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Bats come through as Twins take 2 of 3 from Orioles · Twin Cities Territory

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are live after the Twins have just taken
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Speaker 1: two out of three from the Baltimore Orioles at home,
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Speaker 1: and guys, fair to say, the Bats are waking up
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Speaker 1: a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Eight runs in three games. Momentum is building building. I
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Speaker 2: looked it up.
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Speaker 1: The last time the Twins at eighteen runs in a
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Speaker 1: three game series was July fifth to eighth against the Yankees,
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Speaker 1: which was right about when we started talking about the
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Speaker 1: offense of struggles beginning, so that makes sense. But it's
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Speaker 1: been over a month since the Twins had that many
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Speaker 1: runs in a three game set, and they were able
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Speaker 1: to rally on Wednesday to take two out of three
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Speaker 1: and somehow are still right in the mix. As of
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Speaker 1: this recording. They are one game out in the Wildcard,
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Speaker 1: three games out in the Central The White Sox, Guardians, Tigers,
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Speaker 1: Rangers all still to play today, so that it will
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Speaker 1: change in one direction or the other. But for now,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't pretty. It's starting to feel like this is
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Speaker 1: being held together increasingly by scotch tape and paper clips.
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Speaker 1: But once again, two out of three for the Twins, Dan,
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Speaker 1: I guess that's the bottom line it is.
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Speaker 3: That's really look you're at the point where you need
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Speaker 3: to win series, and the Twins had not won one
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Speaker 3: since July, so basically you need to get going. And
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Speaker 3: then when you say those standings, it's pretty incredible that
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Speaker 3: all this while as they've been playing as poorly as
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Speaker 3: they have.
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Speaker 2: You know, they were three and.
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Speaker 3: Six on the road trip, then they go split the
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Speaker 3: first two with the Orioles before today, and in spite
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Speaker 3: of going four and seven in that spent spend, they've
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Speaker 3: stayed in the race. So Derek Shelton addressed that the
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Speaker 3: other day and said, it's actually kind of frustrating because
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Speaker 3: if we've been playing better, we could have been gaining ground.
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Speaker 3: But at the same time they have not lost any ground.
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Speaker 3: They need to get going. That's really all it comes
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Speaker 3: down to, and step one was achieving a series victory
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Speaker 3: today fourteen hits.
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Speaker 2: Josh Bell is red hot.
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Speaker 3: In August, he said in the post game that it's
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Speaker 3: only a matter of time for this offense toke going.
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Speaker 3: There's a chance Byron Buckston comes back as early as
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Speaker 3: tomorrow at the Field of Dreams. So apparently, yeah, that's
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Speaker 3: that's the words.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna walk out of the corn. Can you walk
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Speaker 1: out of the corn?
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Speaker 2: Please.
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Speaker 3: I mean that would be amazing. I mean, hey, they
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Speaker 3: built it, so maybe he's gonna count.
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Speaker 1: Who knows, but you're well, sorry, you're sorry that everybody's.
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Speaker 3: A nice, nice day for Alan Road and two three hits,
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Speaker 3: two hits each for Red.
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Speaker 2: And he needed yeah he did.
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Speaker 3: We can talk about that in a second, because that
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Speaker 3: was a pretty abysmal game on that. It was so
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Speaker 3: weird going into today because Tuesday they had so many
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Speaker 3: chances and I'm sure you guys felt it. It was deflating,
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Speaker 3: like they had chance after chance after chance and cann't
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Speaker 3: get it done. And this was the opposite way. And
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Speaker 3: Roden was at the center of those struggles last night.
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Speaker 3: And to come back with the three for three today,
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Speaker 3: including the double, I think put them ahead.
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Speaker 2: If I if I'm right there in the first.
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Speaker 3: Inning or the third or fourth thing, whatever anthing, they rallied,
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Speaker 3: you know. But it needed a moment like this just
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Speaker 3: to get some good feelings, some good vibes going again.
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Speaker 1: The thirty five hits, I believe over the three games.
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Speaker 1: Royce Lewis had his hitting streak end right before this
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Speaker 1: game and then apparently was very pissed about that because
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Speaker 1: he had two hits.
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Speaker 2: In every game.
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Speaker 1: But Tyler, it's it's been a while since it since
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Speaker 1: the Bats scene to be flowing like that, and the
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Speaker 1: Twins will obviously hope that it doesn't stop with this weekend.
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Speaker 2: For this weekend, Yeah, I honestly kind of equate it
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Speaker 2: to my brand of golf that I like to play.
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Speaker 2: There's no right directions. The ball just has to go
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Speaker 2: in the hole at some point, and that's what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: They're winning these games, doesn't matter how you do it.
