Final: Phillies 3, Twins 0 - Minnesota Misses the Mark on a Great Start

Was hoping Julien would make who to send idown a tough decision when people start coming back. He looks just as lost as he did when he went down the first time.  

Simeon Woods Richardson matched Zack Wheeler for six innings. Magnificent performance.

I welcome your collective thoughts on Jhoan Duran's pitch selection tonight. Not nearly enough fastballs thrown, and curves routinely missing the strike zone. Not his best mix.

Heard today that we are 6th in runs scored and 18th in runs allowed. Sure hope Mr Pohlad allows Falvine to address this in the next 7 days. Stewart and Topa should help but we need a starter and possibly a lefty we can trust in the pen. 

2-4 since Correa and Miranda went on the IL. All 4 were winnable which sounds good but doesn’t help the win column ⚾️

All the great fielding moments but the Twins still made two errors. Duran, forget the breaking ball sometimes and just throw heat!

Bullpen game tomorrow?

3 hours ago, thelanges5 said:

Bullpen game tomorrow?

I was thinking the same thing.  We used the better part of the pen tonight, so I assume they will be pretty limited in a day game after a night game.  That leaves us with the bottom part of the pen pitching the majority of the innings, or at least that would be a logical guess.  Stay tuned........🫣

Wasted effort last night😡🤮😤🤬👎no chance today-it’s definitely throw way game.  Need to get everyone back at full health and start winning again and take back division from Cleveland!!!

Meanwhile, in a parallel start tonight, Jose Berrios went four innings, gave up 3 runs and walked 6 in a home loss to the Rays. After an incredible start Berrios has a 6.41 ERA over the past month and has looked more and more like a guy who's running on fumes. Could the Blue Jays be hoping to trade him? 

Just absolutely sucks to see Julien struggle this badly. I could watch that dude swing at pitches all day everyday. Lets hope he gets this figured out by September/next year

Duran maybe threw one fastball for a strike in the outing and he appeared to shake off Jeffers multiple times to go with an 80's curveball.  When you can't locate the heat, you have a poor outing.  

SWR looked really good, kind of surprised he didn't get the 7th to see what would happen.  

Tough game last night.  I don't see much of a chance today with a bullpen game against the Phillies Nola.  Looks like a throw away game.  Twins continue to lose to teams with better records than them and in general to teams with winning records.  Not impressive.  So out of these 5 games with Brewers and Phillies it looks like we will end up 1-4.  But I'm so happy we have the injuries to blame.

Social media didn't give SWR much of a chance to succeed this season & they are probably still waiting for him to fall because many look at past stats & not the person. SWR surprised everyone with a stellar performance last night against the league's most successful team. 6 scoreless innings, He had only 5Ks but it seemed like more because he always got those SOs when it really mattered.

I've been impressed by Wallner's defense ever since he returned. Martin & Vazquez were the only RHHs that faced the CY candidate RHSP Wheeler. While (RHH) Margot has been pretty limited to LHPs, (RHH) Martin has been used exclusively & sporadically against tough RHPs, it seems like they setting him up to fail. Martin has been impactful on the field & on base paths but has been criticized about his hitting. Quit babying Margot, who is gone next season & give his ABs to Martin so he can break out. Martin is a good hitter & a OB machine,  Finally give him the chance to get the feel at the plate, get on base & raise havoc on the base path, while honing his skill in the OF.

"Simmerin' Simeon" was filthy....I keep waiting for the wheels to fall off as his innings mount, but the young man just keeps impressing. Down 3 key players the offense struggles though everyone plays hard and there's been some defensive "Short-Comings" as well. The bullpen has taken turns scuffling. Julien's next call up needs to be in 2025. Today's game seems a bit daunting....Win Twins!

SWR pitched his best game yet.It is to bad the offense let him down.

Why Jeffers swung on 3-1 count with bases loaded is beyond me.Soto couldn't find the zone and needed to make 2 good pitches.

With Wednesdays game now being a BP game it looks more like another loss.

SWR was amazing and threw some filth up there, when a pitcher is dealing like that it isn't a surprise to have great plays made behind you.

I will say with the lineup the Twins put out there last night against Wheeler, I was surprised they even had a chance, which is to give SWR more credit for what he did last night.

I am hopeful Schwarber doesn't break out of his slump today.

A wasted opportunity to give Wallner a chance to face a lefty with nothing on the line. Instead they bring in Margot for another failed pinch hit.

Great job by the starting pitchers. Nothing from the offense these last two games.

Sorry everyone, I saw this game was scoreless in the 9th and turned on the TV when I got home just in time to see the first double from Philly. It only got worse after that. Should have just left it off, I won't let it happen again. My apologies. 😉

Enjoyed the game for 8 innings , a pitchers duel and good defense,  Castro is not a shortstop  , move Lee there and try a new experiment ...

Duran worries me ....

I think we can call the Berrios trade. MN wins the trade with this great rookie season from SWR.