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Twins on a three-game winning streak as Mick Abel nears return · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: We are back. The four point three percenters are back.
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  Speaker 1: The Twins had started off this series in Texas with
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  Speaker 1: two straight wins, a four to two win on Monday
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  Speaker 1: a dominant twelve too win on Tuesday. They are now
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  Speaker 1: thirty five and forty after those two wins against the
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  Speaker 1: Rangers and on the way back up the standings. They've
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  Speaker 1: now won three straight games for the first time since
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  Speaker 1: May twentieth to twenty fourth, when they finished off a
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  Speaker 1: series against Houston then swept the Red Sox in Fenway.
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  Speaker 1: Zach Pierce here from the Athletic along with Dan Hayes
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  Speaker 1: wo Wrong Way. Dan Hayes is over there the Athletics.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins. Beat Writer and Tyler Duffy in the middle
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  Speaker 1: are longtime Major League former Minnesota Twin guys. The Twins.
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  Speaker 1: Just a week ago, we were very somber tones. They'd
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  Speaker 1: fallen to eight games under five hundred, a season worst,
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  Speaker 1: hit that mark a couple of times in the past week,
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  Speaker 1: and this is about as good a way to respond
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  Speaker 1: as possible, with three straight wins and everything really looking
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  Speaker 1: pretty good in Texas this week.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Yeah, first of the bullpen game and working out
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  Speaker 2: and early offense from Josh Bell and then Byron Buckston
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  Speaker 2: with a big hit in the middle, and then last
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  Speaker 2: night just an explosion to you know, offense, just coming
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  Speaker 2: through and clutch early and then just a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it in the middle and taking down a good pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: Both nights, just getting wins on a team that's also
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  Speaker 2: sort of in that same area, Like the Rangers were
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  Speaker 2: only one under five hundred coming in, but they're middling,
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  Speaker 2: they're kind of frustrated with where they are, and the
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  Speaker 2: Twins are taking advantage. And it's what the Royals did
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  Speaker 2: to the Twins a week earlier, that ugly home series
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  Speaker 2: where the Royals won three or four and the Twins
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  Speaker 2: had some winnable games in there. It's definitely what the
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  Speaker 2: Twins need right now. This is what we've talked about,
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  Speaker 2: where they got to strike and keep themselves relevant because
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  Speaker 2: already we're seeing the trade lists come out. I know
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  Speaker 2: that Buster only from ESPN had a list on the
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  Speaker 2: top trade candidates.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 2: Byron Buckston is number two on the list and Joe
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  Speaker 2: Ryan's number four, and yesterday Buster.
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  Speaker 1: In the list about the most down there.
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  Speaker 2: He is, you know, and yesterday Buster had the executive's
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  Speaker 2: most under.
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  Speaker 3: Fire the twelve executives most under fire.
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  Speaker 2: And Tom pollad not Jeremy zol was listed, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think I've made that point and argued a few
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  Speaker 2: times that Tom poll adds really the one on the.
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  Speaker 3: Seat here versus versus oul.
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  Speaker 2: But you're you're getting to that point where people are
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  Speaker 2: going to start bringing this up. It's June seventeenth, and
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  Speaker 2: so you want to be trending in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: The twins are especially offensively and you know, getting healthy
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  Speaker 2: on the pitching side of things, which will really help
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  Speaker 2: because we we've we've talked about the offense being good
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  Speaker 2: and how many runs they have given up being their deterrence,
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  Speaker 2: so very encouraging a couple of days, and now they
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  Speaker 2: go into this day off, this rare mid series day off,
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  Speaker 2: where they have a chance to go fresh, reset the bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: and get kind of fired up for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the road trip.
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  Speaker 1: Go to the World Cup with you. Yeah, Dan, are
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  Speaker 1: you going? Did you buy a fourteen hundred dollars ticket
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  Speaker 1: to England Croatia?
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: The YouTube or the GoFundMe came up short and came
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  Speaker 2: up about thirteen hundred and ninety eight dollars short of
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  Speaker 2: the fourteen hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Ask I got two dollars. My dad sent two dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's nice, it was, it was, But no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna work and do some other stuff and then
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  Speaker 2: go out to dinner with friends.
