Twins 6, Athletics 1: Everyone Grab Either an Oar or a Bucket

Yeah, we gotta trade pitchers for bats said all the TD talking heads 2 days ago. That has aged like warm bud light. 

Good effort by Zebby to get the win, even as noted, without his best stuff. But it's games like this where he still finds a way to get the outs, and that should help him deal with future adversity. 

We've been touting our arms in St. Paul for quite some time.  Time to put up.  Do I think they can?  Yes.  Do I think they will?  That's why they play the games.

Last year was great for getting their feet wet. Now is the time for Zebby and Slim to get deeper in games, the success of this season depends on it.

Nice win Twins.  Let's complete the sweep on Thursday.  Then we can come home and play a major league team in a major league ballpark.  Go Twins!

Glad we are done with late night west coast games for awhile!!! Hate them with a passion!!! Got the win!!! Sucks losing Pablo!!! Time for our young guns to step up!!! Get the sweep!!!

C'mon, really?    A minor league stadium caused Correa to slip and hurt his back?  Plain, and simple, he's injury prone.  Stop making excuses.

The worst bullpen in baseball is going to go with a bullpen game this afternoon?  As the poet once said, "It is to laugh".  🫠

With Pablo gone, it's time for Zebby, Festa, and maybe even SWR, to step up and show us something. Last night was a step in the right direction...even though it was against the A's. 

Huge bummer to lose Pablo for significant time. Was hoping he was going to be gone for weeks, now it looks like months. At least it shouldn't be a season-ender, and Joe Ryan came back just fine from this injury. The pitching depth will be tested, but Festa looks ready. Hopefully the team will trust Matthews and Festa to see an opponent lineup a 3rd time consistently and see if those guys can go deeper into games.

A's have got some hitters, but their pitching stinks. Glad the Twins have been running it up on them. Thought Royce took good ABs overall and it was nice to see him put up a hit and walk; if he's starting to claw his way out of it, that will be a very good sign for the Twins.

Let's go get the sweep! It's just one game, but funny how much better of a road trip this would feel if they finish it 6-4 instead of 5-5...

23 minutes ago, mikelink45 said:

Where is Morris - his era is over 4 in AAA (Raya and Lewis have not had good seasons so far)?  Can someone give me the next three?   Is Adams ready?

After Festa and SWR, Morris certainly is next. Then, it gets murky. I would say Adams(is on the 40 man so could actually get called up before Morris), Lewis, Dobnak. Prielipp is only pitcher in Wichita who could be ready (Baker maybe if we think 2 months of good pitching in his pro career is a sure thing) but he needs a giant piggy-back. Raya isn't ready.

6 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

Free Wallner!!!

I agree - however, just back from injury maybe a planned day.  At least lets hope

30 minutes ago, FlyingFinn said:

After Festa and SWR, Morris certainly is next. Then, it gets murky. I would say Adams(is on the 40 man so could actually get called up before Morris), Lewis, Dobnak. Prielipp is only pitcher in Wichita who could be ready (Baker maybe if we think 2 months of good pitching in his pro career is a sure thing) but he needs a giant piggy-back. Raya isn't ready.

McLeod is an option. McCaughan could get another look as a short-term solution.

Another great win, especially keeping the A's bats in check.  I think the Pablo injury shuts the door on the Paddack discussion pending a collapse before the deadline.  I also have a feeling this community will also be even more hyper-sensitive of Rocco's bullpen usage as we are going to need every out we can get from the starters as I would expect the length of the starters will go down.  It's looking like the team is learning the lessons from Lewis in how they are treating Wallner.  With Wallner, they waited until it looked like he was ready (beyond ready for some people) and are willing to give him days off as he was just activated from the IL on Saturday.  Finally, we need to ride the Bader train into the ground as he is still hitting out of his skis for the year, even if that means costing Wallner or Larnach an at-bat or two once in awhile.

2 minutes ago, Patzky said:

It was those obliging opponents (Sox and Angels mostly) last year that set us up for a playoff run; and those darn Red Sox, Guardians, and Orioles who sent us packing. Gotta play who is on the schedule! We usually do play against the Jays and the Rangers are floundering. I smell success knock on summer sausage.

The series with the Blue Jays always concerns me.  It seems the entire city of Winnipeg travels down to the TC for the series and it's about 1/2 Blue Jays and 1/2 Twins fans.  Maybe that explains why Festa is pitching today instead of on Friday as now we have our best (remaining) pitchers going for the Toronto series.