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TWINS 2020 SEASON SIMULATION
Who knew you could get so busy and exhausted during a quarantine? I guess that is what happens when you stay home with a 6 month old and 3 year old by yourself all day while your spouse is on the front line. Anyways I'm way behind, so I will do a less structured recap for the last two games of the 4 game Seattle series, and the whole Boston at Minnesota series.
Game 25, 4-22-20
Minnesota just blanked Seattle their last game and was hoping to do so again today. This game put up Justin Dunn (1-1) v. Jake Odorizzi (4-0). No hits or walks for the first 1.5 innings, but in the bottom of the second, Donaldson got a single, Sano walked, and Rosario knocked in a run with a single before the side was retired. In the bottom of the third Nelson Cruz hit a 2 man home run. He has finally started to get hot. Odorizzi hit Austin Nola in the top of the 4th and then gave up his first hit of the game, an RBI double to Daniel Vogelbach, making the game 3-1 Twins. In the 5th Arraez got a double, this guy has been amazing this season. Polanco hit him in with a single. Twins 4-1. In the 7th things really unraveled for the Mariners. Austin Adams pitching and Buxton walked, he then stole 2nd, and got to third on a passed ball. Arraez knocked him in with a single. Then Polanco followed up Arraez with a home run. That was it. Twins win 7-1. Polanco has been great, he went 2 for 4 with a HR, and brought his average over .300 now. Arraez continues to hit for average. And Cruz is up to 4 home runs. He had a horrific start to the season so it is nice seeing him getting his average north of .250 with some power. Odorizzi has been cy young worthy to start the season. He is now 5-0 with a 2.06 ERA.
Twins 18-7 _ 2nd place, 2.5 games behind Cleveland
Game 26, 4-23-20
Kenta Maeda (3-1) is up against Yusei Kikuchi (0-2) trying to get the Twins the series win.
Miguel Sano started the game out with a solo blast. His 7th of the season. In the Top of the 3rd, Maeda gave up 3 singles, a stolen base and a walk...and also 2 runs. Seattle is leading 2-1. 15 of the next 16 batters did not get on base. In the top of the 6th Vogelbach is at it again for Seattle hitting a solo home run and Shed Long followed it up with an RBI single. Seattle leads 4-1. The Twins finally get some life in them in the bottom of the 7th. Cave singled to start the inning. Adrianza got hit by a pitch. Polanco grounded into a fielders choice putting men on the corners. Buxton singled making it a 2 run game and sending Kikuchi to the showers. Tuivailala came in to pitch. Kepler immediately hit an RBI single. Sano walked and Donaldson got hit by the 2nd pitch this inning which incidentally scored the tying run! Game tied 4-4. In the top of the 8th, Kyle Seager hit a home run off Trevor May. Seattle leads 5-4. In the bottom of the 9th, Kepler struck out and Sano flied out. Nelson Cruz got a double passed the rangey Mallex Smith. Right after that Donaldson hit a drive over Mitch Haniger's head to tie the game with a double. Garver and Cave both walked to load the bases for Arraez with 2 outs. Arraez, the best hitting Twins player hit a sharp liner, but unfortunately it was hit to Mallex Smith again, and this time he wasn't going to let it get past him. Game tied 5-5 and going to extra innings. Rogers gave up a lead off single to Vogelbach but then got the next three batters to strike out. After Polanco and Kepler walked to start out the bottom of the 10th, Sano hit a one out walk off single. Twins Win 6-5 in extra innings.
Twins 19-7_2nd place, 2.5 games behind Cleveland
Game 27, 4-24-20
Boston is off to a slow start this year (11-17). The opener of the series had Homer Bailey (2-2) going up against Twins cast off Martin Perez (3-2) back in Minnesota. The Twins got on the board early with a heck of a 2nd inning just eating away at Perez. It went: Donaldson, Garver singles, Cave K, Adrianza BB, Polanco RBI single, Buxton sacrifice fly, Kepler BB, Sano K. Twins lead 2-0. In the bottom of the 5th Cruz followed up Sano's double with a Home Run, #5 of the season. Twins lead 4-0. A few more walks, a double and a single in the 6th put the Twins up 7-0. At that point this game was over. Twins ended up winning a blow out 11-1. Cruz was the player of the game going 2-5, a hr, 4 RBI and a BB. Homer Bailey got his third win.
