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Twins crush Tigers, Walker Jenkins homers and Joe Ryan gets closer · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: Save some of those runs for the rest of the month, boys.
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  Speaker 1: Holy cow. The Twins crushed the Tigers the last two nights.
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  Speaker 1: 11-1 on Monday. 15-2 on Tuesday. In a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days full of superlatives. It's the first time all year
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  Speaker 1: the Twins have scored 10 runs or more back-to-back. The
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  Speaker 1: Monday win equaled their largest margin of victory in the season.
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  Speaker 1: And then Tuesday surpassed it with a 13-run win. They're
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  Speaker 1: almost single-handedly turning around their season run differential this week. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: three straight wins now for the Twins after they also
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  Speaker 1: won the finale against the White Sox. One more to
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  Speaker 1: go against the Tigers on Thursday. And 4.3 percenters. Hang
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  Speaker 1: in there. These two nights were for you. No matter
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  Speaker 1: what happens from here, clear highlight of the season the
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  Speaker 1: last two nights. Tyler's ready for October baseball. If you're
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  Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, you're noticing that we have a new
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  Speaker 1: bell and whistle singular at the bottom of the screen,
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  Speaker 1: a little ticker. We also have some new graphics that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to show out. I have not had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to practice a lot of this, so bear with me,
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  Speaker 1: but here's our new standings graphic rather than a screenshot
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  Speaker 1: from The Athletic. We have this interactive graphic right here.
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  Speaker 1: You see the Twins three and a half back now
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  Speaker 1: in the wildcard. They gained a half game because Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: was off on Monday. Guardians did win last night over
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  Speaker 1: in the AL Central. Twins picked up some ground on
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  Speaker 1: Chicago also on Monday, but then, uh, White Sox won
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  Speaker 1: last night. So six and a half back still in
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  Speaker 1: the central 67 and 72 overall guys. And in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games where they absolutely had to have it, uh, they,
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  Speaker 1: they had, they had to respond. They had to win Dan.
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  Speaker 1: They got it done big time.
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  Speaker 2: Plus 27 run differential since, uh, the start of Sunday's game.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane. Uh, you know, You felt like it was
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  Speaker 2: a good win on Sunday against the White Sox just
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  Speaker 2: to get things going because the White Sox are a
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  Speaker 2: good team and they've been playing great and the Twins
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  Speaker 2: have just looked so terrible. I mean, you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: like what that stretch was. You sweep Atlanta and then
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  Speaker 2: you go to San Diego and get swept, lose two
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  Speaker 2: of three in Sacramento, lose two of three to the
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  Speaker 2: White Sox and feel pretty defeated. And they get that
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  Speaker 2: one good win on Sunday just to kind of change
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  Speaker 2: things around and Get some good feelings back. And Walker
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins obviously is there. There's some rookie energy. And now
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  Speaker 2: they're really feeling it. Playing a Detroit team that sort
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  Speaker 2: of looks disinterested, but you face some pretty good pitching
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  Speaker 2: for their two games. But, I mean, like that defense
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  Speaker 2: has just– wow. The defense is wow.
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  Speaker 3: So bad.
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  Speaker 2: Like really, that's all I can say.
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  Speaker 1: We thought we had it bad watching the Twins, but
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, that was some bad defense.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I would love to know what the pride of
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  Speaker 2: San Diego State, number two, you know, I'm the pride
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  Speaker 2: of San Diego State, but what the pride of San
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  Speaker 2: Diego State, Troy Melton, is feeling like after the Dylan
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  Speaker 2: Dingler throw into left field and a couple plays by
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  Speaker 2: Gleyber Torres last night. But, hey, here's the thing. The
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  Speaker 2: Twins needed this. The Twins jumped all over it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: 15 batters sent to the inning in the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 2: 15 batters sent to the plate in the sixth inning,
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  Speaker 2: 10 runs, just an incredible stretch of taking advantage. Royce
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  Speaker 2: Lewis hit the three run. Ryan Jeffers hit a three run.