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  Speaker 1: So well, that's good. Yes, the Twins are off today
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday to seventeenth. If you have not seen the reason
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  Speaker 1: why they have a mid series day off because they
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  Speaker 1: finish tomorrow in Texas, it's because of the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: game across the street from the Rangers Stadium, England and Croatia.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, right, yeah, good match man, it's a good it's
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  Speaker 3: a fun match.
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  Speaker 1: Look at you. What's your analysis of the starting eleven?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you what do you think who should be
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  Speaker 1: in there?
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  Speaker 3: You're a funny guy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll move on. I said last I said
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  Speaker 1: last show, we were not going to have any more
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  Speaker 1: World Cup talk, and here we are. But yes, it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty much a perfect two games, I would say
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  Speaker 1: for the Twins. They had a bullpen game on Monday
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  Speaker 1: in which the bullpen did not allow a run. Mike
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  Speaker 1: Parraides allowed to but he was the starter technically. Overall
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  Speaker 1: for the two games, the bullpen was went six and
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  Speaker 1: the third one hit, no runs, nine strikeouts, probably the
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  Speaker 1: best stretch of two games the bullpen has had. It's
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  Speaker 1: also their third straight game allowing four or fewer runs.
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  Speaker 1: They've obviously won all three of them. They'd only done
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  Speaker 1: that four times in the seventeen games before that, just
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  Speaker 1: been getting hit around. Obviously, they remain in last place
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  Speaker 1: in the American League with in terms of runs against,
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  Speaker 1: but the bats obviously showed up Tyler. Pretty much everything
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  Speaker 1: went their way and it seems like a really good
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  Speaker 1: time just given the struggles of recent weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's huge to come, you know, after a
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  Speaker 4: rough little stretch there, to come to a team who's
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  Speaker 4: also kind of in the mix but maybe not, and
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  Speaker 4: you know they're going through their own struggles and to
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  Speaker 4: just handle your business like that's, you know, the name
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  Speaker 4: of the game most of the time, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: these close games, it's just taking care of your job
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  Speaker 4: at that moment. And you know, we were talking about
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  Speaker 4: it before he came on, Like even Josh Bell just
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  Speaker 4: taking the single in the first inning yesterday is like
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  Speaker 4: it's a big swing and it's one of those moments
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  Speaker 4: where maybe a younger guy is trying to swing for
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  Speaker 4: the fences or trying to do too much in a moment.
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  Speaker 4: And he took his bat and said, I have Byron
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  Speaker 4: buckson over there. I just got to touch this baseball
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  Speaker 4: and driving a run and you know, put a put
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  Speaker 4: a starter, you know, put some more pressure on a
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  Speaker 4: starter in the first inning. Like it's that's just small
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  Speaker 4: part of it. I mean, hitting Homer's early. You know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously there was no shortage of hard contact yesterday. But
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  Speaker 4: to come on the road and you know, settle in
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  Speaker 4: quickly and beat win a close game and then just
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  Speaker 4: beat the brakes off of a team, you know, game two,
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  Speaker 4: like that's all you can ask for. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it seems to be there's little shuffles in the lineup,
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  Speaker 4: things like that. I think larnk led off yesterday, if
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  Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken. And so it's just like little changes
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  Speaker 4: in tweaks. Shelty's trying to work with his pieces that
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  Speaker 4: he's got. You know, we've got pitching, like Zebby looked
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  Speaker 4: great yesterday. You know, he's he's a pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: He's not going to punch out fifteen, you know, or
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  Speaker 4: I mean he might next time out. You never know,
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  Speaker 4: but he's he's a pitchable guy, and so sometimes you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna give up hits, you know, guys like that, when
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  Speaker 4: you're not blowing people away all the time, it's like
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna happen. And in today's game, nobody cares how
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  Speaker 4: hard you throw anymore or anything like that. So it's
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  Speaker 4: it's so tough week to week to know why anything's happening.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, at the end of the day, winning
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  Speaker 4: a game putting up twelve runs like, you can't ask
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  Speaker 4: for much else. And from the bullpen standpoint, you know,
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  Speaker 4: keeping it close or giving up nothing like that's all
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  Speaker 4: you can ask for. And you know, giving up four
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  Speaker 4: or less that's kind of a good rest for a win,
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  Speaker 4: no matter who you're playing. And so you can roll
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  Speaker 4: out of bed and know your your guys are going
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  Speaker 4: to keep them before like that's that's a good way
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  Speaker 4: to win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm well aware that most
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  Speaker 1: teams are better when they allow for a fewer runs, but.
