Astros 5, Twins 2: Beaten Bats, Balk Ruin Home Opener for Minnesota Twins

This season is going to be a roller coaster 🎢

The balk was a killer. 3 balks in 7 games. 

Yesterday they played the CWS. Today they actually played an MLB team.  That's one of our biggest problems, playing good teams. 

Not surprised.  After that 3rd inning tye offense went totally cold.  How often has that happened the last couple of years?  Correa is hitting .080. He is like 2 for 29 after a bad spring.  Oh that's right spring training stats don't matter.  Buxton looked good getting 2 hits.  2-5 not a good start.  They keep telling us they aren't worried as it is early.  Very true.  But I think the losses still count.

It's not whether you win or lose , it's how you play the game ...

Man do they suck , waiting for someone to step forward and take responsibility  , this is not an April fools joke  , it's for real ...

Light a fire under these guys ...

I worked for a complete a-hole in my day , he  knew his business , i didnt walk on egg shells around him but it made me learn a better skill , I worked for the guy because I wanted to be on the traveling team , I did walk out on him a few times , he didn't like it , but the supervisor had no problem with it ...

The team doesn't  need to play for an a-hole , it just needs to play for someone that knows it's business  ...

You guys figure out who I might be talking about , it could be more than just 1 ...

Looked like Ryan wasn't settled on what to throw and he began his motion as he tried to step off. Brutal balk. I don't think Jeffers and Ryan seemed on the same page at times. Would have liked to see Jeffers call time there but Ryan takes the credit for the balk.

A missed pitch to Walker and the balk were about it. Twins pitchers were good. 

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Louie Varland, Jorge Alcala, and Darren McCaughan combined for four innings of one-run relief

Louie Varland coughed up another run but Alcala and McCaughan did fine. Varland was lousy last fall and he's been lousy so far this season. 71.4% hard hit.

Only seven games, small sample size I get all that. Trying my best to stay optimistic, but from the ownership down to the players, they make it so **** hard.

I for one am SHOCKED! I read in the comments after our last game that beating the Sox 2 out of 3 meant that the haters (of which I'm proud to be a part of) were wrong and that the team was back on track. Anyone sane enough to point out that the Sox are a AAAA club was quickly thumbs-downed. This team is a joke, and we won't be finishing above .500.

The Twins will turn it around and win the division at 85-77! 😊

I know it is early, but 5 games out of 7 scoring the dreaded 3 runs or less (and only one of those a 3).  On the flip side, we have given up 5 or more runs in 5 out of the 7 (and the other 2 being the CWS).  🤒

Maybe we just weren't ready coming out of ST.  I would like to think it is only that.  

To be fair to Ryan, the pitch to Peña looked like a very good pitch indeed. It was high and tight, but he just tomahawked it. Give credit where credit is due.

When you score seven or eight, the miscues seem to be a minor irritation; however, when it's only two or three runs a night, they are glaring....

Can't have the ABS here fast enough; some of those ump calls change the game (the fifth run).....

Why isn't J Morales up and hitting with the Twins, seems like that guy just wants to hit!! 

This was one we needed to win and didn’t. With fan base at 0 tolerance. 2-5 is bad start twins need Royce and brooks back!!! Very important to get back to winning series especially with royals/tigers coming up!!! We must expect and demand twins do better!!!

watching this team bat is nauseating.....are they just guessing up there??and our pitchers living in the middle of the plate. gonna be a long year

Since the beginning of last season, there seems to be very little & diminishing fire & chemistry. Twins seem very little concerned about it & more concerned about their cold, hard analytics. Frustrating their players by not giving them a chance, moving them to unnatural positions, & etc. IMO, BOS has done the same thing this year. On paper, they looked really good by getting Bregman, but they failed to smooth things over with Devers 1st. People's feelings that generate fire & chemistry are ignored because they aren't included on the spreadsheet.

5 hours ago, Aerodeliria said:

To be fair to Ryan, the pitch to Peña looked like a very good pitch indeed. It was high and tight, but he just tomahawked it. Give credit where credit is due.

When you score seven or eight, the miscues seem to be a minor irritation; however, when it's only two or three runs a night, they are glaring....

It was a really good pitch. The reaction time and bat speed to get to that pitch was amazing. You could tell Ryan was thinking how the heck did he do that.

How about benching a player for swinging at 3 pitches neck high and inside. Then swinging at a pitch that bounced on the plate. Apparently he has lost the ability to know the zone. It's time to make moves with players who don't have their heads in the game. This team has become too wily nilly and the manager has lost them.

The balk and then bringing the infield in cost us two runs. Not that it matters if your lineup can't score runs. I am worried about Correa. Didn't hit all spring and now he's 2-25? Seems like every at bat is a ground out to SS. He needs to get going, like Buck. It was nice to see him get some hits and even steal a base. Pitching wise we look ok. Other than Varland our pen has been decent. I'm not sold on Louie. A guy with that kind of velo shouldn't be getting hit so hard. Problem is I think his fastball is flat. Plus, he doesn't have any good secondary pitches, so hitters can just sit on the heater. He needs to get the curve or slider to work otherwise I fear he won't last.

A team of mostly the same players is playing mostly the same as they did last season. Ty France also looks mostly the same as he did last season. Christian Vazquez doesn't have a hit or a walk but somehow managed to get caught stealing.