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Royce Lewis, Byron Buxton key Twins' series win over Cardinals · Twin Cities Territory

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Speaker 1: The Twins win an exciting weekend series against the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: Royce Lewis and Byron Buxton stay scorching hot, Taj Bradley
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Speaker 1: bounces back with a stronger game than he's been showing
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Speaker 1: since his return from the injured list, and Ryan Kreidler
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Speaker 1: played the hero on Sunday. Plus, if I never see
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Speaker 1: Blaze Jordan again, I will be just fine with that.
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Speaker 1: But guys, this is Twin City's Territory You're Minnesota Twins
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Speaker 1: podcast on the File Territory Network. Zach Pierce, editor of
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Speaker 1: The Athletic, joined as always by Dan Hayes, The Athletics,
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins beat writer, and Tyler Duffy, former Minnesota Twins pitcher.
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Speaker 1: It was maybe not the most successful series of the
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Speaker 1: weekend or of the year. Excuse me, but I think
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Speaker 1: the most entertaining one. The Twins with a four times
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Speaker 1: coming back on Friday Night to win nine to eight,
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Speaker 1: almost came back on Saturday, brought the tying run the
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Speaker 1: plate in the ninth inning but couldn't get it done.
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Speaker 1: And then Sunday, the late substitution of Ryan Kreidler into
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Speaker 1: the game proved to be very key, as he scored
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Speaker 1: the tying knocked in the winning run, and made a
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Speaker 1: huge play to start off the ninth inning to get
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Speaker 1: an out. So, Dan, have you got your breath yet
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Speaker 1: from a long weekend?
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Speaker 2: No, I am all Royce Lewis all the time. At
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Speaker 2: this point, I am. You know, we are going to
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Speaker 2: go ahead and champion. What he's doing is he's coming
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Speaker 2: back and this team is feeling it. Byron Buckson was
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Speaker 2: already doing it, putting up this amazing season, and now
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Speaker 2: he's got a guy to help him carry some of
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Speaker 2: the weight. And Royce Lewis is handling it all. He's
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Speaker 2: not just hitting, he's hitting in the clutch. He's handling
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Speaker 2: first base very well. But I think even more important
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Speaker 2: is he's saying the right things and he is just
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Speaker 2: focused and I kind of like a renewed lease on life.
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Speaker 2: Like he got to go to the miners. Royce would
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Speaker 2: play a sandlot game and get enjoyment out of it. Right,
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Speaker 2: he loves baseball that much, but he knows the majors
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Speaker 2: is great. A couple of years ago when he came
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Speaker 2: up for the first time was in twenty twenty two, Duff.
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Speaker 2: It's when Carlos broke his finger. They thought that Carlos
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Speaker 2: broke his finger, and Royce came up and it's stuck
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Speaker 2: with me ever since. Then. Royce said, we're talking to
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Speaker 2: him in Oakland right before he got sent back down.
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Speaker 2: He's like, this is the greatest. It sounded like a
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Speaker 2: kid who had been at Summer. But he's talking about
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Speaker 2: crushing the buffet or the postgame spreads and how they
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Speaker 2: have steaks and like all this great food. Like Royce
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Speaker 2: loves being the majors and he has shown it right
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Speaker 2: now and it's infectious, and I think this team can
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Speaker 2: get a lot of mileage out of it with the
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Speaker 2: way he's hitten, with the way he's playing defensive first
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Speaker 2: and again just you know, being a good presence.
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Speaker 1: He's hit safely in seven of eight games since his
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Speaker 1: return to the lineup on June sixth, including the last
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Speaker 1: seven in a row. He was five for ten over
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Speaker 1: the weekend against the Cardinals with two home runs, including
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Speaker 1: the game tire on Friday night?
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Speaker 2: Is that right?
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Speaker 3: Dan?
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Speaker 2: Correct?
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Speaker 1: To make it eight eight late? That launched a rocket celebration,
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Speaker 1: And he had you mentioned some of his comments. Dan,
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Speaker 1: He had a quote after I'm not sure when this
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Speaker 1: was over the weekend. But Sunday, Yeah, this is Sunday.
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Speaker 1: This is in Dan's latest story on The Athletic But
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Speaker 1: he said, I'm just thinking a lot. I go home,
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Speaker 1: and I'm really tired right now because it's such a
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Speaker 1: mental thing. It's not a secondhand. I have to remember
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Speaker 1: to cut some relays, get by the mound and little
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Speaker 1: things like that. I'm still working in drying my bast
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Speaker 1: but I'm here for whatever it takes to win. And
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Speaker 1: it just reminded me so much, Tyler, of what you
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Speaker 1: said on Friday's show about how maybe it's good for
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Speaker 1: him to have something else to think about besides just
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Speaker 1: hitting the ball.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one that he's preoccupied. You know, he was
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Speaker 4: so wrapped up in the hitting, you know, to where
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Speaker 4: it started to spill over into his defense at third.
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Speaker 3: You know, he wasn't learning anything new.
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Speaker 4: It was simply Royce, you got to figure this out
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Speaker 4: kind of thing, and sometimes you don't have the answer.
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Speaker 4: And now it's you know, go to triple A. All right,
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Speaker 4: he's hitting the ball. Get him up here. Hey, now
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Speaker 4: you're going to play first base crash course with Mornie,
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Speaker 4: you know, pregame, you know, before a weekend series, and
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Speaker 4: it's there's a lot being thrown at him. But to
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Speaker 4: his credit, you know, the superstar potential he has, he's
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Speaker 4: doing it in stride and not blinking. You know, he's
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Speaker 4: tearing the cover off the ball. He's picking plays to
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Speaker 4: finish games. You know Kreidler's great play yesterday. You know,
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Speaker 4: he's he's doing everything that a pick like Royce and
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Speaker 4: a player like Royce should be doing. And it says
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Speaker 4: all that anybody can ask for. And you know who's
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Speaker 4: who's not to say he ends up playing first base
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Speaker 4: for the next fifteen years. You know, you never know
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Speaker 4: this how things happen. You know, injuries, whatever it may be,
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Speaker 4: call for you to do something, and sometimes it just sticks.
