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Joined: January 11, 2024
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The Minnesota Twins really did not play well in any aspect of Monday evening's tilt against the Tampa Bay Rays. And they aren't playing the Mets or Guardians any longer, so it predictably ended in a loss.Sonny Gray was as off as he's remained in a while. He threw 30-plus pitches in the very first inning, leaving a bases-loaded jam while just enabling one run, however it could have been a lot worse. The violation, on the various other hand, virtually enabled Rays starter Tyler Glasnow to finish a spotless inning; Glasnow tossed 8 successive strikes while starting out Eddie Julien and Alex Kirilloff and obtaining Royce Lewis in an 0-2 hole. Rather, Glasnow had to choose starting out the side on 10 pitches.The video game continued to be 1-0 until the top of the third. Carlos Correa dedicated an error to begin the inning, permitting Randy Arozarena to get to. He progressed to second on a ground sphere to the best side and to third base on a wild pitch. The Twins brought the infield in, and Jose Siri soared a ball past Correa to increase the Rays' lead.The lastly endangered in all-time low of the frame. Ryan Jeffers coaxed a solitary up the center, and with one out, Julien walked to put runners on very first and second. Kirilloff was obstructed and popped out to deep shortstop, however, and Jeffers in some way came also away the bag and was doubled off of 2nd Rays Jerseys, ending the inning.In the base of the fourth, Max Kepler stayed hot, squashing the first pitch he attended right field to cut the deficit in half.Gray appeared after 4 innings with a pitch matter of 89, and things unwinded rapidly for Dylan Floro. After starting out Arozarena, Josh Lowe struck a high-bouncer to initial base, sending out Kirilloff right to the side of the lawn. He chose to attempt to shovel the sphere to Floro covering Taylor Walls Jersey, and Lowe beat it out. Floro then hit Siri in the hand with a pitch, set out former Doubles' farmhand Luke Raley and had Taylor Walls down 0-2 prior to Walls smacked a raised fastball over the high wall in right-center to expand the Rays' result in 5-1. The Rays scored 2 more versus Brent Headrick in the sixth, and the Twins were suddenly in a 7-1 hole.Julien and Kirilloff struck back-to-back songs in the bottom of the inning prior to Royce Lewis stroked a line drive over the fence left, making it a 7-4 game.The Twins could not muster up several baserunners at the very same time over the final three-plus innings and mostly went down with a whimper as ball game stayed the same till Ryan Jeffers lined out to right-center to end the game.NotesGray was just not sharp in this game. He only walked one batter, but he struck Raley two times and when he was hit, he was struck hard. Among his two runs enabled was unearned, many thanks to the Correa error to lead off the top of the third inning.Floro and Headrick were bad, yet a minimum of Josh Winder made it through the final 123 innings without Rocco Baldelli requiring to dip into his bullpen any type of further. |
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