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Twins swept in Pittsburgh, and Bailey Ober heads to the IL · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: The Twins get swept in Pittsburgh as a once promising
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  Speaker 1: road trip ends in disaster with now five straight losses
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  Speaker 1: for Minnesota. Welcome back to Twins Cities Territory. Whatever the
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  Speaker 1: hell that is. Our Minnesota Twins podcast is what it
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  Speaker 1: is here on the Fouled Territory Network. I'm Zach Pierce
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  Speaker 1: of the Athletic, joined by Dan Hayes, the Athletics, Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Twins beat writer and Tyler Duffy, longtime Major leaguer and
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  Speaker 1: former Minnesota Twin.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of glossed over two losses in Chicago on
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  Speaker 1: Friday show as we indulged in our radio war with
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  Speaker 1: our friends in Atlanta. Good news, I guess, is that
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to gloss over right now because that's
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  Speaker 1: all that's happened since the last time we spoke. More
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  Speaker 1: losses for the Twins, like I said, swept in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: two one run games to start the weekend. Both of
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  Speaker 1: those were heartbreakers in different ways, and then pretty much
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  Speaker 1: blown out on Sunday in a nine to three loss.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost five straight. They're twenty seven and three. They've
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  Speaker 1: fallen down five and a half games back of Chicago
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  Speaker 1: in the Central. Uh, it's for second place in the Central.
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  Speaker 1: Another game away from Cleveland. Beyond that with the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox coming into town this week as the Twins return home.
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  Speaker 1: But dan Uh just a brutal series, no other way
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  Speaker 1: to put it. Uh. Some some close calls and then
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  Speaker 1: and then a wipeout on Sunday. But the Twins are
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  Speaker 1: reeling in every way and also dealing with some injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the the losses themselves are are difficult,
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  Speaker 2: but the couple of injuries that they suffered the last
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  Speaker 2: three days. Losing Kendrick Rojas on Thursday, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: got scratched. That kind of set them in a spot
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  Speaker 2: where the bullpen lost one of its length guys and
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  Speaker 2: they scrambled all weekend. But losing Bailey Ober on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: after his start Saturday, he's got some elbow soreness or
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  Speaker 2: elbow inflammation and has gotten the MRI today. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you have those two things back to back. This pitching
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  Speaker 2: staff is scrambling. They have four healthy starting road starting
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  Speaker 2: pitchers in the rotation right now, and Connor Prelip is
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  Speaker 2: the guy that wanted to manage and you know, give
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  Speaker 2: him an extra day here and there, and TODs Bradley
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  Speaker 2: is still just two starts back from his chest his
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  Speaker 2: pectoral muscle injury. They were kind of managing his workload too,
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  Speaker 2: So I mean it is scramble mode, and it's scramble
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  Speaker 2: mode unlike what we've seen at any point. Because the
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  Speaker 2: one thing that Twins have had consistently throughout this season
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  Speaker 2: was starting pitching. Even though they were eight and nine
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  Speaker 2: deep on their depth chart, you know, they've they've been
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  Speaker 2: able to consistently throw guys out there. They had a
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  Speaker 2: three sixty seven ERA going into this road trip as
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  Speaker 2: the starters. They had an eight thirty one ERA over
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  Speaker 2: ten games as starters, and it was under five innings
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  Speaker 2: per start. It was forty seven innings for the ten games.
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  Speaker 2: It really put them in a deep pole, and you
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  Speaker 2: saw them scramble to the you know, look at the
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  Speaker 2: Travis Adams. He pitched I think twice. I think he
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  Speaker 2: pitched three times in the road trip. The last time
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  Speaker 2: was in Chicago. He kind of had a rough inning,
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  Speaker 2: gave up the first reliever homers since May eighth, after
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  Speaker 2: Zach Jinks. The bullpen got sent out on Friday, went
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  Speaker 2: to Louisville.