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  Speaker 2: It just kept going and going. And all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden you realize it's been like 30 minutes and the
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  Speaker 2: twins are still batting. So, you know, you look at
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  Speaker 2: this and whatever, you play who you had. Like they
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  Speaker 2: just went through the buzzsaw. Now they get to play
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  Speaker 2: some of the teams that are, in the middle and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: they're taking advantage and it's, it's all you can do
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  Speaker 2: at this point because you just got to win. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you can win spectacularly, you got to
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  Speaker 2: feel pretty good. If you're a twin, I imagine going
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  Speaker 2: into the clubhouse with a game three ahead, having beaten
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  Speaker 2: Detroit the way they have the last two nights.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That box score is up on the screen. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube and, uh, my goodness, uh, Ryan Jeffers, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: you joked, there's going to be a drug test coming
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  Speaker 1: his way after the couple, a couple of days he had, but,
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  Speaker 1: but also Tyler, uh, uh, couple, another great starting from, uh,
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  Speaker 1: from Taj Bradley. And then yesterday, the, the, they went
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  Speaker 1: with the opener format with Andrew Morris and Connor Prelip
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  Speaker 1: put up five innings of three hit ball, kind of
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  Speaker 1: lost in the offensive explosion, but great to see that too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And guys are settling in. Um, you know, they're, they're
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  Speaker 6: trying to get Morris a different look. Um, You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's one of those guys you watch him throw and
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  Speaker 6: you try to figure out why he's giving up runs.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I think he's a guy who's just suffering.
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  Speaker 6: He throws everything hard. And sometimes that makes it weirdly
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  Speaker 6: easy for guys to adjust as a hitter. You know,
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  Speaker 6: they don't have to respect that you're going to take
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  Speaker 6: a bunch of velo off. You know, I'm sure they're
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  Speaker 6: exploring all the different avenues to try to get around that.
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  Speaker 4: But Prelip came in, did his job.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's a weird spot for him, especially– this
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  Speaker 6: year he's been starting and to have to warm up
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  Speaker 6: in the bullpen and, and move around. We've seen that historically,
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of a coin toss, how it's going to go. Um,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and he, he seemed to settle in pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they had some lefties in that lineup for
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  Speaker 6: him and things like that, but you know, to Dan's
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  Speaker 6: point and yours, it was, it was good to see
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  Speaker 6: them have an opportunity and just step on the throttle
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  Speaker 6: and put their foot through the floor and just go because, um,
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  Speaker 6: That's one thing they haven't really done a whole lot of.
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  Speaker 6: There were spurts where they put up 10 or 11 runs,
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  Speaker 6: but to have a moment like that where the lineup
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  Speaker 6: literally almost goes around twice, it's huge for momentum. It's
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  Speaker 6: huge for showing up to the yard this morning for
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  Speaker 6: this day game they got today.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a day game. No, it's a night game. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: another night game.
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  Speaker 7: Perfect.
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  Speaker 6: Late night, last night, get your feet back on you.
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  Speaker 6: But the vibes are going to be great today. It's
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  Speaker 6: one when you put up runs like that and you
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  Speaker 6: pitch well, and you play good defense, and you watch
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  Speaker 6: the other team scuffle, throwing balls around. That play at
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  Speaker 6: third was eerily similar to the one, I think it
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  Speaker 6: was Sano, a few years back, where we literally had
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  Speaker 6: the same play happen, and it saved us. I think
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  Speaker 6: it was like a one-run game at the time. When
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  Speaker 6: you see the other team scuffle, and you do your job,
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  Speaker 6: and everyone handles their job for that day, it's just
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  Speaker 6: a total team win in every aspect. It's a huge
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  Speaker 6: momentum shift that they need right now.
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  Speaker 4: It's three in a row. show up today.
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  Speaker 6: Detroit's going to be licking their wounds today. It's one,
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  Speaker 6: come out, try and sweep these guys today and just
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  Speaker 6: keep building because you've got to sweep at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Some of these series within your division.
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  Speaker 6: If you want a shot at it and getting the
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  Speaker 6: actual central, you've got to just beat up on these
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  Speaker 6: guys and let them know you're not here just for fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for these last few days, obviously, It would be
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  Speaker 1: hard to stomach a loss in the third one after
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  Speaker 1: these two routes. And you're right, everything at a premium.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, right after this, back against Chicago
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  Speaker 1: on the road this time. Then Cleveland comes in for
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  Speaker 1: a huge one. Then the Yankees, it's like there's just
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  Speaker 1: no letup in the schedule right now. And they need
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  Speaker 1: every win they can get for sure. But Ryan Jeffers,
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  Speaker 1: there were plenty of offensive stars. He may have been
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  Speaker 1: the star of all. Four for seven the last two days.
