Guardians 2, Twins 0: Quantrill, Guardians bullpen one-hit Twins in loss

The Twins are truly a pathetic offensive team

When you're manager tells the team he is happy with them scoring by the homerun,this is what you get. They strike out more than any other team and swing at more pitches out of the zone. Miranda needs to go down to St. Paul,because his poor plate discipline is now showing up on the field. Joey pop up has to sit,because he only has 2 out comes strike out or pop up. We finally are getting pitching after years of 1 pitcher worth starting. We need changes before Tuesday or I see a 500 club by the weekend.

For everyone that was pleased (count me in the camp) with a winning record (17-12) in April, reality is starting to rear its UGLY head as this team offensively is HORRIBLE!  The April record, as others have noted, was skewed by going 6-1 against the Royals.

4-35 with the bases loaded this year speaks for itself.  I don't see any imminent signs of hope---a dangerous thing------with this team as it seems inevitable that Gray and Ryan will regress.  We've already seen that recently with Lopez.  Bullpen also showing signs of trouble with Jax & Lopez being very average over the last couple of weeks.

Nothing like another summer of mediocre baseball followed by "excuses" to explain a spiral below .500 by seasons end.

Master-class pitching duel is probably overstating it a bit. Cleveland is arguably the worst offensive team in all of baseball right now, and the Twins struggles are well documented. Quantrill is an incredibly hittable pitcher, and he lacked command for a good part of the game this afternoon. 

This is like professional soccer. One team scores a goal (in this case, the Twins' opponent) and it's an insurmountable lead!

That's all we got, one gosh darn hit?

Disgraceful effort in both series by the offense. 
 

The FO needs to shake things up. DFA Gordon and Solano. Get Miranda a AAA reset. 
 

Anyone is better than that trio of incompetence. 
 

Lewis can’t get cleared soon enough. 

The Twins sure are wasting a lot of good pitching. The bases loaded situation was really frustrating. Miranda gets himself out on a high pitch, and Gordon takes two balls then swings at the last two pitches that also were balls fouling off the first, and hitting a weak double play grounder to end it. Swinging at those pitches is a big reason they’re 4 for 35 with the bases loaded.

7 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Quantrill is decidedly below average. Probably in the bottom 25% of starters the Twins will face this year. 

 

 

Yeah I never once thought he looked dominant during the game. He threw nearly 100 pitches, and only about half of them were strikes. He was giving up more than 1 hit per inning coming into the game; couple that with his control issues and it's unreal that a team would only threaten to score in two times in seven innings. 

Quantrill tranquillized the Twins bats and Twins fans 😴

1 hour ago, PopRiveter said:

Wow, what an offense. I have been so disinterested in the style of this year’s team, that this was just the second game I watched. It certainly didn’t make me a fan. 
I sure miss having a Twins team that gives you hope they will put the ball in play and string together some hits. With this group, it’s hope for a couple solo home runs.

When the first run scored almost immediately, I joked “There went the game.”

Turned out, that was the winning run.

I believe your comment about lack of interest may not be that uncommon - particularly among those Twins fans who do not frequent the TD.  Several of us on this site predicted an overall light hitting team consisting of several somewhat transient players that would find it difficult to generate true enthusiasm.

This lack of interest excludes the more passionate, but much fewer in number, of us fans who might appreciate this year’s strategy of winning through outstanding pitching, mostly via our starting staff.

This strategy, however, relies on having a winning ball club to keep our renowned front running fan base with myriad other outdoor summer activities to pursue interested (and attending/watching!).  So far, that has been more or less the case.  Let’s hope we can keep that strategy working and more fans will become more invested as the summer progresses.  This seems like a likely scenario still.

Otherwise, a shift to Plan B (trade the transients and call up the prospects in August) might need to be implemented. 
 

An absolute embarrassment of a road trip. 2-4 against teams that had a combined record well below .500. Can't hit meatballers like Quantrill and Koepech, who have been throwing batting practice all season. Same goes for Sale in Boston, the guy's getting absolutely drilled out there by everyone, but the Twins come to town and he throws 7 shutout innings and strikes out 10. 

News flash: it's not the opposing pitching that's good. The Twins offense is downright horrific. 

It's been going on since Day 1 in KC. An offense with all the attributes of quicksand has the Twins solidly entrenched at the bottom tier of MLB offenses this year.  And no, help isn't on the way. 

Kirilloff is rusty and while serviceable he's not a game-changer. Lewis has been out for a year, not sure how much difference he can make. There's really nobody else out there to help. Brooks Lee? I don't think so. 

It's going to be a long, drag of a summer. Watching a team that can't hit is about as bad as it gets. 

Will not disagree with any of the above comments.  But the umpire behind the plate was also having a terrible game.  Forget the inning, but it was late.  I believe Keps was leading off.  The first two pitches were at least 4” outside and the count was 0-2.  How does any hitter come back from that.

And other than the Lewis news there was one good thing happening in Cleveland.  AK started his first game of the year, going 1-2 with 2 walks.  Manybe he will make a difference.

Correa is being paid to be a star. 

He is not playing like a star. 

Over half of Buxton's value is his defense.

He is not playing defense. 

We need to put more responsibility on our designated difference makers as opposed to focusing on the level of play for our replacement level players. 

Polanco to lead off please... The Twins do not need extra Kepler at bats each game