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Speaker 2: You know, we lost all the close ones. We put
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Speaker 2: up a bunch of runs like it at this point,
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Speaker 2: sloppy went don't matter. It's wins, our wins, our wins
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Speaker 2: until that last game comes. And like we said, we're
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Speaker 2: not losing this ground, you know, to where this it's
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Speaker 2: this unattainable goal. It's staying relevant, stand in the mix,
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Speaker 2: allowing our guys to get hot. You know, that's we
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Speaker 2: kind of hopefully we rode out that storm, so to speak,
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Speaker 2: of the real lull in our rotation. You know, we
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Speaker 2: face some big arms things like that like that. It's
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Speaker 2: just gonna happen. There's gonna be bad streaks and if
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Speaker 2: everybody wants to get hot at the same time, go
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Speaker 2: for it because that takes all the stress off the
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Speaker 2: pitching staff. Who needs a breathere right now. Obviously with
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Speaker 2: Joe being out for who knows how long. You know,
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Speaker 2: Bailey looked a little shaky yesterday, He's given up some runs.
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Speaker 2: It's there's lulls in the season. That happened for everyone.
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Speaker 2: And if the lineup wants to get hot right now
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Speaker 2: and carry the team, go for it because that gives
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Speaker 2: all these pitchers a moment of just a second, like
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Speaker 2: whether it get right, get settled in, whatever it may be.
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Speaker 2: You know, maybe you know, guys, Morris came into early
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Speaker 2: for the first time in a while. You know, things
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Speaker 2: like that can happened because we're putting up these runs,
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Speaker 2: and that's huge. When you know a team can put
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Speaker 2: up a big, big crooked number in an inning, it
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Speaker 2: takes so much stress off of everyone and it really
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Speaker 2: goes a long way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about Alan Road and Dan. He had
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Speaker 1: been three for his last twenty one it hits before today.
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Speaker 1: He obviously had a couple of big hits earlier in
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Speaker 1: the season for the Twins, and then today three for three.
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Speaker 1: Pretty much everybody was hitting today except Luke Kishel, who
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Speaker 1: has been hitting recently as well. But as Walker Jenkins
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Speaker 1: continues to sit there in triple A, there's obviously been
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Speaker 1: some rising murmurs about that with Alan Roaden starting in
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Speaker 1: right field, but a very welcome three for three day
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Speaker 1: for him, for sure.
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Speaker 3: As we're online and this is an online crowd falling us,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to disappoint that crowd. Just because they're talking
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Speaker 3: about it doesn't mean it's happening. Walker Jenkins right now,
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Speaker 3: I was not coming like this is not gonna happen
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Speaker 3: anytime soon, Alan Roaden. This is the first chance that
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Speaker 3: they've really been able to give him. They waited a
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Speaker 3: long time. They wanted to give it to him. At
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Speaker 3: the start of the year, they had James Outman.
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Speaker 2: You know that.
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Speaker 3: You look at that and I think that was.
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Speaker 2: A mistake just to Outman.
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Speaker 3: I get it, You're gonna give him a chance, but
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Speaker 3: it wasn't happening. The unfortunate part for Roden was he
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Speaker 3: got hurt early on and maybe would have come up
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Speaker 3: and replaced Outman when it was clear that it wasn't
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Speaker 3: working for OUTMANU, But he got hurt and missed a
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Speaker 3: lot of time and didn't get up here. They're gonna
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Speaker 3: give Rodin opportunities they think he can hit. His strikeout
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Speaker 3: to walk is not bad in any of this. It's
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Speaker 3: it's pretty close to even right now. So he's going
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Speaker 3: to keep getting those shots because Walker Jenkins, if he
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Speaker 3: comes up, is going to play every day, and there's
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Speaker 3: not an everyday spot available in that lineup right now,
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Speaker 3: especially if Iron Buckston really is coming back.
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Speaker 2: I get why people.
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Speaker 3: Want Walker Jenkins to come up, but you know, look,
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Speaker 3: ops and Triple A is seven to sixty six in
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Speaker 3: the International area. Yeah, in the International League, Walker Jenkins
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Speaker 3: is eight sixty I believe. And that's even like in August.
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Speaker 3: He's It's not like Walker Jenkins is hitting a thousand
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Speaker 3: ops right now, and the people are just kind of
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Speaker 3: wishing for it. Because the Twins offense has been in
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Speaker 3: a struggle the way it has been, that's understandable. They've
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Speaker 3: been in the struggle in large part, I think because
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Speaker 3: Byron Buckson's been out. I mean, it's hard not to
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Speaker 3: notice when your top guy, your three time All Star,
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Speaker 3: who is twenty five home runs and really is a
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Speaker 3: spark plug, hasn't been there to be the threat, which
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Speaker 3: he really truly is, because look, Royce loss has been
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Speaker 3: good in this stretch. Royce loss has now been good
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Speaker 3: for two months. Josh Bells is red hot in August. Finally,
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Speaker 3: guys are starting to heat up. I think this will
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Speaker 3: get going. It's understandable why fans would want to see
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Speaker 3: improvements and everybody being brought up, But I just don't
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Speaker 3: think the twins are gonna try and nurse two rookies
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Speaker 3: at the same time. That is a huge deal to
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Speaker 3: have two guys trying to establish themselves at the same time.