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  Speaker 1: Three homers. and seven RBIs. It had been a very
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  Speaker 1: rough month for him. I was trying to get the
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  Speaker 1: stats pulled up here, but they're not cooperating. But it
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  Speaker 1: was a huge breakout and certainly something the Twins were
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  Speaker 1: counting on when they opted to hang on to him
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  Speaker 1: at the trade deadline, even with his future in question, Dan.
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  Speaker 2: He had a 617 OPS in August, going into the
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  Speaker 2: last two days of August. His other OPSs for the
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  Speaker 2: season are like 983 the first month, 930 the second month,
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  Speaker 2: And then 893 was his slow month, right, in July.
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  Speaker 2: And he had a 617 in August until Sunday. And
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  Speaker 2: he had, I think, a two-hit day. And he had
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  Speaker 2: a double to right center that really kind of woke
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  Speaker 2: him up. But, I mean, like, you looked at that
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  Speaker 2: White Sox series, and I talked to him about it
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  Speaker 2: last night afterwards. And, you know, he popped up three times.
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  Speaker 2: He struck out a bunch. He grounded out with the
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  Speaker 2: two runners on Friday to end the game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a very rough over six with three pop-ups,
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  Speaker 2: two strikeouts in that ground out. And he had the
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  Speaker 2: pass ball. I mean, it was just not, he did
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  Speaker 2: not look himself and, you know, to come through. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he changes OPS from six 17 to like seven 30
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  Speaker 2: in two days in August, just by finishing that well.
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  Speaker 2: And really they, they need him to get going. They
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  Speaker 2: need Trevor Larnik to get going. They need Cody Clements
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  Speaker 2: to get going. All those guys had, pretty terrible, like
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  Speaker 2: just not the August that they wanted. I think sub
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  Speaker 2: 700 OPS is in a few cases, sub 600 OPS is,
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  Speaker 2: and you've seen all those guys contributing these last few days. Um,
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  Speaker 2: one reason I think that that is, is partly true
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  Speaker 2: is you have that bottom of the lineup is, is
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  Speaker 2: helping like, like Kalen Culpepper and, and Walker Jenkins down there.
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  Speaker 2: There was a walk that Walker Jenkins, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about him a little bit more later, but there was
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  Speaker 2: a walk he took.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, yeah. You know, that just kept the inning going.
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  Speaker 2: Turning it over. Yeah, those were some nasty pitches they saw.
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  Speaker 4: Professional.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And so what you're doing is then you're setting
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  Speaker 2: the table because Luke Kieschel is just incredibly– Nobody look
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  Speaker 2: at him. Don't touch him. You can't stay on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's been three and a half months now for
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  Speaker 2: Luke Kieschel. His on base is over 400– Since basically
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  Speaker 2: May 2, and since he moved to the leadoff spot
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  Speaker 2: 14 games ago, his OPS is over 900. So when
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  Speaker 2: you have Culpepper and James... putting pressure on at the
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  Speaker 2: bottom and then Kieschel's at the top hot, you're setting
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  Speaker 2: up your middle-of-your-order guys very nicely. And Jeffers hit the
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  Speaker 2: three-run homer. I believe that's random stat. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: like only his second-ever or third-ever three-run homer at Target Field. But–
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  Speaker 2: It was a laser. And he said– I talked to
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  Speaker 2: him specifically about his August. He said, my process, even
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  Speaker 2: though I was struggling, my process was good. I liked
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  Speaker 2: what I was doing. I was making good swing decisions.
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  Speaker 2: And then the last couple of days I got away
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  Speaker 2: from that. He said he had just been missing hittable
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  Speaker 2: pitches for most of the month. And then Friday and
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  Speaker 2: Saturday he just felt off. And then we saw it
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  Speaker 2: the last two days. I mean, or the last three
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  Speaker 2: days now. He got a cookie of a slider. just
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  Speaker 2: hanging and hit a 108 last night. And it's critical
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  Speaker 2: because Jeffers is trying to become a free agent. He
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  Speaker 2: needs a free agent drive here. And if he has
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  Speaker 2: a good free agent drive, that means the twins are
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  Speaker 2: going to benefit like just massively. Because if Jeffers can
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  Speaker 2: put up another 980 OPS in September, in your middle
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  Speaker 2: of your order is taking advantage of all these run
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  Speaker 2: guys on base. it's going to be great for him
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  Speaker 2: as a free agent. It's going to be great. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to score a lot of runs. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: the guy that can, everybody else can feed off of
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  Speaker 2: in the middle. Cause he, he has just been really,
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  Speaker 2: he's been money all season. He's been able, capable of
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  Speaker 2: carrying them all season and they need that back again.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, I kind of blacked out while you were talking.