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  Speaker 4: Right, but that's a good bench number there.
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  Speaker 1: The thing for the Twins is because they have allowed
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  Speaker 1: so many overall, they're they're they're doing that more often
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  Speaker 1: than other teams allowing five or more runs, so it's
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  Speaker 1: especially important to them to hold that To hold that
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  Speaker 1: number are significant for them, I should say, to hold
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  Speaker 1: that number down. And yes, Trevor Larnick with a very
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  Speaker 1: hilarious leadoff sequence yesterday where he challenged the first pitch
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  Speaker 1: of the game was correct and then just decided to
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  Speaker 1: hit a home run on.
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  Speaker 4: The next Yeah, so just to prove it right.
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  Speaker 1: But everything clicked for the offense on Tuesday. Obviously, Dan
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  Speaker 1: uh and the Twins are now up to number two
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  Speaker 1: in the American League and runs scored. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: seventh overall because the National League has a bunch.
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  Speaker 2: Of Yeah, seventh in baseball, which is yeah, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: the National League is kind of pacing everybody, but.
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  Speaker 3: It's very opportunistic group.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll get into the runners in scoring position a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later, but I mean they are just on
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  Speaker 2: fire right now. And you know, look, this is probably
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of every like you've got Royce Lewis
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  Speaker 2: going again, and Byron Buckston has been just doing this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, inhuman it doesn't it doesn't see it
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  Speaker 2: seems like Superman, you know what he is doing. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't homer last night, but he got on base a
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  Speaker 2: couple of times and just reake Tavoc and going into
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  Speaker 2: last night he had homered twenty three times in forty
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  Speaker 2: eight games. He did not homer once in the first
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  Speaker 2: fourteen games, and then because of the World Baseball Classic,
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  Speaker 2: losing his rhythm, cold weather whatever, but almost homering every
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  Speaker 2: other game, and Byron needed just another player kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Get to that level of energy, and Royce is there
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  Speaker 3: and then all the rest of the guys are falling
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  Speaker 3: into place.
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  Speaker 2: Cody Clements having an outstanding June, have featured him today
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  Speaker 2: in the Athletic. You know he's his ops is somewhere
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  Speaker 2: around nine hundred in June, but five homers, hit a
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  Speaker 2: monster three run homer last night. Josh Bell had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of big RBIs like we like Duff mentioned there
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  Speaker 2: the RBI in.
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  Speaker 3: The first.
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  Speaker 2: It's a collective group effort, like it's really nobody really
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  Speaker 2: is blowing people away bucks And like Buckston's got twenty
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  Speaker 2: three homers, he also has like thirty five or thirty
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  Speaker 2: eight RBIs is it's not a very.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, nobody is.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's statistically just like posting jaw dropping numbers aside from
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  Speaker 2: Buckston's home runs and his slug but collectively it works.
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  Speaker 2: And when you get that Royce lewis middle of the
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  Speaker 2: order guy who's been consistently coming through the way he
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  Speaker 2: has and it's only a week.
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  Speaker 3: I know, it's only a.
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  Speaker 2: Week that he's really been going, but it just has
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  Speaker 2: a feel about it, like and Royce is a vibes guy.
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  Speaker 3: When Royce says those vibes going, it's different. It's when
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  Speaker 3: he can carry a team when he is not being
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  Speaker 3: asked to do is carry the team by himself.
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  Speaker 2: This time, there's just there's a bunch of other guys
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  Speaker 2: contributing and putting up good RBI numbers, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that that's really been the.
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  Speaker 3: Key to this they you know, I like how they've
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  Speaker 3: done it. The runners in scoring position.
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  Speaker 1: but back to Runners in Scoring Position and Cody Clemens
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  Speaker 1: by the way, too, you mentioned who uh since May
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth hitting three oh eight with a one oh
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  Speaker 1: three to one ops, six homers, thirteen rbi. Uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: been heating up Twins have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We started the season talking about the Runners in scoring
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  Speaker 1: position and hoping the Twins could keep it up. And
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  Speaker 1: now we're at seventy five games and they're still in
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  Speaker 1: the top six and basically every you know, major hitting
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  Speaker 1: statistic in that space, and that's just been huge for
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  Speaker 1: their success.