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  Speaker 3: And then never mind call back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, got called back.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great phone call to Bill, great call to gain.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, hey, you're going to make forty five
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars today versus what your minor league wages were,
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  Speaker 2: and where he'll put you probably most likely first class
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  Speaker 2: if they could find it last minute. He got some
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  Speaker 2: nice frequent fire miles back and forth, and you get
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  Speaker 2: to come to the big leagues like great calling. He's
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  Speaker 2: here right now because they are just running guys in
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  Speaker 2: and out and they are so strapped for fresh arms
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  Speaker 2: right now, in the middle of a seventeen game stretch.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, they called it August the dog days,
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  Speaker 2: but this three city trip led to some early dog
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  Speaker 2: days for this team. Right now, they are in grind
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  Speaker 2: mode without.
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  Speaker 1: Question, Tyler. During this five game losing streak, the Twins
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  Speaker 1: have allowed six runs or more in all five of
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  Speaker 1: those games, after only doing that twice in the previous sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like obviously long season things go round and round,
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  Speaker 1: but clearly that the whole pitching staff is struggling with
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  Speaker 1: the weight of it all and the injuries adding up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like Dan said, it's this is the one. Like
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  Speaker 3: we've been like moderately like, Okay, we can get to
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  Speaker 3: the next week or the next series kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: But this is now becoming you know, you say we
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  Speaker 3: have four we technically have like three and a half starters.
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  Speaker 3: With Prelip, they're being very careful, but Taj, they're going
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  Speaker 3: to be very careful. So if anything pops up during
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  Speaker 3: one of their outings, like they're just going to be
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  Speaker 3: out of the game, which is going to crush the pin.
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  Speaker 3: So basically you're looking at Joe, you know, once a
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  Speaker 3: five games split to kind of say everyone a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: and that's hard to do. It's hard to expect from
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  Speaker 3: one guy, which granted he's pitching great, he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be an all star, you know, all the things, but
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  Speaker 3: it's just like you need that breath of fresh air.
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  Speaker 3: And they kept trying it. You know, they've already had
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  Speaker 3: the turnover that we talk about every year. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it takes the whole forty man roster. Well
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  Speaker 3: we're at the back of that forty man roster. And
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  Speaker 3: now it's becoming like if someone like breathing that can
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  Speaker 3: come give us five innings tonight, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a bad spot to be in. It's not a fun
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  Speaker 3: place to be, you know. I've I was a part
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  Speaker 3: of teams with one hundred plus losses, Like it's one
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  Speaker 3: you show up to the yard sometimes you're just like, man, like,
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  Speaker 3: what are we going to do today to try to
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  Speaker 3: squeak one out? And you know, it gets to the
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  Speaker 3: real dark side of it is you wait for that
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  Speaker 3: moment to happen sometimes where it's like the one little
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  Speaker 3: air or the misqueue, or an umpire misses a call
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  Speaker 3: they can't overturn, and then it's just the wheels fall
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  Speaker 3: off and it's a bad spot to man. It's you know,
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  Speaker 3: luckily it's June first. You know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: season left, you know, but if they don't turn around,
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  Speaker 3: it makes it for a really long rest of the year.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, this this week will be a trying
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  Speaker 3: test for the boys. You know, get back home, play
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  Speaker 3: a team they just played. Hopefully you know, change the
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  Speaker 3: results of those games. And uh, you know we needed
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  Speaker 3: we need a big one from Joe tonight. At the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, That's that's all that really needs
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  Speaker 3: to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Friday was probably the biggest gut punch of the weekend. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: with the Twins, leading five to four into the eighth inning,
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  Speaker 1: made an absolute meal of the bottom of the eighth
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  Speaker 1: when when Luke Keishall dropped that at least one if
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  Speaker 1: not two out ball at second base, they get out
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  Speaker 1: of it, preserve the five to four lead into the ninth,
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  Speaker 1: and then Taylor Rogers gives up the walk off homer
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  Speaker 1: to Brian Reynolds, who actually had the game winning hit
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  Speaker 1: or a game winning at bat, the zack fly that
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  Speaker 1: provided the winning run in UH In Saturday game as well.
