The Minnesota Twins flew into St. Pete late Thursday night and will depart shortly. Much like a group of college spring-breakers, they will likely want to forget everything in between (if they remember it at all).<\/p>\n
In a move that felt a little like \u201cplaying with their food\u201d, Tampa Bay ran old friend Griffin Jax out as an opener today. He pitched a clean 2.1 IP before bulk man Jesse Scholtens took over. The Twins put two baserunners\u2014Ryan Jeffers BB, Kody Clemens 1B\u2014on with zero outs in the second inning, but a Luke Keaschall fly out and a Matt Wallner GIDP extinguished hope for a run before it could really even be cultivated.<\/p>\n
Instead, the Rays activated the scoreboard first in B3 when Twins SP Simeon Woods-Richardson threw a Hunter Feduccia bunt attempt wild (resulting in two bases) and then allowed a Chandler Simpson single to put ducks on the pond. Both would fly home on a Jonathan Aranda base knock. Freak-of-strength Yandy Diaz then basically popped a ball up\u2014which carried over the RF fence beyond Wallner\u2019s reach. 4-0 Rays.<\/p>\n
The Twins threatened again in T4 by putting two more runners on base, but once again they were LOBster\u2019d by a meek Royce Lewis pop-up out. Tampa nearly increased their lead in B4, but a nice Larnach-to-Jeffers relay cut down the run at the dish.<\/p>\n
Nothing much of note transpired in the middle innings of this one, but in T7 the bats finally did some damage: a James Outman double was allowed to trot home on a Brooks Lee home run! 4-2 TB.<\/p>\n
Alas, that was the only offense that could be mustered the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Your Final: Tampa Bay Rays 4, Minnesota Twins 2<\/p>\n
Despite cleaning up the defense a bit and the pitching keeping them in the majority of these ballgames, the offense\u2014especially the ability to finish rallies and drive in runs\u2014remains equal parts un-playable and un-watchable at the moment. An Island of Misfit Toys of spare parts, floundering once-thought core pieces, and folks who probably shouldn\u2019t be on the roster to begin with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Twins flew into St. Pete late Thursday night and will depart shortly. Much like a group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[108682,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-247577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-minnesota-twins-scores","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}