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  Speaker 3: It has.
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  Speaker 2: Cody last night got walked intentionally to load the bases.
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  Speaker 3: That was fun. That was to bring up Royce Lewis,
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  Speaker 3: which is, you know, I get the strategic play there.
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  Speaker 2: But even the Twins were like, that was interesting because
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  Speaker 2: Royce has been so good, but you know, he did
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  Speaker 2: bring up a righty riding matchup. It made the double
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  Speaker 2: play available at any base. But like a sign of
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  Speaker 2: respect for Cody Clemens, who they acquired for cash on
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  Speaker 2: April twenty sixth, twenty twenty five. Last night his first,
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  Speaker 2: his second indiing home run was his thirtieth a Twin
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  Speaker 2: in six hundred and seventeen played appearances. You talked about
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  Speaker 2: a guy who they liked the talent because this is
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  Speaker 2: a Golden Spikes finalist. He's a third round pick in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. Like the pedigree is there, right, there's a
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  Speaker 2: good player in there.
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  Speaker 3: But for the first four years of his pro career
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  Speaker 3: three plus, he really didn't get opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: He was a guy came off the bench, he hit
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  Speaker 2: home runs, but he just didn't get chances. And the
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  Speaker 2: Twins gave him one because at the time they got him, Lewis,
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  Speaker 2: Willie Castro, and Luke keishall were all injured and so
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  Speaker 2: the Twins just needed an able bodied guy. But when
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  Speaker 2: you acquire somebody for cash that's been DFA, it is
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  Speaker 2: an absolute lottery ticket. You just you're hoping it works
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  Speaker 2: because there are talented guys that come out of that,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't know if it's gonna work. And I mean,
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  Speaker 2: right now, he's flourishing. He is hitting lefties better than
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  Speaker 2: they ever has. His ops is six ninety seven. There
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  Speaker 2: was such a significant drop for him going into this year.
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  Speaker 2: His career mark was like, it's like a seven ninety
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  Speaker 2: seven ops against right handers and like a five to
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  Speaker 2: twelve against left handers. Now, he hadn't had a ton
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  Speaker 2: of opportunity against left handers. We're talking like one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty plate appearances in his career, but it was
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  Speaker 2: enough of a deterrent that teams were like, no, we're
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  Speaker 2: just gonna sit you.
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  Speaker 3: At this point.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, Derek Shelton is saying, we're not even really
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  Speaker 2: pinch hitting for him. We believe in him, and he's
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  Speaker 2: rewarding him. I mean, almost a seven hundred ops there
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  Speaker 2: is really good. His ops plus is somewhere around one
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  Speaker 2: point fifteen one sixteen for the season. Right now, he's
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  Speaker 2: just opportunistic in that three run homer. You know, talking
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  Speaker 2: to brooks Lee, Brooksley made fun of him. Those two
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  Speaker 2: love to trash talk each other. Brooksley said, I was stunned.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, what, he's a buck sixty five. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure why they were scared of him, And and then
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  Speaker 2: afterwards Lee said, but honestly, you know, they had a
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  Speaker 2: really good plan. They were both thinking, look up and
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  Speaker 2: over from Kumar Rocker and if you got it, swing,
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  Speaker 2: swing hard. And Cody clementson a one hundred and five
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  Speaker 2: mile hour screamer because that fence isn't very tall on
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  Speaker 2: right field. It's probably about twelve feet off the ground
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  Speaker 2: where he hit the wall for the home run and
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  Speaker 2: it put them up five nothing.
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  Speaker 3: It was a huge swing.