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Speaker 4: And you know it's so far, so good. You know,
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Speaker 4: we got to see how it goes continuing. But you
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Speaker 4: know what, five hits on the weekend and some good
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Speaker 4: plays like that, that's all you can ask for.
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Speaker 2: There was there was one example when I just want
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Speaker 2: to bring it up real quick. It was either Saturday
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Speaker 2: night or Friday night, but Royce was having an engaged
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Speaker 2: conversation with the umpire and it was like every pitch
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Speaker 2: you see him turn his head and start talking again,
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Speaker 2: and I mean, the pitch is hit, the go up
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Speaker 2: and Royce is already well into a conversation with him,
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, Okay, I gotta find out what this is.
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Speaker 2: So I go up totally Sunday's game and ask and
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Speaker 2: it was the most mundane conversation ever. I don't it
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Speaker 2: was so boring. I don't even remember. But he was
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Speaker 2: like engaged and they were like going back and forth.
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Speaker 2: And then he you know, he talked to the umpire
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Speaker 2: yesterday about the bang bang play in the ninth, just
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Speaker 2: talking to him and he told him, I don't even
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Speaker 2: know if we're gonna get this because it was bang bang, Like,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. It's just constant conversation. It's definitely a
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Speaker 2: good distraction. He's a he's a boisterous, gregarious guy, and
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Speaker 2: at third base you're on your own and you're not
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Speaker 2: talking anybody. Maybe you talk to the third base coach
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Speaker 2: once in a while, yeah, maybe you get the runner
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Speaker 2: once in a while. There's constant action at first base.
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Speaker 2: So I think this, combined with just trying to learn
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Speaker 2: the nuances first base, really is a good thing for
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Speaker 2: him and puts it out of his mind. He can
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Speaker 2: go out there and not worry about you know, at
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Speaker 2: bats he the number is overall it's three seventy nine,
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Speaker 2: four twenty four, seven fifty nine in June, but the
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Speaker 2: most important number. And by the way, Zach, you mentioned
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Speaker 2: the game tying homer on Thursday, also the game time
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Speaker 2: bases loaded single on Sunday. Yeah, four strikeouts and thirty
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Speaker 2: three played appearances right now, And you know between that
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Speaker 2: end of the eye el Ston and when he went
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Speaker 2: back down it was thirty four percent strikeout rate. So
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Speaker 2: now you know, I'm not a math whiz, but four
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Speaker 2: into thirty four is pretty damn or four into thirty
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Speaker 2: three is pretty damn good. It's like twelve and a
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Speaker 2: half percent or something like that. He's he's feeling it,
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Speaker 2: and they're gonna benefit from him feeling it because now
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Speaker 2: Byron Buckston has someone else to help carry that load.
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Speaker 1: I feel like we talk about Buckston on every show
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Speaker 1: with good reason, but we have to mention eight for
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Speaker 1: twelve over the week. And you see the stats there
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Speaker 1: on the bottom if you're watching on YouTube, but him
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Speaker 1: and Lewis combined thirteen for twenty two, four homers seven
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Speaker 1: RBI two homers each. Buckston now with twenty two alone
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Speaker 1: in third place in the BIGS, behind Kyle Schwarber and
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Speaker 1: Jordan Olivarez. You both have twenty four if you've got
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Speaker 1: We talked about this kind of teeing up the show
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Speaker 1: before we hit record guys. But you have two guys
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Speaker 1: in your lineup who are hitting like that, it makes
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Speaker 1: things easier for everyone else. And you can see it
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Speaker 1: in the numbers from the weekend. I mean, Cody Clemens
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Speaker 1: had four hits, Josh Bell had three hits, and night
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Speaker 1: at bats like there was there are opportunities that felt
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Speaker 1: like for other hitters with pitchers knowing those guys were
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Speaker 1: looming near in the near future in the lineup.
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Speaker 2: With Ryan Kreidler said it after the game yesterday, and
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Speaker 2: he said he knew buck was on deck when he
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Speaker 2: came up, and that he was going to get a
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Speaker 2: pitch because of Buckston's presence, and he worked as a bat,
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Speaker 2: he knew what he was looking for. He worked at
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Speaker 2: worked it, got the fastball, drove it into the gap
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Speaker 2: for you know, a steamroller double, and and he was
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Speaker 2: fired up when he got there, like it was like
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Speaker 2: a seven to eight pitch a bat and he just
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Speaker 2: kept he ended up getting a slider and he punished it.
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Speaker 2: But he was looking, looking, looking, and just kind of
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Speaker 2: knew what to do with the fastballs until he got
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Speaker 2: a fat pitch. That's that's, you know, a nice byproduct
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Speaker 2: of knowing that one of the best hitters in the
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Speaker 2: game is right behind you. But there is really good
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Speaker 2: pressure from the bottom of the lineup knowing that bucks
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Speaker 2: is up there because Luke Keishall on May two, he
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Speaker 2: had a five thirty one ops. He over the last month,
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Speaker 2: He's still not hitting for a lot of power. Average
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Speaker 2: still is like too eighty ish, but he's getting on base.