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Speaker 3: And we're seeing the growing pains with Kayalen Culpepper right now.
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Speaker 3: Kalen Culepeper has really good moments, but also he is
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Speaker 3: adjusting to life in the major leagues and what it
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Speaker 3: is like to really see consistent offspeed and you know,
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Speaker 3: nasty sliders and curve balls and just every array of
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Speaker 3: pitch is not just thrown but thrown consistently for strikes,
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Speaker 3: like you know at Triple A. He has not seeing
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Speaker 3: those planted for strikes because if those pitchers were good enough,
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Speaker 3: they wouldn't be in Triple A. They're already the Majors
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Speaker 3: or they're still in Double A. So he is it's
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Speaker 3: a huge leap from Triple A, and I just don't
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Speaker 3: see them going and getting Walker Jenkins. I've heard it
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Speaker 3: from someone that I trust that it's not happening anytime soon.
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Speaker 3: It's just it's going to be a lot to ask
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Speaker 3: two rookies in the middle of a pennant race to
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Speaker 3: try and for the rest of the lineup to absorb
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Speaker 3: that and Kalen Culpepper they were willing to take that
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Speaker 3: chance because Kreiler has been struggling. Another zero for four
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Speaker 3: for him today. It's understandable why you take that leap
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Speaker 3: at short stop because that's a position they've struggled out
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Speaker 3: most of the year. But with Byron Buckson coming back,
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Speaker 3: you have Larnick who's just too good to sit and
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Speaker 3: I know he's had a little bit of a lull
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Speaker 3: too lately, but you have other parts that fit in.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to figure out a way to
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Speaker 3: keep Luke Keishell in the lineup. Right now, he is
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Speaker 3: just getting on base a ton and I don't know
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Speaker 3: how you can say, yeah, we should bring up Walker
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Speaker 3: Jenkins and sit Luke Keishall or Larnick or like it
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Speaker 3: just it's not a great fit. For the puzzle. Had
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Speaker 3: they traded Larnick, would it made more sense, Sure, but
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Speaker 3: they didn't. Trevor Larnck is here and and he's got
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Speaker 3: a really good season going. So Roden needed this. He like,
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Speaker 3: last night was tough. What how many times he bat
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Speaker 3: with the bases loaded on Tuesday?
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Speaker 2: Was it twice? At least twice?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he got one run in with the fielders' choice,
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Speaker 4: but he went over for and to come back and
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Speaker 4: have a three hit day was a big deal for
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Speaker 4: the Twins.
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Speaker 1: Someone you trust, said, Jenkins, is he cat? Is your cats, Dan?
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Speaker 3: But yeah, Salem is wise. She's actually sleeping at the
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Speaker 3: bottom at the base of my little desk.
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Speaker 1: We're back chuckling because Dan doesn't want me to put
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Speaker 1: the camera on him solo for a little while. He's
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Speaker 1: got some shenanigans going on there in the background. That's
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Speaker 1: all right, we've all been.
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Speaker 2: There, Tyler.
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Speaker 1: I thought like, it's also just been nice to see.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's been so long since the Twins
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Speaker 1: have gotten the hit. You know, there's a couple guys
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Speaker 1: on base, it changes the complexion of thenow it kept happening.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's one. It's just like we kind of
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Speaker 2: joked about the momentum, I think in texts, you know,
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Speaker 2: in between games, whatever it was. But it's it's a
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Speaker 2: real thing, and you know, it's August. A lot of
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Speaker 2: these guys this is their first you know, or their
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Speaker 2: actual full big league season from you know, start to finish.
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Speaker 2: A lot of at bats have gotten under some guy's belts,
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Speaker 2: playing a lot of positions like that. Lull's anticipated, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's it's just the law of averages. Things are going
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Speaker 2: to work out at some point to be kind of
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Speaker 2: what we thought they were. You know, some guys were
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Speaker 2: on fire, some guys were really cold. You know Bell,
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Speaker 2: we talked about him earlier in the year when he
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Speaker 2: was on that hot streak, like he's a big league hitter,
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Speaker 2: he's got ten years of service, Like he's seen a
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Speaker 2: lot of at bats. He knows how to hit. It's
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Speaker 2: just when it goes right, it goes right, and sometimes
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Speaker 2: you hit it at people. Things like that. Today's a
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Speaker 2: perfect example. We hit a lot of like those just
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Speaker 2: low liners, you know, road and hit a ball off
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Speaker 2: the wall, you know, but otherwise it felt like it
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Speaker 2: was just solid contact where they weren't and we've had
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Speaker 2: a lot of balls that were at guys. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's the Royal Series comes to mind. They turned five
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Speaker 2: double plays. You know, it's just we run into some
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Speaker 2: good defense at times, you know, some some really good
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Speaker 2: starting pitching at times, and that's baseball. You know, the
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Speaker 2: moves made have stabilized the pitching staff, which you know,
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Speaker 2: the back end of this game today was perfect example.