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  Speaker 2: He's had a lot of those of his thirty I
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  Speaker 2: believe eleven or twelve have given have tied the game
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  Speaker 2: or put the Twins in the lead, including that monster
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  Speaker 2: three run homer he hit it home on Friday night
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  Speaker 2: and that nine to eight comeback victory against Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 2: He he just does it. Even this is how like
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  Speaker 2: important he is. He even suggested on Friday that Royce
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  Speaker 2: Lewis changed his walk up song to Ei by Nelly,
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  Speaker 2: and Royce did it and Homeward in that game, and
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  Speaker 2: Royce said he's not changing it now, so like he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna give it a try. Because so Cody Clemens is winning,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the field, moving around, playing wherever they
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: want him, thirty eight innings in center, hitting lefties, hitting
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: big home runs, and changing walk up songs.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: That's the perfect walk up song for Royce Lewis for
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: some reason, I don't know, just vibe.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: It just makes sense.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: As we inch closer to that trade deadline. Obviously, there's
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: been a lot of focus on Byron Buckston and Dan
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: has his entire career writing on that, but there's also
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: there's also sort of that other side tyler to things
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: like Cody Clemens emerging.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hate to say it, but it's it is
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: baseball at the end of the day. And he's an
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: inexpensive utility player who's left handed and who's hitting for
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: power year, and he's a guy that doesn't have protection
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: like some other players on our team does, and things
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: like that. You know, he's going to look very attractive
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: to some teams and there's a potential world where he's
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: in another lineup. You know, after that deadline passes and
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: you know it's but to that point you hear all
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: the vibes and all the things, and it's like, man,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: you just hope it doesn't. You hope the front office
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: takes that into account before they make a move like that,
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: which I think they would at this point. Like if
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: we're picking up momentum and speed, it's like, hey, we're
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: not going to make moves. Maybe we hold pat with
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: what we've got. You know, there's there's so much that
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: goes into it. But he is a guy like for
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: me as another team, this guy can play everywhere on
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: the field. He can do pretty much everything. He's you know,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: he's a seemingly like he's turning into a leader as well.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Like Dan mentioned, he's got the pedigree like he's been
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: around baseball his entire life. He's not going to get
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: into trouble on the field doing something that you know
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: is a bonehead play things like that. It's just he
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: checks all the boxes for any team. But luckily for
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: now we've got him in the middle of our line
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: up and you know, hopefully come whatever the date is.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I know it moves around, but you know, whenever that
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: deadline passes, it would be sad, but you know, hopefully
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: he gets to stay here because that's he's He's definitely
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: a big piece right.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Now, breaking the hearts of four point.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: It's the reality. Just like just like Dan warning everybody
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: before the season to enjoy their time with Joe, Ryan
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Tyler is doing the same.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Well that's what we don't even talk about right.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: One more net Like, obviously home runs and basis clearing
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: doubles are are obvious runners in scoring position moments that pop.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: But there was a subtle one yesterday to Dan that
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that stood out to you. I know it was. It
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was a twelve two win, so who knows. The Twins
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: may have won easily either way, but a key uh
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: sort of under the radar, if you will, runners in
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: scoring position hit and the sing may have helped that
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: set that tone.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and and Duff touched on it a little bit.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: But Josh Bell like, okay, look, here's here's the situation, right,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Warna gets that bomb, Buck gets on Buck Steele's second base,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Buck gets to third on the grounder. Royce Lewis is
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: up with a man on third and royce Lewis chased
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: and he said he's he actually said it's been weird.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: He's had a little bit of a tough time seeing
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the ball in this park the last two days. And
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: you know, that's a like Globe Life Park has been.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: It's not a very big hitters park. You know, to
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: get one out there is tough. And you know, there
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: have been some of these talks that like the Rangers
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: have become more of a pitching team. So it doesn't
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: shock me to hear Royce say that it's hard to
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: see in there for hitters. He struck out, and he
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: struck out on a three to two, you know, slider
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: off and all of a sudden you got two outs.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: And Kumar Rocker has been a good pitcher. He came
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: out with a three fifty six the ra he left
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: with the four seventeen era last night, but his last
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: six outings like a two to sixteen era and looking
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: like a really solid starting pitcher. And you had him
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: on the ropes and Josh Bell just punched it in
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the left field and like, I feel like that just
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: changes the inning for Kumar Rocker and sends him to
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: like if Kumar Rucker gets through Royce, Lewis and Josh Bell.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: He gets back to the dugout and he's like, all right, fine,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: you know there was the bending, but it didn't break,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: and you give up just a run instead. You go