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Speaker 2: He's got a three seventy seven on base in the
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Speaker 2: usually batting eighth or ninth right now. So when the
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Speaker 2: lineup turns over, Buckson usually has a guy on in
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Speaker 2: front of him. Keyshall like finally has figured out how
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Speaker 2: to get going hit the home r and on Saturday
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Speaker 2: yesterday drew the one out walk to start the tye
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Speaker 2: and rally scored on. I can't remember Kreidler single or Buckston's.
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Speaker 2: I mean it was Buckston and Lewis with the singles
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Speaker 2: in the eighth to tie it. But then Keishall started
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Speaker 2: the ninth inning or the eighth inning game winning rally.
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Speaker 2: Sorry I'm getting my innings messed up, but it was
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Speaker 2: the seventh and the eighth. Yeah, there were I mean, honestly,
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Speaker 2: there were so many comebacks. Keishall had the one out
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Speaker 2: RBI double or the one out double that led to
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Speaker 2: the Kreidler double, and like when you have those guys,
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Speaker 2: they're benefiting and putting pressure on. And so Buckston's coming
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Speaker 2: up with guys on and you know, now Lewis is there.
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Speaker 2: They really just needed a run producer. Josh Bell's done
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Speaker 2: a fine job, but he's streaky and Lewis is streaky.
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Speaker 2: It's not saying that Louis isn't streaky, but Lewis just
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Speaker 2: being there to add some thump. They they've desperately need
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Speaker 2: someone else to step up and be a middle of
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Speaker 2: the order bat. And it all connects. This team is
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Speaker 2: eighth in the league and run out of all of baseball,
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Speaker 2: so the offense really hasn't been the issue. But imagine
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Speaker 2: this team was his eighth and runs in Royce Lewis
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Speaker 2: until last week has been not good. So what do
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Speaker 2: they do with Royce Lewis If he can sustain this?
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Speaker 2: I think that's really reason for optimism for the offense.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, small sample size for Royce since his return, but
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Speaker 1: it really couldn't be much better of a sample given
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Speaker 1: where he was at and where he's at now. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: we'll see if he can keep it up. I hadn't
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Speaker 1: paid much attention to the Cardinals prior to this weekend,
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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, But a lot of fun players on
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Speaker 1: that team. Yeah, and Blaize Jordan, who made his major
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Speaker 1: league debut this weekend probably chief among them. Had five hits,
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Speaker 1: a homer, a triple was kind of a thorn in
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Speaker 1: the side. He turned a double unassisted double play on
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Speaker 1: defense too. Just pretty lights out first three games of
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Speaker 1: a career for that guy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a nice little weekend for himself.
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Speaker 1: Not bad.
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Speaker 2: And I mean you throw Jordan Walker, Jordan Walker, Alec Purlson,
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Speaker 2: that's a good three four man. They can hit. They
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Speaker 2: they're similar to the Twins where it's like pitching's okay,
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Speaker 2: bullpen is. It's got some questions, but they can hit
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Speaker 2: and they do some things.
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Speaker 3: Burlson hit that ball way way back to right field too.
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Speaker 3: He hit one or two home runs, I can't remember.
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Speaker 1: You know, he got a hold of one bird listened
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Speaker 1: to Walker had that destruction of the baseball JJ Webering.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Walker's home run off of off Justin Lawrence, like
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Speaker 2: somebody Derek Gold of balls was touched. Yeah, it hit
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Speaker 2: the like it hit the face of the second deck
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Speaker 2: and I wanted the Richter scale reading because it had
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Speaker 2: to shake the building. It was four fifty four. It
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Speaker 2: got out in about three seconds. I mean it like
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Speaker 2: that was an impressive seventh inning for them against the dude.
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Speaker 4: I get worried times the ball goes up there because
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Speaker 4: that's where Nelson hit off of me after fake he
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Speaker 4: like fake injured his wrists and so I threw another
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Speaker 4: fastball and he hit one up there, And so anytime
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Speaker 4: a ball goes up.
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Speaker 3: There, I'm like, just don't talk about that one.
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Speaker 1: That's all.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 3: In the day, all of us.
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Speaker 1: Uh, it wasn't all great this weekend for the Twins.
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Speaker 1: The bullpen continues to be a major thorn in the
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Speaker 1: side at a ten eight oh e r A over
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Speaker 1: the weekend and still one of the one of the
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Speaker 1: the bullpen also just about every show. But uh, he
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Speaker 1: wasn't back to the early season top four. Maybe that
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Speaker 1: he was in Dan. But he looked a lot better
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Speaker 1: in Sunday's win than he has since returning from the IL.
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Speaker 2: Definitely a huge difference in body language. He was enjoying
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Speaker 2: himself out there. He felt much better. Look there was
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Speaker 2: Burlson hit a get me over curveball first pitch for
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Speaker 2: a home run. You know, guys, I'm guessing that happens
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Speaker 2: a lot where a guy, if you're looking to get
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Speaker 2: that first strike, you try to steal a curveball in
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Speaker 2: there sometimes and you just put it in the zone
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Speaker 2: and he hit it. The one spot where they got
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Speaker 2: Bradley was he lost his command very briefly and walked
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Speaker 2: batter I think on five pitches, and then left a
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Speaker 2: fastball in a hitter's zone and that was I can't
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Speaker 2: remember if that was Walker who hit that one, but
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Speaker 2: he left a fastball in the zone and it got
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Speaker 2: hit for a two run homer. That one little sequence
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Speaker 2: right there, the walk and the home run, it was
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Speaker 2: maybe ten pitches, was the only real downside he had.
