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Great call! Great job WIlli! Great job Rocco and company if they called for it!

Good news: Hopefully we put a crooked number up. Bad news: The longer this inning goes on, the more of a chance that Rocco gets the itch to take Festa out.

Castro is a better fielder than Wallner? Idk, I'm just spit balling here.

Festa should just hide from Rocco and run out there when the inning ends. Make Rocco go get him off the mound.

And our speculation is correct. Coulombe is currently warming up. Likely won't be any more than 5 innings. Festa could have a perfect game going and Rocco would take him out after 5.

Pretty early in the road trip to let the Excel spreadsheet (HAL) to melt down and become unstable by allowing Festa to see the order for the third time.

Rocco would have to go to the local library to read up on what these signs to designate stealing actually are. It wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't even have a sign for stealing a base. The player just goes when he's comfortable.

Exactly. I would have loved to see Buxton go. It's likely a win-win. If they don't throw through, it's another runner in scoring position. If they do throw through, Bader can scamper for home.

There are worse ones out there, but it definitely is ugly. The San Diego fiesta City Connects come to mind for my tastes.

The Class A bowling league. Meanwhile, the Twins are in the Class C bowling league with those shiny blue lake uniforms.

We should all give a moment of pause for our old friend Ron Washington. According to this report, he is suffering from a medical condition that has caused him to take himself away from his managerial duties for the rest of the year. Angels manager Ron Washington to miss rest of season with medical issue | AP News

@High heat beat me to the point that if they believe in Lewis's ability to play at the ML level that the FO will also need to look, trade, or develop (enter sarcasm here) a defensive-minded catcher that is willing or able to catch Lewis's knuckleball. I'm old enough to remember the ESPN special report story of Doug Mirabelli being rushed with a police escort to Fenway in order to make it to the stadium on time to catch Tim Wakefield. Lewis still intrigues me and I hope he makes it and can contribute to the Twins.

I can see them preparing to be sellers at the deadline. As the deadline approaches, watch for Gillespie to be starting in St. Paul simultaneously with Paddack on the Twins with the expectation that he would take over Paddack's spot in the rotation. I can also see Urena as a pickup for the same reason. If Duran is traded as rampant speculation keeps signaling, someone will have to take over the bullpen spot for Duran, or Coulombe, or whomever may be traded out of the bullpen. Who knows, maybe the Wentz experiment will end pretty quickly, and it'll be the next man up to try to eat low level innings. As for these pitchers taking up roster spots where maybe you'd like to see Raya or Adams, I don't mind having these additions as placeholders while our prospects get a little more seasoning in AAA. Raya has improved in two of his last three starts (2 out of 3 ain't bad 🙃) with 5 innings pitched in those starts but still owns an over 5.00 ERA in June. Adams has a better ERA with a 4.15, but he has only gone 4 IP in 8 of his 22 appearances with his longest outing being 4 1/3 IP. Maya or Adams seem like candidates for making starts/appearances closer to late August and September than in late July if we are selling and Paddack or bullpen arms are traded. Again, I see these pickups as placeholders, but we always play the dangerous game of Falvey/Baldelli falling in love with scratch and dent veterans and not letting this play out as it should.

I expected a low scoring game just due to the pitching matchup and the rainy, cool weather and humidity would likely knock down a lot of fly balls. Issue #4865 of the three true outcome batter. When the ball doesn't go out of the park, your offense looks pretty anemic.

This seems like the first win this season in which they have scored under 3 runs. I'm likely wrong as I'm going by memory.

or someone to throw their glove with the ball in it like Jon Lester used to do.

Yes, because they have to show that they are really, really trying very hard to improve what appears to be very apathetic play.

Is it bad when I do not remember the last time we held a lead at the end of an inning?

They waited until the 6th inning, but they are finally making Kirby work a little.

2nd hit tonight! Hits = = Errors

I'm curious that Larnach has been getting more recent time in RF than Wallner. I always thought that Wallner graded out as a better defender.

Almost makes sense why our pitchers get lit up in the 3rd-5th inning. The other team has already seen everything our starter has twice by then.

In sad Twins news, we are closer to the White Sox in the standings than we are the Tigers.

8th pitch of this at bat. Just as many as the Twins made Kirby work the entire last inning. And we wonder why we can't get our starters into the 5th inning.

In happier MLB news, we weren't the last victim of the Brewer's Misiorowski's outings. He outdueled Paul Skenes earlier today with another 5IP, 2H, 0 ER, 8K's, 2BB.