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  Speaker 1: On Saturday, they were down seven to one, came back
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  Speaker 1: to Tide at seven, lost ten to nine. Both both
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  Speaker 1: winnable games. Both just the kind of the things Dan
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  Speaker 1: that just don't don't go your way when things aren't
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  Speaker 1: going your way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was Friday was scramble mode the whole
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  Speaker 2: way right they they were fighting. It felt like Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 2: had a shot every couple innings and just kept pushing,
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  Speaker 2: kept pushing. And the eighth inning escape was incredible, to
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  Speaker 2: be honest, like the fact that you know you're going
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  Speaker 2: to a young guy and Cody Lars Lawson, who had
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  Speaker 2: just come off the I l another here's another sign
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  Speaker 2: of scramble mode. Cody Larson had just come off the
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  Speaker 2: IL and he hadn't even pitched very well Triple A
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  Speaker 2: during his rehab. He was pretty he was pretty rough,
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  Speaker 2: like you would expect a guy coming off an elbow
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  Speaker 2: thing and had him not pitched in forty days or
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was. And he got out of it because
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  Speaker 2: he he has this really funky delivery and his fastball
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  Speaker 2: has some good characteristics. He can miss bats. He's thrown
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  Speaker 2: ninety two when he's really going well, it's throwing ninety four.
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  Speaker 2: But for him to get scrambled there was was very
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  Speaker 2: impressive because he got the double play ball and then
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  Speaker 2: Keyshall missed, you know, just didn't catch the relay and
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  Speaker 2: it's set up first and third with you know, just
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  Speaker 2: an unwinnable position. He got out of it. You Know,
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Rodgers has been really good this year, and we've
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  Speaker 2: seen the vlo back we saw back in that outing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was throwing ninety three, which for Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers is more like a couple of years ago Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers versus what we see in the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: There's encouraging signs. But he left the fastball just where
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  Speaker 2: Reynolds wanted it. He was trying to get it end
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  Speaker 2: it was not quite in enough and Reynolds hit it
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  Speaker 2: out and it was you know, it was sort of
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  Speaker 2: just how this, like you said, how things are going
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  Speaker 2: for this team right now, there's just in a weird
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  Speaker 2: spot where there's not a lot of margin for error
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't seem like things are falling their way.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I mean ten game, road trip, three city,
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  Speaker 2: that's long. Some of these guys, that was the first
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  Speaker 2: time they've ever experienced that.
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  Speaker 3: It's never done that before.
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  Speaker 2: Those those do not I only caught the last seven
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  Speaker 2: in person, and I am wiped out and I didn't pitch.
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  Speaker 2: They hit me warm up a few times. I got
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  Speaker 2: dry humps a few times, but they did not need.
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  Speaker 1: To see a doctor. Dan that you don't think you
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  Speaker 1: should be that wiped out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Midnight of Rivals. Yeah, but you know, Saturday
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  Speaker 2: it showed you where they were in terms of like
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  Speaker 2: who they used in the pen because Cody Funderberg just
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  Speaker 2: back gets to and man, it's I'm forgetting already. Who
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  Speaker 2: the other picture was. Was it Travis Adams? No, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't Travis Adams. Wow, this is not good podcasting, right, here.
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  Speaker 1: Which what game are we talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Saturday, the ten to nine game. They they rolled out
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  Speaker 2: two relievers for long appearances.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I can't remember the first one. It was
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  Speaker 3: all I don't computer in front of.
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  Speaker 2: Me, thunder, Yeah, sorry, Yeah, John was the one forgot
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  Speaker 2: the local kid, but he came up for one day
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  Speaker 2: and he got because he's a fresh arm and got
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  Speaker 2: sent out. But they only had those two guys available.
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  Speaker 2: And and on Sunday, Zebbe Matthews, who had been pretty
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  Speaker 2: consistent in his three starts, looked pretty good at times,
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  Speaker 2: had seven strikeouts but just left pitches in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the plate and only lasted four and a third.