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Speaker 2: He left with two runners on Bonda, couldn't get the inherited,
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Speaker 2: couldn't strand all the inherited runners. There was just this
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Speaker 2: flukish space hit whereon it through a sweeper about I
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Speaker 2: don't know, seven inches off the plate and left he
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Speaker 2: blooped it in the left field. So Bradley gave up
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Speaker 2: four runs. But really, I mean like he was throwing strikes.
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Speaker 2: He was getting swings and misses. All his secondary velocities
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Speaker 2: were up. He was commanding, and he recalled the start
18:18
Speaker 2: in Detroit, there was nothing even remotely close to the
18:21
Speaker 2: zone he threw to the backstop. He looked like Charlie
18:24
Speaker 2: Sheen preglasses in Major League in Detroit, and it's because
18:30
Speaker 2: the ball was wet like and doveew. We've talked about
18:32
Speaker 2: that bazillion times, but like Bradley refused to make excuses
18:36
Speaker 2: for himself after Detroit even though everybody couldn't grip the ball,
18:40
Speaker 2: And to me, that said a lot. Yeah, I loved
18:43
Speaker 2: I actually loved hearing that from Bradley. He was like, Hey,
18:47
Speaker 2: he's just being accountable. I should have been better, I
18:49
Speaker 2: should have been able to pitch around that, and he
18:52
Speaker 2: really went like he's always been hard at work, but
18:55
Speaker 2: he and Pete Mackie found something this week and he
18:59
Speaker 2: just he just looked so different. And that's a great
19:01
Speaker 2: sign for them. Because I ran the stats in the story.
19:05
Speaker 2: I think the Twins starting staff in nineteen games before
19:10
Speaker 2: this was like three and nine with the six ninety
19:13
Speaker 2: two e er in between the Boston series when they
19:18
Speaker 2: swept and going into yesterday's finale, So they need some rotation.
19:23
Speaker 2: They need more than Joe Ryan to go six or
19:26
Speaker 2: sevilities and TODs. Bradley I think is well on the
19:30
Speaker 2: road to kind of recovery there on that.
19:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he looked good.
19:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you said, there's a couple of pitches here there,
19:38
Speaker 4: but it's it's getting sharper. You know, who knows how
19:41
Speaker 4: he really felt when he got activated. You know, he
19:43
Speaker 4: probably felt good.
19:44
Speaker 3: Was that good enough or not?
19:46
Speaker 4: Who knows, but you know, right also kind of in
19:48
Speaker 4: a spot where they needed him back, and so they're
19:51
Speaker 4: they're not gonna they're not gonna convince him not to
19:54
Speaker 4: come back, you know. But at the same time as
19:57
Speaker 4: stuff looks great, like, I don't think there's any injury
20:00
Speaker 4: issue whatsoever. I think it's just getting into game speed,
20:03
Speaker 4: you know, it is, it's different, you know, asked Royce.
20:05
Speaker 4: He was just in Triple A and back to the
20:07
Speaker 4: big leagues. Like it's just a slower game. You go
20:09
Speaker 4: on those rehab outings and you get back under the lights.
20:11
Speaker 4: It's a little different and takes everybody the second to adjust.
20:15
Speaker 4: And you know he's I mean, he's starting ninety eight
20:17
Speaker 4: with great off speed. So now it's just settling in
20:20
Speaker 4: and do what you did to start the year.
20:25
Speaker 1: The bullpen I just got done saying they were not
20:30
Speaker 1: good statistically, they weren't, but most of that came on
20:33
Speaker 1: Friday and then and then Lawrence is outing on Saturday,
20:37
Speaker 1: but Travis Adams went two and a third on Saturday,
20:40
Speaker 1: only allowed one earned run, and then two and a
20:44
Speaker 1: third score listenings on Sunday Dan which really in both
20:48
Speaker 1: cases helped them have a chance in both of those games.
20:51
Speaker 1: They did not end up winning on Saturday, but it's
20:53
Speaker 1: it's a big part of the reason they got back
20:55
Speaker 1: in and on Sunday.
20:57
Speaker 2: Well, Look, it's the part that I like about the
21:00
Speaker 2: Twins that I've seen their bullpen is I feel like
21:03
Speaker 2: if they get to the back end now that there
21:06
Speaker 2: is stability there and we're talking about if you can
21:09
Speaker 2: access the Bonda Morris and Joandris Gomez part, the problem
21:15
Speaker 2: is they just don't have the depth. I think six seven,
21:19
Speaker 2: eight has been the sixth, seventh, and eighth guys has
21:21
Speaker 2: been sort of a revolving door, like you can see
21:23
Speaker 2: it with Rogers, where when he comes in, especially when
21:27
Speaker 2: he gets the lefty portion of lineup, he can get out.
21:30
Speaker 2: He's struggled against righty's, but there's been some reasons that
21:33
Speaker 2: he's been facing righties. It's because the defense is given
21:36
Speaker 2: away outs and screwing up matchups for the team. Eric
21:39
Speaker 2: Orsey's had his moments, but like he needs to be
21:42
Speaker 2: more consistent. But you can see some there there if
21:46
Speaker 2: you will. I think if he was like the sixth
21:48
Speaker 2: or seventh guy in the bullpen right now and you
21:50
Speaker 2: were protecting him a little bit, he would be like
21:54
Speaker 2: having a really promising year and he's getting some higher
21:56
Speaker 2: leverage stuff than for his experience level. This is guy
22:00
Speaker 2: that barely had pitched in the majors before this year.
22:03
Speaker 2: If you could have eased him in, he's going to
22:05
Speaker 2: get some some moments and you know, be like the
22:10
Speaker 2: way they did it with Morrise early on. They eased
22:12
Speaker 2: him in and didn't just throw him into the fire.