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  Speaker 1: So apologies if you already brought this up, but I
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  Speaker 1: think the, I do that sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest thing, I.
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  Speaker 2: Do people to sleep. It's how we have, It's how
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  Speaker 2: we keep our viewers. They fall asleep while it's on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. It plays till the end.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest swing of the game to me was Royce's Homer.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, he hasn't been playing very well either.
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  Speaker 1: So just crushed that ball and made it seven to
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  Speaker 1: one in that, in that to kind of get that
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  Speaker 1: 10 run six inning going. But it was just, it's
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  Speaker 1: the type of hit Tyler that they have. They just
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  Speaker 1: so often didn't get in August. Like, to either break
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  Speaker 1: a game open or to get back into a game. And,
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  Speaker 1: and there it was finally. And that was sort of
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  Speaker 1: the nail in the coffin.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And for a guy that needed it, it was, you know,
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  Speaker 6: he Royce, you could tell he knew he got it
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  Speaker 6: right away. He gave it a little pimp and, you know,
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  Speaker 6: it gets the crowd going and, you know, it's just,
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  Speaker 6: it's teammates want their teammates to do well. And it's
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  Speaker 6: one of those things, especially these last two days, it's energy. Just,
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  Speaker 6: it builds on itself. It's, You see one guy do it,
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  Speaker 6: and you see a guy who's maybe been struggling to
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  Speaker 6: get a couple hits or drive a ball out to
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  Speaker 6: dead center, absolutely get a hold of one. It's fun
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  Speaker 6: to see. To Jeffers, it's late in the season. He's
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  Speaker 6: been playing all year. He had the hamate issue.
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  Speaker 4: He came back.
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  Speaker 6: It's one historically. You talk to guys historically. This time
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  Speaker 6: of the year rolls around. You start swinging a lighter bat.
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  Speaker 6: You change some things, not because you feel any different
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  Speaker 6: it's just your body's just worn out and he's been
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  Speaker 6: catching a lot doing things like that and you know
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  Speaker 6: it's he's getting his footing you know in the box
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  Speaker 6: and and that's all you can ever hope for at
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  Speaker 6: this point and you know if Buck's going to be
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  Speaker 6: out long term you need him like Dan said to
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  Speaker 6: be there you need guys like Josh Bell to be
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  Speaker 6: up with runners on base to get some pitches to
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  Speaker 6: hit you know hit his singles and take them you
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  Speaker 6: know he's I think he's leading the team in RBIs
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  Speaker 6: you know, Clemens is getting hot. He hit his Homer
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  Speaker 6: last night. You know, he said a couple of us
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  Speaker 6: a week. It's just, it's, it's fun to see this
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  Speaker 6: is seemingly they're turning back into the team. That was
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  Speaker 6: right before the break where it was, they're making a push.
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  Speaker 6: They were forcing the hands of the front office to
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  Speaker 6: make some moves. And if they can do that with
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  Speaker 6: these pieces we've added, you know, that's the funny thing.
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  Speaker 6: We haven't even needed the bullpen for the last three days, basically.
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  Speaker 6: And it's, it's refreshing, you know, it's, And now when
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  Speaker 6: the time comes, guess what? Those guys are going to
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  Speaker 6: be fresh. They're going to have a little extra on
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  Speaker 6: their heater. They may be a little sharper, whatever you
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  Speaker 6: want to call it. But it's all stuff that builds
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  Speaker 6: on each other. And this moment, you know, we're officially September.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you're playing the teams you want to be beating.
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  Speaker 6: You haven't really seen them all this year, so there's
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  Speaker 6: not a lot of track record. Like, it's why not
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  Speaker 6: us at this point? And just keep your head down.
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  Speaker 3: And go, man.
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  Speaker 6: It's fun to watch baseball like this. everybody's settling in.
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  Speaker 6: Culpepper's doing his thing. He's getting more acclimated. You know,
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  Speaker 6: we'd like, we'd talk about Jenkins is getting long base,
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  Speaker 6: keeping the lineup moving. You know, it's, it's fun baseball.
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  Speaker 6: It's twins baseball at the end of the day, they
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  Speaker 6: got to pitch. Well, they're going to score some runs.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we can't expect 15 a night, but you
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  Speaker 6: can expect that five, six runs a night.
