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Taj Bradley dominates as streaking Twins win Cleveland opener · Twin Cities Territory

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Speaker 1: Well, I bet you all wish you were a four
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Speaker 1: point three percenter. Right about now, the Twins are back
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Speaker 1: three straight victories forty five and forty seven overall. After
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Speaker 1: winning the series opener against Cleveland on Tuesday night at
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Speaker 1: Target Field. They are just three games back in the
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Speaker 1: AL Central and somehow, despite everything, staying in this race
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Speaker 1: and making things very interesting as we get close to
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Speaker 1: the All Star break. This is Twins Cities Territory, You're
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Speaker 1: Zach Pierce of the Athletic Joint is Always by Dan Hayes,
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Speaker 1: The Athletics, Minnesota Twins beat writer and Tyler Duffy, longtime
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Speaker 1: Major leaguer and former Minnesota Twin, two straight wins against
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Speaker 1: the Yankees to end that series and make it six
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Speaker 1: out of seven series that they've won. Now and now
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Speaker 1: they start off this very important Cleveland series right before
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Speaker 1: the break with the victory. Dan vibes are high right now.
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Speaker 1: A lot of compliments on Twitter last night X whatever
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Speaker 1: it's called. Things going well, Well, how was how was
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Speaker 1: it at the ballpark?
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Speaker 2: Well? I mean, this team believes, they believed for a
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Speaker 2: little while, but they believe, we believe that we win. Yes,
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Speaker 2: that's San Diego State. I know, I know that's soccer,
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Speaker 2: but at San Diego State anyways, thirty five point six
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Speaker 2: percent chance of making the playoffs according to fangrafts, twenty
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Speaker 2: one point eight percent chance of making the thirty five
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Speaker 2: points thirty five.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that makes.
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Speaker 2: Growing though with every with every like you look at
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Speaker 2: where they are right now, and you guys remember a
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Speaker 2: month ago we were talking about where this team was
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Speaker 2: eight games under five hundred season worse after that Kansas
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Speaker 2: City series, and that was ugly, and since then they've
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Speaker 2: started playing much better defense. It was really interesting to
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Speaker 2: see Cleveland being the ones kicking the ball around last
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Speaker 2: night and giving away mistake like making mistakes that were critical. Uh,
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Speaker 2: the Twins played clean baseball. Toaj Bradley was just unbelievably good.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the last couple of starts, he'd had
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Speaker 2: shorter starts because he had sat forever and the offense
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Speaker 2: was piling up runs for him. Last night was not
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Speaker 2: the case where the offense they got three, They did
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Speaker 2: their job and got enough, although they could use more.
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Speaker 2: But Taj Bradley engineered that victory. Todd Bradley. TODJ. Bradley
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Speaker 2: basically put them on his back and carried them and
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Speaker 2: it was a plus stuff, you know. Zach Meisler, our
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Speaker 2: Cleveland Guardians reporter at the Athletic, fed me some great
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Speaker 2: quotes from Reese Hoskins, who actually got the one home
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Speaker 2: run off of TODJ. Bradley, and from Steven Vote, and
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Speaker 2: both of them were just extremely compromary of Bradley's outing.
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Speaker 2: His cutter was electric. His fastball hit ninety nine to six.
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Speaker 2: His cutter generated seventeen swings and misses. He had twenty
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Speaker 2: five swings and misses overall in one hundred and one pitches.
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Speaker 2: He was just unhittable. And the Twins now it feels
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Speaker 2: like they with him on this role, and it's it's
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Speaker 2: been four great starts in a row from him after
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Speaker 2: three after one eh like you could see light at
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Speaker 2: the end of the tunnel is how he described it,
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Speaker 2: and three slump starts before that. But this is looking
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Speaker 2: like Todd Bradley pre pectoral muscle injury back in April
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Speaker 2: and May. And if the Twins have him and Joe
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Speaker 2: Ryan going like this man, that's a great one two
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Speaker 2: punch to have at the start of rotation, especially when
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Speaker 2: you have some young guys who are thrown behind them
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Speaker 2: well enough to get you through at a very important time.
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Speaker 2: July is so important. They know it, and this was
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Speaker 2: a good victory to start this critical series.
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Speaker 1: Seven innings, pitch, three hits, one and run, ten strikeouts,
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Speaker 1: and a bunch of swings and missus Dan a notable amount.
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Speaker 2: What was that stat that you that you gave us
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Speaker 2: five swings and misses and one hundred and one pitches.
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Speaker 2: That is the fourth most swings and misses by a
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Speaker 2: pitcher this year. It's one hundred and fifty first since
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Speaker 2: Baseball Savant started keeping track of it, which goes back
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Speaker 2: to two thousand and eight. So out of all the
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Speaker 2: start of all the pitching performances in the last nineteen years,
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Speaker 2: that was the one hundred and fifty first most swings
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Speaker 2: and misses, which you know, you're like, all right, is
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Speaker 2: it that significant? Yeah, one hundred and fifty first, tied
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Speaker 2: for one fifty one. It's pretty damn good when you
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Speaker 2: consider how many thousands and thousands and thousands of pitchers
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Speaker 2: have thrown in that span. And you know, the cutter
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Speaker 2: the only time in the Baseball Savant era that the
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Speaker 2: cutter has generated more swings and missus John Lackey and
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Speaker 2: twenty thirteen and Louis Garcia from Houston. Not that Louis
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Speaker 2: Garcia pitchpens this year, he and twenty twenty three, both
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Speaker 2: of them were able to get nineteen swings and misses
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Speaker 2: with their cutters. But I mean that just demonstrates how
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Speaker 2: good this pitch was going to throw more. Yeah, you know, duff,
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Speaker 2: what like when what is it?
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Speaker 3: Like?
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Speaker 2: They were talking about how he was tunneling effectively those Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you saw the splitter kind of the splitter wouldants away
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Speaker 2: from lefties and the cutter was dancing at the bottom
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Speaker 2: of zone into them. It seemed like like when you
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Speaker 2: pair those with a ninety nine mile an hour fastball,
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Speaker 2: I mean that has to feel like that's a great
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Speaker 2: feeling for the for the guy throwing those pitches.