22:15
Speaker 2: And now Morris can come in and shut down, like
22:17
Speaker 2: he struck out three of the four batters he faced
22:19
Speaker 2: on Sunday. Jo Anders Gomez has a one six eight
22:22
Speaker 2: ERA and five strikeouts, but even more, you can see
22:26
Speaker 2: the confidence there because he got the Ryan Craydler play,
22:28
Speaker 2: which was amazing to start the ninth inning. But the
22:30
Speaker 2: next guy struck out and like he was fired up,
22:33
Speaker 2: and you can tell he's starting to get that belief
22:36
Speaker 2: and Bonda over his last sixteen innings has a point
22:39
Speaker 2: six e RA. He's the guy that they traded, they acquired.
22:43
Speaker 2: If you can access those three, you really have a
22:46
Speaker 2: chance to close out games. It's when you're with the
22:49
Speaker 2: and currently they're actually nine guys because Paradis is even
22:53
Speaker 2: though he's starting right now tonight, he is ticked. Sorry,
22:57
Speaker 2: he is a reliever technically, but justin Lawrence got those
23:01
Speaker 2: first two batters on Saturday and then gave up four
23:04
Speaker 2: straight hits and two of them were bombs, and you
23:07
Speaker 2: know they're they're going to have a revolving door from six, seven,
23:11
Speaker 2: eight for right now. They just don't have the depth
23:13
Speaker 2: and that's where a lot of the issues have come.
23:15
Speaker 2: And so you get Travis Adams forced into a spot
23:18
Speaker 2: where he's still a rookie, and man, you'd love him
23:21
Speaker 2: to come in with a clean inning, but he comes
23:23
Speaker 2: in with two guys and gives up the three run bomb.
23:26
Speaker 2: It's just that inconsistency. But you know, when they're in
23:29
Speaker 2: spots where they were Shelton has a clear path to
23:32
Speaker 2: the last three innings they can get out, so they
23:35
Speaker 2: can get close out games. It's just there's not enough
23:39
Speaker 2: depth there. It's the part where you wish they'd built
23:41
Speaker 2: out more in the off season. They pieced it together
23:44
Speaker 2: and they went with Andrew Chaffin and Liam Hendricks hoping
23:48
Speaker 2: they could get something now of that, and neither of
23:50
Speaker 2: those guys even made the opening day roster. If there
23:52
Speaker 2: have been a few more additions in the bullpen, which
23:55
Speaker 2: I understand why they didn't do it. They were cash strapped,
23:58
Speaker 2: not sure where they were going, but even one more
24:01
Speaker 2: guy right now, this team probably is, you know, five
24:05
Speaker 2: or six games better easily, maybe more than that. It's
24:09
Speaker 2: it's been. It's a challenge, and you feel for the
24:12
Speaker 2: coaching staff because they're trying to do what they can
24:14
Speaker 2: with it. But if it's back to back days, you
24:17
Speaker 2: just can't keep running Bonda Morris Gomez out like you
24:22
Speaker 2: can do it two days in a row, but you
24:23
Speaker 2: can't do it three or five. Yeah, you don't want
24:28
Speaker 2: to blow those guys out. They can't. Nobody makes a
24:30
Speaker 2: hundred appearances, you know, and you really don't want guys
24:33
Speaker 2: even making eighty appearances. It's rare when you see pitchers
24:36
Speaker 2: with eighty appearances. Now it's more like sixty five over
24:39
Speaker 2: the course of one hundred and sixty two games. So
24:41
Speaker 2: you got to take care of your guys. The Twins
24:43
Speaker 2: just need more guys.
24:46
Speaker 1: A triple A Saint Paul move got fans hopes up
24:51
Speaker 1: over the weekend, Dan, we'll throw cold water all over that.
24:53
Speaker 1: We'll also talk a little bit about the Texas series
24:56
Speaker 1: when we come back right after this.
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Speaker 1: This weekend in Saint Paul with the Triple A Saints,
26:06
Speaker 1: Kaylan Culpeper, shortstop, one of the Twins top prospects, was
26:10
Speaker 1: pulled out of the game, and it sent social media
26:14
Speaker 1: a fire dan with speculation that he was about to
26:18
Speaker 1: be called up to the majors, something fans have been
26:21
Speaker 1: clamoring for most of the season. Dan, please disappoint all
26:25
Speaker 1: of us? What is up with Kayln Culpepper?
26:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you'll notice, if you'll notice that none of
26:32
Speaker 2: the beat writers tweeted that out that Caln Culpeper was
26:36
Speaker 2: on the way up, because I didn't notice. Why? Why?
26:41
Speaker 2: If so? The Twins game ended at like four o'clock
26:44
Speaker 2: on Saturday, Right, if kln Culpeper was gonna be in
26:47
Speaker 2: the majors on Sunday, why would the Saints have started
26:51
Speaker 2: him in a game that ended three hours after the Twins.
26:55
Speaker 2: He would be on a He's in Toledo, so he
26:57
Speaker 2: would be in a car on the way to Detroit
27:00
Speaker 2: and then catching a flight to Minnesota.
27:02
Speaker 1: You gotta do this, like the old Brian Windors thing.
27:05
Speaker 1: Why why why why.
