White Sox 6, Twins 4: Poor At-Bats Late Prove Costly, Chicago Takes the Series

All is _not_ forgiven.

Crap on crap cracker.

Playing poorly and winning never lasts.

Another crap win by white sox🤮💩👎 7th inning was horrible and that can’t ever happen again!!! Must must must score with bases loaded and no outs. At least Cleveland lost and we have 3 game lead. Win tomorrow/sweep guardians and get 6.5 lead and blow open division in winning it, go Twins 

Can they be more aggressive? Not sure what is happening to this offense.

Man, all those dribblers with the bases loaded. Sheesh!

I may be alone on an island but I might rather see a line drive double play than futile hacks for the fences at high fastballs above the zone. The strike outs are not what sells tickets.

7 hours ago, tony&rodney said:

I may be alone on an island but I might rather see a line drive double play than futile hacks for the fences at high fastballs above the zone. The strike outs are not what sells tickets.

You're not alone. 

The Twins 7th inning was horrendous in every way. But at least Correa and Buxton put the balls in play. Sure, they were tappers to the mound, but both of them put pressure (at least a little bit) on the defense. Larnach getting down 0-2 immediately and then striking out was much more painful to watch. 

Spending too much time in the dugout watching themselves on their tablets. Get yourselves into the ballgame and whats happening on the field. Take their tablets away Rocco.

1 hour ago, rwilfong86 said:

These are the most winnable games on the schedule for May, I won't be surprised if the Twins are well under .500 come June 1. 

Not a chance!!! Twins have best team in division by far-this is minor bump as division should be over by all start break.

I'm really disappointed in Twins performance the past two days against the White Sox.  But I am not surprised.  This team has more holes in it than a pack of Swiss cheese.  How's that for originality?  Lose against a lousy team playing lousy baseball.  This team so directly reflects it's boring, undisciplined,  unimaginative manager Rocco that appears to spend more time making excuses for the poor play of his inept team than he does trying to play winning baseball.

1 hour ago, rwilfong86 said:

These are the most winnable games on the schedule for May, I won't be surprised if the Twins are well under .500 come June 1. 

You may be right.  Take away beating up on the 2nd worst team in MLB (KC), and we are 11-13.  

"Correa and Buxton, though, were a tad too impatient. Both of them jumped on early pitches but failed to get the ball out of the infield, allowing Chicago’s defense to make two fine plays to get the outs at home. Trevor Larnach had a considerably better at-bat next but ended up striking out swinging on eight pitches."

Maybe it is just me, but how is striking out a "better at-bat" than putting the ball in play, no matter how many pitches it takes to strike out?  

Making the defense "make two fine plays" strikes me as much better at bats than just making the catcher catch strike 3.  

As frustrating as the last two games have been I can't agree with the doom & gloom regarding the Twins chances in the division. We have a talented enough team to win the division.

With that said watching the games so far this season (for longer really) there is a recurring theme - lack of awareness, lack of execution & lack of urgency.

16 minutes ago, cHawk said:

I have no idea what the hell this team is. They're 6-4 combined this season against Houston and New York, yet they're 4-6 combined against Washington, Chicago, and Miami.

Can someone explain this to me?

Isn't this MN sports in a nutshell ? 🥶

1 hour ago, Oldtimer said:

Spending too much time in the dugout watching themselves on their tablets. Get yourselves into the ballgame and whats happening on the field. Take their tablets away Rocco.

Once you start playing candy crush it's hard to stop.

1 hour ago, mikelink45 said:

I have been a Larnach fan but he looked really lost  I was really disappointed. He's becoming yet a hacker, he's got enough power. He doesn't have to go crazy with his swings. It's time for some contact, especially in the situations where he was yesterday. 

Well look on the bright side, if he's become a hacker he could probably do a man in the middle attack on the white sox pitchcom and then know what's coming, I'm sure Correa would be supporting him.

Another botched opportunity  , Jeffers thrown out at third and killed a rally ( on top of that Rocco challenged  and lost another one ) , Rocco is not good  on challenges  this year ( 1 for 6 )  , and that botch lost our challenges for the whole game  ...

The twins continue to lose rallies  by not executing  , they are not managed properly  by coaches to be called professionals  , sure would have been nice to have our only exciting professional hitter (  arreaz  ) up in that situation  , OH that's right he was traded ...

Are we missing the major leaguer ( arreaz ) yet , of course we are ...

Just a few days ago there was talk of a sweep, but after two poorly played games maybe the Sox will sweep. Rocco said there is no one to blame, but when the Twins have the bases loaded with no outs and their 2 highest paid players coming to bat it is really disappointing that they do not score even one run. If the Twins can not get big hits from their high paid hitters they will have a hard time winning.

1 hour ago, Mark G said:

"Correa and Buxton, though, were a tad too impatient. Both of them jumped on early pitches but failed to get the ball out of the infield, allowing Chicago’s defense to make two fine plays to get the outs at home. Trevor Larnach had a considerably better at-bat next but ended up striking out swinging on eight pitches."

Maybe it is just me, but how is striking out a "better at-bat" than putting the ball in play, no matter how many pitches it takes to strike out?  

Making the defense "make two fine plays" strikes me as much better at bats than just making the catcher catch strike 3.  

It's a better at bat because Lanarch had a much better approach, that if you replicate it across a season, that will lead to much better results than free swinging into making soft contact into the ground. It's quite incredible how 2 good major league hitters can't manage to hit a ball out of the infield. I mean surely if buxton can do something at the plate it's hit the ball in the air? But it seems load 'em up leave 'em on is the twins hitting philosophy. Another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, seems nobody in this division wants to win it right now.