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  Speaker 2: And Mike Perettis, who nobody had heard of, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: no Twins fans really are familiar with, because he's one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys that's a late bloomer and had a
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  Speaker 2: really good last last season and had a good start
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  Speaker 2: to this season. He gets the call and gets added
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  Speaker 2: to the forty man and comes in and throws three
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  Speaker 2: and two thirds. Like they're at the point right now
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  Speaker 2: where you know you can't bring in the trusted guys
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  Speaker 2: because those trusted guys are a little beat up and
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  Speaker 2: having pitched a lot, and you know, I looked at
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  Speaker 2: the relief chart, Bobby Knightingale, how I look at that
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  Speaker 2: and it was like, who could you have really pitched
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of days. They're they're in a rough
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  Speaker 2: spot right now. I mean, for ten games, had they
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  Speaker 2: lost all ten and nine innings, that's eighty innings to cover,
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  Speaker 2: except they won four of them and somewhere around the
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  Speaker 2: bullpen covered somewhere around thirty seven innings on that road trip,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, and it may have been thirty eight or
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine with extras in Chicago the one night. That
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  Speaker 2: is a lot to have to ask guys to cover
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  Speaker 2: four innings a game for ten days with no days off,
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  Speaker 2: and there's still no days off for seven more days.
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  Speaker 2: So it is it's definitely got check time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the seventeen straight is always the taxing time, Like
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know it's coming and see it and
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  Speaker 3: then it's like this happened. You get a little injury here,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just all the wheels fall off and it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we've got to survive ten more days or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: And it's yeah, so like I said, you show up
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  Speaker 3: to the yard and you're just like, no one, no
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  Speaker 3: one step on anything, no one look at anything wrong, Like,
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  Speaker 3: just just get to this game and get to the
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  Speaker 3: ninth day, just get to the other side of it,
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  Speaker 3: because it's yeah, you get you start looking around when
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  Speaker 3: there's a new guy in the locker room every day,
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  Speaker 3: and you're just like, we're in a bad spot. And
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  Speaker 3: it's it gets you feel bad too, because it's like
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  Speaker 3: some guys do their job and they just got to
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  Speaker 3: go because there's we need we literally need a body
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  Speaker 3: in the bullet or in the rotation, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's unfortunate, but you know guys, guys will get debuts
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  Speaker 3: out of it, and then guys will do their job
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  Speaker 3: and get sent down. And that's just kind of part
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  Speaker 3: of it. But it'll be interesting if it adds up
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  Speaker 3: to as a season progresses, Like with the new rules,
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  Speaker 3: they can't just up and down guys anymore, right, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure they'll run into that. They'll run with some of
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  Speaker 3: these guys. It's already been you know, two or three.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so it'll be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Twins haven't been off since May twenty first, and not
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  Speaker 1: again until next Monday, June eight seventeen, straight as the
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  Speaker 1: few things that actually was good about this weekend, guys,
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  Speaker 1: was the offense. The Twins had some bright spots at
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  Speaker 1: the plate. Brooks Ley a couple of homers, Luke keishall
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  Speaker 1: five for twelve overall, four RBIs for Tristan Gray, also
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  Speaker 1: for brooks Lee, Cody Clemens a home run. If there's
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  Speaker 1: a positive takeaway Dann from the weekend, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: the plate was it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was a decent staff they were facing.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't get Paul Skins, but I mean that was
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  Speaker 2: all three starters. The Pirates throughout were good, and the Twins,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they didn't have much of a chance against
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  Speaker 2: Ashcraft on Sunday. He struck out eleven. He was pitching
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  Speaker 2: pretty fast. You saw Cody Clemens erupt at the plate
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  Speaker 2: in the first inning because he thought he got quick pitched.
