Guardians 2, Twins 1: Cleveland Wins it Quickly

Encouraging signs for starter and bullpen depth tonight. The bats were quiet but Cleveland had to use its elite bullpen arms to secure the win. Three out of four is a good possibility tomorrow for a team fighting hard despite significant injuries. 

Woods Richardson’s has been good. Now he just needs to work on cutting back his home run per 9. Maybe use his off speed more and learn to get more movement on his fastball. His run support has been horrendous too. 

Super nice to see Simeon bounce back from from the last 2 outings. Winder has looked much better his last 2 times out. That is unexpected.

Tough loss.

Wanted to see Martin and Castro be aggressive on the basepaths. Whole new game if Jeffers hadn't been thrown out at third. Tough read for the runner.

SWR ws exceptional against a decent lineup. 7 innings! Great job. Only 8 more starts for him befroe season's end.

SWR is looking dominant. He has that intimidating big dog mound presence. We gotta win tomorrow to send a message to the Guardians that they will be chasing us the rest of the year. 

Obviously would have been nice to take this one. Team was 60-55 at this time LY. They are doing well especially considering that Lewis, Correa, and Buck have only been on the field 17 times together. 
 

Go get em on Sunday! LFG Twins!

SWR was just fine. He gave us everything we needed him to. The problem is...SCORING RUNS! When we get guys on, they die there. No clutch hitting at all. The times we get two, or even three, runners on, with no outs...and then don't score...has to be right up there with the worst teams in MLB. That has to stop. Yesterday was a winnable game, and we blew it. We HAVE to win today! Can't let Cleve get out of here with a split. 

Richardson pitched great, hopefully he can continue this thru September.

Nobody has posted about the ceremony for Ryan and stelmaszek into twins hall of fame expect the OP ...

It was a full house of respectful past players , managers and other teams GM's ...

Ryan and stelmaszek were both class acts to the twins organization ...

Ryan tried his best to bring a championship to Minnesota  by working hard , evaluating prospects and drafting , working   under a limited payroll  ( he was not a total system failure )  , sure he made some mistakes but he had my respect as he was always straightforward to the fans ...

Stelmaszek , the players all loved him  ...

Welcome to the twins hall of fame terry and Rick ...

IMO something different should be done about these long overdone ceremonies which is a big disadvantage to the home SP. I wonder how many games we've lost because of them? In spite of that Sims pitched a great game, CLE was a different team with that lead-off HR. Jeffers miscue didn't help where we needed to complete every opportunity we had. Once CLE pitching machine started it was hard to stop. It was also tough w/o Correa & Lewis in the line-up. Big mistake sending Varland down again we desperately need him up here to take up some slack. 

2 hours ago, CRF said:

SWR was just fine. He gave us everything we needed him to. The problem is...SCORING RUNS! When we get guys on, they die there. No clutch hitting at all. The times we get two, or even three, runners on, with no outs...and then don't score...has to be right up there with the worst teams in MLB. That has to stop. Yesterday was a winnable game, and we blew it. We HAVE to win today! Can't let Cleve get out of here with a split. 

MLB Rankings RISP:

KCR #1

CLE #4

MIN #21

Tough loss. SWR pitched quite well, normally a couple of solo shots aren't going to hurt you much. He did a nice job of being around the zone and it got him some extra strikes. 

Offense just wasn't going. The Jeffers out at 3B really hurt, but it was a difficult read and Kwan is an excellent defender and made the play with a perfect throw. Too bad, because bases loaded and zero outs is pretty different than first & second and 1 out. A little more offense and we would have stolen that one. Shame to waste such a good pitching performance.

Nice job by Winder as well in finishing the game off and letting the rest of the bullpen get the day off. Sure would be nice if he can be a 2 inning guy on a consistent basis; I feel good about the bullpen even with the injuries, but having a guy who can give 2 good innings when a starter only goes 4-5 is sort of what's been missing here. Fewer games where you need 4 relievers to finish it out helps keep everyone fresh and ensures you have one of your best arms available

2 minutes ago, mikelink45 said:

Maybe the easiest solution would be for the teams to expect at least a 30 minute delay and start their warmups accordingly.  This happens once a year.  It is no big deal.

It's hard for me to see the Twins warming up while there's a ceremony honoring a Twins honoree going on. It seems disrespectful. It shouldn't be a big deal but a loss is a loss & this could be a big one.

SWR pitched great.  Keep it up!!  Hopefully the Twins bats will come alive Sunday.  Blaming in part the long winded pregame ceremony for any home team deficiencies is just another in a very long line of excuses to explain away the teams problems at times.  No way.  It was a well pitched game and the Twins only managed 4 hits. 

Kris Atterberry on radio is terrible.  He never shuts up and digressing to unrelated game topics way too much.  He's very hard to follow as he attempts to do play by play.  God I miss Provus on radio.  But I love Molitor and Perkins and Gadden as well.  They do an excellent job.

Hitters looked like they had dinner dates and were running late.Why would you hitter after hitter swing at first pitch wasting an at bat.

On the Jeffers out play at 3rd base where was the 3rd base coach,he has a view of the flight of the ball.

On the good side of the game the infield played one of the best games all season.

SWR has been a good send and underrated all year. I thought he was burning out a bit after his last two starts, but he looked great yesterday even hitting 96mph. I am worried about our bullpen. Especially with Stewart and probably Topa being done for the year. Winder has looked better recently, but other than Duran, Jax, Alcala and maybe Sands, I wouldn't trust any of those guys in close games. Our depth is going to be seriously tested the rest of the way. Varland to the pen could help. Canterino would be good too, but haven't seen any updates all year. Zebby has been hit hard in AAA, calling him up too early could hurt his development, but who do we turn to then? Rich Hill?

3 minutes ago, William K Johnson said:

So we got nothing on the Polanco trade.

Neither did Seattle.