Twins 12, Tigers 3 (7 Innings:) Offense doinks and boinks its way to a rainy victory
07/04/2024 04:40 PM
I hope you like AMERICA because it is AMERICA day and the broadcast really wants you to remember that. and it has me rolling in my grave. No I did not use "rolling in my grave" wrong, I bought a gravesite and live in it now. It's the only thing I can afford in this economy.
Rooting against Kenta and Gio feels bad, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Let's Gober Ober! Or not. Colt Keith, despite his anime ass name, gives Detroit an early lead with a solo dong. Ober is able to come back with a quick couple of outs. The Twins respond with nothing.
Ober strike out McKinstrey for the third out, except he doesn't because Ryan Jeffers drops it and let's him reach instead. Aaand then Urshela singles and moves him over to third. Et tu, Gio? Et tu Jake Rogers apparently as well as he doubles in everyone and then advances to third on the play.
Back to back doubles by Urshela and Jeffers gets back a run. I forgive you Jeffers. Sorry I was rude. A ice cold Max Kepler singles to put runners on the corners. Later our new son Brooks Lee sac attacks Jeffers in. Twins down by 1.
Ober pitches a scoreless third which feels like a fun change of pace. For their part, the Twins smashed the snot out of the ball. If by smashes you mean kinda lightly tapped. But in a positive way.
Correa singles and Larnach walks to give the Twims a one out threat. Then Miranda dinks a doinker down the line to lead them bases. After Jeffers strikes out for the 2nd out and leaves it all to Kepler.
And he hits it where they aint by poking it through a hole in the left side on a sorta half-swing. We'll all take it! (He's heating up!) Margot then follows suit with a little chopper off Maeda's glove for an infield RBI single. Doinkers and dinkers, ladies and gentleman. Just blonk the ball a little bit. Give it a little tappy doo. It's that easy.
The Twins really do hit the snot out of the ball in the 4th. Despite Maeda starting the inning with two quick outs, the wheels came off of his cool little dune buggy with two straight walks and a bases clearing double off the bat Jose Miranda. Jeffers then, continuing his redemption tour, smashes it out of the park. 9 - 3 Twins. Maeda is out (I still love you and hope you have a good season Kenta!) and now it's a race to make this game official as the lightning rolls in. (Scary lightning apparently, as the broadcast team recalls some its camera crew for safety reasons. )The relief pitcher whose name I forgot comes in and Kepler strategically lines out ASAP. We go to the 5th. Hopefully.
Ober starts the inning with a strikeout of Matt Vierling. Then Colt Keith summons his Barrel Dragon and hits a single. Literally no one got that reference, me. Another strikeout gets us to out number 2, but Mark Canha singles past a diving Castro to extend the inning. Make it official! Top of the 5th over with a groundout to first!
Let's go stormy weather, I guess! Also Let's go Ober who struck out 8 over six quality innings!
The Twins add on a couple more in the sixth with run-scoring binky boinkers singles by the blazing hot duo of Miranda/Jeffers. (With a little help by a throwing error by Detroit Releiver Joey Wentz who did NOT summon his Black Eyes.)
Miranda gets his 5th hit of the game and another RBI with an RBI double in the 7th. Then Jeffers gets hit in the helmet with the ball, which mostly seems to be because of the field being more water than field. Jeffers is fine as the tarp is unfurled. I'm guessing there won't be an 8th let alone a the-rest-of-the-7th unless they want to make a baseball themed sequel to Water World.
Aaand game called!
STUDS: MIRANDA AND JEFFERS
DUDS: NO