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  Speaker 2: And after the game, brooks Lee made a comment saying
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  Speaker 2: that that was one of the fastest guys I've seen
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  Speaker 2: throwing as far as in between pitches, getting on the mound,
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  Speaker 2: going and not letting guys kind of get settled in.
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  Speaker 2: And it showed early on. They got the three late.
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  Speaker 2: Brooksley hit two home runs late but Saturday, being down
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  Speaker 2: seven to one and bouncing back, and Trevor Larnak put
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  Speaker 2: one in the river on Friday. You know, crazy stats here,
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  Speaker 2: crazy stats.
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  Speaker 1: More reachable water from ballparks. Yes, that's so fun.
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  Speaker 2: That was That was a crazy stat. Trevor Larnk was
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  Speaker 2: the eighty sixth person to ever do it. And that
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  Speaker 2: park's been around since I think it's the twenty fifth
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  Speaker 2: year of PNC Park. Trevor Larnark was the eighty sixth
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  Speaker 2: guy and like an inning later O'Neil Cruz became the
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  Speaker 2: eighty seventh.
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  Speaker 3: Lam And Cruises.
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  Speaker 2: They they said went into the water on the fly,
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  Speaker 2: which only that was the seventh time that's ever happened,
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  Speaker 2: which is shocking. So we saw a little bit of PNC.
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  Speaker 1: Parking in the stadium in the water is just now
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  Speaker 1: there's trees.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good little you know, it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be fifty feet extra like to get you're coming from
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  Speaker 2: that height. So you have a shot and it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a far droped down to the Allegheny River, but
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of guys have hit it on the fly.
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  Speaker 2: And actually they used to have a camera to out there,
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  Speaker 2: but the trees are so overgrown now that it's an
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  Speaker 2: ineffective shot apparently, And so they claimed that O'Neal Cruz
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  Speaker 2: made it on the fly, and you know, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: put it past them. That was a monster shot. But yeah, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: getting away from the offense there there were good signs.
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  Speaker 2: Luke Keyshaw has had a really good May. He's getting
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  Speaker 2: on base about four in May, you know, learning at
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  Speaker 2: that moment there, Yeah, yes, well that was, it's a
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  Speaker 2: new fresh month for him, and I think he can
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  Speaker 2: he's starting to put April. But you look at Cody Clemens.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the home run on Friday, he almost he
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  Speaker 2: was a home run short of the cycle on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: he you know, and he said afterwards we were talking
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  Speaker 2: to about he said, yeah. Unfortunately the fans behind the
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  Speaker 2: dugout knew it too, and they were all over me
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  Speaker 2: about it. And you're thinking about it, because how could
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  Speaker 2: you not be thinking about a cycle? And then he
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  Speaker 2: took a cut in his forth at bat and popped
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  Speaker 2: out on the endfield. You could tell it was a
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: healthy cut. But there were good signs from the offense.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: They're going to need the offense to carry them right now.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: They're going to need to have some breathing room. It's
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: what we talked about early in the year with the bullpen.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Even though it's funny, the back end of the bullpen
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: is definitely a little bit better at this point. It's
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: a little bit more solid, and early in the year
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: we said that they needed to give the bullpen breathing
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: room because the back end wasn't solid. Now the back
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: end's solid, But the reason why we need breathing room
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: is because they're going to be relying on guys six,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: seven and eight in that bullpen a lot, and those
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: typically aren't the guys you want and type ballgames, you
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: need to give them room to work, and that's what
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: needs to happen for this team at this point.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: The Twins face David Sandlin tonight, who's making his second
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: career major league start. The first you might remember was
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: last week against the Twins. It was a fifteen to
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: two come from behind White Sox win. Come from behind
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: because the first batter of the game Byron Buckston, had
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: off of Sandlin and he did not allow another hit
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: in six hittings work. That was the only hit he
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: gave up. So with some recent evidence, we now come
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: to you guys. Oh I should say before we make
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: our predictions for home runs tonight. We are now four
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: for five as a podcast, picking correctly a twin to
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: homer day of and four for four when all three
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: panelists take it seriously. Unlike this time, oh my decided