27:09
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why, because he was not anyways. Instead,
27:13
Speaker 2: in sort of a kick in the pants to Twins fans,
27:16
Speaker 2: he he left with the glute injury. Is a sore
27:20
Speaker 2: gluteus maximus is going to be yes, it's a So
27:26
Speaker 2: he's gonna be sidelined for a couple of days. But
27:28
Speaker 2: I get why Twins fans are excited. The relay throw
27:31
Speaker 2: he made on Friday night to cut down the time
27:34
Speaker 2: run at the plate with one out in the ninth
27:36
Speaker 2: inning in a one run game was amazing. It was
27:39
Speaker 2: just a extend, like just outstanding throw and and the
27:44
Speaker 2: timing was impeccable. All right, It wasn't even an easy
27:47
Speaker 2: catch on the relay from the outfield. So like, the
27:51
Speaker 2: defense is getting there and the Twins the biggest question
27:54
Speaker 2: they had with Kennic Culpepper was the defense. And what's
27:57
Speaker 2: the Twins' biggest issue right now, shortstop defense. So they
28:01
Speaker 2: want him here, I understand. And Kalen Culpepper is hitting
28:04
Speaker 2: the crap out of the ball triple a by the way,
28:06
Speaker 2: everybody is hitting the crap out of the ball triple A.
28:10
Speaker 2: It's just a difference in levels right now, there's but
28:14
Speaker 2: there's plenty of reason for excitement. I do think he
28:16
Speaker 2: is very close to coming up, but I still think
28:20
Speaker 2: there's some time here. And so anyways, he's sidelined. He's
28:24
Speaker 2: day to day right now. It's probably down for a
28:26
Speaker 2: couple of days, it sounds like, and will be uh
28:31
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's certainly disappointed for Twins fans, but
28:33
Speaker 2: he he'll be here soon, that's my prediction.
28:38
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, But for now they seem set
28:40
Speaker 1: at shortstop with Ryan Kridler if he can just play
28:43
Speaker 1: like that every single game, right.
28:47
Speaker 2: So yeah, after the game on Sunday Day, designated Orlando
28:50
Speaker 2: Orcia for assignment, which is a tough spot because OURCA
28:55
Speaker 2: in limited play has actually hit well and looked good
28:58
Speaker 2: out there, and he's moved around, but he's sort of
29:03
Speaker 2: like this is a it's a redundant spot right now.
29:05
Speaker 2: With Royce being at first base and looking like he's
29:10
Speaker 2: going to be there for a bit, Cody Clemens is
29:12
Speaker 2: not playing first base, which means Cody Clemens goes to
29:15
Speaker 2: the outfield more often, which frees up Ryan Kreidler, because
29:19
Speaker 2: Ryan Kreidler had been sort of the Buckston backup at
29:22
Speaker 2: center field and you know, playing a lot in the outfield.
29:26
Speaker 2: But if you know now, Preidler can be shortstop when
29:29
Speaker 2: you have Arcia and Tristan Gray and Ryan Kreidler. Gray
29:35
Speaker 2: is left handed, so he's gonna he hits left handed,
29:38
Speaker 2: so he's gonna, you know, still be used in spots.
29:42
Speaker 2: But I think, honestly, if the Twins are looking to
29:46
Speaker 2: shore this up, they're minus sixteen defensive runs saved the
29:49
Speaker 2: shortstop right now. That is twelve worse than the next
29:52
Speaker 2: best team, the next worst team. Ryan or Tristan Gray
29:57
Speaker 2: made his sixth there in twenty one games yesterday. Look,
30:00
Speaker 2: he's a good utility player, and he can hit, and
30:03
Speaker 2: he's had some big hits for them. But Kreidler is
30:06
Speaker 2: the best defensive short stuff they have on the team.
30:08
Speaker 2: And I know they've been protecting Kreidler, who actually did
30:12
Speaker 2: some changes with this swing. He is not getting the
30:15
Speaker 2: toughest right handed matchups. He is an eight hundred ohps.
30:19
Speaker 2: He will lose some of that bat, but I think
30:22
Speaker 2: they can handle losing that bat if the tradeoff is
30:26
Speaker 2: sure handed defense up the middle, and until Calen Coulpepper
30:29
Speaker 2: gets here. You gotta protect your pitchers. You got to
30:32
Speaker 2: take care of your pitchers. And so you know, I
30:34
Speaker 2: don't know for a fact that Ryan Kriydler is going
30:37
Speaker 2: to get more short stop playing time, but I think
30:39
Speaker 2: he should because his defense is very sound. We saw
30:42
Speaker 2: then the play in the ninth inning. Nobody else is
30:46
Speaker 2: on the team is getting that ball that he the
30:48
Speaker 2: leadoff is for me. Hot shot up the middle, nice
30:51
Speaker 2: sliding play. He got up and fired a perfect one
30:54
Speaker 2: hopper and Royce Lewis with a great pick on the
30:57
Speaker 2: other end to make that play. And it took replay
31:00
Speaker 2: to get the overturn, but.
31:02
Speaker 1: It looked a little funny, but he got it done.
31:04
Speaker 2: He made the pick.
31:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, as a first basement, Yes, it's all the matters,
31:11
Speaker 1: that's all the matters.
31:13
Speaker 2: Did it Bobble? I honestly didn't see No, they did not.
31:16
Speaker 1: It just wasn't the most graceful looking pick. But it
31:20
Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
31:21
Speaker 4: A third baseman playing sorry shortstop that's been playing third
31:24
Speaker 4: playing first.
31:28
Speaker 1: Well, however it went down, it worked. The Twins one
31:33
Speaker 1: that was a series where they could have been swept
31:35
Speaker 1: very easily. They could have swept very easily. They ended
31:37
Speaker 1: up taking two out of three. They'll take it. They
31:40
Speaker 1: are thirty three and forty. They're in a very weird spot,
31:43
Speaker 1: six and a half games out in the Central only
31:46
Speaker 1: three games out in the Wildcard, but also only three
31:49
Speaker 1: teams have more losses than them in the American League.
31:52
Speaker 1: They have the third most runs in the American League,
31:55
Speaker 1: but have allowed the most runs in the American League.