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Speaker 4: Yes, the proverbial like you feel like if you plug
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Speaker 4: Taj's stuff into me and put me on the mount,
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Speaker 4: it'd be like playing a video game like it is
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Speaker 4: like here's ninety nine, and then this next pitch looks
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Speaker 4: like ninety nine, and then it's gonna go straight down
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Speaker 4: at ninety three miles an hour, and that's what that
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Speaker 4: cutter is.
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Speaker 3: And it's when hitters have to be geared up.
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Speaker 4: For what you have at that top of that strike
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Speaker 4: zone with like the TAJ when he's reaching back for
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Speaker 4: one hundred, it's impossible to cover both. It's just frankly
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Speaker 4: and all three for that matter. And and the ball
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Speaker 4: that Reese Hoskins hit is a result of the location
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Speaker 4: of that fastball, because that's the only way a guy
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Speaker 4: can hit a fastball like Taj is is if you
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Speaker 4: miss down in the zone like that. But when he's
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Speaker 4: peppering the and filling up the zone, that was what
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Speaker 4: the biggest thing with him, you know, in that series
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Speaker 4: in Detroit when I think he had just come back
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Speaker 4: and he was kind of spraying it a little, and
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Speaker 4: then thinking Texas had a little you know, if you control.
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Speaker 3: Here and there.
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Speaker 4: But when he's in the zone, it makes it there's
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Speaker 4: just pressure from all angles as a hitter, and then
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Speaker 4: he backs it up with a cutter. You know, it's
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Speaker 4: basically a bottoms out slider and then a splitter behind that.
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Speaker 4: It's just it's impossible to be ready for everything. And
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Speaker 4: when he's in the zone and efficient, you know he's
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Speaker 4: at one hundred and one pitches through seven, like he's
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Speaker 4: not even sore from yesterday's game. Like that's that's when
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Speaker 4: you get done. You're feeling good about yourself. You know,
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Speaker 4: the adrenaline is high. You know, you don't feel like
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Speaker 4: you threw a hundred pitches today, but you know that
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Speaker 4: five innings in one hundred or even less, that's when
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Speaker 4: you get beat up. And that's that's him developing and
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Speaker 4: probably realizing like, hey, just get it in there and
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Speaker 4: attack and and everything will work out for you because
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Speaker 4: the stuff is unhittable and that's the result.
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Speaker 3: We saw it last night.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to my daughter for the cameo there. If you're
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Speaker 1: watching on YouTube.
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Speaker 3: There's a ghost Tyler.
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Speaker 1: What does it feel like to be in a zone
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Speaker 1: like that? Do you just know it? Do you know
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Speaker 1: it beforehand? You know it like early on, like.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's warming up sometimes.
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Speaker 4: And like a lot of guys, you know, they have
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Speaker 4: these great games, you know, no hitters whatever. You know,
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Speaker 4: my bullpen before the game was terrible. I couldn't hit
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Speaker 4: the catcher as bouncing everything whatever. But you get out
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Speaker 4: there and what I've like, I compare it to like
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Speaker 4: the balls doing what I'm telling it to do.
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Speaker 3: Is what I've always said.
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Speaker 4: It just it comes out of the fingertips and it
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Speaker 4: goes exactly where you're looking.
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Speaker 3: It's doing exactly what you want it to. You know,
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Speaker 3: Joe looks like he's in that flow state right now.
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Speaker 4: Todds for that matter, I mean, even all our guys,
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Speaker 4: it seems like they've harnessed like, Okay, this is my zone,
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Speaker 4: this is where I need to be. You know, the
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Speaker 4: Pete and the guys behind with the pitching group are
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Speaker 4: all getting these guys ready to go out and attack,
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Speaker 4: and it seems like they're not having to think a
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Speaker 4: whole lot, which is what you want, you know. And
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Speaker 4: to the bullpen for the back end, for that matter,
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Speaker 4: like guys have really seemed to settle in. You know,
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Speaker 4: Morris comes in last night, he's hitting a hundred, like
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Speaker 4: he's everybody just don't even look at him.
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Speaker 3: Just give him whatever he needs, you know, let him
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Speaker 3: be out there.
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Speaker 4: And you know it's it's when we've talked about all season,
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Speaker 4: like guys starting rotation, suering up, helps the bullpen sure up,
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Speaker 4: which helps everybody pitch better. We're kind of hitting that stride,
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Speaker 4: you know, going into the break and so it's one
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Speaker 4: everybody you know, for that few days they're off.
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Speaker 3: You know, just stay right there.
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Speaker 4: It'll be the tricky part because sometimes that little layoff
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Speaker 4: will get you. But no, it's been fun to watch
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Speaker 4: these guys pitch and they're just attacking guys and they
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Speaker 4: can't hit it.
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Speaker 3: So keep going.
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Speaker 1: Just don't ask him about that slump, right Dan in
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Speaker 1: late May, he doesn't want to talk about.
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Speaker 2: Taj has been like you could sense it in spring
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Speaker 2: training that this was a different guy who was more
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Speaker 2: comfortable this year with the Twins. Last year he came
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Speaker 2: over midseason that trade for Griffin Jackson, and you're just
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Speaker 2: out of sorts at that point, right, you got traded
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Speaker 2: from the Rays, the only place you ever knew, and
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Speaker 2: you're trying to find your way. And immediately this year
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Speaker 2: he's felt comfortable and it kind of disappeared a little
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Speaker 2: bit when he got hurt. I mean, he was on
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Speaker 2: just such a role I think it was foreign to it.
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Speaker 2: You know, was just striking out guys right and left.
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Speaker 2: It was like fifty two and forty seven innings before
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Speaker 2: the injury. And he came back and he did slump and
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Speaker 2: like I'm still I still remember the reaction in Detroit,
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Speaker 2: and he just looked lost. And so one of one
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Speaker 2: of the writers last night asked him about the slump
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Speaker 2: and getting past it, and he said, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: leave that stuff three weeks ago. I ain't trying to
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Speaker 2: talk about that. We're in a good state of mind
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Speaker 2: right now. We're going to think about today. He said,
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Speaker 2: I don't think we're grinding. We're just having fun. It's
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Speaker 2: all smiles and dugout. It smiles and plays being made.
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Speaker 2: And he just went on about the team and how
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Speaker 2: like people are just having a good time. We're yelling,
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Speaker 2: the dugout, the locker room is phenomenal. Everybody's having a
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Speaker 2: good time. Bus rides, plane rides, everything is all smiles
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Speaker 2: on all cylinders. Instead of grinding, we're just having fun.
