, we can only dream about that. 

[Mortimerkenny21]

Two out of three was a better result than most of us expected. Sweep would've been great. I'm ok with two out of three 

[Church of Kreidler]

Well, that was unfortunate... But, the Angels are up next! How badly could that go?!

(Please don't list all the ways...)

[h2oface]

1 minute ago, thelanges5 said:

A closer with 27 saves, we can only dream about that. 

Agreed  Wouldn’t have even seen the closer in this game though. 

[Aggies7]

5 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

A closer with 27 saves, we can only dream about that. 

Well, we had that. And some griped because he had lost 0.1 mph on some of his fastballs 

[Western SD Fan]

1 minute ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Shelton's been really, really good this year but the Rojas decision confuses me a little bit. Just got recalled. Let him maybe ease back into it. Go with Paredes - was his turn to pitch anyway. But, alas.

I agree.  That is a head scratcher for me.  I had expected that he would come in today following Ober since they didn't use him yesterday following Prielipp.  I guess he comes in this weekend for a short start.  Would the Twins be crazy enough to give Joe Ryan a start off on Saturday and have Paredes make the start in his place?  That gives Ryan extra rest prior to the ASG since I would expect him to pitch in that game.

[Irishman]

Twins Bullpen sucks!

[amjgt]

5 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

A closer with 27 saves, we can only dream about that. 

We're more likely to have 27 guys with at least 1 save

[mnfireman]

5 minutes ago, Church of Kreidler said:

Well, that was unfortunate... But, the Angels are up next! How badly could that go?!

(Please don't list all the ways...)

Trout's back....

[The Great Hambino]

The Twins were last at .500 when they were 12-12.  Since then, they've had 4 opportunities to return to .500.  They've lost all 4. 

Sisyphus was a Twins fan

[h2oface]

48 minutes ago, Baumer67 said:

Rojas should stay in the minors until he can prove that he can throw strikes.  You can't have a pitcher who consistently walks at least a hitter per inning and be successful.

Eddie G just gave up a walk and a hit every inning to seemingly just make it exciting, and still shouldn’t be a role model. 

[Hubie29]

52 minutes ago, Mortimerkenny21 said:

Two out of three was a better result than most of us expected. Sweep would've been great. I'm ok with two out of three 

People ok with mediocrity and never taking the next step are ok with 2 out of 3. When is it time to expect a little more, especially with the big games? Can we ever make a statement?