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  Speaker 4: And as long as you give up less than that,
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  Speaker 4: the recipe works.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I expect 15 a night.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm really, but, uh, We've got a lot more
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. Walker Jenkins, Joe Ryan made his AAA start.
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  Speaker 1: All that right after this. In the meantime, please toss
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• 16:11
  Speaker 1: As bad as August was, the Twins now positive run
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: differential since August 5th somehow. after the last three games.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: A lot of close losses in that stretch, for sure.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: But it speaks to both just how remarkable those games
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: were for everybody. And also, I guess, the circumstances a
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: little bit. We haven't talked about Walker Jenkins' first Major
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: League home run yet.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Off of a position.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Player in the 9th. No, not the 9th, obviously.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: The 8th?
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: It was late in that game.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 8th.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: 8th, yeah. on uh on monday night it was mckinstry
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: that's right not kool-aid uh zach i should know that
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: um he had some hilarious comments after the game dan
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: obviously like first major league home run cool no matter
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: what but he was in a situation where uh he
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: was worried about not striking out against a position player
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: more than he was worried about hitting.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: That home run.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I'm just glad that he's already alleviated the concerns that
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: he might not be able to handle velocity. I mean,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: you know, take 37 miles per hour. Like the fact
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: that he was, you know, having to face that and
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: you could tell in the moment that it was just
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: hilarious because he knows what's up and he's in the
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: on deck circle and he's most guys when they're on the,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: in the on deck circle, they are not looking over
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: at the dugout. They're focused on the pitcher. They're, they're
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: dialed in trying to get timing down. And he's like
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: looking over and Derek Shelton's there and he's talking to
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: guys and you just don't see that very often. And
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: he said, Shelton said, if it gets three, I would
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: do not swing. So he got a strike early on
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: and he knew he wasn't, but his response was so hilarious.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: And I know we're gonna play the video in a second,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: so I won't, I won't waste it. But he, he,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: he managed to lock in. He was taking very similar
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: uppercut swings in, batting practice earlier and just pelting the
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: upper deck and in right field. So like it seemed
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: like he, he can get under a ball like that. And,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: and it sure just, it doesn't matter. It does not
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: matter that it was a position player. People are going
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: to remember that and say it, it does because like
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: if this guy hits 250 home runs in his career,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: if he has a great career, like everyone hopes he does,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to remember the first one. It's just one
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: amongst many because he did what he was supposed to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: and got the first one out of the way. He
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to go to bed now. He gets all
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: these firsts out of the way. He said it. I
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: asked him afterward. I was like, what was key for
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: you in slowing down the game? He said he thought
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: that the very first moment, which was a fly ball
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: out to him on Friday night, the very first batter,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I think Antonacci, I can't remember, But Antonacci flew out
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: to him, and the very first play, he got the ball.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: It found him, and it allowed him to go, okay,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and start breathing. And I think that's been evident since
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: we've seen him all this time is that he is
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: not making too much of things. He's slowed down, and
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: he has definitely enjoyed, like, been able to be himself.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Three pitches he saw on that at-bat, three fastballs, all blazing. 40, 38, 37.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: McKinstry losing the velocity really early on in the start.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I'm a little worried about that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: He was hitting the step-back jumper, too. He's lobbing and
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: running backwards in case they hit the line.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Drive at his head. Nice awareness by him. Yeah, it's
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: like I.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I get that you're not going to maybe celebrate it
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: as much as if you hit it off of an
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: actual pitcher, but would you rather he ground out or
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: like hit a loopy single or right? Like, you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he did what you're supposed to do. You don't hit
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: a home run.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: The lose lose there.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Anyway, here are, here's Walker Jenkins and his comments after
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that home run.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: 37 miles an hour.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: Dude, don't strike out. That's kind of what we got.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: I was like, I was fooling and fouled one off.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, no. It's like, let's just try
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: to put something in play. I mean, is that kind
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: of a nervous thing?