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Speaker 2: That's a dude who is enjoying the moment like he's
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Speaker 2: just and you can tell like when he's on, when
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Speaker 2: he's feeling right, it's gonna be like this more often
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Speaker 2: than not. And that's very good for the Twins because
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Speaker 2: this is a rotation that lost Pablo Lopez at the start.
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Speaker 2: Mick Abel just had arthroscopic surgery. I think we're gonna
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Speaker 2: see Bailey over before the weekend is out. Bailey Over
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Speaker 2: should be back and an in and you know, but
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Speaker 2: with Pablo and Abel out, you're like, where is the
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Speaker 2: out's gonna come from? And you know, Connor pre Lip
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Speaker 2: has stepped up, Zebbie Matthews has stepped up, Mike Parade
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Speaker 2: has has stepped up and giving him innings. But you know,
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Speaker 2: the Taj coming up like this has been absolutely huge
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Speaker 2: for this team because seven innings like that and it's
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Speaker 2: happened a lot. That's just saves the bullpen and gives
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Speaker 2: you a really good chance to win.
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Speaker 1: You can read more about Taj's start on the athletic
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Speaker 1: right now. It's the subject of Dan's latest story this morning,
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Speaker 1: and we will be right back on Twin City's territory.
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Speaker 1: We have talked in previous shows about the Twins' success
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Speaker 1: this season hitting with two outs and runners in scoring position,
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Speaker 1: and that was once again a big factor on Tuesday
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Speaker 1: Nights win Dan. The second inning was a gift all around.
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Speaker 1: The Twins got the first three base runners on thanks
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Speaker 1: to infield balls that gave the Guardians fits. There was
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Speaker 1: an error, a fielder's choice that didn't work out two fielders' choices.
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Speaker 1: I guess that didn't work out. But then Brooksley and
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Speaker 1: Cody Clemmens later on in the game in the seventh
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Speaker 1: with the triple yeah, both with two outs to drive
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Speaker 1: home the two runs that ended up winning the game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, We've talked about that, talked about the last show,
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Speaker 2: and it just keeps having a big impact because you know,
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Speaker 2: you if you are going through it last night like
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Speaker 2: Joey Cantillo was, and your defense is given away free
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Speaker 2: bases like that, and you know you think you might
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Speaker 2: get out of it, you give up the sackfly and
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Speaker 2: you can accept that. I'm guessing, Duff, we'll get to
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Speaker 2: the second. But you give up the game time sacrifly.
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Speaker 2: But you're like a basis loaded jam that was really
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Speaker 2: no fault of your own, and they tie it. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's the tie. But brooks Lee then singles with two
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Speaker 2: outs and brings in the go ahead run, and that
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Speaker 2: has to be so deflating because Joey Cantilla did nothing
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Speaker 2: to put himself in that position. Really, aside from the
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Speaker 2: brooks Lee single, which by the way, was just smoked
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Speaker 2: right up the middle.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he could have hustled the first base a little
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Speaker 1: more on the third of the three in field, there's
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Speaker 1: a bit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if there's some dejection in that, Like,
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Speaker 2: my guys are just giving this away, and it's like,
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Speaker 2: where where is this coming from? Because they made they
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Speaker 2: had another play the next inning where they gave an
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Speaker 2: out a way too. I mean, he only got five
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Speaker 2: innings and he was not pitching poorly, and like the
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Speaker 2: defense just did him no favors. But those two outs,
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Speaker 2: like duff, what is that feeling like when you give
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Speaker 2: up that two out single, especially in that spot.
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Speaker 4: It's tough, the big thing, and you see it, you
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Speaker 4: know with younger guys especially, it happens sometimes. You sometimes
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Speaker 4: that comes out, you know physically, you drop the shoulders,
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Speaker 4: you throw the hands up, whatever. It is such a
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Speaker 4: like just a helpless feeling because you're you're executing, you're
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Speaker 4: doing your job, and it's just not happening. And that's
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Speaker 4: like baseball in a nutshell. You can do everything right
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Speaker 4: and lose. And and that's the perfect example of it.
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Speaker 4: And and even on the broadcast they were talking about
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Speaker 4: it like it's just that was one of those innings
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Speaker 4: where Cleveland doesn't do that, and it won the Twins
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Speaker 4: the game like that.
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Speaker 3: That was basically the ball game right there.
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Speaker 4: Once they give up those two you know, the couple
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Speaker 4: of misplays or whatever, you know, feeler's choices and then
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Speaker 4: run comes across, that's all you needed.
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Speaker 3: And the Twins didn't do that.
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Speaker 4: And we kind of talked about that going into the series,
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Speaker 4: like it's going to be a low scoring affair. You know,
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Speaker 4: both teams can pitch. Defense is going to be the priority,
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Speaker 4: and it showed itself last night. And you know, the
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Speaker 4: Twins keeping up to the whatever their incredible numbers are with
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Speaker 4: runners in scoring position like.
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Speaker 3: That, that won them the game.
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Speaker 4: And you know it's we kind of hit on the
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Speaker 4: bolt and everything's kind of hitting a stride. And if
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Speaker 4: you can win games three to one against Cleveland, who
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Speaker 4: you need to be Like, that's that's all you can
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Speaker 4: ask for.
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Speaker 1: Cantillo lasted five innings, gave up six hits and three walks,
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Speaker 1: but no earned runs. TODs Bradley actually gave up more
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Speaker 1: earned runs than Cantillo in the game, but that that
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Speaker 1: second inning certainly did them in Twins. Like we said,
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Speaker 1: forty five and forty seven, we mentioned three games out
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Speaker 1: in the Central also a game and a half out
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Speaker 1: in the wildcard race, which maybe starting to have a
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Speaker 1: little separation with that logjam. That Astro is also a
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Speaker 1: game and a half back Rangers occupying the last spot,
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Speaker 1: and then Cleveland just above them a half game ahead,
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Speaker 1: so there's that a four team cluster there going after
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Speaker 1: two spots. Obviously the Central is still in play as well,
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Speaker 1: but if the Twins can win two more games against Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: they'll be the new second place team in the AL Central.