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Speaker 2: You know, Gomez made it fun for himself out there.
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Speaker 2: You know, maybe just was getting a little bored so
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Speaker 2: he wanted a little excitement. But you know that that's baseball,
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Speaker 2: and that's why it's such a crazy game. You know,
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Speaker 2: we were talking about just stuff you see every day
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Speaker 2: at the field. You know that the Toronto play that
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Speaker 2: you know, blew up their game and they give up
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Speaker 2: a run. You know, just stuff happens the fourth You
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Speaker 2: can't do anything about it. Yeah, the fourth out, you
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Speaker 2: may get three outs, he said, now give up a
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Speaker 2: run when everyone was out. You know, it's just the
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Speaker 2: craziest thing ever. But all that said, the point being,
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Speaker 2: you know, these guys never stopped doing whatever they were doing.
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Speaker 2: You know, guys are probably having conversations.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: The guy that comes to mind is like keishel You know,
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Speaker 2: he's going to be a wire to wire big year
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Speaker 2: this year. He's played twelve positions. He's he's exhausted, you know,
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Speaker 2: and it's like you're expecting that guy to maybe have
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Speaker 2: a bad week or two here and there. You know,
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Speaker 2: that's just the way it's going to be. It's same
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Speaker 2: with a bullpen arm who's been working a lot, you know,
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Speaker 2: things like that, and that's the ebbs and flows. And
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Speaker 2: I mean Dan probably could back it up a lot
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Speaker 2: of stats better than I could. But that's just part
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Speaker 2: of the game. And it's it's why I think that staff.
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Speaker 2: You know, I've talked about Shelty all year. You know LaTroy,
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Speaker 2: you know, he comes to mind. He did his interview
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Speaker 2: to day during the game. You know, there's some guys
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Speaker 2: in that locker room have been around baseball a long
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Speaker 2: time in the major league level and that matters, and
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Speaker 2: you know they're in a great spot and the pieces
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Speaker 2: they added are great. You know, I retweeted something about
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Speaker 2: Hoffman when he came over, a quote he had about,
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Speaker 2: you know, how he handled his adversity in Toronto last year.
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Speaker 2: That's all stuff that's going to matter. It's gonna come
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Speaker 2: up big in this stretch and it's good to see
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Speaker 2: him come out today and make a statement. It gets
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Speaker 2: a good picture too. Bas you know, he went eight
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Speaker 2: shutout I think last time, or eight one run and lost,
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Speaker 2: you know, a complete game, but you know to tag
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Speaker 2: him and then get after that bullpen. That was you know,
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Speaker 2: they executed their game plan.
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Speaker 1: Tuesday's game was dismal, but but Monday and Wednesday just
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Speaker 1: felt felt like the games when things were going better
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Speaker 1: before this offensive slump. Just a different everybody hitting, different
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Speaker 1: star different nights. Shout out Austin Martin for a four
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Speaker 1: hit game, a triple shy of the cycle that Josh
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Speaker 1: Bell had the three run homer on Monday two, that
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Speaker 1: that took it from four to one to seven to one,
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Speaker 1: and it was just like I felt like the first
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Speaker 1: time I breathed watching a game in the last month,
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Speaker 1: like they finally.
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Speaker 2: Were winning by a lot. Yeah, like.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was just a nice return to how
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Speaker 1: it how it had had been before.
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Speaker 3: I mean when you look at that road trip and
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Speaker 3: like six one run games on that road trip and
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Speaker 3: five of them went the wrong way, that's just so
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Speaker 3: much that was going on. Yeah, you know, they were
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Speaker 3: in every game and they were coming up short, and
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Speaker 3: you know, they did it in a variety of ways
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Speaker 3: where couldn't come through, like on Sunday in Milwaukee where
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Speaker 3: you had, you know, all those chances, but then a
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Speaker 3: couple of times where it was the last play of
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Speaker 3: the game, the two in Seattle, and I know they
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Speaker 3: ended up being the last play of the game in
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee also, but that felt like a different kind of
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Speaker 3: loss because in Seattle you were back like Seattle.