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I was more nervous for that than my normal pass,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: without a doubt.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: But I legit had coaches tell me, if you face
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: a guy like that, try to get off the foul pole.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: So it worked out. Is there some.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: Relief getting off the foul pole so it's easy to
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: get back and have some momentum? I mean, it's honestly
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: kind of a joke. Like, it was one of those things.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: That is not how I expected the first one to go.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: It's an absolute blessing. But it's one of those things,
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: you know, boys already give me a hard time about it,
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: so it was awesome.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: Were you having a conversation with the guys in the
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: dugout from the on-deck circle? It looked like you were, like,
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: talking a little bit, trying to just mentally gear up
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: for it or whatever. Well, first thing was, as Shelty goes,
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: if you get to 3-0, don't swing. I was like,
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: all right, I won't swing.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: And then I already got a strike, so I was like,
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: I don't have to worry about that, so we'll just
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: go up there and hack.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: That's it. Looked like you were laughing on the way
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: out to the field when you got the ovation. Was
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: that kind of a, what's that?
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: What's that moment?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: It was awesome, but I was getting cracked up.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: It's like people give me an ovation for hitting home
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: run off a position player.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: It was, it was great, but I was just enjoying
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: the moment. To be part of a win like this.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: I mean, this is a needed win and you guys
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: kind of get some good feelings in a way that
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: we're really needed.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, I, I think that's, I would think that's
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: pretty sweet too. It's awesome, man.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Winning is so much more fun than losing and, That's
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: what I've always said. Being on a group like this
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: that wants to go out and win every day, gosh,
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: it makes playing baseball a lot of fun.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Winning is so much more fun than losing.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Agreed with that for sure.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: But also, great T-shirt.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Hungry, why wait?
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Scriptures?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: That's fantastic.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: No, it was just a great reaction. Obviously happy, but
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: also seemed to– be cognizant of the fact that he's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: a human.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, you.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Can't, I mean, that was in, that was in multiple headlines. Dude,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: don't strike out is such a great reaction. Like that's hilarious. Yup.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Uh, in other news, uh, in other good news, I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: guess we had an episode all about bad news last time, but, uh,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: this time Joe Ryan made a rehab start with triple
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: a St. Paul also last night, Tuesday night, uh, and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: he looked pretty good, Tyler.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he got, I mean, what was it, four innings,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: three innings, he gave up a solo shot, which as
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: someone who played in Omaha, that's not easy, or sorry,
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: not hard to do. Balls kind of make their way
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: out regularly there, so, you know, to go and get
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: his feet under him, get some pitches out, get some
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: up-downs in, you know, obviously I haven't heard yet, I'm
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: not that tapped in, but, you know, seemingly no issues there,
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: like It looks like he's ready to go. From the
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: short clip, the one I saw, breaking stuff looks good.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Guys are swinging and missing. All the things we want
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: to see from Joe.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: I think sometimes velocity gets read into in those outings,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: but you're pitching in AAA in Omaha. You're not in
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: target field against a division foe. I think that'll all
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: tick up naturally without having to change anything, but Yeah,
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: seeing him go out for three, like we said the
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: other day, it's not an arm thing. It's just making
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: sure that back and hip feels right when he's on
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: the mound. And as long as that's there, I think
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: he's ready to hit the ground running. And it looks
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: like we're off to a good start. Yeah, I was
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: going to ask you about the velo. averaged 91.4 with
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: the fastball a little down but not not something to
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: be worried about you don't think tyler i i wouldn't
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: especially can you know who knows what travel was like
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: things like that you know and joe's such a as
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: we talked about a cerebral guy and you know so
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: aware of things and you know whether he was like
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: full throttle or not i would imagine he wasn't um
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: yeah so you know He was in there to paint,
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: get his hand feel. Because we can't forget, he was
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: battling mechanical stuff. So he's probably more concerned with how
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: it feels coming out of his hand and what pitches
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: are doing shape-wise than he is how hard he's throwing
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: The adrenaline of the big league ballpark.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Has this incredible power to just make you better at
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: everything at times. And this is a perfect example of it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: I don't think it's anything to worry about. And even
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: if it is a tick down for his first outing,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: if that means he's spotting up with everything, who cares?
