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    Game Score: Twins 9, Red Sox 6

    Andrew Thares

    By Andrew Thares

    Alex Colome blew yet another save in the bottom of the 9th, but Josh Donaldson and Jake Cave both homered in the Twins five-run 10th inning to claim victory!

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    Box Score
    Starting Pitcher: Ober 5.0 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 SO
    Home runs: Sano (22), Polanco (24), Donaldson (19), Cave (3)
    Top 3 WPA: Ober (.257), Donaldson (.130) Polanco (.118)

    Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs)

    Miguel Sano Hits Longest Home Run in MLB This Season
    Last week Miguel Sano blasted a 475 foot bomb as part of the Twins extra inning win against Cleveland. At the time, it was the longest home run hit by a Minnesota Twin this season. Well... Sano wasn’t content with just having the Twins longest home run of the season, he wanted more and tonight he did just that as he blasted a 495 foot home run not just over the monster, but the billboards at the back of the deepest part of the monster. Truly a majestic home run that you need to see to believe.

     

    Jorge Polanco Hits 24th Home Run of the Season
    After failing to come through with bases loaded and just one out in the second, Jorge Polanco redeemed himself in his next at-bat. With one on and two outs in the top of the fourth inning, Polanco became the second Twins hitter in as many innings to take Nick Pivetta deep.

    Bailey Ober Has Another Strong Outing
    While Griffin Jax has gotten more recognition for his performance of late, Bailey Ober has quietly been very good over the past month as he carried a 2.81 ERA over his last five starts entering Wednesday night’s game. Those numbers only continued to improve after Ober went five shutout innings against the Red Sox.

    Tonight’s outing was as impressive as any he has made in his young Major League career. The only inning where the Red Sox put together a scoring threat was in the third. Christian Vasquez got the threat started with a one out single, and then advanced to second on a groundout from Enrique Hernandez. Kyle Schwarber then came through with a two-out hit, but poor baserunning from Vasquez caused him to be held up a third. This was the second chance Bailey Ober needed, as he got Xander Bogaerts to fly out to right to end the threat.

    Alex Colome Blows Yet Another Save
    If there has been one single theme to this disappointing season from the Twins, it has been Alex Colome blowing save after save. It started from day one and it hasn’t stopped as he blew yet another great performance from his teammates that should have led to a Twins 4-2 victory. Instead, he gave up this game-tying two-run blast to Kyle Schwarber in the bottom of the ninth.

    Colome then gave up a single and a walk to put the winning run on second base with still nobody out. However, he was able to work out of the jam and send this game to extra innings.

    Donaldson and Cave Go Yard in the 10th
    Just when all hope seemed lost, the Twins bats took back the lead with a five-run 10th inning. The inning got started with a two-run home run from Josh Donaldson.

    While those two runs were nice, it hardly felt like a safe lead for the Twins to hold in the bottom of the inning. Luckily, the Twins were not done hitting. With two outs in the inning, Rob Refsnyder got on base with a line drive single to center. Ryan Jeffers followed by getting hit by his second pitch of the game, setting the stage for Jake Cave who crushed a no-doubter over the bullpen in right, giving the Twins a much more comfortable 9-4 lead.

    Ralph Garza gave up two runs in the bottom of the tenth inning, but the Twins won 9-6.

    Bullpen Usage Chart

      THURS FRI SAT TUE WED TOT
    Barnes 0 109 0 0 0 109
    Minaya 0 16 0 30 0 46
    Albers 63 0 0 0 0 63
    García 0 0 28 0 0 28
    Gant 61 0 0 0 0 61
    Garza Jr. 0 0 31 0 24 55
    Barraclough 0 46 0 0 4 50
    Duffey 0 0 0 19 9 33
    Colomé 0 0 0 0 20 0
    Coulombe 19 0 0 0 19 19
    Thielbar 0 0 0 14 22 23

    What's Next?

    The Twins will face the Red Sox in Game 3 of the series on Thursday night. John Gant is the scheduled Twins pitcher, and he will square off against Chris Sale.

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    RonCoomersOPS

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    23 minutes ago, prouster said:

    I’m not sure what any pitching coach could do for those three. Tell them to throw more strikes?

    There's always "throw more low and away fastballs," which is roughly the pitching equivalent to "hit the ball the other way and use your speed."

    LA Vikes Fan

    LA Vikes Fan 8,116

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    3 hours ago, mikelink45 said:

    We all kept asking why too, but had as much luck then as we have with Rocco now.  Managers just think that the RP will figure it out. 

    Hey, who else is Rocco going to run out there to close? Kyle Barraclough? Juan Minaya (actually, he might be an upgrade)? Garza? Garcia? Caleb Theilbar? Tyler Duffy remains missing in action, Rogers is hurt, Alcala is hurt and wasn't great, Coulombe has had is run is now back to being mediocre, and we all cheered when Robles left town. This isn't the manager's fault. 