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Speaker 2: It just those were so close.
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee, like putting up you know, three runs against Misrowski
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Speaker 3: and coming up short to come back the way they
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Speaker 3: did Monday was was very good.
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Speaker 2: Dean Kramer.
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Speaker 3: That's two stars team's twelve innings, two runs.
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Speaker 2: For the guy.
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Speaker 3: That was Yeah, he was outstanding. And I can't even
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Speaker 3: imagine what the emotions are like facing your old team
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Speaker 3: but you saw it. There was some interaction with him.
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Speaker 3: I can't remember what. Teammate of his flew out to
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Speaker 3: the track and passed by him on the way back
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Speaker 3: to the dugout, and they had words for each other
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Speaker 3: and you could tell they were enjoying it. But I mean,
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Speaker 3: you know, you have those interactions with guys that Kramer
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Speaker 3: pitch their last five plus seasons, and so for him
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Speaker 3: to come back, it's not like it was like a
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Speaker 3: short stop over that's where he established himself as a
17:08
Speaker 3: major leaguer.
17:08
Speaker 2: Those guys are his dudes.
17:10
Speaker 3: They've been around each other for so long, and for
17:12
Speaker 3: him to show like that was really outstanding. Like you
17:17
Speaker 3: can tell the twins liked what they had with the
17:19
Speaker 3: pitch mix. Let's you know, who knows if it's this
17:22
Speaker 3: good two earned runs over twelve innings.
17:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, but clearly you know they.
17:33
Speaker 3: True now it's clearly like, look, the six fifty e
17:37
Speaker 3: ra and seven starts was pretty deceptive. It was his
17:40
Speaker 3: last couple really messed it up. This is the guy
17:42
Speaker 3: that had a four to two six career era. If
17:44
Speaker 3: you can find some happy medium between, you know, between
17:49
Speaker 3: what he's been so far in a four to two
17:50
Speaker 3: six ra You're gonna be very pleased with what you got.
17:53
Speaker 3: Plus you got him for next year too. So look,
17:55
Speaker 3: they they wanted to solve that. I don't know that
17:58
Speaker 3: they anticipated Joe Ryan going on the aisle within moments
18:02
Speaker 3: of them acquiring Dean Kramer, but you know, obviously they
18:06
Speaker 3: wanted to make sure that that kind of situation didn't
18:09
Speaker 3: crush them if it did happen, and so far it's
18:11
Speaker 3: worked out pretty pretty well. And again, just they needed
18:15
Speaker 3: this kind of series because it's been a lot of hardships.
18:19
Speaker 3: I mean, even their last serious victory against Kansas City
18:22
Speaker 3: was trying. It was awful, Like they hit the walk
18:25
Speaker 3: off Grand Slam, which was amazing, and the Royce Lewis
18:28
Speaker 3: walk off on Tuesday, but that was so hard fought.
18:31
Speaker 3: That did not feel easy. It has been a while
18:34
Speaker 3: since it's felt easy for them. They need to get
18:36
Speaker 3: back there. It's not gonna be you know, it's it's
18:39
Speaker 3: pretty tough with Philadelphia coming and the Braves coming, but
18:44
Speaker 3: just to get this feeling again was critical.
18:47
Speaker 1: When when Dylan Beaver's hit that three reun homer today
18:52
Speaker 1: to put the Orioles up for one, I thought we
18:54
Speaker 1: were heading for a very different sort of tone which
18:59
Speaker 1: we probably would run so hot and cold. But in
19:01
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours I have I believe I've
19:03
Speaker 1: turned in my four point three percenters card to you
19:05
Speaker 1: guys and then also ask for it back today. So
19:10
Speaker 1: but that like credit to the twins for fighting back.
19:13
Speaker 1: They still have this problem of getting themselves in a
19:15
Speaker 1: hole early Tyler that they can't they can't get out of.
19:18
Speaker 1: But Zebby Matthews settled down and the bats just kept
19:21
Speaker 1: coming and it was Alan Roadin. I kind of forgot
19:24
Speaker 1: that he was the one who had the hit that
19:26
Speaker 1: that gave them the lead there in the bottom of
19:28
Speaker 1: the third, But an immediate response in the bottom half
19:31
Speaker 1: of that inning, like if that happening doesn't go that way,
19:35
Speaker 1: who knows. But at the right time they came through Tyler.
19:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's one that it's pitchers, especially the shutdown
19:43
Speaker 2: inning is such a common thing that's thrown around in
19:47
Speaker 2: that dugout, especially within the pitching group, because it's such
19:51
Speaker 2: a huge kind of you know, grab a hold of
19:55
Speaker 2: of who you got in your hand and don't let
19:57
Speaker 2: them move. You know, you've got your guy penned. You
19:59
Speaker 2: put up the respot whatever it is. You know, in
20:02
Speaker 2: our case, it was we come back and tie the
20:04
Speaker 2: game or take the lead, I think, and you need
20:06
Speaker 2: to go out there and put up a zero. You know,
20:08
Speaker 2: get your guys right back in the dugout as quick
20:10
Speaker 2: as you can, keep the momentum building. And that's part
20:13
Speaker 2: of the art of pitching. It's sometimes you just need
20:17
Speaker 2: to go attack guys, not because you're trying to make
20:19
Speaker 2: them hit the ball or do anything else. It's to
20:21
Speaker 2: get back in the dugout because then you go out there,
20:24
Speaker 2: you have another long inning. You got to mount visit
20:26
Speaker 2: things like that. That steam work starts to run out
20:29
Speaker 2: and it's one of those that it just builds and
20:31
Speaker 2: it's infectious. You know, today is a perfect example. You know,
20:35
Speaker 2: the right guys kept getting their hits, getting their singles,
20:37
Speaker 2: and you know, the one inning, I think we had
20:39
Speaker 2: five or six singles, we almost battered around or did
20:42
Speaker 2: bat around. I think it was a third. And you
20:44
Speaker 2: know that's one that just unrelenting pressure matters. And you know,
20:48
Speaker 2: when you can get your guys right back up there,
20:50
Speaker 2: get them swinging the bat again, it pays dividends. And
20:53
Speaker 2: you know, you saw it, guys. I mean, we put
20:55
Speaker 2: up fourteen hits or fifteen you know that that's a
20:58
Speaker 2: game like did you need all those No? Did you
21:01
Speaker 2: need all those runs?
21:02
Speaker 3: No?
21:02
Speaker 2: But it's great to, like you said earlier, be able
21:05
Speaker 2: to sit back and just take a breath and be like, man,
21:07
Speaker 2: we're just having fun playing baseball to day. We're not
21:09
Speaker 2: worried about the score right now. We're not worried about
21:11
Speaker 2: defense or anything. It's just just finished these nine innings
21:13
Speaker 2: and we get to go to dinner and and that's
21:16
Speaker 2: the way. I mean, it's the best feeling ever. You've
21:18
Speaker 2: got a Sunday day game. I don't know what the traveler, sorry,
21:21
Speaker 2: not Sunday, whatever, Wednesday. You know, I don't know what
21:24
Speaker 2: travel looks like tonight for the Iowa game. I guess
21:27
Speaker 2: it's pretty close.
21:27
Speaker 3: It looks like it. No, it's tomorrow. Everybody travel tomorrow.
21:31
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, so it's a we're like, not.
21:33
Speaker 3: A hotel town. This is not they do not have.
21:37
Speaker 3: There's no Ritz in the Diresville, Iowa.
21:41
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21:46
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22:52
Speaker 1: Yes, the Twins are going to Iowa. There was a
22:55
Speaker 1: there was a wonderful promotional video that I saw the
23:00
Speaker 1: Twins tweeted out of Josh Bell just walking down some
23:04
Speaker 1: soft tossing to himself and just hitting balls into someone's
23:07
Speaker 1: scorn field.
23:08
Speaker 2: I really wish they wuld have recut that because he
23:09
Speaker 2: definitely top spunted into that was not that was not
23:13
Speaker 2: a well struck baseball.
23:15
Speaker 1: Let him get into one a little bit when they.
23:18
Speaker 3: Even did that, like that appears to be warm weather.
23:22
Speaker 2: So yeah, mick Abel was in there. You know, they
23:24
Speaker 2: had the all the they had the guys in there.
23:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, or if that was green screen. I don't know
23:30
Speaker 3: if that was green screen. But I would like to
23:33
Speaker 3: think that they made them go somewhere to Iowa or
23:36
Speaker 3: somewhere in like south the southern part of Minnesota to
23:39
Speaker 3: find some cornfields and and you don't have to go
23:42
Speaker 3: too far, you don't. So, but yes, they're going to Iowa.
23:48
Speaker 3: They will fly on Thursday morning.
23:50
Speaker 1: By the way, can I put you on the screen now?
23:52
Speaker 2: Dan?
23:52
Speaker 1: Am I clear to Okay?
23:54
Speaker 2: Yeah? Dan has his pants back on.
23:58
Speaker 3: It wasn't that I didn't have pants on, you know,
24:01
Speaker 3: It was that I was sewing them. Was no anyways,
24:05
Speaker 3: So basically, the Twins are headed to Iowa Thursday morning.
