chw42

FWIW we still haven't won a game that wasn't started by either Cease or Clevinger. Lucas looks good today, but can this lineup even score a run?

I'm not sure what Abreu's underlying metrics looked like for all of his slow starts in Chicago, but he's definitely trending the wrong way. You'd think a team like Houston would get him to stop swinging at garbage and increase his power, not the other way around.

It seemed like just a week ago that we were raving about how it was nice to have everyone healthy and the lineup 7 or 8 solid hitters deep. Now the lineup looks real short again.

Can't even make this s%*# up

I wonder what the hell Lopez did over the winter to gain 2 MPH on his fastball. He's consistently hitting 99-100 whereas he sat high 90s most of last year.

What you just described was literally Abreu in the 2nd half of last year. High average, low power, very high BABIP

Nice win, but we had to get this one with Cease pitching and Minnesota sitting half of their lineup.

Finally a scoreless game by the bullpen

I don't think the Twins fans realize them chanting the clock down is actually helping Lopez...cause he would have gotten like 3 pitch clock violations otherwise.

There's 6 on the clock and Lopez is still looking down on the rubber...

Lopez needs to hurry it up and not wait till there's 0 on the pitch clock.

Shadows are over the plate now for lefties.

Yeah, but the 3 bad calls in a row totally changed the last 2 PAs.

I mean, when you just get them close enough and the ump calls them strikes, why not?

We need the shadows to creep in a bit faster.

Wow 3 straight crap calls

Andrus got screwed on those calls.

Nice job Reylo

With Larnach on deck, keeping Bummer there isn't the worst move.

I kind of like that Pedro will go with Lopez whenever he needs outs. It's a ballsy move considering everyone will second-guess if it doesn't work out.

What a play by Romy and Burger

I swear, at least half of Bummer's outings are sweatfests.

Well when you put it that way...

He didn't go, but you can argue that he did.

Here comes Buxton to tie the game.