31:58
Speaker 1: This could still go any which way, but they are
32:01
Speaker 1: heading to Texas this weekend or sorry, this week to
32:03
Speaker 1: play the Rangers. Dan is there right now, first game
32:06
Speaker 1: Monday night, and Texas is tied with the Nomadic Athletics
32:12
Speaker 1: at thirty five and thirty six for the last wildcard
32:15
Speaker 1: spot Tyler at seventy three games into a season.
32:20
Speaker 3: Are we watching?
32:21
Speaker 1: Is a team thinking about that?
32:22
Speaker 2: Or are you just just taking it?
32:25
Speaker 4: I don't think the Twins clubhouse is scoreboard watching today.
32:31
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
32:33
Speaker 4: But for those who happen to catch the glimpse, it's like, wait,
32:37
Speaker 4: we're not that far out of this. Like that's the
32:41
Speaker 4: crazy with the way baseball is now, with the way
32:44
Speaker 4: the teams kind of operate, you know, there's that upper
32:47
Speaker 4: echelon of those few guys and then there's kind of
32:50
Speaker 4: everybody else. And as long as we've said it all along,
32:54
Speaker 4: you get to five hundred, like things can happen.
32:58
Speaker 3: I don't know what the division, what the White Sox.
33:00
Speaker 3: I think had just taken the lead the other day
33:02
Speaker 3: when we did it.
33:03
Speaker 4: You know, they're only so many games about five hundred anyway,
33:06
Speaker 4: So it's like you get into your division, especially towards
33:09
Speaker 4: the end of the season, like you just beat the
33:11
Speaker 4: teams you're matched up with.
33:12
Speaker 3: You know, within your division, you can make a little
33:15
Speaker 3: run and sneak in.
33:16
Speaker 2: I mean it's not.
33:18
Speaker 3: You know, unattainable.
33:19
Speaker 4: So it's a I don't know the one I keeps
33:22
Speaker 4: y'all laugh, but the one move that would make sense
33:25
Speaker 4: even if the Twins whatever the hell ends up happening.
33:28
Speaker 3: But you go get just this seventh or eighth inning guy.
33:31
Speaker 4: You don't have to go get a closer, you don't
33:32
Speaker 4: have to do anything crazy, like just go get a
33:34
Speaker 4: serviceable guy that you can just say, hey, eighth inning.
33:38
Speaker 4: Like that would make such a huge difference. It would
33:40
Speaker 4: slide everybody into a more comfortable spot. You know, all
33:43
Speaker 4: these young guys, things like that that just keeps going
33:45
Speaker 4: through my mind. It's like one little tweak and don't
33:48
Speaker 4: mess with anything else, you know, don't You don't have
33:50
Speaker 4: to sell the farm to buy somebody. Just go get
33:53
Speaker 4: somebody that is an extra piece from another team, and
33:56
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know, it could get interesting. We're
33:58
Speaker 4: scoring runs, like, that's the crazy thing. We're scoring a
34:00
Speaker 4: lot of runs. It's just preventing some of those extra runs, right.
34:06
Speaker 2: The part the reason why I still hold on the
34:09
Speaker 2: side of optimism, my four point three percentersm you will
34:14
Speaker 2: Tuesday night, Mick Abel will start at Saint Paul. He's
34:18
Speaker 2: expected to throw sixty five pitches. Does it would it
34:21
Speaker 2: shock me if on Sunday or Monday? And hopefully it's
34:25
Speaker 2: Sunday in Arizona versus Monday at home against the Dodgers.
34:30
Speaker 2: But nick Abel potentially could come back that next time
34:33
Speaker 2: through and he'd be limited. And obviously, if you're build
34:36
Speaker 2: up as sixty five pitches, that means your next time
34:38
Speaker 2: out is eighty So probably if it's the Dodgers, that
34:42
Speaker 2: could be two innings. If it's you know, like basically
34:48
Speaker 2: getting him back is a good thing. Kenry Rojas threw
34:52
Speaker 2: a live Battracks in Fort Myers on Saturday and through
34:57
Speaker 2: thirty pitches. His next outing be at Triple A. Getting
35:02
Speaker 2: him back would be massive, just to throw that three
35:05
Speaker 2: inning guy in there again. That can just come in
35:07
Speaker 2: after Connor Prelip starts one in just for limiting Connor
35:11
Speaker 2: Prelip's work, because man, he's been working a lot lately.
35:15
Speaker 2: But if you said the Connor Prelip give us five,
35:18
Speaker 2: that's that's a much better setup for the team right now.
35:22
Speaker 2: I think you know you got those going on. Bailey
35:24
Speaker 2: over made the trip, which to me is always that
35:27
Speaker 2: telltale sign when an injured pitcher makes the trip, it
35:30
Speaker 2: means they're going to be working and are closer than
35:33
Speaker 2: they are further. He he's only catch so far. He
35:37
Speaker 2: was shut down ten days. He's played catch I think
35:39
Speaker 2: the last four or five days, and he's hoping to
35:42
Speaker 2: be off a mound while they're on this trip. So
35:44
Speaker 2: that's a good sign for getting those three guys back
35:48
Speaker 2: and kind of helping out the rotation is key at
35:52
Speaker 2: this point, and then you know you ease the workload
35:54
Speaker 2: on other guys, I think, and but I agree with you, Duff.
35:58
Speaker 2: If they even had one more arm, one more dependable
36:01
Speaker 2: guy in that bullpen, right, you'd go to because there
36:05
Speaker 2: will be a point where Andrew Morris hits a wall.