Twins 20-7 _ 2nd place, 2.5 games behind Cleveland
Game 28, 4-25-20
Game 2 of the Boston series has Berrios (3-2) going up against Eovaldi (1-1). Berrios is having an average start to the year, and this one did not go well to start. I mean it could have been a lot worse, but triple, double, double is not the way you ever want to start a game. Sox up 2-0 in the first. In the top of the 4th Berrios gave up 2 more extra base hits, HRs to J.D. Martinez and Jackie Bradley Jr. Sox up 5-0. After three great innings, Eovaldi just seemed to run out of juice in the bottom of the 4th. He gave up a double, 4 singles and a walk, throw in a wild pitch to boot, and let the Twins go through the whole line up. That is what gets you yanked from a game quickly. He did not come back for the 5th inning...neither did Berrios. Sox lead 5-3. In the bottom of the 5th Arraez hit his second double of the game and Cruz knocked him in. Sox lead 5-4. Twins are slowly crawling back in this one. In the top of the 9th, with Romo pitching, Benintendi gave the Red Sox the insurance run they needed with a sacrifice fly bringing in Chavis with the bases loaded. Luckly Romo got Devers to strike out next to limit too much damage. Sox lead 6-4. Brandon Workman is pitching for the Sox in the bottom of the 9th. Adrianza came in to pinch hit for Buxton. He ripped a triple to center field. Kepler grounded out and they kept Adrianza at third. Arraez singled, scoring Adrianza. Twins down 1 run with 2 outs remaining. Polanco got the 2nd triple this inning to tie the game. The Twins unfortunately couldn't get him in before the final two outs. Extra innings again. It didn't take long for this game to end though. Duffey made quick work of the Red Sox in the top of the 10th. After blowing the save for the Sox in the ninth, Workman stayed in for the tenth. Bad mistake for Boston. Sano walked. Rosario hit a double which could have won the game if it wasn't Sano on first. Adrianza walked. Kepler was the hero of the game due to his good eye. He walked and the winning run strolled home. Twins win 7-6 in extra innings. And guess what? Cleveland finally lost a game!!!
Twins 21-7 _ 2nd place, 1.5 games behind Cleveland
Game 29, 4-26-20
The Twins are going for the sweep, their 6th win in a row, and 9 out of their last 10. Let's see if they can do it. Randy Dobnak (2-1) gets the start against Andrew Cashner (1-2). Dobnak got out of a jam with runners on 2nd and 3rd to save the 2nd inning from harm. Cruz started out the bottom of the 2nd with a single, and 2 batters later Garver launched his 6th HR of the season giving the Twins a 2-0 lead. The bottom of the third started with Kepler getting walked. Arraez hit a single to Yairo Munoz in right but Kepler got thrown out going to third. Kepler who was dominating the home run race early in the season has gone as cold as can be. Luckily the rest of the team is on fire. Polanco singled sending Arraez to third. Cruz singled scoring Arraez. Then a passed ball scored Cruz. Twins lead 4-0. May relieved Dobnak after 6.2 innings. Dobnak pitched a wonderful game. In the top of the 8th, May gave up a single to Devers, followed by a 411 ft bomb by Moreland. Twins lead 4-2. May is still struggling with a 12.00 ERA. The Twins could not get anything across in the bottom of the 8th. Rogers came in to close out the game in the 9th. He gave up a quick triple to pinch hitting Alex Verdugo. After a ground out, he gave up a double to Benintendi. Tying run is on 2nd with 1 out. Devers grounded out but moved Benintendi to third. Moreland was back up after his previous home run. He is the go ahead run. Rogers got him swinging to end the game. Twins win 4-3.
Twins 22-7 _ 2nd place, 1.5 behind Cleveland. We are the second best team in all of baseball at this point.
4-27-20
The Twins get a rest day hoping to carry their momentum to LA where they have a tough 2 game set versus the Dodgers and follow it up with a series against Mike Trout and the Angels. While we keep winning, so does Cleveland making it frustrating to say the least. However Cleveland did lose 1-0 to Tampa Bay today, so the Twins are just back 1 game!!!
Other League News
Despite the Nationals being 14-9 the last game Scherzer pitched, and Scherzer has a 3.30 ERA, the team is struggling when he is on the mound. His record is a pedestrian 3-3. Not that he is an amazing pitcher but Ivan Nova of Detroit is currently sitting at an 0-5 record with a 6.68 ERA getting bounced from his last start after 3 innings. Nate Pearson of the Blue Jays got his 2nd win of the season with a 15K performance. Manny Machado had a 3 HR game vs. the Cubs. At the time of that game it brought his total up to 9 for the season. The Giants suffered a couple big losses in Longoria and Tyler Rogers for about a week a piece. Bregman's 9th home run of the season was a grand slam that helped Houston beat a strong Tampa Bay team. Jack Flaherty of St. Louis is killing the early part of the season. He is 5-1 with a stellar 1.79 ERA. I don't really know who it is but Reyes Moronta is out for 2 months for San Francisco...It's a big injury so I feel the need to report it. It is San Fran's 4th injury in these handful of games I'm covering in this post. Ryon Healy is out for a month for Milwaukee, the injury was the same game they lost to Colorado on a game tying double followed by a walk off triple. After pitching a complete game win for Houston, Velanlder is up to 6-1 with a 1.85 ERA. Howie Kendrick hit his surprising 10th home run, right near the top of the leader board. Keston Hiura hit 4 home runs over the past 6 games for Milwaukee. This last game Milwaukee gave up 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th to Colorado, almost blowing a 7 run lead. Aristides Aquino hit his MLB leading 14th HR for Cincinnati. Chris Archer of Pittsburgh got sidelined for 59 days. He was struggling with an 8.28 ERA. Glasnow of TB (20-10) figured out a way to shut down Cleveland (24-7). He pitched a complete game, 3 hit, 0 walk, 9 strike out shut out of the best team in baseball at this point. Thank you says all the Twins fans!!!!
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