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Speaker 1: And they have been on a roll since the morning
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Speaker 1: of June fourteenth. They woke up the morning of June
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Speaker 1: fourteenth thirty two and forty and since then they are
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Speaker 1: top five in average ops, runs scored and starting pitcher
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Speaker 1: ERA in the league. The one loss record is thirteen
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Speaker 1: and seven, which is fifth best in the league, and
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Speaker 1: the one thing that remains a sticking point is the
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Speaker 1: bullpen era, but that is right about on par with
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Speaker 1: what they've had all season of five to one to
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Speaker 1: nine ERA there. But it's been a nice streak. It
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Speaker 1: reminds a little bit of that eleven and seven start
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Speaker 1: to the season.
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Speaker 2: Dan They have been streaky like this all year, except
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Speaker 2: this time it feels like there's some staying power because
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Speaker 2: the offense has just been going and it's been from
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Speaker 2: multiple spots, and I think that has just been helpful
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Speaker 2: for them that they're not relying just on Byron Buckston.
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Speaker 2: In the past we've seen them rely just on Byron
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Speaker 2: Buston or you know, like the ops is in June
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Speaker 2: with so many guys above eight hundred was outstanding. And
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Speaker 2: again it's Josh Bell and Brooks Lee with runners in
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Speaker 2: scoring position. Their overall numbers aren't that sexy, but their
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Speaker 2: RBI totals are huge. Royce Lewis continues to be just
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Speaker 2: a threat, which I think gives them that middle of
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Speaker 2: the order that gives Bell and Lee some of those
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Speaker 2: pitches that they have some protection because pitchers are afraid
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Speaker 2: royce Lewis has gonna take them deep or come through
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Speaker 2: in a spot. And Vic Kartini just had a monster June.
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Speaker 2: They're about to get Ryan Jeffers back too. Ryan Jeffers
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Speaker 2: is just hitting the cover off the ball at Triple
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Speaker 2: A since he's been back over the weekend. I mean,
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Speaker 2: like looks like Bailey over. We caught him at the
18:06
Speaker 2: end of the game last night in the clubhouse and
18:08
Speaker 2: asked him about his outing Saturday, and he uh, he
18:12
Speaker 2: said it was great to have Jeffers back there behind
18:14
Speaker 2: the plate catching him, but asked him how he looks
18:16
Speaker 2: at the plate, and he's like, doesn't look like he
18:19
Speaker 2: skipped a beat? Like they're going to add that back
18:21
Speaker 2: back into this lineup that's already jelling as it is.
18:25
Speaker 2: They're in a good spot, and really you feel it
18:28
Speaker 2: every time you walk in that clubhouse. Even when they lose,
18:31
Speaker 2: they're not you know, things aren't down. One stat that
18:35
Speaker 2: we didn't mention there that I've noticed is they they're
18:38
Speaker 2: getting better on their defensive runs safe. And it's not
18:41
Speaker 2: it's not huge, but I think they were minus thirty
18:44
Speaker 2: four as a team and dead last in the majors
18:47
Speaker 2: about ten days ago. They are now minus twenty seven.
18:51
Speaker 2: So they've cleaned it up a little bit. And you
18:53
Speaker 2: know that just has to do with Shorts, Keyshaw and
18:58
Speaker 2: right Yeah, Keyshaw and right with started the year with
19:02
Speaker 2: Matt Wallner being the worst defensive right fielder in baseball
19:05
Speaker 2: by a ton and Ryan Kreidler at shortstop making diving
19:09
Speaker 2: plays like you did last night, that diving grab. But
19:11
Speaker 2: to end it was off Stephen Kwan's bat Stephen Kuan
19:14
Speaker 2: hit two missiles last night and they both were the
19:17
Speaker 2: left side, typical Stephen Kuan hits and both found gloves.
19:21
Speaker 2: Those are the kinds of plays that used to He'd
19:23
Speaker 2: get on and start a rallying kill them. Kreydler makes
19:28
Speaker 2: the diving stop and you know they've cleaned it up
19:31
Speaker 2: at shortstop too, And that's just it's a fun brand
19:35
Speaker 2: of baseball that they're playing. It's the kind that fans
19:37
Speaker 2: should be enjoying, because like last night was like a
19:40
Speaker 2: two hour and how long, two hour and thirty minute game,
19:43
Speaker 2: two hour and clean, crisp, timely hitting, Yeah, snappy, just
19:49
Speaker 2: like this commentary right here.
19:51
Speaker 3: So well, I remember the.
19:57
Speaker 1: A week ago after the Colorado series, we were looking
20:01
Speaker 1: at this twelve game stretch to the All Star Break,
20:03
Speaker 1: and it was three in Houston, three in New York,
20:05
Speaker 1: three against Cleveland, and then the Angels still coming up.
20:09
Speaker 1: Obviously Houston and the Yankees right now not what they
20:12
Speaker 1: have been in recent years, but nevertheless, road series tough
20:14
Speaker 1: places to play. And we said at the time the
20:19
Speaker 1: Twins were five games under five hundred. If they have
20:21
Speaker 1: a bad stretch at twelve games, they could end up
20:23
Speaker 1: right back around eight games under, which is their season
20:26
Speaker 1: low so far, or if they have a good stretch
20:28
Speaker 1: at twelve games, they could be making a real argument
20:31
Speaker 1: to be buyers at the deadline. And so far stretch
20:34
Speaker 1: of that twelve game stretch obviously not over yet, but
20:36
Speaker 1: five and two to start it off, all of a sudden,
20:38
Speaker 1: like they could be above five hundred at the All
20:40
Speaker 1: Star break, Tyler, And just like it's such a long season,
20:44
Speaker 1: but these little stretches have such a big impact.
20:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I've heard it before.
20:50
Speaker 4: You know, you kind of break it down into ten
20:53
Speaker 4: games series over and over again for the season to
20:55
Speaker 4: kind of keep it from getting, you know, out of hand,
20:59
Speaker 4: you know, And they're hot right now. They're playing teams
21:01
Speaker 4: that are going to be contending. That's the biggest thing
21:03
Speaker 4: I think I take away is, you know, we had
21:05
Speaker 4: the Dodgers series whatever, They're going to be there at
21:08
Speaker 4: the end of the year no matter what. But the
21:10
Speaker 4: two teams we just went through, New York and Houston
21:12
Speaker 4: are teams that are trying to win, that are going
21:15
Speaker 4: to be relevant, and then Cleveland for that matter, is
21:17
Speaker 4: doing the same and that should be a positive for
21:20
Speaker 4: everybody watching these guys right now.