    I kind of understand why we haven't gone to bringing up the AAA bullpen with the attendant 40 man issues, effect on the Saints title push, etc. I just don't agree with it.  It's time to bring up Hamilton and Moran, and I would give Vasquez a shot with them. Push some combination of Barraclough, Garcia, Garza, Coulombe and yes, even Astudillo and Simmons off the 40 man if that's what we need to do. 

    One question. When we add 2 people on 9/1 do they have to go on the 40 man or do we get a "free" look? Might explain some of the head scratching decisions. 

     

    MMMordabito

    MMMordabito 5,655

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    5 hours ago, mikelink45 said:

    What a chase - Colome still has time to catch up with some of Davis numbers.  And I would hate to try to find all the worst relievers we have had.  

    Post 2017 Hindenberger would be a good start! I still would take Colome over him.

    LA Vikes Fan

    LA Vikes Fan 8,116

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    5 hours ago, USAFChief said:

    Have you looked at the most recent AL pitching stats?

     

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/2021-standard-pitching.shtml

     

    We ARE doing better than Baltimore in most areas, so I guess 14th out of 15 is something our pitching coach can hang his hat on.

     

    BTW, we also have the OLDEST average age of our pitching staff. Yeesh. A feather in Falvine's cap to boot.

    Having an older pitching staff at the beginning of the year actually made sense; it just doesn't make sense now. If you think you're a contender, you tend to have an older pitching group at AAA so you want guys with some MLB experience to pitch when there are injuries rather than prospects. The Dodgers do exactly the same thing if you look at their AAA roster.  You want guys like Coulombe, Theilbar, Law, Barraclough, etc. who have pitched in the bigs. They are better short term fill ins on a contending team than untested propects. 

    What doesn't make sense is keeping them now. Do we really think Law, Barraclough or Coulombe will be on the team next year making a contribution? Theilbar I can see. A lot of this has to do with either keeping the Saints' season rolling or suppressing service time. Other wise, this makes no sense. 

    Brock Beauchamp

    Brock Beauchamp 44,052

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    4 hours ago, dex8425 said:

    Wow, negative 2.7 WAR for a reliever is really bad. Why in the world did he get 58 innings?! OPS against over 1,000 for the season is incredible. 

    Take this tidbit of information and store it in some back closet of your mind, ready to come out whenever anyone implies that 1980s (and earlier) baseball was anything other than incredibly, incredibly stupid.

    Yes, it was more fun but it was also incredibly, incredibly stupid.

    dogsday

    dogsday 134

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    2 hours ago, prouster said:

    I think many of the pitchers have done a really bad job this year. But Duffey has a 115 ERA+. 125 for Rogers. 101 for Pineda. Those three have been between average and very good. 89 for Maeda, who has been hurt. Slightly worse for Robles, who isn’t on the team anymore. Alcala is at 85. He’s hurt and put up much better numbers last year. He can probably be explained as someone still in development. Barnes is a rookie who’s like 10th on the depth chart. Gant has been on the team for three weeks. Not sure what you’re expecting there. Minaya’s ERA+ is 121. He’s been good. Law, Dobnak, Thorpe, and Stashak have barely pitched this year. The only true clunkers are Happ (traded), Shoemaker (cut), and Colome (still blowing saves a couple nights per week).

    I’m not sure what any pitching coach could do for those three. Tell them to throw more strikes?

    Happ with St. Louis, IP22.2, H17, ER5, K19. Of course, half that is against Pittsburgh. Maybe the Twins tried to pitch him against too many different teams.

    prouster

    prouster 1,799

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    1 hour ago, dogsday said:

    Happ with St. Louis, IP22.2, H17, ER5, K19. Of course, half that is against Pittsburgh. Maybe the Twins tried to pitch him against too many different teams.

    Interestingly, Happ pitched really well in his lone start against Pittsburg with the Twins: 7.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, and 3 K. For his sake, maybe he should go against the Pirates more often.

    jkcarew

    jkcarew 8,306

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    2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

    Take this tidbit of information and store it in some back closet of your mind, ready to come out whenever anyone implies that 1980s (and earlier) baseball was anything other than incredibly, incredibly stupid.

    Yes, it was more fun but it was also incredibly, incredibly stupid.

    No…this was another sad chapter, unique to the Twins. You didn’t need WAR to know that Puckett and Ripken and Mattingly were good, and you didn’t need it to know Davis was bad.

    Problem was, Davis was a big get (and “expensive”) in a trade for Smalley with the Yankees. Davis was ‘good’ with the Yankees. And more to the point, this was the Calvin Griffith Twins!! It took the new regime one disastrous year to move him out of leverage. And before the end of the 1986 season sited, he was dumped in a trade.

    During the 1970’s and first half of the 80’s, mlb modernized quite a bit, but you wouldn’t have seen it following the Twins.

    dogsday

    dogsday 134

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    18 hours ago, prouster said:

    Interestingly, Happ pitched really well in his lone start against Pittsburg with the Twins: 7.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, and 3 K. For his sake, maybe he should go against the Pirates more often.

    I think that means he has carved out a role as POOGY (Pittsburgh specialist.)



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