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: to pick an injured player anyway, David Sandlin on the mound,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Twins returning home to target Field tonight, Dan, who's your pick?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Why don't you guys go first this time.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Why let's give Tyler a first pick.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I'm riding that. I want the hot hand. Give me,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: give me Clemens pull side. He's gonna stay hot.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: You're gonna call your shot pull side too. I like that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm where it's going, not just it's happening.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: We're too good at this. We have to up our
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: difficulty here a little bit. Clemens pull side. All right,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I guess I'll go second.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Dan, you may oh you could take the guy that
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: homeward off him last time.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: It's just too obvious.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I feel I'm gonna go back to Trevor Lawny.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: He's always my He's always my like one B.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll lead it for you, Dan, if you want
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to clean up.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: With No, I'm not gonna take Buck. I look and
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I'm and I would take brooks Lee except as I
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: wrote in my story today, brooks Lee has a nine
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: to fifty ops on the road and a five o
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: three ops at home. Uh, and I'm not quite. I
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: asked him about it after for Yeah. I asked him
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: about it after the game on Sunday, and first he said,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I don't give an f about it. It was great.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It was like one of my favorite exchanges. And he's like,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I haven't. I didn't know that, and then he gave
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: an answer about thinking because he had more at bats
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: on the road, because he'll get late at bats, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: he actually does hit better late in games. First time through,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: his OPS is not good. Second time through, like Innians
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: four through six, he's got like almost eight hundred OPS,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: and then I'm guessing it's over seven hundred OPS with
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: the home run yesterday for innings seven through nine. However,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: because it's the home I'm not going with Brooksley. I'm
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: gonna go with Dad's strength and go with the Rice Owl.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Tristan Gray had good swings. You know, he just came back.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: He missed the Boston series. He came back for Chicago
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: after his wife gave birth, and he owed some really
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: good swings throughout that road trip. I really like the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: first game, he looks a little rusty, like a guy
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: who hadn't batted in four days. But then he was
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: hitting a lot of hard like to the wall and
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: right against the White Sox. So we're gonna go Tristan Gray,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: which is gonna be if I get that one. If
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: we get the obscure pick. I'm excited about that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I'll stop bringing up the time you picked Buckston when
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he was hurt. If Tristan Gray hovers a deal, cool yeah,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Cody Clevens, Trevor Laurniy, Tristan Gray, and that's our picks. Uh.
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• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Byron Buxton, if you if you watch Friday Show,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of it was about Byron Buxton in our
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: fight with a couple of Atlanta radio hosts, and Dan
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: went all in double down on the Twins are not
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: going to trade Byron Buxton. There's no way they're not
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: going to trade the fraid of the face of the franchise.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Ever since this Fighter upted with Atlanta, the Twins have
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: not won a game. Bailey over has been it's just
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: been bad news after bad news. And I'm sorry to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: say Dan that the.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: You know your AI crap is your AI trap is awesome. Zach,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I like that you made.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: This damn you churnoff is the one.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: If you're.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: If you're watching, I don't. I don't have my glasses on,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: so I did not actually see that.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I'll do zero percent. We're keeping viron is. Dan was right,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: zero percent.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: If you're wanting all the way on the other end,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you're seeing this.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Damn you turnoff Byron is a brave.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: The yes, I did make this AI slap yesterday. I
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: also just noticed putting it on the screen earlier today
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to get this ready at that at the very bottom
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and says updated May eighteenth to twenty twenty five, even
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: though I asked for this last while.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Wow, so do not it's really on it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, do not alternate universe.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: There is zero accuracy whatsoever to that. But it was
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a rough weekend for the Twins, as we said, Sweep
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh, even though a good point, Tyler. We didn't
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: even talk earlier about how they didn't even have to
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: face Paul Skenes. But despite that three losses. Dan has