21:22
Speaker 3: We're in the mix with everybody.
21:24
Speaker 4: You know, are we being carried at times by you know, pitching,
21:28
Speaker 4: you know, Joe or Taj maybe, but our hitting, it's
21:31
Speaker 4: been everybody all year. It hasn't been one singular guy
21:35
Speaker 4: that's doing all the heavy lifting. And it seems like
21:38
Speaker 4: we're getting pieces coming back in. Jeffers like they're gonna
21:41
Speaker 4: have to make a decision on what to do with
21:42
Speaker 4: the catchers at this point, like how do we split tight?
21:45
Speaker 4: Like we're we're almost about to have a surplus of
21:47
Speaker 4: things that we haven't even begun to think about since
21:50
Speaker 4: the beginning of the season because pitchers have been hurt.
21:53
Speaker 3: You know, Royce was doing his thing before he went
21:56
Speaker 3: to Triple A.
21:57
Speaker 4: It was just so many like what ifs, And now
21:59
Speaker 4: it's like, oh, what do we do with all these
22:01
Speaker 4: guys we have now?
22:02
Speaker 3: And it's a good problem to have.
22:04
Speaker 4: It's something that's you know, like, like I said, it
22:07
Speaker 4: wasn't something that anyone was expecting. And here we are
22:10
Speaker 4: with an opportunity to be five hundred or better going
22:12
Speaker 4: into the break and really making a statement to the
22:15
Speaker 4: front office and fans like, hey, we're ready to do
22:18
Speaker 4: this thing.
22:19
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, there's gonna be some decisions that
22:21
Speaker 3: have to be made, and I'm glad I'm not making up.
22:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, heydiot, Yeah, Alex Jackson has got to be very
22:29
Speaker 2: interesting call coming up here. Because Alex Jackson, they they
22:34
Speaker 2: waived him, they DFA him at the end of spring training.
22:37
Speaker 2: He was on the forty man had you know, was
22:39
Speaker 2: ur beligible and they head to DFAM because he's out
22:42
Speaker 2: of options and because he had like a one point
22:46
Speaker 2: three to five million dollars salary, he was able to
22:48
Speaker 2: slip through back in February because nobody's gonna take a
22:51
Speaker 2: kid a catcher. His career year was last year and
22:54
Speaker 2: he's he's not hit at all in the majors, like
22:57
Speaker 2: it's never been a good offensive performer, and so he
23:01
Speaker 2: cleared waivers and the Twins thought he might. You know,
23:04
Speaker 2: now they're to have three catchers when Jeffers is back
23:06
Speaker 2: and ready, and it's like, how is Alex Jackson going
23:10
Speaker 2: to clear? And like, who's your depth if he is not?
23:13
Speaker 2: If he doesn't clear, because it's you know, teams are
23:16
Speaker 2: looking for catching help at all times. Alex Jackson's performed
23:20
Speaker 2: really well helping them out in the time that Jeffers
23:25
Speaker 2: has been down. Now we are at about six or
23:27
Speaker 2: seven weeks since he went down went down May nineteenth,
23:31
Speaker 2: and the Twins have not skipped a beat. Vi Vic
23:34
Speaker 2: Carrottini has done a great job. The only thing that
23:36
Speaker 2: they are maybe not as proficient at is the challenging.
23:40
Speaker 2: But even Karattini is really good at that. Last night,
23:43
Speaker 2: got some big strikes and challenges overturned. He's really good
23:47
Speaker 2: at Jackson's kind of Jackson's confidence has grown, but it
23:50
Speaker 2: wasn't at He's like Jeffers was locked in from the
23:53
Speaker 2: start of the season. But that's going to be interesting
23:55
Speaker 2: to see how that plays out, because you know, the
23:58
Speaker 2: Twins could very easily lose some of their depth just
24:01
Speaker 2: because Jeffers gets back and is healthy.
24:05
Speaker 1: The Twins have won seven of their last ten, and
24:07
Speaker 1: I will just note that the first win in that
24:09
Speaker 1: stretch was that ridiculous nine to eight victory over the
24:13
Speaker 1: Rockies where we joked start the Championship DVD with that game,
24:18
Speaker 1: a sloppy, sloppy win against the worst team in baseball.
24:23
Speaker 1: But it came on the heels of that sweep to
24:25
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and look at them, sense like something that
24:31
Speaker 1: maybe it energized them in just the right way. Intangibles,
24:35
Speaker 1: that's what we call that. We'll take a quick break
24:37
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll talk about Byron Buxton headed
24:40
Speaker 1: to the IL, and we'll tee up the rest of
24:42
Speaker 1: the Cleveland series right after this.
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Speaker 1: As always, it's not all good news for the twins.
25:52
Speaker 1: Byron Bucks then, as we sort of foreshadowed earlier this week,
25:56
Speaker 1: headed to the il dan the tendail with his ongoing
26:00
Speaker 1: hip injury.
26:02
Speaker 2: It makes sense. It's not easy, and I know Byron
26:05
Speaker 2: did not want to be in that conversation. I know
26:08
Speaker 2: he wants to play in the All Star Game. He
26:10
Speaker 2: got voted in as a starter, and yet I think,
26:14
Speaker 2: given everything I've heard him say this year, it's just
26:18
Speaker 2: that he's mad. It's made sense that he would be
26:22
Speaker 2: willing to take this spot and rest his hip. He's
26:25
Speaker 2: gone through it for two months. He indicated on Saturday
26:29
Speaker 2: that he wasn't doing the Derby because of his hip
26:31
Speaker 2: and having to manage it. And yes, it stinks for
26:34
Speaker 2: him to sit out this six game homestand to end
26:38
Speaker 2: the first half, but he trusts his teammates and I
26:42
Speaker 2: think he and the team saw this as a chance
26:45
Speaker 2: to have twelve days off and really rest the hip
26:48
Speaker 2: because he had been like the Jeremy Zols said it
26:51
Speaker 2: yesterday in the dugout. The issue isn't as bad as
26:56
Speaker 2: it was before, but it is back, and this is
27:00
Speaker 2: something that we you know, I think it was May fourteenth,
27:03
Speaker 2: he missed five games, and then he came back and
27:05
Speaker 2: he DHD ten of the first eleven games back and
27:09
Speaker 2: found a place where he was feeling comfortable enough in
27:12
Speaker 2: late May early June to get into center field and
27:15
Speaker 2: then started getting out there consistently until we heard about
27:19
Speaker 2: it again, you know whatever. It was ten days ago,
27:23
Speaker 2: and he missed four games there, missed the entire Houston series,
27:26
Speaker 2: missed the first game of the Yankees, came back look
27:28
Speaker 2: good in New York. Like first a bat doubles off
27:30
Speaker 2: the wall on that Saturday victory and you know, gets
27:33
Speaker 2: on base twice and has some impact in the game,
27:36
Speaker 2: and then singles again on Sunday. And but you know,
27:39
Speaker 2: running running out the stolen base attempt. He he felt it.
