Make It Official! Twins 5, Rockies 0: Sheriff Tames Mountain Men Lost on Prairie's Edge

So far in June:

Margot, 1.214 OPS (16 PA)
Vázquez, 1.025 OPS (15 PA)

Yes, those are actual digits to the left of the decimal points.
 

ROYCE F-ING LEWIS!!!!!!

We beat bad teams, lose to good teams and split with average teams....which makes us...

Average

I suspect we will yo-yo our way through the season 'battling' for the 3rd wildcard spot until the end of the season.

I honestly don't know if that makes me excited or depressed....wait a minute....I'm excited because....

ROYCE F-ING LEWIS!!!!!

(and maybe... just maybe... Zebby f-ing um.... er... Zebby?!)

I was at Target Field for this fun game on a perfect summer’s evening. The way the Twins batters went down so quickly in the opening innings helped keep the game short (2:09), with much of the home team action in the bottom (not top) of the eighth. When Larnach came up to bat with two on, I was hoping for a walk to load the bases for the inevitable Royce Lewis grand slam in his first appearance at home in 2024. Larnach’s sac fly left only one teammate on base for Royce’s monster home run, but the crowd nonetheless went electric watching it soar into the upper deck. Quite a show.

8 hours ago, GNess said:

Royce Lewis, despite injury disruptions, is having a hell of a start to his career. 

Imagine having a healthy Royce Lewis for a complete season?! Let's hope that becomes the new normal. Twins fans will salivate at that actually happening, while opposing teams will quake in their shoes. This guy is for real!

Huge win!!! Important homestand to get way over .500 and claw way back into central division. Who cares if it’s against teams under .500 just win!!!

Hard to blame any losses on the pitchers.  They rarely have a lead to work with and giving up 1-2 runs will most likely be a loss.  It seems that Paddock is a bit better than Lopez based on stats but all of the pitchers are doing fine IMO.  

33 minutes ago, Peter said:

Huge win!!! Important homestand to get way over .500 and claw way back into central division. Who cares if it’s against teams under .500 just win!!!

3 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Twins struck out only twice last night. Fewest since June, 2022 according to the radio post game show. 

Paddack gave up quite a bit of hard contact, but 6 1/3 shutout IP works.

 

 

Paddack has had the tendency to give up a bunch of hits this year, but he's striking out a few batters, and walking very few (14 walks in 71 IP). so it's give and take, up and down. I still have hopes he will settle into a groove and give us more games like this one. 

9 hours ago, Melissa said:

I was at Target Field for this fun game on a perfect summer’s evening. The way the Twins batters went down so quickly in the opening innings helped keep the game short (2:09), with much of the home team action in the bottom (not top) of the eighth. When Larnach came up to bat with two on, I was hoping for a walk to load the bases for the inevitable Royce Lewis grand slam in his first appearance at home in 2024. Larnach’s sac fly left only one teammate on base for Royce’s monster home run, but the crowd nonetheless went electric watching it soar into the upper deck. Quite a show.

Now wouldn't that be something? Royce hitting a grand slam! 

I felt sorry for the Rockies losing basically their only bright spot, Elias Diaz. Paddack had a good game & it was good to see the offense come alive, looks like we have overcome the aftermath of the NYY series. Lewis is back! 

"Christian Vazquez did the bare minimum hitting a sacrifice fly to get Margot home and the Twins on the board for a 1-0 lead." 

Bare minimum, come on! Vazquez got the job done by not striking out & putting us on the boards, period! I don't like the response Vazquez is getting. We need Vazquez! We don't have this great defensive catcher waiting in the wings to take Jeffers's spot . We have plenty of talent at 1B, OF & even utility that we can easily drop unproductive veterans but at the demanding & key position of backup catcher, we have nobody! This last week or so Vazquez has been hitting  4-10, 1 HR, 2 2B, 2 BB, 0 SO, .400 BA .500 OBP, you can figure out the slugging & OPS besides being a top-notch defensive catcher.  We are stuck with Vazquez+ we owe Vazquez a salary & he's vital to the success of this club. We need to be cheering for Vazquez, not lambast or minimize what he does.

1 hour ago, Karbo said:

That's the Paddack everyone was hoping for when they traded for him. Now we'll see if this is the new norm or just a good game out of many.

Paddack is still coming off his 2nd TJ, we can't be surprised when he comes up with a down performance after an extended outing.

I see Varland is picking up a spot start Tuesday. Did they put someone on the IL or just send down a reliever?

The game is called baseball,the object is to score more runs than the opponent.A sac fly helps to do that.The game is going in the wrong direction with the homerun becoming the end all be all.Last night the offense didn't come alive,they made a weak starter look like a Cy Young talent.He averaged less than 10 pitches per inning through 5 innings.Hopefully Varland has learned something in St Paul and gives the team a chance to win tonight.

Blah blah game against a very  blah blah team.  Don't get me wrong I'm glad they won.  It's great they beat a team they should beat.  Lewis is awesome.  Like a previous poster said if only he can play a full season like that.  I couldn't help but people talking the same thing about Byron Buxton.   Yes only played one full season in 2017.  I sure hope Lewis injuries are over.  He seems to give the team energy.  Go Twins.