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: back deflated because you're getting up a run. But Josh
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Bell is this is Josh Bell in a nutshell this year.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Like it's it's crazy when you look at it. Overall,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I think Josh Bell is like a two thirty nine,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: two forty average for the season. It's not very impressive,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: but he's hitting three thirty eight with runners in scoring position.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And the second on the team, brooks Lee, who also
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: has sort of a low average overall in the season,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: it's hitting three thirty nine with runners in scoring position.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: And this team is so opportunistic with runners in scoring
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and it is a streaky stat and it is a
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: fluky stat, but now we're talking about seventy five games
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: of it, and they are what do we say, fourth
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: and average Zach and fourth and OPS in the league
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: with runners in scoring.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Position as a team, and.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: This is like that, Yeah, overall, you look at this
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: group and they're not that impressive from an overall standpoint.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, like OPS plus wise, I don't even think
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: they're at one hundred. I think there were ninety seven
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: going into yesterday, and yesterday it might change it a
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: little bit, put them at ninety eight or ninety nine.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: But they are under the league average as an offense
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: as a whole, and yet they are seventh in runs,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: and it's because they have been so consistent with runners
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: in scoring position. They're just good vibes. Guys are putting
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: together good at bats and I think that that Bell
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: one just exemplified what they're about, because you know, Rocker
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: never recovered from that.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fourth and average fourth in ops and number one
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and their batting average on balls and play, which certainly
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: helps as well. Take a quick break, we'll be right back.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: We'll talk Zebbie, Matthews, mckabel, and Tee up the final
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: game of this Rangers series right after this.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite part of these two games might have been
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Zebie Matthews having the exact opposite kind of game that
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: he had last time out in what was an eleven
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: nothing lost to the Tigers. The Twins almost got him
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: back to even and run differential across the two games,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: but seven innings pitch, two runs, eight hits, four strikeouts,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Dan it wasn't necessarily lights out across the board, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: coming off a bullpen game, yes, the Twins have the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: day off on Wednesday, but kind of exactly what you need,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I think Tyler, to have him come up and respond
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that way.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, especially when you tax your guys, which granted, everybody
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: threw well and so it was pretty clean as far
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: as the bullpen game would go. But you know, when
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: you can have a start that deep into a game,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: it's it's just a relief for everybody. I've said this
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: a few times throughout the year, but you know, for
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: for Shelter even it makes managing that game easier knowing
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: that at some point, okay, we're past this sinning now,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: We're past these guys now, and now it's like, okay,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: we got our back end, Hi, sir, we got our
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: back end. Guys uh coming in to slam the door.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: And it makes those decisions easier. It takes stress off
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: for a lot of people. And you know, it's it's
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: a momentum builder. You know, the starter comes out and
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: he's just shoving Hi. You want to say hi, hey buddy.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Everyone.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: But yeah, so it's you know, anytime a guy, especially
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: after a bullpen day and leading into an off day
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: even for that matter, you know, some of those guys
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: have been thrown a lot, maybe needed an extra day.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: That's stuff that goes a long way, that gets overlooked
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: throughout the course of the year. And when a guy
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: can step up like that, especially after his last one,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: have a good, good.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Doubting that, you know, that's all you can ask for.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it was huge, you see.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I think even Roy would agree that, No, it was
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: a monster out and like, look they were so they
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: were taxed.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I was ready to write this story.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I talked to Shelty about it ahead of the game
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: about you know, you have this part of the bullpen
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: that you can access and they're they're kind of getting
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: to become firm between the Bonda Andrew Morris and jo
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: wndros Gomez.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Like, you feel good about that part of your bullpen.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: But all those guys, you know, Eric Orsey, Taylor Rogers,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: all those guys that he uses in lanes to get
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: out of spots, had been used like four times in
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: six days and then they're feeling it. They're they're they're
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: getting used a lot because the team has won and
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: played a lot of close games. So Zebby going deep
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the offense, giving Zeby the space to operate.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Those were big deals.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Last night at a time where we would have seen
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: the sixth, seventh, and eighth guys get chances. We would
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: have seen Adams. We would have if Zebby goes five.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: We see justin Lawrence. We see Cody Laws and Travis
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Adams in leverage spots, which you know, all those guys
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: can are are capable, they're in the big leagues, they're capable.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But also it's been a crapshoot with what you're going