27:42
Speaker 2: And I think you know, Byron said this hip insure
27:46
Speaker 2: issue for five years off and on. It's something that
27:50
Speaker 2: has been there. He's learned how to manage it. And
27:52
Speaker 2: I think you know, they're calling it a hipspraying now.
27:54
Speaker 2: It was a hip impingement previous to this, but he
27:59
Speaker 2: at least has twelve day window right now where he
28:01
Speaker 2: only misses six games. And I think that part is
28:03
Speaker 2: the important part for him, is that it limits how
28:06
Speaker 2: much time he's out. Will he be back in twelve days?
28:11
Speaker 2: You know, we'll see hips are tricky. We've seen it
28:14
Speaker 2: with him two years ago. It cost some twenty eight
28:16
Speaker 2: games in August September. So it's it's something that he
28:20
Speaker 2: is aware can have a long lasting impact. And I
28:23
Speaker 2: think he recognizes because the way he came back from
28:26
Speaker 2: that two years ago, he was very happy. He came
28:29
Speaker 2: back and hit three hundred and like at eight fifty
28:32
Speaker 2: ops to and that twenty twenty four season and was like, oh,
28:35
Speaker 2: I can do this. And I think he has learned
28:39
Speaker 2: his limits and knows his body so well that even
28:44
Speaker 2: though it was probably a big grugging conversation to have
28:47
Speaker 2: with Derek Shelton and the athletic training staff in Jeremy Zohl,
28:51
Speaker 2: I think, you know, he wouldn't have agreed to it
28:53
Speaker 2: if he hadn't, but they knew he was gonna be
28:54
Speaker 2: out for a few days this week minimum. And even
28:57
Speaker 2: then you come back and you're like, at eighty percent,
29:00
Speaker 2: is that worth it when you might retrigger it in
29:03
Speaker 2: four days or two days or one at bat, who knows.
29:06
Speaker 2: So I think that the as much as this is
29:10
Speaker 2: probably an emotional decision, I think calmer heads prevailed here
29:13
Speaker 2: and led to a very sound decision. And the Twins
29:17
Speaker 2: offense isn't a spot where he feels like they can
29:20
Speaker 2: do it without him, So why not take that chance
29:22
Speaker 2: right now?
29:24
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do you as a player on the team, Tyler,
29:26
Speaker 1: do you do you understand this approach? Obviously with his history, Yeah,
29:29
Speaker 1: the last thing you need is him out for the
29:31
Speaker 1: rest of the season or some extended period of time.
29:34
Speaker 1: It seems to make sense. But how does it play
29:36
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse?
29:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one like especially guys that have been around
29:41
Speaker 4: or Twins guys whatever, like they've seen him working to
29:43
Speaker 4: stay healthy for so long, and everybody knows Byron, they
29:48
Speaker 4: know at this point his history. So it's just like
29:51
Speaker 4: they know when he's on the field he is a
29:54
Speaker 4: top ten player in baseball period, and so you know,
29:57
Speaker 4: and he knows that, you know, the whole world, and
29:59
Speaker 4: it's so now it's kind of like we mentioned the
30:01
Speaker 4: other day, it's like you can maybe miss a little
30:04
Speaker 4: bit now, have a built in cushion with the break,
30:06
Speaker 4: like actually get healthy versus trying to make you know,
30:09
Speaker 4: trying to band aid it, so to speak. And and
30:13
Speaker 4: it's one now coming out of the break, it's like,
30:16
Speaker 4: all right, you know, sprinkling the dhs a little more.
30:18
Speaker 4: Maybe you know, they can throttle back certain things while
30:20
Speaker 4: keep them in the lineup. It's it's something you never want,
30:24
Speaker 4: Like it's definitely when everybody's you're down, when your best
30:27
Speaker 4: guy's down, like you can feel it. But at the
30:29
Speaker 4: same time, like he's mentioned and and Dan hit on it,
30:33
Speaker 4: it's the team is thriving right now and rolling and
30:37
Speaker 4: so it's an opportunity for him for to not take
30:40
Speaker 4: a huge burden on and just go get right for
30:43
Speaker 4: a minute, you know. And it's something that they have
30:46
Speaker 4: a great plan in house, Like I said before, it's
30:49
Speaker 4: they know what they're dealing with. It's it's getting it
30:52
Speaker 4: to calm down enough to feel playable.
30:54
Speaker 3: And you know, at the end of the day, athletes
30:57
Speaker 3: are athletes. He's gonna make.
30:58
Speaker 4: He'll probably tell him if it feels bad or doesn't,
31:01
Speaker 4: but the day he feels right, he's going to be
31:03
Speaker 4: on that field no matter what.
31:04
Speaker 3: And you know, that's all we can ask for.
31:06
Speaker 4: It's you want guys to push through things in September,
31:09
Speaker 4: not in June and July. You know, would he have
31:13
Speaker 4: loved to play in that game, Yes, but they're not
31:16
Speaker 4: taking away the fact that he was an All Star.
31:18
Speaker 4: It still is what it is. You know, It's just
31:21
Speaker 4: he needs he needs a week, and that's okay. You know,
31:24
Speaker 4: it's the guy's played a lot of baseball already in
31:27
Speaker 4: his life and he's got a lot more to play.
