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After a much-needed day off to recover from the humiliating 24-4 beatdown in three games against the Brewers (in which the Tribe was no-hit yet again and went a mind-boggling 0-for-48 at one point), the Indians travel to Minnesota for a three-game series against a much more familiar opponent.
The Twins may be in last place but they are playing better than the Tribe right now. These will be the final three games of the season (and ever) between the Indians and Twins. Minnesota won three of four against the Tribe last week and leads the season series 10-6, so they already clinched it.
Today is a “traditional” doubleheader, which I believe means the second game starts one-half hour after the first and one ticket gets you both games, as opposed to 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. starts where tickets are sold separately. I’m sorry, but for me a traditional doubleheader involves 18 innings of baseball, not 14. Nice try.
McKenzie and Allen go against Joe Ryan and Charlie Barnes, two 25-year-old rookies. Ryan will be making his third major league start; Barnes his sixth. In his second start, against the Indians, Ryan threw six perfect innings (not as impressive as it sounds) and finished with a 7-inning one-hitter. It will be interesting to see if they have a little success now that they’ve seen what he throws.
Barnes has not faced the Tribe. He is 0-3 with a 6.59 ERA in 27 innings. The first time through the batting order opponents are hitting .271. The second time through it balloons to .340. With runners on base opponents are hitting .340 and with RISP it’s a whopping .393.
If Barnes shuts us out for six innings it’s time to start DFAing some guys and bringing up some farm hands.
Tomorrow’s starter for the Twins is yet another rookie, Griffin Jax, ERA 6.72. But he pitched well against the Indians a month ago.
So we have three games against the last place team in our division starting three rookies. We’re going with McKenzie, Allen, and Quantrill. On paper this should be a sweep but the Twins have been kryptonite for the Tribe this year and the way this team has been swinging the bats lately a Twins sweep would not surprise me.
I’m hoping the day off gave the Indians a chance to look in the mirror after the debacle against Milwaukee and they’ll come out focused and determined to finish strong. They made seven errors against the Brewers.
The Indians are three games below .500 with 21 to go. If they want to avoid a losing record and prolong their impressive over .500 streak they need to finish 12-9 or better. Unfortunately, they have five games against the White Sox (all at home) and three against the Yankees in addition to these three games against the Twins, who have had our number this year. There are seven games against the Royals and three against Texas.
The Twins may be in last place but they are playing better than the Tribe right now. These will be the final three games of the season (and ever) between the Indians and Twins. Minnesota won three of four against the Tribe last week and leads the season series 10-6, so they already clinched it.
Today is a “traditional” doubleheader, which I believe means the second game starts one-half hour after the first and one ticket gets you both games, as opposed to 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. starts where tickets are sold separately. I’m sorry, but for me a traditional doubleheader involves 18 innings of baseball, not 14. Nice try.
McKenzie and Allen go against Joe Ryan and Charlie Barnes, two 25-year-old rookies. Ryan will be making his third major league start; Barnes his sixth. In his second start, against the Indians, Ryan threw six perfect innings (not as impressive as it sounds) and finished with a 7-inning one-hitter. It will be interesting to see if they have a little success now that they’ve seen what he throws.
Barnes has not faced the Tribe. He is 0-3 with a 6.59 ERA in 27 innings. The first time through the batting order opponents are hitting .271. The second time through it balloons to .340. With runners on base opponents are hitting .340 and with RISP it’s a whopping .393.
If Barnes shuts us out for six innings it’s time to start DFAing some guys and bringing up some farm hands.
Tomorrow’s starter for the Twins is yet another rookie, Griffin Jax, ERA 6.72. But he pitched well against the Indians a month ago.
So we have three games against the last place team in our division starting three rookies. We’re going with McKenzie, Allen, and Quantrill. On paper this should be a sweep but the Twins have been kryptonite for the Tribe this year and the way this team has been swinging the bats lately a Twins sweep would not surprise me.
I’m hoping the day off gave the Indians a chance to look in the mirror after the debacle against Milwaukee and they’ll come out focused and determined to finish strong. They made seven errors against the Brewers.
The Indians are three games below .500 with 21 to go. If they want to avoid a losing record and prolong their impressive over .500 streak they need to finish 12-9 or better. Unfortunately, they have five games against the White Sox (all at home) and three against the Yankees in addition to these three games against the Twins, who have had our number this year. There are seven games against the Royals and three against Texas.
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