Make It Official! Twins 7, White Sox 0: Sheriff in Charge, Twins Blank the White Sox

Nice way to start the series and take care of a team that is barely MLB caliber. The Twins needed a convincing win tonight. There is this saying "hitting is contagious". I hope there is some truth there because there will be plenty of chances to get the ball rolling against this Sox squad that looks down right putrid. I am not a big believer in "momentum" but the Twins need something to bounce their way and winning three or sweeping all four with the Sox would be a good way to start the week.

Seven games against these clowns? Think of the possibilities!

11 hits. One HR. Victory. 

H > K = W

One game at a time. Let's keep it going. 

I honestly don't care that they're the worst team in baseball.  Winning breeds winning.  Beat the snot out of them,  gain condlfidence and momentum and swagger.  Get out of our own heads.   This is how things turn around.  

A win is a win even if it’s the white sox-hopefully we can get sweep and have 5-2 home stand and get closer to getting over .500, 

Twins only struck out 6 times, and nobody struck out twice. Maybe there's something to this "making contact" thing? 

With 11 hits tonight the Twins batting average as a team has climbed to .201. That is second-to-last in baseball next to Chicago's .191. 

8 hours ago, Seth Stohs said:

Well, he was a pitcher with a 1.80 ERA until he faced the Twins offense tonight! 

1.80 ERA is one five inning game against the Royals.

He is 23 which by Twins starting pitchers is a baby, In 31 games in the minors he 4.96 ERA. Not to take away what the Twins did last night, but by all accounts this guy is only pitching in the majors on one team and that team is 3-19.

Now go and hit around another guy tonight that probably shouldn't be in the majors or at the least starting in the majors.

Yes, it's the ChiSox who are awful. But even jaw-droppingly, historically dreadful teams win 30% of their games so you have to take them seriously and beat the team in front of you.

It was very nice to have a easy win. Paddack did the job very well, kept the ChiSox locked down. The changeup has always been good, but the fastball seems to be holding that additional velocity and the curveball has been better this year. Hopefully this is a start he can build on.

Good job by the offense jumping on the ChiSox early and keeping it going. Is Max Kepler back? Be interesting if he's the catalyst

Love the headline!  Like we won the WS.  

28 minutes ago, jmlease1 said:

Is Max Kepler back?

Max has great incentive this season. What are the odds Minnesota resigns him if he has another plus .800 OPS season? I'm guessing slim. This is likely our last year with Kep. There is a chance this conditioned athlete has a lot left.

Tough series for the Twins because the Sox are so bad they resemble a AA team.  So it's tough because they should beat them.  Hopefully this will expected sweep of the White Sox will help them gain some confidence and build some momentum.  But scoringn7bruns and shutting out a team that is so bad is not a great achievement.  But a necessary one.  With Lopez,  Ryan, and Ober the next 3 scheduled starters anything less than a sweep is inexcusable.  Go Twins!

The pitchers had adjusted to Kepler's "all or nothing" approach & Larnach's weakness against off-speed stuff. Going through spring training & into their IL stint, I was wondering if Kepler & Larnach were going to readjust to the pitching that had adjusted to them. Larnach showed me in the last DET game & Kepler in rehab in AAA along with the CWS game last night that they had. I'm very encouraged about the much needed offense.

I only wish Hawk Harrelson was still announcing.  The joy of listening to him complain about how bad the Sox are would warm my heart. 

Good start by Paddack. Which is really important given the lack of depth in the starting rotation. 

12 hours ago, mikelink45 said:

So glad we won.  Just cannot make a lot of comments when we are playing the worst team in MLB.  We just beat a pitcher with a 7.10 era.  It is what we are supposed to do. 

Of course the Twins started a pitcher with an ERA over 8...