31:29
Speaker 4: So it's just, you know, take a couple of weeks,
31:31
Speaker 4: get some water, you know, some good vitamins, whatever they got,
31:34
Speaker 4: magic in the back, and you know, come out of
31:37
Speaker 4: the other side of this thing ready to rock.
31:40
Speaker 2: All that, all that, and it still stinks, right like
31:43
Speaker 2: all this made it still.
31:46
Speaker 3: Sucks like it's not mad, but we gotta just keep rolling.
31:52
Speaker 1: Uh. The other bit of bad news from the yesterday,
31:57
Speaker 1: the daily Dinger streak comes to you, and what can
32:01
Speaker 1: you do when the team doesn't hit any homers at all?
32:04
Speaker 1: But but yeah, it was it was not a good
32:06
Speaker 1: night for the daily Dinger streak. That's all right, we'll
32:09
Speaker 1: bounce back next week. We'll try again. Moving on to
32:13
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow the final two games against Cleveland. Tonight
32:17
Speaker 1: a six forty pm start Connor Prelip's last start before
32:21
Speaker 1: the All Star Break against Slade Secconi and on Thursday afternoon,
32:25
Speaker 1: twelve forty start Mike Parades against Gavin Williams and Dan
32:30
Speaker 1: The Twins would sure like one more in this series
32:33
Speaker 1: to keep that win streak going.
32:36
Speaker 2: I like their chances today because Connor Prelip is a
32:39
Speaker 2: lefty and I looked at that lineup last night, and yes,
32:42
Speaker 2: Cleveland had some righties on the bench. They have they
32:44
Speaker 2: do have righty's man. They had about four or five lefties.
32:48
Speaker 2: It felt like at the top of the lineup last
32:50
Speaker 2: night chased the louder like the middle of their their
32:54
Speaker 2: group was all lefties, and it'll be I think that's
32:58
Speaker 2: a good spot once of your best guys are lefties.
33:01
Speaker 2: To be facing the lefty with Connor Prelips stuff, and
33:05
Speaker 2: you know, the Twins just have to hope that he
33:07
Speaker 2: can handle the layoff like he did last time. He
33:10
Speaker 2: came back after I think it was nine days and
33:13
Speaker 2: was just so dominant and has just such great stuff,
33:16
Speaker 2: and I imagine like his mindset was is perfect for
33:20
Speaker 2: this because he's not thinking overthinking things. He is just
33:23
Speaker 2: a just go point me to the amount and I
33:26
Speaker 2: will do it. Like he is not this This is
33:29
Speaker 2: not a guy that is you know, consumed by those things.
33:33
Speaker 2: He's just like, give me a plan and took extra
33:36
Speaker 2: bullpens and and just works through it. And I know
33:41
Speaker 2: he knows. He's not freaking out about the fact that
33:43
Speaker 2: they're trying to monitor his workload because he knows, having
33:47
Speaker 2: been through to Tommy Johns, that this is you know,
33:50
Speaker 2: very new territory for him to be coming up on
33:54
Speaker 2: eighty innings already, which is shocking. Last year he went
33:56
Speaker 2: eighty two and a third innings. I believe that was
34:00
Speaker 2: a career high professional high and the most he had
34:02
Speaker 2: thrown ever, like going back to high school. So he
34:07
Speaker 2: knows that he needs to be monitored, and I think
34:10
Speaker 2: that that bodes well that he handled it as well
34:14
Speaker 2: as he did last time and just worked. And you know,
34:16
Speaker 2: if you can get a good outing out of him,
34:18
Speaker 2: then you're you're in a great spot going into that
34:20
Speaker 2: final because Gab Williams is really tough against the twins,
34:24
Speaker 2: you know, he's Yeah, the last couple of years especially,
34:29
Speaker 2: it felt like every times running the gab Williams. It's
34:31
Speaker 2: not been good, so important one tonight for sure, Twins.
34:36
Speaker 1: Then get Zebbie, Matthews, Joe Ryan, and Taj Bradley for
34:40
Speaker 1: the weekend set against Los Angeles. A nice way to
34:42
Speaker 1: finish off the unofficial.
34:46
Speaker 2: Actually, I don't think we'll see tag. I think we
34:49
Speaker 2: will two reasons. I think we'll see Bailey.
34:52
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, right, you mentioned that.
34:55
Speaker 2: And Zebby they do think will yeah, so you know
35:00
Speaker 2: that could make that could make TOAs Bradley available to
35:04
Speaker 2: be an injury replacement in all story game. Sonny Gray
35:06
Speaker 2: needs to get in first. Sonny Gray is ten and
35:08
Speaker 2: one and what a snub. Players don't the players vote.
35:14
Speaker 2: I thought the players we get I thought.
35:16
Speaker 3: We get a vote.
35:17
Speaker 4: But it's like the one guy that didn't get picked
35:19
Speaker 4: might get in kind of thing.
35:21
Speaker 3: Like it's fans. You all saw it, like six million votes.
35:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the fans don't get The fans don't get
35:30
Speaker 2: to pick the pitchers. And the fact that Sonny Gray
35:33
Speaker 2: didn't get picked, you know, maybe Joe Ryan got it
35:36
Speaker 2: over him. And that's great for like the Twins and
35:40
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan. By the way, a good day for Joe
35:43
Speaker 2: Ryan yesterday he didn't even pitch and he lowered his ear.
35:46
Speaker 3: Yes, bring that up.
35:48
Speaker 1: Explain that that was that was fascinating.
35:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So the Royce Lewis play that was early
35:55
Speaker 2: in the six running Royce, remember the six running in
35:58
Speaker 2: Houston for Joe Ryan, where by the way, Joe Ryan
36:01
Speaker 2: still gave up six runs, and he still did give
36:03
Speaker 2: up a grand slam to Jordan Alvarez, and he still
36:06
Speaker 2: did walk after walking into right walked in the guy
36:12
Speaker 2: with the bases loaded like that inning did still go
36:15
Speaker 2: to you know, stuff like it was not a great
36:20
Speaker 2: inning for him. But there was the critical Royce Lewis error.
36:24
Speaker 2: Taylor h Tremmell. Yeah, hit a ground ball went right
36:30
Speaker 2: through the wickets for Royce Lewis. It was like eighty
36:32
Speaker 2: eight off the bat. The Twins appealed on Ryan's.
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Speaker 1: Past scored hit.