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: to get in big spots from them, and so absolutely
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: for Zebby to go deep like that, and you know
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: it's funny. Zebby got hit pretty hard and Detroit, but
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: afterwards he was kind of like he wasn't as hard
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: for a guy to give up seven runs over six
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and three homers.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I think he thought two of those.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Homers were you know it was I remember it was
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: like nine eate degrees with the humidity of the balls
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: flying out of Detroit. And I don't think he took
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: it as badly upon want himself as as he could have,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: because it wasn't like walks and stuff like that loaded
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: up the bases. He thought he had pitched better than
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: he did, and then it could turn around. And you
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: saw last night because he was in Bend but don't
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: break mode. He was throwing strikes. He's putting the ball,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: you know, being efficient, putting the ball in play, making
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: sure it was being put in play, and letting his
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: defense work for him. And sometimes that can be a
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: little bit of a suspect strategy with the Twins with
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: their defense, but it worked last night.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: They played some good defense behind him. He made a great.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Play on that line drive double play that he caught,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: you know, I think it was their third hitter, and
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: hit a liner right back at him and doubled off
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the runner on first base, like Zebi did a good
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: job and it was much needed because again that bullpen
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: was really really on fumes. And now they get the
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: day off and that's two days off and instead of
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: being four of six when they come back on Thursday,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: they're four of eight.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: They got Joe Ryan. That's you need.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Them for that game when Joe Ryan pitches, because it's
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: promises to be a low scoring game or a competitive
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: game that Twins have a chance to win and sweep.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Right. The other pitching forform Mients of note on Tuesday
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: was Kyle Hagashioka, making his major league pitching debut in
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the ninth inning for the Rangers man that was Tyler, Like,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: is the thinking there, I'm gonna intentionally throw it as
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: slow as like a ten year old to throw you off.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It was majestic, those floaters.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I think it's one.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Honestly, they've probably figured out analytics wise, like hey, don't
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: try to just throw strikes because they're gonna pummel you.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: It's it's see how soft you can throw it, because
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: you know, who was a brock Holt. I think for
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: a while had the record for like slowest strike thrown.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: There's like thirty eight miles an hour or something. But yeah,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: I think these guys got tired of one giving up bombs,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: but two, like it's kind of a liability out there,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: like guys squares one back up back at you, like
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be a rocket that you're not used to
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: necessarily seeing coming at you like that.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's one.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: It's and in the moment, like you know, at that
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: point the gloves are off, everybody's like all right, we're good,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: like you know, enjoying it for what it is. And
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: it's actually shocking that that's his first pitching outing for
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: a guy it's been around as long as he has.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's funny.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: You try to put some sort of magic on those
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: before you throw them, because you know it's a it's
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: one of the the hitters aren't afraid to take that
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: home run for sure, even though nobody else counts it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: They're they're trying to get there when those guys come
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: into the game.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: At least when you throw that slowly, plenty of time
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to brace yourself for the hit, you know, yeah.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Just shield yourself right.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: With MLB identified those if we do a sky report,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: MLB identified those as sliders, and it was thirty had.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: A little spin on it.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: He was sitting thirty eight to forty two miles an
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: hour with his slider last night.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It's a slider change up, slider change up.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Hey, one point about that.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: It gave Kyler Fedco a chance and he's went over
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: four in his debut the night before, which he.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Didn't get hit. Yeah, he he didn't get the hit,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: but he got a sackfly off of Hi got Shioka
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: and like it was it was cool. Look, I'll just
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: say this.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I did a little more diving into Fedco over the
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: two games and figured out this is a guy whose
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: career was a session essentially on life support. Twice, he
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: went on the development list at the minor league level twice.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: He going into spring training I think he said last year,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: maybe it was in twenty four. He was expected to
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: start at Wichita this season, and in spring training he
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: was playing at Cedar Rapids and backing up.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: He's like, I knew my.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Career was like I could be released the any time,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: like for a guy who like he's very aware, and
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: they asked him to make wholesale changes and do the.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Bat speed program.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: They said, look, dude, you've been a slug like you've
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: been a contact guy, a good decision guy your whole career,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: and now we need you to become a power hitter
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: because if your first base and left field, you need