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: written his thoughts on the twins losing streak on The Athletic.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: If you'd like to read more, head over there check
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: it out. Other storylines that are that are kind of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: percolating as the Twins return home Dan include Simmon Woods Richardson,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: who was forced into a emergency start against Chicago, didn't
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: go well, and now he has been sent out.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean that's crazy timing if you think
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: about it, because Woods Richardson like by default, probably would
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: have gone back into the rotation. He so he comes
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: in on Thursday in the series finale in Chicago when
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: kend Rojas got scratched and was not good and looked
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: a lot like he had as a starter, and they,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you know, because of where they were, they just they
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: needed the fresh bodies and they defaid him. And and look,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I'll say this, Simon Woods Richardson probably for a month
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: needed to go to Triple A and and sort things
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: out because there were no easy answers. He was not
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: like asking him about his path back to being good
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: he said, keep doing the same thing and things will turn.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: And at that point, his splitter was the worst pitch
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: in baseball and his slider was tied for the worst
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: slider in baseball. Like, there's things that need to be
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: ironed out there, and honestly, he needs a reset and
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: it can work, and there's the stuff is there because
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: we saw it out of the bullpen a couple of times.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: He looked good in those two bullpen outings. But there
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: just was no room to hide him when you're looking
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: to pitch him at most every three days, when you're
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: needing the workload, and but Bailey over goes down a
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: day later, and you know, so sim got dfad Friday
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Bailey or dfaid after Friday, I believe, Yeah, it was.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: It was Saturday morning that they announced it. Bailey gets
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: injured in the game that late afternoon, and I mean
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: a day later. If they knew that, I think the
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Twins might have just hung on to him because at
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the worst, he can give you length and wear it
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: even though you know he's got a struggle and here
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: they are where they could absolutely use him right now.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: But that's just how it works sometimes. It is insane
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: how it works that just like essentially the move. I'm
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: sure they told him after the game Friday night, but
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: they announced it on Saturday morning, and not ten hours later,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Bailey over felt some stiffness in his elbow and said
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: there was no pain, but it was stiff and he
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: thinks there's just fluid there. We'll know more later today.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: But that's insane because I don't know what the Twins
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: are really gonna do right now. I mean it is
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: they're gonna You know, they have a Sean Gallagher who pitched.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Is it shawner Is or Ryan Gallagher? I just say
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: it's Ryan Gallagher who they acquired. They acquired him in
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the Willie Castro trade last year and he's been at
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Triple A and his last outing was good after a
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: little bit of a rough run. Is he the guy?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know?
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: I didn't Mike Paradiso, Mike, Yeah, Mike parades even though
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: he's a San Diego State guy, wasn't on my radar
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: until about three days ago and I heard the name
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: and hid a nice strikeout total.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: But it's at this point it's those kind of guys
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: who who's coming up? We don't know? And uh, it's
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: funny how it works like that, because Simeon Wood's Richardson
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: probably could still be eating innings. But I will say,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, this was a move that was a
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: long time in the in the works because he's really
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: it's felt like he has like he was struggling for
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: answers the whole time. It really did not feel like
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: he was, you know, working with his best stuff. And
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: we saw his best a couple of times out of
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: the pen, but that was in shorter spurts, and I
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: think he needed to get some confidence built up and
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: they had to force him into action on Thursday. It's
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: unfair how it works out like that sometimes. But you know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: then you get you get injuries piling up, and all
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: of a sudden you're DFA and it's crazy. Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Well, in the immediate short term, as the Twins return
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: home tonight against the White Sox, it's Joe Ryan Connor,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Prelips scheduled for Tuesday, toadj Bradley for Wednesday. Tyler, when
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you're struggling like this and you've got your ace going
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: on the hill, does it feel is it a relief?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Is it more pressure? A little of both?