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Speaker 2: Originally, Yeah, it was scored a hit, and typically the
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Speaker 2: scorer can overrule themselves that night before they file the
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Speaker 2: report to the league. The score did not. The scorer
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Speaker 2: gave a generous hit to mister Tremmel and the Twins appealed.
36:55
Speaker 2: I knew Joe Ryan was gonna appeal. I talked to
36:57
Speaker 2: him after the game and he that play was maybe
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Speaker 2: on his mind, and I think just the smidge because
37:05
Speaker 2: it would have led to that would have been the
37:07
Speaker 2: second out of the inning, and he got the third
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Speaker 2: out what would have been the third out two batters later,
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Speaker 2: so he wouldn't have gotten to the bases loaded spot,
37:15
Speaker 2: all that stuff. So because of that they put in
37:18
Speaker 2: the appeal. The league makes that decision the following Monday,
37:21
Speaker 2: So you know we're talking that start happened last Tuesday,
37:25
Speaker 2: So on Monday, the league made the decision. They didn't
37:28
Speaker 2: form the Twins till yesterday. But because they changed the
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Speaker 2: ruling on the play to an error on Royce Lewis,
37:37
Speaker 2: that means that that would have been the second out
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Speaker 2: of the inning, and like like I said, Joe Ryan
37:41
Speaker 2: would have then gotten out the inning with no runs.
37:43
Speaker 2: So that makes all six the runs he allowed that
37:46
Speaker 2: were previously earned unearned. His era went from three three
37:52
Speaker 2: six to two eight.
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Speaker 1: Five, inane half point drop from one year.
37:57
Speaker 2: And in the game, I think the fantasy impact. Think
38:00
Speaker 2: about the fantasy how many fantasy leagues across the like
38:05
Speaker 2: that six and runs off the team if.
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Speaker 4: You in the moment we were, I was seeing his
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Speaker 4: era was he's at like a three point one whatever,
38:17
Speaker 4: and I was like, he can get under a three today,
38:18
Speaker 4: you know, into two nine or whatever. And that inning
38:22
Speaker 4: it ballooned to the three five and it's like, there's
38:25
Speaker 4: no way that's gonna stick whatever. And and even the
38:28
Speaker 4: good thing is like that group funny enough, it's like
38:31
Speaker 4: four hitters in one pitcher. So it's really hard to
38:33
Speaker 4: get stuff overturned, like it like plays where you might
38:37
Speaker 4: really think it should be. It's not always as easy
38:39
Speaker 4: as it might seem, so to get one over. Yeah,
38:45
Speaker 4: So like the council, I can't remember what they call themselves,
38:48
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know the Lord of the Rings
38:50
Speaker 4: will help treve out, but uh, you know, it's just
38:53
Speaker 4: uh yeah, there's a group of I think it's like
38:54
Speaker 4: five or six guys and it's mostly hitters, but they
38:57
Speaker 4: do get him right. So it's you know, it is
38:59
Speaker 4: a good as a picture to be able to kind
39:01
Speaker 4: of be like, hey, I love my guys, but that maybe.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't a clean one there. And you know, most of
39:07
Speaker 3: the time they'll get it.
39:08
Speaker 1: Because the other side of that, if you an error
39:12
Speaker 1: goes down as an over one for a hitter, right, Yeah,
39:16
Speaker 1: So it's like it's it's really bad for one of
39:19
Speaker 1: the other and there's no middle ground. Yeah, there's not
39:22
Speaker 1: helping anybody. Yeah. Yeah, it feels like there should be
39:25
Speaker 1: a that should be like an overo situation, but whatever,
39:28
Speaker 1: and wouldn't like it.
39:30
Speaker 2: Typically, I actually think that target field they are. They
39:35
Speaker 2: do a pretty good job in the scorers booth of
39:37
Speaker 2: not being homers. But there are some places you go
39:40
Speaker 2: where there's just absolute homersm going on in scoring booth.
39:43
Speaker 2: You know it you're like a foul Like there was
39:47
Speaker 2: a famous outfielder having an amazing gold Glove run in
39:52
Speaker 2: the mid thirteen fourteen fifteen era, playing left field out
39:58
Speaker 2: in a great you know, they moved one to the
40:00
Speaker 2: World Series a couple of times, and he had this
40:03
Speaker 2: errorless streak going and White Sox were there playing a
40:07
Speaker 2: divisional game and he went for a long run and
40:10
Speaker 2: dropped a foul ball and it was a clear drop
40:13
Speaker 2: and it was a play he should have been made,
40:15
Speaker 2: and they ruled no play rather than charge an error
40:19
Speaker 2: to him, and it's like, oh boy, And that same
40:22
Speaker 2: place has had many calls where you're like, what, like,
40:26
Speaker 2: that's a hit. That ball hit him in the glove, Like,
40:29
Speaker 2: what there some of the homersm that goes on with scores,
40:33
Speaker 2: and I get it they got some pressure because they're
40:35
Speaker 2: going to hear about it. There's a phone call made
40:37
Speaker 2: during games, like imagine picking up the phone and Tyler
40:41
Speaker 2: Duffies on the other end of it yelling at you, like,
40:44
Speaker 2: why was that not an error? That's four earned runs
40:47
Speaker 2: against me right there. Except it's not Tyler Duffies. It's
40:50
Speaker 2: usually a pr guy calling to yell. But yeah, there
40:53
Speaker 2: is pressure involved. There is pressure involved this. It's not
40:58
Speaker 2: like there isn't pressure involved, but man, some homer scorers
41:01
Speaker 2: are out there and this one was like, Wow, I
41:04
Speaker 2: was I was stunned. I called it in there right
41:06
Speaker 2: when it happened on social media. So I don't think
41:10
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan was like holding his breath on this, but
41:13
Speaker 2: he was pleasantly surprised when his ERA dropped by a
41:16
Speaker 2: half point.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy and esthetically too, to go from over three
41:21
Speaker 1: to under three is just that's yeah, that's gotta feel good.
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Speaker 3: That's nice. It looks good at the All Star Game,
41:28
Speaker 3: it does.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, let's if you can keep it that way.
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Speaker 1: No more, no more controversial scoring decisions on on Saturday. Please, well,
41:39
Speaker 1: unless it helps Joe Ryan, then fine, go ahead and
41:41
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