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: You know, we've watched Bailey pitch all year doing what
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: he's doing. It's, it can be done.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: And, and Joe of all people, I think is very
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: capable of doing it. Danny, you agree?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. 92, six was the top below. Joe is one
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: of those guys that the situation will dictate what he
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: is doing. Like if he's in, Chicago next if he's
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: in Detroit next there will be 94s instead of 92
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: sixes I totally agree I think he treated it like
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I need to get out there and see what hitters
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: are doing and how they're looking at my pitches and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: knowing that he can get like it was just getting
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: those looks and and going through it and building up
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: and So I don't know if it'll be four and
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: 60 pitches next time. Uh, it was three and 42
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: last night, uh, four strikeouts, but I mean, could that
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: be in the majors? I don't know, but obviously they're
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: looking to slow down Connor prelips innings total. Uh, he
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: was at one 22 going into last night, one 22
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and two thirds pitch five innings last night. And everything
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: from Connor prelip was, was clean. Um, His velocities were
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: all up last night, but you have to think that
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Joe Ryan figures into the plans of helping Prelip either
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: maybe just step out of the rotation altogether, or maybe
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: they go to a six man. Because I think with
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: extra pitching now, you probably could take Joe back at
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: four innings and throw him in there. I don't know.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: It really depends on how quickly they want him back
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: in there, but this was a great step and now
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the key is how he responds today on a Wednesday and,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: and like how the body feels. But I imagine he's
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: in a good spot, both mentally and physically.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: We, uh, we got Walker Jenkins called up, stop the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: clamoring for that. Uh, but now there's another one prospect.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: On the farm.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Send him down. We got another guy who.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: To be fair, had been clamored for plenty before as well.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: But Emmanuel Rodriguez also in last night's game, uh, Sort
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of stole the spotlight from Joe Ryan by hitting for
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the cycle in order. Just a nice little, like if
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you're going to do it, that's the nice style.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: A natural cycle.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: A natural cycle, exactly. Pretty impressive stuff, Tyler. I mean,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: do we got to make room for him too?
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, the roster's expanded.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: I know they already made some moves, but I don't foresee, again,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: it's like you're calling up a guy just to call
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: him up.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: It's one of those....
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: He's probably a guy, much like Walker, that they want
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: to see play when he's up there, not sit on
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: the bench for a month, keep getting at bats, things
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: like that. But anytime you do something like hit for
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: the cycle, that doesn't really matter where you're at. There's
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: only been so many of those ever, and it's a
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: cool feat, accomplishment. It's exciting for everybody, and it's exciting
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: for fans. We've joked about covering these guys better.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: On the show.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: And this is a perfect example of stuff that happens
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: that obviously in AAA, you know, everyone's very aware of
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: who's there and it's so close in town, but you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: it's cool stuff happens a lot of times in minor
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: leagues and it kind of just goes under the radar.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: And, um, you know, it's, it's a pretty cool moment.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: It's, you know, I'm sure you'll keep a ball or something,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: you know, uh, it's like throwing, I think my first
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: out and we had like a no hitter, but still
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: gave up two runs in Cedar Rapids.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: So it's like, it's a cool moment, you know, but, um, yeah,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: If there's a spot for him, I guess we'll see
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: him soon, but maybe he'll hit it for another one
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: and force their hand.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: He returned from a thumb injury, which cost him basically
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: months on, let's see, it was July 28th. He played
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: about 10 games between Fort Myers and Cedar Rapids. It's
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: funny because he injured the thumb, and he was about
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to come up to the major leagues at that point.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: It was back in April or May. He was on
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the cusp. But basically he got to St. Paul on
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: August 11th, and in 16 games between August 11th and
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: last night, he's hitting 310, 437, 655, five homers, 12 RBIs.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: The power is there. He's out of options. It's an
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: interesting case because next year he just has to be
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: on a major league roster. Otherwise he's exposed. So you
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: would think this is a guy they'd like to see,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: but you don't know where you play him. Cause Luke
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Kieschel is not coming out of the lineup and Walker
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Jenkins is not coming out of the lineup and Josh
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Bell is not coming out of the lineup. And Trevor
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Larnik is back to hitting again. Um, like you, you're
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: looking at that and it's going like, and, and what
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: if Byron Buxton does get healthy and comes back? Like
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: there's just not, it's, it's a spot where they don't.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Have at bats.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Um, so I don't know how they make room, but
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: he has to be pissed. Like he was, he was ready.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: He's this guy is like, it's.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: It's good luck in timing talk to him it is
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: good luck.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: In time like yeah your entire career can come down
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to that kind of stuff and it's crazy because and
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: like he looks and sounds the part and spring training
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: he sounded like he was ready he wanted the media
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: he liked it um i talked to him i did
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: a story in spring training on gabby gonzalez walker jenkins
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: and And Emmanuel Rodriguez. And, like, what if they played together?
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: It almost could have happened this year. But Rodriguez, you know,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: the thumb injury really cost him. It's good to see
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: him doing what he's doing right now. And it's going
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: to be interesting to see what they do with him,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: with Larnik, with Matt Walner in the offseason. There's so
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: many decisions to make. The outfield is getting very crowded. Yeah.