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: to hit for power. And he has transformed himself and
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: that's why you see him just taking some huge hacks
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: at pitches when he's up there, and he's done a
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: good job. I think he has forty five home runs
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: the last two years and the miners or something like
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: that in fifteen this year. I know it was thirty
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: last year, I believe, but look just like cool for
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: him to get that moment, even though it's a position
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: player get the RBI, his famili's here, and you know
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: he's he's definitely earned it. It's one of those things
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: where it's like you love those stories because this guy
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: could have been out of baseball really easy, and he
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: gets an RBI out out of that hilarious moment in
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the ninth inning and gets his first good positive baseball
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: memory other than, of course the debut, which is amazing,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Like just getting there is such an achievement, but he's
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: like a twelfth round pick and very realistic about what
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: he's up against.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: For the record, ESPN identified all of higashi Okus pitches
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: asphis is, so.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, they were. That was absolutely what they want.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Thirteen epis pitches is what I should say. You can't.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: You can't let them out of the inning in thirteen pitches.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta work the counts, you gotta try
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to at least wait to wait for one to hit Tyler, like, hey.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Everybody's looking to go to Cancun for a day, okay,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Like they were. They were ready for the season to
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: be over for a day.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Tyler. If you're in the dugout and a hitter gets
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: out against a position pitcher, do you do you ras
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: them do you just say nothing?
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, it's it's one like you you picked the
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: right timing. Well, it's tough too if the guys already
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: had a bad day, because it does happen like guys,
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: the guy's already over and then it's like all right,
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: position players, and then this.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Guy's like, please don't shrink out, you know, it's like and.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Then they still get out and happened last Yeah, it's
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: a tough one, like it's a it's unfortunate, but yes,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: you definitely, even if it's a few days later, like
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: it's safe, safe territory to go in and be like, hey,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: so you know what you see with the gutknight, you
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: know you can have some fun with it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Tristan Tristan Gray, and yeah, Tristan Gray hit
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  Speaker 2: a bomb on that's the thing was over five.
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  Speaker 1: Like at least it was almost a home run, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the track.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, he's the only guy he's only started that
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: didn't have a hit.
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  Speaker 3: Last night they had a season high seventeen hits and
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: he went over five for somebody track.
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  Speaker 2: But but I'll tell you what, man, he absolutely even
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: though he didn't have a hit, he made a fantastic
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: catch on a blooper or center field, like he looked
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: like a wide receiver going out and caught one over
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: his head like this in front of Buston, Like it's
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: one of those plays where you're worried they're gonna collide.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: But Buxton was so deep that Buckston was not gonna
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: catch it. And Gray made a great catch, so he
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: can go home saying he contributed that got them through
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: an inning fast, but man, he came up about four
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  Speaker 2: feet short of ending that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh for in a in a good way, and like
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: you say, it's now for a couple of days.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: We're running out of time because I sidetracked us there,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: but really quickly. Dan h some some more positive news
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: for the Twins coming out of Triple A in the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: form of Mick Abel.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, mckable.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Five innings, five strikeouts, one earned run, velocities all look good,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: good swings and misses.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Was so efficient. You know, he was supposed to go four.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: And sixty five pitches and at the end of four innings,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I think he was at fifty two pitches. So they
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: got him to get one more inning, which is a
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: huge deal when you're coming back it's the build up.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: It's how many times does he get up so that
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: the body can get used to getting out there and
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: going high velocity max velocity for another.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Inn and so for him to get five.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I'm not going to say that, not
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: going to say that they're going to bring him up
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: on Sunday for sure, but he's ready, like they should
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: bring him up on Sunday, if not Monday, it'll be
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: whatever way they decided to slot him. And the bullpen
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: day is slotted for Sunday. I believe in Arizona, yep.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: So you know it's definitely a spot where hey, you know,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: mickabel looks ready to go. It's just do they give
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: him an extra day in there because he's coming back
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: and it's possible then he would come back Monday at
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: home against the Dodgers. But I think he's ready.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: There you have it, Mickabele nearly back. Twins are off
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: today Wednesday, back for the finale in Texas on Thursday.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: That's Joe Ryan against Jack Lighter. Twins couldn't ask for
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: a better picture on the mound to hope for another sweep,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: and then they're off to Arizona. We'll be back with
• 35:39
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• 35:42
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