Twins (Bradley) vs Cubs (Boyd): 7/18/26, 1:20 pm CDT

[Mortimerkenny21]

Let's keep this momentum going, we have to keep our foot on the gas! Bradley seems like the right guy to have on the mound for that. Some solid defense and timely hitting like last night is a winning recipe. Go Twins!!

[Parfigliano]

TC in town games probably a sellout.

[HarmonK03]

Lewis sitting for Bell second game back.  Lewis needs to be in there every day, Bell should have his glove taken away.  Bell doesn't hit lefties that well, and they want us to believe they are contenders.

[wesnewy]

wonder why no Lewis today?

[HarmonK03]

8 minutes ago, wesnewy said:

wonder why no Lewis today?

No Lewis is ridiculous.  You could slide him into 2B if you needed to.  Clemens shouldn't be in there and having Bell out of the lineup isn't the end of the world.  If you are going to make Clemens and Bell your cornerstone players, we might as well sell off at the deadline.  And I thought defense was supposed to a point of emphasis and yet there is Bell with a glove.

[Saxophone Joe]

Put the pitchforks down, gang. Royce has a sore hamstring, fwiw, per Bobby Nightengale Jr.

[Western SD Fan]

1 hour ago, HarmonK03 said:

No Lewis is ridiculous.  You could slide him into 2B if you needed to.  Clemens shouldn't be in there and having Bell out of the lineup isn't the end of the world.  If you are going to make Clemens and Bell your cornerstone players, we might as well sell off at the deadline.  And I thought defense was supposed to a point of emphasis and yet there is Bell with a glove.

There's only one real answer that makes any kind of sense for why you are playing Bell over Lewis here.  Lewis will be here after the trade deadline, and maybe there is an actual market for Bell behind the scenes that we just don't see.  Hell, we were able to trade Ty France last year when it looked like there was no market for him, so anything is possible.  Otherwise, it is foolish to have Bell over Lewis.  As Lewis showed last night, he has made tremendous efforts to learn the position.  I don't think there is much of a difference in either offensive output and I'd rather have Lewis's defense than Bell's.

EDIT: That makes a bit more sense on why Bell is in there now.  Stinks for Lewis.  Hopefully, it's not a long-term setback.

[thelanges5]

29 minutes ago, Saxophone Joe said:

Put the pitchforks down, gang. Royce has a sore hamstring, fwiw, per Bobby Nightengale Jr.

Beat me to it. Here is Bobby’s post on Lewis:

Royce Lewis is out of the lineup today because of left hamstring tightness. He still did pregame activities on the field today, but he felt his hamstring tighten up running to first during his eighth-inning groundout Friday.

[Western SD Fan]

Our old friend, Liam Hendricks, was just released from the Cubs today.  He was pitching in Iowa and had only started ramping up 3 weeks ago.  I hope the Twins stay away from the nostalgia tour and continue working with what we have.

[mrmpls]

10 minutes ago, Western SD Fan said:

Our old friend, Liam Hendricks, was just released from the Cubs today.  He was pitching in Iowa and had only started ramping up 3 weeks ago.  I hope the Twins stay away from the nostalgia tour and continue working with what we have.

Quit  Looking  -we have seen all we need of this Plan 

[ziggy]

16 minutes ago, Western SD Fan said:

Our old friend, Liam Hendricks, was just released from the Cubs today.  He was pitching in Iowa and had only started ramping up 3 weeks ago.  I hope the Twins stay away from the nostalgia tour and continue working with what we have.

Have'nt they already gone down the Hendricks road?

[AlwaysinModeration]

Went to the game last night.  First time at Wrigley.  It was packed.  Reminded me a bit of Fenway.  It is wild that there are bleacher seats on the roofs of buildings on Sheffield and Waveland across the street.  From behind home plate it looks like they are a part of the stadium.

Did not think the game was going to go the Twins’ way after Bailey put the first two runners on first and third in both of the first two innings.  To get out of those jams with one total run was improbably impressive and/or lucky. The double play turned by Lewis was an interesting choice (stepping on first first), and if the runner holds up at second, the run scores before he is tagged.

Keep the momentum going, would be great to get a series road win against a tough NL opponent.

[Western SD Fan]

1 minute ago, ziggy said:

Have'nt they already gone down the Hendricks road?

Yes.  He was in camp at spring training and was released since he wasn't going to make the team.  But we have all seen this nostalgia tour before with many players and hoping that they don't do it here as the bullpen has been performing better as of late.

[Church of Kreidler]

Excited for another win today - practically guaranteed since Kreidler is in the starting lineup 💪🏻

[amjgt]

1:20 start?

I thought it was 1:10! 😡

I hate this 10 minutes!

[Recognize]

Ha that's wild Rizzo of all ppl was the one to get it

[mrmpls]

RIZZO  !!

[ashbury]

3 hours ago, wesnewy said:

wonder why no Lewis today?

We have three catchers, and we're trying to shop Bell.  That would be my guess - gotta DH a catcher now and then, and you don't want to be seen benching a guy you want to entice someone to take.

[h2oface]

There goes the perfect game, no-hitter, and shutout. 

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, h2oface said:

There goes the perfect game, no-hitter, and shutout. 

Ditto.  Clemens!

[mnfireman]

Way to end the 0-19 Clemens...

[Twindy]

Clem Dawg dinger!

[Church of Kreidler]

Clemens!!! Looking nice and warmed up now!!!

[mrmpls]

2 minutes ago, h2oface said:

There goes the perfect game, no-hitter, and shutout. 

Yes Sir .   0-19   kody  nice !

[Western SD Fan]

Also nice that a Twins fan caught the HR ball by Clemens.  Don't have to worry about the pressure of throwing the ball back onto the field.

[ashbury]

1 hour ago, Saxophone Joe said:

Put the pitchforks down, gang. Royce has a sore hamstring, fwiw, per Bobby Nightengale Jr.

Didn't refresh the page before I posted my theory.  This is more useful.

I was also going to speculate that Shelton was benching Lewis because he hasn't had a base hit since July 11.  (All Star break? Details, schmetails.)

[amjgt]

2 minutes ago, mnfireman said:

Way to end the 0-19 Clemens...

I was to blame here. I had 2 outfield fantasy baseball injuries (including Buxton) so I picked up Kody as a stopgap. 

O-fer since the pickup until that HR
 

[h2oface]

Arrogance cost them. Lee bobble didn’t help. 

[Aggies7]

Some really bad pitches there to the nine hitter 

[Twindy]

Taj served one up there.