24:11
Speaker 3: The forecast does not look awesome right now for Thursday
24:15
Speaker 3: night's game. There's a rain delay game, or there's a
24:19
Speaker 3: day off on Friday, which I guess we could make
24:21
Speaker 3: up the game Friday, but you know, it's the middle
24:25
Speaker 3: of August and it's Iowa, so I think anything's on
24:27
Speaker 3: the table, as we've seen from some of the weather
24:29
Speaker 3: this week. But both teams will fly in Thursday morning.
24:33
Speaker 3: It's a one off. You know, this is a special game.
24:37
Speaker 3: There's not it's not near any big cities. It's it's
24:41
Speaker 3: a little bit challenging for everyone to pull off. And
24:45
Speaker 3: that's why I think they've kind of done it. This
24:47
Speaker 3: is the first one I think since twenty twenty two.
24:49
Speaker 3: It might be may have been a four year break,
24:52
Speaker 3: but it's on Netflix. It's a really cool event, like
24:55
Speaker 3: it should be a lot of fun. Tickets are ridiculous.
24:59
Speaker 3: Friends bought some. They're like, yeah, yeah, I had some
25:02
Speaker 3: friends spend about twenty nine dollars each for their tickets.
25:06
Speaker 2: Yep.
25:06
Speaker 3: Which that's one of the.
25:11
Speaker 2: Worst is if it does rain, like you said, it
25:14
Speaker 2: may rain, you ain't going anywhere because we're gonna play
25:17
Speaker 2: this game tonight. So it's gonna be it's gonna be
25:19
Speaker 2: a long well, I mean whatever.
25:23
Speaker 3: That's why that Thursday is that's why the Friday is
25:25
Speaker 3: there though in case they have to push it. But
25:27
Speaker 3: but the thing is is with the lack of hotels,
25:30
Speaker 3: lack of major league hotels, and look, I understand normal
25:35
Speaker 3: fans would fans would definitely wonder like major League the
25:42
Speaker 3: teams have to stay at like a certain quality of hotel, like.
25:46
Speaker 2: It's four stars and above.
25:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's something like there's a requirement. Those hotels don't
25:52
Speaker 3: exist anywhere near this. So I don't know what they're
25:56
Speaker 3: gonna do if they if they rain it out, because
25:58
Speaker 3: like my night in this Super eight, you have player
26:01
Speaker 3: like write that story somewhere down the road. It's getting
26:04
Speaker 3: back to the it's getting back to the minor league days,
26:07
Speaker 3: the union and complaint.
26:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't just stay at the farmhouse.
26:13
Speaker 8: Come on.
26:14
Speaker 3: Probably not, Probably all of these one officer are definitely
26:21
Speaker 3: logistically a little bit challenging. London Series when they play
26:24
Speaker 3: there williams Port they do that every year. You know,
26:29
Speaker 3: there's so many of these in Mexico City. They've rolled
26:32
Speaker 3: out that a couple of times. Like, there's always challenges
26:35
Speaker 3: because whether it's the stadium not being necessarily a major
26:38
Speaker 3: league stadium and wondering about the quality of the field.
26:42
Speaker 3: I don't think that's the case here at all, but
26:44
Speaker 3: I mean, like there's always logistical challenges that come into play.
26:47
Speaker 3: In twenty eighteen, Zach can probably recall this when I
26:51
Speaker 3: just started with the Athletic and he was my direct editor.
26:54
Speaker 3: We went to Puerto Rico. Uh and Duff was on
26:57
Speaker 3: this trip, right were you? So I luckily, luckily I
27:02
Speaker 3: missed it. I was down for like that week, thank god,
27:05
Speaker 3: because that was the trip of hell.
27:08
Speaker 8: Yeah.
27:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like the they had a power outage because remember
27:13
Speaker 3: this isn't after like a two day game, Maria. Yeah,
27:16
Speaker 3: and and like the whole island is out of power,
27:19
Speaker 3: and they just used a bunch of generators to play
27:23
Speaker 3: the game, like it required thirty generators to run the game.
27:26
Speaker 2: It was so crazy.
27:28
Speaker 3: The weather was like, you know, through the roof hot,
27:31
Speaker 3: and you're like going from frigid, like the Twins had
27:34
Speaker 3: been snowed out against the White Sox at home the
27:37
Speaker 3: weekend before, and then all of a sudden, we're in
27:38
Speaker 3: eighty five in humidity. And that's an old stadium and
27:42
Speaker 3: they played the World Baseball Classic there this year, but
27:44
Speaker 3: it's an old stadium. The press box is old. It's
27:47
Speaker 3: you know, you're you're definitely changing the quality of the venue,
27:52
Speaker 3: like the A's that series in Vegas at this year,
27:56
Speaker 3: like when you have the one off thirty just a
27:58
Speaker 3: challenges are real. Yeah, ninety two mile on hour fly balls,
28:02
Speaker 3: and I wouldn't be shocked if we see some cheapy
28:05
Speaker 3: home runs in this couple games or in this game
28:08
Speaker 3: in Iowa, because you know, there's a lot of humidity
28:11
Speaker 3: and there's no stadium, there's no no.