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Uh, It's definitely for most, it's probably a little bit
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: of a relief.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: It's like, all right, we know we're gonna get something
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: of note tonight out of Joe. You know, it's it
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: is back, I guess is it back to back for
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: him against the White Sox, so they'll see him, you know, twice,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: you know, within the span of a week, which is
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: never the best. Like it happened to me a lot
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: with Cleveland, and it's like, man, I just face these guys,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: you know, and you start to think, do I repeat
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: the same plan or mix it up a little bit?
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, like Joe's got
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: unique stuff you know that plays, and he's going to
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: show up ready to go. You know, that's the beauty
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: of being a starter, Like you know, it's your day.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: You know, you can kind of try to separate it,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: you know, as as he's pretty good at doing it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: You know, he's got it. He's in his own world
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: when he's out there, and so hopefully he can early
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: and give even the lineup can feel that energy when
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: when a starter is on a roll, you know, and
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: get to the guy who got us last week, that's
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: gonna be the big thing. You got to get to him,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: get get into the White Sox bullpen, whoever's out there.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: But you know when Joe's on the mound that the
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: whole clubhouse definitely is probably at ease, and you know
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: it is pressure. You lose five straight, like you need
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: one bad, but you can't go into the game thinking
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: that way. That's when you start squeezing that bat a
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: little tighter, you know, overthinking a pitch selection, whatever it
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: may be. But you know when your best guy's going,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: you know, like I've talked about Santanarios or picked the
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: guy in the past, Like you can kind of roll
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: out of bed and know you're getting six innings tonight,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: one or two runs. You know, you just got to
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: score more than the other team tonight, and that's all
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: you got to think about doing.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Facing David Sandlin again second time in a week, as
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: we mentioned, his second career start, obviously guessing the Twins
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: didn't know a lot about him beforehand and are sort
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of experiencing him for the first time. What changes when
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you're when you're seeing a picture for a second time
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: after you didn't really have much information on them before.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, especially the rookie like that, Like guys are getting
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: their eyes on him for the first time. You know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: you can watch video stuff like that, but until you
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: get in the box and see the arm angle, see
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: the movement. I don't know what his particular mix is,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: whether he's got a good, you know, hoppy heater sinker,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: you know, he's got different off speed stuff, but getting
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: eyes on a guy. Obviously Buck had no issue adapting
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to him pretty quickly, but otherwise you just got to
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: see him. And now, especially for a rookie like that,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: he's going to be seeing guys for the second time
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: ever and these hitters have now seen him, and that's
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: the the one. It's does it creep into his head
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: a little bit to change something or do they have
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: you know, their meeting they're like, hey, man, do exactly
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: what you did last week. It's gonna work. You know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: it's it's the one you can the what is it
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: the end of paralysis by analysis? You know, that's where
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: that creeps in, Like you start trying to do something
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: different when you don't need to, and then you get
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: down the rabbit hole. You know, it's it's just go
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: play ball. But for our hitter will be huge. For
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: for our guys, they've they've got the fresh look at him.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: You know, it's less than a week ago. Go right
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: back to it, and then just get him early, get
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: him out of the game, get to him early. You know,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: don't let them go no hits for six innings. You know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: that's that's always a good start, you know, just getting
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: on base, it's always the place to start. So, you know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: jump on him early. I think that's the best thing
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: you can do. Get him rattled. He's young, you know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: get that pressure on him, and then, uh, you know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: make some stuff happen.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Davis Martin is the White Sox picture on Tuesday. Who's
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: up on Wednesday? I had it and I lost it.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Martin's really good Martin.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: We'll keep it tires.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: It's a seven game homestand three with the White Sox,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: four with the Royals. An important one for the Twins
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: as they're starting to slip back a bit in both
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the wild Card race and the Al Central and then
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: after that a day off and three at Detroit. So
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: ten straight Divisional games here for the Twins Division, Tag
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Stretch Division coming up. We will be getting back with
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: you later this week. Uh, probably right before the White
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Sox series wraps. Wednesday afternoon again. If you like what
• 32:55
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• 33:08
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• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Territory, whatever the hell that is.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: One more time. Thanks everybody, Bye bye. We'll catch you
• 33:15
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