36:07
Speaker 2: Because anytime a rookie pitch making the jump to relief,
36:12
Speaker 2: it happens to everybody. It does every year around July August.
36:16
Speaker 2: Because you've never done this is consistently.
36:18
Speaker 3: You may have whole season is here.
36:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and that body does legs get heavy in August,
36:26
Speaker 2: especially if you haven't because he whereas he's going out
36:29
Speaker 2: every five days as a starter, You're going out every
36:32
Speaker 2: day to play catch, to see how your arm feels.
36:35
Speaker 2: And then you're getting hot in the bullpen and getting
36:37
Speaker 2: ready and that's way different than getting ready every you know,
36:40
Speaker 2: for your mid start bullpen. And anyways, one more real.
36:44
Speaker 3: Ass kicks in.
36:45
Speaker 4: You start getting mad at everything too. It's a whole
36:48
Speaker 4: other world out there.
36:51
Speaker 2: But you know, I mean, hey, Jose Ramirez just went
36:53
Speaker 2: down with a broken hammet bone, and Amante and Vinnie
37:00
Speaker 2: Pascuentino same thing in Kansas City. So like really key
37:04
Speaker 2: teams in the division. Yeah. The thing is the White
37:07
Speaker 2: Sox are playing like World Series champions right now. They
37:10
Speaker 2: just took two or three from the Dodgers. They look great,
37:13
Speaker 2: but you know, just hope is all that this team
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Speaker 2: needs to keep giving its fans, and starting pitching would
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Speaker 2: help a long way if you can actually stay in games.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, obviously I don't expect them to be scoreboard
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Speaker 1: watching after seventy three games, but we're all just a
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Speaker 1: little over a month away from the trade deadline. If
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Speaker 1: the bats are this good and the starting pitching is good,
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Speaker 1: and it feels I agree Tyler, like one arm, maybe two, Yeah, like,
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Speaker 1: maybe you don't have to give up very much, and
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Speaker 1: even the Twins ownership would be willing to do that.
37:46
Speaker 1: But I know we've had some commentors already upset at
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Speaker 1: the at the false hope that I like to implement.
37:52
Speaker 1: So still a long way to go until that trade headline.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. But for now, it's Texas this
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Speaker 1: week Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, as we talked about, because
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Speaker 1: of the World Cup day off on Wednesday, which actually
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Speaker 1: Dan strategically could help the Twins in this series because
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Speaker 1: tonight looks like it's a bullpen game with parades, and
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Speaker 1: then Zebbey Matthews tomorrow, who struggled a lot his last
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Speaker 1: time out against Detroit. It might give Shelton more options
38:18
Speaker 1: for using that bullpen these two days, knowing he has
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Speaker 1: a day off on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: And also this is all on turf this entire road trip.
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Speaker 2: They play Arizona after this. By the way, thank you
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Speaker 2: for six straight indoor games after all the rain. We
38:32
Speaker 2: really appreciate it. But because they're playing on turf, that's
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Speaker 2: something you watch Byron Buckston on you kind of limit.
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Speaker 2: Especially he would not play a day game after a
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Speaker 2: night game ever, almost almost certainly. But they have that
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Speaker 2: day off on Wednesday, and so they play their Thursday
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Speaker 2: day game, and Shelton said, that's a built in off day,
38:55
Speaker 2: so I can play Viron most likely on Thursday, and
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Speaker 2: then they have night game night game in Friday Saturday
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Speaker 2: in Arizona. So like we could see Byron in the
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Speaker 2: outfield for this whole this most of this road trip.
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Speaker 2: Maybe on Sunday. We'll same with DH as long as
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Speaker 2: you know, obviously things keep going well from on the
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Speaker 2: health standpoint, But yeah, it is an advantage. Yeah, and
39:18
Speaker 2: you know, oh dude, you're lucky you never had like
39:23
Speaker 2: you just got to pitch on that mound. It is
39:26
Speaker 2: you've seen, guys, it's not great, but.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's just you get like I remember going to
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Speaker 4: Toronto and it's like you shagg VP and you and
39:34
Speaker 4: you're like, why is my back hurt?
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Speaker 3: And it's like it's the turf. I'm like, this sucks.
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Speaker 2: No, it's real. And I don't know how guys play
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Speaker 2: their entire careers there and right when you have chronic
39:48
Speaker 2: you've had knee issues like Byron had. And he hasn't
39:52
Speaker 2: had the knee issues quite as much this year and
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Speaker 2: last year, but when you have had a history of
39:57
Speaker 2: knee issues, you definitely want to watch out for your guy.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, and Shelton. Shelton was alert to the fact
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Speaker 2: that they just get that day off, so maybe sub
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Speaker 2: them out get I think I think Shelton's watching the
40:14
Speaker 2: podcast and he's not really scoreboard watching. He's turnoff meter watching.
40:19
Speaker 2: Doesn't want to lose jarn buckson.
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Speaker 1: So that's right, turn off. I gotta bring that back
40:25
Speaker 1: right now. It's it's going in your favor. I'd say
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Speaker 1: Dan with the way he's playing, but or maybe not,
40:31
Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gore for the Rangers against the Twins, bullpen tonight,
40:38
Speaker 1: Kumar Rocker against Debbie Matthews Tuesday night and then the
40:41
Speaker 1: Thursday scheduled starters Joe Ryan against Jack Lighter.
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Speaker 2: We will be back with you on.
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Speaker 1: Wednesday, unless maybe Dan gets World Cup tickets. Uh you
40:52
Speaker 1: see geek if you do, Dan, but that'll be in
40:54
Speaker 1: the middle of the Texas series and we'll see where
40:57
Speaker 1: the twins are at then after a pretty good Vibes weekend.
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