Moran exited stage left without recording an out, and Emilio Pagan was brought in to face the heart of the Seattle order in hopes of keeping the lead. Moran delivered a changeup for a strike to Cal Raleigh, but unfortunately for the Twins, the M's catcher drove that pitch to the left field gap to make the score 6-3. He proceeded to walk the first two batters that he faced. With the game time temperature of 90 degrees and no breeze to speak of, the Twins depleted bullpen faced a slight challenge, but the Twins had a 97% chance of winning when Jovani Moran got the ball in the top of the eighth with a 6-2 lead. Pitching as Though the Twins Need to Trade for Bullpen Help This came back to bite them in a big way. The strike outs kept piling up through the late innings, and the Twins struggled to add more baserunning threats to bolster their lead. Solano received a fortunate no-call on what should have been strike three at the knees, and hit a fly ball to right for a sacrifice fly to plate Castro and to put the Twins ahead 6-2. Ryan Jeffers walked, and Donovan Solano came in to pinch hit for Joey Gallo. Then Castro stole second and third while Larnach was working a strike out. Willi Castro look a walk to lead off the bottom of the sixth for the Twins. It's the same story just shared two innings later. This is a different section than the one above. Granted the Twitter-verse disagreed with a few of the called strike threes to Trevor Larnach, but flailing and missing accounted for eight of them, including all three of the vaunted lefties when southpaw Gabe Speier came in to relieve Kirby in the fifth. The flip side of this quality offensive outburst was the 12 strike outs that Twins batters amassed in the first five innings. Willi Castro was the first man up to get it done in the bottom of the third, when laced a triple to right and forced Kepler to run really hard all the way around the bases to make the score 5-1 at the time. Slamming extra base hits with runners on base continues to be an effective way to overcome that trend. One of the plagues of the first half of the season for the Twins involved failing to add on to leads when opportunities presented themselves. The Twins Add On a Little, and Strike Out Far Too Much Will Lopez be able to make the necessary adjustments for the nights when the offense isn't adding on? A few base runners scattered around when those homers launch, like in his July 15th start against Oakland, and the story changes dramatically. That should be the main point of the story here. Lopez ended up completing seven innings, and only surrendered the two runs.
One might argue that Lopez was pitching as if he was spotted a 4-0 lead in the first inning, but he has already given up 17 homers on the year, and is on pace to set a career-high by the time the playoff push rolls around. Julio Rodriguez took Lopez deep in the top of the second, and Cade Marlowe followed in the fifth inning by crushing a no-doubter to the bullpen for his first career home run. Lopez only gave up three hits over the first five innings, but unfortunately, two of those were home runs. Pablo Deals, but the Mariners Hung Around Max Kepler followed up a few batters later with a seeing-eye, thanks-for-not-shifting-anymore single through the hole at second.īefore Twins fans could even say "Thank goodness Max is back!" Matt Wallner stood up to the plate and torpedoed the first pitch fastball he saw, hitting it 111 mph off of a human in the right field overhang to complete the four-run first inning.
Edouard Julien worked the count full, before bashing a triple off of the left field wall, scoring Correa in the process. Carlos Correa took a fastball to the opposite field for a double and the Twins didn't stop until they put a four-spot on the board. The Twins started their offensive attack against Kirby right from the first pitch. Twins Pick Up Where They Left Off Offensively Yet the Twins still found a way to lose a virtual lock of a game. Turns out scoring runs against Kirby was the least of the Twins' worries, as he only lasted four innings in this game. Kirby held the Twins scoreless last week in Seattle over seven innings of work, so the task looked formidable from the start.
MARINERS SCORE TONIGHT SERIES
Taylor (12)īottom 3 WPA: Oliver Ortega(-.439), Jovani Moran (-.189), Emilio Pagan (-.176)Īfter surviving two consecutive extra-inning walk-off victories, the Twins looked to win the season series against the Mariners and to keep their good times rolling against right-hander George Kirby. Starting Pitcher: Pablo Lopez: 7 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 8 K (94 Pitches, 63 Strikes, 67%)
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