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Interesting call to let Javier pitch to Kepler here?
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Gameday is showing Javier starting to get wild, and one of the pitch plots just landed on this stack of papers near my monitor
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Pagan saves the game right there it was 5-0 deficit on Saturday if i recall
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The 2023 Twins were blessed with good health and good fortune and are taking advantage. The Dodgers lost two of their starters, Urias as mentioned and Buehler to injury. The Yankees lost 3-4 from their rotation right away. Cleveland lost their top two starters to injury and traded their third. Those teams will be back next year. Even Houston has had some rotation issues. deGrom is done, but Texas might bring back Scherzer for the ALCS, assuming they close out Baltimore. Atlanta has a ton of talent on the injury list but somehow always competes. Injuries are a big story this year, just not for the Twins, thankfully. However, if the Twins take advantage and go all the way, there will be no footnotes. They will have earned it. 🙂
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Except if you are Clayton Kershaw, strangely enough.
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Don’t forget the ALCS 4-game losing streak 🙂
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Aaron Nola and Jordan Montgomery have also had outings of 7.0 scoreless innings. But yeah Lopez was fantastic. Hopefully we are starting to see a correction away from pulling starters early for little to no reason.
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Correa was great, and Lopez was dominant. 🙂 My not so small nitpick was that squeeze play and forcing Lewis to make a play running on that bad hammy, and he was actually forced into a rundown. Ouch. On the other hand, Rocco let Lopez go 7, which was wonderful. We’ve got a series!
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It seems in hindsight that the imperative to keep a level head was only going to matter if the Twins had gotten knocked out of the first round again. Hopefully the Twins rally against the Astros. Win or lose, I hope cooler heads prevail in the discussion following.
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Here was one take right after the trade deadline: “Given the chance to offset these high-leverage losses and provide some desperately needed support for Jhoan Duran and Griffin Jax, the front office passed on their chances.”
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Emotions are running high right now. It was nice to get that monkey off our backs. Toronto came out flat and unprepared, period. Smart observers could see it. You saw it too, correct? Hats off to the Twins for taking advantage and finishing them off. That’s what good teams do. For perspective, there are eight MLB teams still playing — a fourth of the league. Teams with high expectations. Hopefully the Twins will upset Houston and make the final four. Hopefully we can then focus on the ALCS instead of taking pot shots at each other for unpopular opinions expressed over the course of the season. Who cares what anyone has said about Kepler, Buxton, Correa, Gallo, whoever, right? No, the front office is not great. Who cares? Let’s all set aside our hot takes until the offseason and focus on the next game. I realize I am trying to bring logic to an emotional topic here. 🙂
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Another counterpoint is that the Twins would most likely be in this exact same spot they are now, with or without Correa: Correa’s underwhelming regular season; The Twins winning a historically bad division And winning against an unprepared and overrated Blue Jays team in the Wild Card round. I do agree that going forward, this is where Correa can live up to his contract. His contributions in the Toronto series were a good start.
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It was a great play in a big spot. I wish we could all just agree on that. I’m confident that a solid majority of shortstops would have gotten to the ball, but not all would have made the strong accurate throw. Correa made the play. Jeffers with the finish. Fun play to talk about.
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Some perspective, for anyone seeking perspective. 🙂
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Another big play was Kepler's infield singe in the 4th. That was Kikuchi's first batter after Berrios came out. We've seen Kepler hit that same ground ball to that same spot a thousand times, but Toronto had the second baseman shading towards the middle.
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Yeah, I was pretty sure he was staying in the game with a smashed finger or something, but I guess not.
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Also, no surprise at all to find out Correa called that pickoff. Gray said that Correa came up to Jeffers and Gray to say the crowd so loud, the Toronto baserunners couldn't hear the coaches, and to watch for an opportunity to make that play. So actually credit the fans with that one too 🙂
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The handshake line has broken down into chaos!
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throw in an aggravated hammy for Lewis, for good measure
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Oh my **** ***** to **** ************* and ****** *** This game already has enough to talk about, we don’t need a Duran injury now
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now what the Hell is this