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: It's getting very crowded in the outfield.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll have a lot of time to address off-season
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: questions at some point, although the Twins continue to stay
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: kicking in this wildcard race. Yeah, we're hoping for November.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Up next is the series finale tonight against the Tigers.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: It's Dean Kramer against Drew Anderson for Detroit, a righty
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: with a 3-8-7 ERA. Twins have done just fine with
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the Tigers pitching in the past two games, Tyler, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: certainly this is not a Not a must-win in the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: literal sense, but with Chicago, Cleveland, and the Yankees lurking
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: in the next three series and the good vibes from the.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: First two games of this one. There's a Detroit in there, too.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Sorry, lurking in the next four series, I meant to say. Yes,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: at Detroit after Chicago. Certainly, you want to get this
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: one with all the vibes from the last two days.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it's one.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: This is a game that has the potential to be
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: over early for the Twins.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Show up.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Knock them in the mouth.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: Early and just put this game on ice from the get-go.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: I think that can be done.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: You got Kramer going, who's, you know, he's going to
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: settle back down and do his thing. And, you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: we have all the fresh arms in the bullpen ready
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: to go. You know, some of them probably want to
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: get in the game, period, regardless of the game today.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: And so it's a great opportunity for a sweep. The
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: stars have kind of aligned for it to work out
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: well for them. You know, just come out swinging. I
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: think that's the biggest thing today. Like, Stick with the plans.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: At times, they've really picked apart some of these starters,
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: and I'm sure they've got a great plan against him
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: being a division foe. They've probably faced all these guys.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: And that's the cool thing. These young guys who've been
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: in St. Paul have faced Toledo probably a couple times
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: this year. Regardless of if these guys have been up
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: or down, back and forth, they've seen all these arms.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: And so there's a lot of familiarity, a lot of
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: opportunities for guys to get comfortable and get some good
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: swings off.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Show up early.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: Put up some runs early, keep that throttle down like
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: you have been, and put this one away early and.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Move on to the next.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Dean Kramer coming off his worst start as a twin
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: so far. Gave up seven hits and five runs in
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a loss to the White Sox last Friday. All I'll
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: say is it'll sure be helpful if Detroit can continue
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: to not throw or catch the ball properly.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: That's been nice to see.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: The twins are 7-2 against Detroit so far this year.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: And now the run differential has been very much changed
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: by this one because there was that June series where
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: the Twins, I think they lost two of three in Detroit,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: and Zebby got hit pretty good, and I think Taj
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: got hit pretty good. But the Twins have won seven
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: of nine.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Taj had the control stuff.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Detroit just seems– he did. By the way,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: we didn't mention him, and he was fantastic there tonight,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: by the way. Like that's two really good ones in
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: a row. And you can tell he's feeling it. We
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: talked to him for the first time in a long time. Um,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: post start.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, he spoke definitely feel.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's feeling it. And he's, uh, like you can
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: tell he's getting in a good rhythm and that's, that
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: timing is good, but yeah, like the tiger seemed disinterested. Um, like, and,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: and some of their young guys who were just on
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: fire earlier in the season, McGonigal was like impossible for
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: teams to get out. And he's, at least come back
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: to earth. And Dylan Dingler had an incredible first half.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: And we saw the error, but he's not hitting the
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: ball the same way. It does seem like they are
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: susceptible because the middle of that order early in the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: year was so nasty with Riley Green. They had some
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: extended lineup. They just gave pitchers fits. But if you're
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: the twins, you just got to take advantage of a
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: team when they're down right now. If you sweep them here,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: you put a real– dark thought in Detroit Ted next
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: week when they're home too, uh, because they're clearly, I
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: think they've lost 15 of 18 and, and they're not
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: doing well since scuba got traded.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: But they were at first, which was the wild part.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Right. Right. Right.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: After the deadline, they surged, they were at 500 or,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: or right there. And yeah, they were, yeah, they were.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Six, the coffee machine. Yeah.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Two or three from Cleveland at home were 60 and 61.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: And now, you know, a few weeks later, they're three
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and 14 since then. So, catching them while they're down
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and hoping to keep them that way for their own sake,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: We'll see how it goes.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: We will be back with you tomorrow to wrap up
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the Tiger Series, tee up another big weekend against Chicago. Thanks, everybody,
• 35:09
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• 35:15
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• 35:18
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• 35:19
  Speaker 7: Bye-bye.