28:15
Speaker 2: There's one ball last night that flew. That ball to
28:17
Speaker 2: right field, kicked somebody almost hit the scoreboard as the
28:20
Speaker 2: guy was like adjusting it. One of the I think
28:22
Speaker 2: it was a Riety hit a ball opo almost to
28:25
Speaker 2: that score pond. So yeah, balls carrying.
28:28
Speaker 3: When when the White Sox played there, I think it
28:31
Speaker 3: was twenty twenty one, Tim Anderson hit one as real.
28:35
Speaker 3: You know, he went to right center as a righty
28:38
Speaker 3: and just crushed it. So the concept is very cool. Look,
28:43
Speaker 3: it's the Field of Dreams. Everybody watched that movie growing up.
28:46
Speaker 3: Anybody that's a baseball fan watch that movie growing up.
28:49
Speaker 3: Most of those baseball fans loved it. Obviously, you know,
28:53
Speaker 3: not every movie is one hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
28:56
Speaker 3: But it was a beloved movie, right and there's so
29:00
Speaker 3: many iconic moments from it. So the idea that we're
29:03
Speaker 3: going to do it is cool.
29:05
Speaker 2: But it'll be you.
29:07
Speaker 3: Know, it could be very high scoring, it could be
29:09
Speaker 3: unlike a lot of games you see played, just because
29:12
Speaker 3: the conditions are new and challenging the batter's eye, everything
29:15
Speaker 3: like that. It should be a pretty wild.
29:17
Speaker 1: Event, especially if they have to sleep in a barn.
29:20
Speaker 2: I mean, that would that would be that would be awesome.
29:22
Speaker 2: That's not what's happening.
29:23
Speaker 1: Next Luxury tents, Luxury tents exactly. It's It's also the
29:28
Speaker 1: beginning of a very big stretch for the Twins. Nine
29:31
Speaker 1: tough games ahead Philadelphia, then Atlanta, then at San Diego,
29:34
Speaker 1: all teams in the playoff mix in the National League,
29:38
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and San Diego fighting for wildcard spots, Atlanta leading
29:42
Speaker 1: the East. But Taj Bradley Aaron Nola is supposed to
29:44
Speaker 1: be six thirty pm on Netflix. We'll see if that
29:47
Speaker 1: actually holds up, but certainly enjoy it. It is a
29:51
Speaker 1: visual spectacle and a rare opportunity for the Twins and
29:55
Speaker 1: their fans to be able to see that, but also
29:58
Speaker 1: an important game. They got to keep the wins coming
30:00
Speaker 1: to keep the bats going. So maybe a weird condition
30:04
Speaker 1: farm game is right up their alley right now. I
30:06
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll find.
30:06
Speaker 9: Out, but hey, the one two things I just want
30:10
Speaker 9: to mention the Trevor Larnick tag up on Royce Lewis
30:15
Speaker 9: sack fly today and in the first first in and
30:19
Speaker 9: I think Lewis Holmes hit a home run, hits the wall,
30:22
Speaker 9: Larnick took second.
30:24
Speaker 3: That was like a tailtale. The Twins are kind of
30:27
Speaker 3: dialed back in. And then Cody Clements because we to
30:30
Speaker 3: collectively have talked about defensive runs saved.
30:33
Speaker 2: And I would think, oh gosh.
30:35
Speaker 3: To Cody Clemens. Definitely added to the luster.
30:40
Speaker 2: Three.
30:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeff Hoffman got in a little trouble in the
30:44
Speaker 3: seventh inning and Cody Clemens made a catch on a
30:46
Speaker 3: ball that had a nine to fifty expected average and
30:50
Speaker 3: at least saved one, if not two runs there. So
30:53
Speaker 3: I just wanted to get those thoughts out there before
30:55
Speaker 3: we wrap up.
30:55
Speaker 2: Here's the things they haven't been doing well. Roger with
31:00
Speaker 2: Troy Hawkins tenth all time and appearances for the Minnesota Twins.
31:04
Speaker 2: That's really sweet. Definitely, Yeah, so I missed that. Take
31:07
Speaker 2: cross for Troy. Take a seat in the.
31:09
Speaker 10: Back, Coach, Take a seat in the back, Coach, Hawkins.
31:16
Speaker 10: When you do things poorly for a while and then
31:20
Speaker 10: start doing them well again, good things can happen.
31:22
Speaker 1: Twins, two wins in three games. They'll try to make
31:25
Speaker 1: it three and four. At the Field of Dreams and Games.
31:28
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31:41
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31:43
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Speaker 2: Bye bye,