Twins 5, Red Sox 4: Jeffers and Bader Key Late Rally, Bullpen Hangs On To Win Series

Why is Paddack's fastball 95 in the 1st inning and 91 at the end of his outing? That seems like a bigger drop than most pitchers. 91 worked fine today but usually doesn't.

It's a win and that's just fine  ...

A little sloppy on the communication for the second game in a row , yesterday it was Correa and Clemens  , today it was larnach and bride , the ball drops between them and official scorer can't  figure out who made the error so he went the easy way out and gave it a hit  , someone has to be given an error , these are professional  players and my grandmother could of caught that ...

That missed catch is on Rocco and his lack of fielding practice  , you have new players that haven't worked much together , you better have them practicing together so they can avoid these mistakes  ...

we took the series against Boston and road trip was 3 wins and 4 losses ...

The road trip could of been worse and it could have been better , we should of won more games in Cleveland  and I didn't think we would beat crochet and Boston  ...

I'm just speaking the truth  , something I wish falvey would tell the fans or at least take the responsibility of this team performance  ...

One thing I'm seeing on this last road trip is some players taking an outside pitch to the opposite field , if that continues that will boost players performances , guaranteed  ...

I was hoping for a 4-3 road trip so 3-4 isn't too bad. Huge to get these back to back wins. Paddack settled down after struggling through the first 3 innings and managed to go 5. Did a good job in getting Crochet's pitch count up early so they had to go to the bullpen after 5 as well. 

Great swing by Bader for his go ahead double off the Monster. 

I had a feeling before the game that if they could have good ABs against Crochet & drive up his pitch counts for an early exit, we had a good chance to win the game.

Something to build on. First series win in Boston since 2019. Good weekend to follow up that brutal series against the Guardos and their devil magic. 

Great win! Nice series win.

The force was with Darth Bader today. 

1 hour ago, Blyleven2011 said:

That missed catch is on Rocco and his lack of fielding practice  , you have new players that haven't worked much together , you better have them practicing together so they can avoid these mistakes  ...

 

The fly ball error was 100% on Trevor Larnach. Totally agree that an error should be given on that play. The ball was in the air for a fair amount of time and within a short casual trot from where Larnach was playing. While Bride may have called for the ball, a routine fly ball to an outfielder is always the responsibility of the outfielder.

The Twins seem to be very focused and working hard. The bats are starting to earn base hits. Now the team must be a little more productive with RISP. The season is still in a formative stage.

It's amazing how actually playing the games can change perspective.  I went into the week figuring a 3-4 week would have been a success considering the way the team has been playing this season thus far and the teams they were facing this past week.  After the week, it's almost disappointing as we could have had 5 or 6 wins this week.  Sometimes in the end, you have to remember what your expectations were and be happy with the results no matter how it happened.  With that being said, we have 6 of the next 9 games against the scuffling Orioles and may well define how either team's season will go.  Here's hoping this weekend builds some fight in this team going forward!

Nice to see the Twins get a win against a good lefty. Complicated day for Larnach, who should have gotten an error, but got a hit and a walk. Didn't feel like he was running on his own when he was thrown out on the steal attempt, so curious to know what was going on there.

Jax giving up a dinger makes you wonder if he's just going to be the whipping boy in the bullpen this year, and get no breaks, but there's a lot of season to go. Varland seems to be fitting in just fine, though and Duran is coping with his loss of velocity without too much trouble.

Bride looked helpless at the plate today, but not a lot of options. Looking forward to getting Lewis back. His relentless positivity probably can';t hurt the team either.

Happy to see them win some close ones, especially after that frustrating series in Cleveland. Hells bells, they outscored Cleveland by 6 runs in the series and lost 3 of 4 because they couldn't win a close one. Two straight tight wins against Boston on the road helps.

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6 hours ago, Blyleven2011 said:

It's a win and that's just fine  ...

A little sloppy on the communication for the second game in a row , yesterday it was Correa and Clemens  , today it was larnach and bride , the ball drops between them and official scorer can't  figure out who made the error so he went the easy way out and gave it a hit  , someone has to be given an error , these are professional  players and my grandmother could of caught that ...

That missed catch is on Rocco and his lack of fielding practice  , you have new players that haven't worked much together , you better have them practicing together so they can avoid these mistakes  ...

we took the series against Boston and road trip was 3 wins and 4 losses ...

The road trip could of been worse and it could have been better , we should of won more games in Cleveland  and I didn't think we would beat crochet and Boston  ...

I'm just speaking the truth  , something I wish falvey would tell the fans or at least take the responsibility of this team performance  ...

One thing I'm seeing on this last road trip is some players taking an outside pitch to the opposite field , if that continues that will boost players performances , guaranteed  ...

I've played a lot of OF (good for me) and there's nothing worse than a pesky, aggressive infielder meandering too far into the outfield and flailing around, desperately looking for a ball that I can clearly see. Why do they do that? Anyway, that was Larnach's ball and he needed to call it right away to keep Bride at bay. If he did call it and Bride kept coming, I'd have him sit the rest of the game. But...nice win!    

I was following on mlb gameday. They had Paddack at 92-93 from the very first inning. Don’t know how accurate that is. His stuff seems to vary quite a bit. 

Very happy with that win. Paddack bent but did not break, despite throwing a ton of pitches and some clutch hits arrived late.

I've been critical of Baldelli for the better part of two years now, but credit where credit is due: I think that he handled Jax very well (when he was up against he ropes with that massive ERA) by giving him a brief rest and then using him in lower leverage situations in the 7th inning. It seemingly built this confidence a bit. But today, Jax faced the meat of the Red Sox order in the 8th, (and he had also pitched the day before)--and pow, a home run. Rocco, use Jax every other day at most and never as a set-up man or closer, at least for a while, and all should be well,

Jax has excellent stuff and great potential, but at this point in his career I think that he works best when he's very well rested and is used earlier in the game.  

The Twin are amazingly in second place after the win! What a weekend! Wins count triple for a limited time only!

8 hours ago, Aerodeliria said:

The Twin are amazingly in second place after the win! What a weekend! Wins count triple for a limited time only!

How are the Guardians 20-14 when they have a negative 23 run differential??  They have an expected W/L record of 15-19.  Somethings got to give there.