Twins 3, A’s 1: Lewis scores twice, Sanchez goes deep in Twins win 

I feel like it's time for an article about how good the bullpen has been.

The bullpen was getting a ton of volume over the past week. Good to see a bit of a reset tonight.

Even though the A's are a bad team right now, it is really nice to get a win in Oakland given that it has been a house of horrors for the Twins over the past several years.  Lets hope that continues against Kaprielian tonight as he pitched well against the Twins last time he faced them.

According to the box score the attendance was 3,138 for the game.  That is what happens when you have a dreadful team playing a week-night home game while school is still in session at a below average stadium.

Very pleased with the bullpen last night. Props to them for holding their own. 

Oakland is a sad situation - I do not understand why the team persists in staying there.  A move to LV makes sense.  It is an embarrassment to the league to have this lousy a team and this lousy a stadium and this lousy attendance..  

Of course for Bundy, it is the right team to come back against.  The A's have five players in last night's box score with a BA of under 200.  They had 3 between 200 - 231 and only one player hitting about 250 (267).  That is why we have to have perspective on the team and our pitchers.  This is a AAA team that we are against.

I have to say that I doubted Duffey and Thielbar at the start of the season (and frankly, I still doubt Duffey), but the way both have recovered from disastrous starts has been impressive.

2 hours ago, mikelink45 said:

Oakland is a sad situation - I do not understand why the team persists in staying there.  A move to LV makes sense.  It is an embarrassment to the league to have this lousy a team and this lousy a stadium and this lousy attendance..  

They had an affordable contender but the economics of baseball revenue sharing makes it more profitable to field young, cheap players.

Had thought they would keep Jax to piggy-back with Bundy tonight.  Will be interesting to see who they bring in, assuming Bundy is only good to go only four inninings.

I expect all of us are shocked, or pleasantly surprised, at how well Lewis is doing.  Although I think a short trip back to St. Paul to play a lot of third base or left field, or both, would make sense, this young man belongs with the Twins.  With Correa at short, where is the $64,000 question (us old guys will remember when that was a lot of money).

On the other hand, Miranda needs to return to St. Paul to continue his development.  Problem is, who is available to play first base when Arraez needs a break?  Hopefully, they have an answer for that and Miranda, not Lewis, is the man returning when Carlos comes off the IL tomorrow or the next day.

Saw the first 4.5 innings last night before turning it off and going to sleep.  Damn, Lewis is exciting.  And loved that sacrifice.

18 minutes ago, roger said:

Had thought they would keep Jax to piggy-back with Bundy tonight.  Will be interesting to see who they bring in, assuming Bundy is only good to go only four inninings.

I expect all of us are shocked, or pleasantly surprised, at how well Lewis is doing.  Although I think a short trip back to St. Paul to play a lot of third base or left field, or both, would make sense, this young man belongs with the Twins.  With Correa at short, where is the $64,000 question (us old guys will remember when that was a lot of money).

On the other hand, Miranda needs to return to St. Paul to continue his development.  Problem is, who is available to play first base when Arraez needs a break?  Hopefully, they have an answer for that and Miranda, not Lewis, is the man returning when Carlos comes off the IL tomorrow or the next day.

Saw the first 4.5 innings last night before turning it off and going to sleep.  Damn, Lewis is exciting.  And loved that sacrifice.

Royce is 6'2". Maybe he can play first base.

4 hours ago, puckstopper1 said:

Even though the A's are a bad team right now, it is really nice to get a win in Oakland given that it has been a house of horrors for the Twins over the past several years.  Lets hope that continues against Kaprielian tonight as he pitched well against the Twins last time he faced them.

According to the box score the attendance was 3,138 for the game.  That is what happens when you have a dreadful team playing a week-night home game while school is still in session at a below average stadium.

It is not just Oakland being a bad team, but they told their fan base with the moves they made we are making no plans this year to compete.  The fans told the team, that is fine we have no plans to attend games if you have no plans to put forth an entertaining product.  

5 hours ago, wsnydes said:

I did not expect to see Lewis excel to this degree coming off of two straight lost years.  He continues to impress and it's fun to watch.

It's great to see him taking the opportunity and running with it.  Love to see him forcing the issue to keep him up.

I get his missed 2 years of games, but in 2020 he was working at the alternate site I believe getting work in.  2021 the started getting work after the season ended.  It is not like in game time is only time you can do work.  He was a top talent for a reason, and he could still do things recovering from the knee injury.  After about 3 months he was most likely jogging, after 6 months he was most likely back to full running and hitting.  He could work on the mind part of the game when he was not working on the physical part. 

3 hours ago, DJL44 said:

Royce is 6'2". Maybe he can play first base.

Interesting?

Great to see that small ball executed, I miss that. Lewis was great again. Miranda needs some more time in AAA. 

Pitchers from that HOU series tried to find that extra gear and got beat up pretty bad. Glad to see the're bouncing back. Archer gave us a chance to win. Archer said he liked the way that Sanchez called the game, I did not. Archer had his change up working, he got some SOs with it. But many times where a change up was a perfect set up for a SO but was never called and had negative results. If change up was called more often in those situations IMO Archer could have gone 5 innings. 

Ideally I wanted Archer to start off in the BP as long relief but he hasn't fared as well there previously because of his mindset. In his last interview he stated he'd do anything for the team maybe he'd be open to try long relief until he's 100%. I'd be fine with this if Baldelli would change his mindset of practically totally ignoring long relief.

The BP has also bounced back from that HOU series, so I'm hopeful.