Yankees 6, Twins 2: Bronx Bombers Spoil Byron Buxton's Return to Minnesota Lineup

Death, taxes, and the Twins losing to the Yankees. 

Some things just never change, we always spit the bit against the pin stripes. It's only 3 games so maybe a little time to hit the fishing hole for the next couple of days and or check on the Vikings.🤷‍♂️

Why do the Twins admire the Yankees so much? Where they want to copy them & fear them & freeze up against their pitchers. Why did they put Julien at 1B when they rarely did so at AAA, or why is he still up here? Much less given so many regular ABs? It's time for the Twins to stop rolling over & play dead. We need a different mindset from the top down. Stop seeing ourselves as grasshoppers & more like the conquerors, even with this remnant. Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Baldelli show some fire! Prepare the team mentally. Why is the team so flat against NYY? Down with the Yanks! Let's be a spoiler & kick the Yanks out of the Playoffs. If not we could be one that sparks NYY comeback. Yuck.

8 hours ago, Aggies7 said:

Zebby actually did well, unfortunately his mistakes were costly home runs. And instead of being allowed to complete 6 and figure out how to work around the walk to jazz when his tank was on E, he was taken out for a guy with a career ERA well over 8. Wouldn’t have mattered or affected the outcome but I ask why if the last month and half is supposed to be for learning and growing?

Good point, but I'm guessing that because he was already at 99 pitches, Rocco decided that was enough for one day. But yeah, Zebby had an impressive outing overall except for those 2-out homers. He's starting to look more comfortable in the majors, but it's still early days for him. 

Player of the Week in the AL?

We knew who it really earned it, and now it is official. 

Congratulations Luke Keaschall!!!

Some things never change. 

Buxton is a MVP. But it'd be hard to dethrone Raleigh

9 hours ago, Aggies7 said:

Zebby actually did well, unfortunately his mistakes were costly home runs. And instead of being allowed to complete 6 and figure out how to work around the walk to jazz when his tank was on E, he was taken out for a guy with a career ERA well over 8. Wouldn’t have mattered or affected the outcome but I ask why if the last month and half is supposed to be for learning and growing?

They weren’t winning and pitchers get hurt when they’re pitching tired.

1 hour ago, Bodie said:

Player of the Week in the AL?

We knew who it really earned it, and now it is official. 

Congratulations Luke Keaschall!!!

0 for 3 last night and didn’t make a single play on defense. Time for a reset in AAA?

Not serious, poking fun at other posts I’ve seen on this page.

33 minutes ago, William K Johnson said:

While other teams are battling for playoff spots, we are holding tryouts.

Well, we NEED to holding tryouts at this point. Better now than in March. 

48 minutes ago, DJL44 said:

0 for 3 last night and didn’t make a single play on defense. Time for a reset in AAA?

 

Not serious, poking fun at other posts I’ve seen on this page.

I mean, he struck out looking. Better trade him. :rolls eyes:

I hate the Yankees. Sick of losing to them all the damn time. They're not even playing that well, and they smoked us last night. Ugh!

Zebby...did a lot of good things, but 3 dingers, even if they're solo shots is not great. One of the things I'm looking at with the young starters is what they're doing when they get to a 2-strike count on a hitter and what they're doing to finish them off. My frustration is when it's 0-2 or 1-2, a pitcher's count, and our guy throws an uncompetitive pitch. Saw that a few times from Zebby where he had them on the ropes and let them off the hook and gave them a chance to reset and grind the AB by throwing a breaking ball that was nowhere near the plate. Feel like that has to be the next step to correct?

Offense was pretty somnolent. Warren looked like he was going to rack up a bazillion K's early and it set the tone.

I believe the Twins are 7-25 in their last 32 games with Yankees.  Can't help but think if we would have kept one or two of those bullpen arms we traded we may have won 3 or 4 of those games since the deadline.  But it doesn't really matter I guess.

I hate the pitch count.  99 pitches and still effective?  Leave him in.  Dang Rocco!

58 minutes ago, Whitey333 said:

I believe the Twins are 7-25 in their last 32 games with Yankees.  Can't help but think if we would have kept one or two of those bullpen arms we traded we may have won 3 or 4 of those games since the deadline.  But it doesn't really matter I guess.

The Twins are 5-5 since the deadline, you think they could/should be 8-2 or 9-1??

1 hour ago, PDX Twin said:

Buxton's return: Meaningless solo homerun and a loss. Just like before.

He's having a great year in the stats, but it seems like most of his homeruns are like this one: single run in a losing cause.

He's been hitting leadoff a lot. The Twins 8/9 batters have been very bad. Not sure how that is Buxton's fault.

I think Zebby just tries to be a little too perfect after 2 outs. Ends up leaving too much over the plate. He's gotta try to live more on the edges after 2 outs.

56 minutes ago, Bigfork Twins Guy said:

I sure would like to see them bring up some of these young starters to man the BP instead of seeing these old vets with high ERA's lose winnable games.  Let's start building next year's pen now rather than use these guys who frankly will not be around next season.

That's what Pierson Ohl and Travis Adams are doing. The other starters are working on things in AAA and getting a lot more innings there than they would in MLB.

19 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

What are they working on and why can’t they work on it with the twins? 

They're working on becoming a starting pitcher. Adding and refining pitches, working on consistency of mechanics to repeat location, pitch sequencing and tunneling. 

Training for the bullpen is like learning to be a sprinter. Training for the rotation is like training for the mile.