DoUEvenShift

I'm starting to really like Santos

I think TLR would have beaten that one out.

More bad baserunning saving the Sox

Uh WTF????????????

Lucas going to have to grind through this one.

There's that 77th percentile sprint speed!

A rare Burger road hit!

Giolito vs. Faedo Our first meeting of the year against Detroit and we face them 7 out of the next 10 games. If the Sox want to prove they are really turning things around here's their chance. Time to put up or shut up. While we play DET and LAA the Twins will be playing TOR and HOU. Grab 5/7 or more from the Tigers and maybe our game threads will have more than 5 pages and 10 people posting. Starting pitching and bullpen have been lights out lately. Offense now needs to step it up with more consistency and take better AB's. TA apparently figured out what he was doing wrong with stance and front leg. If Burger just closes his eyes and pretends he's at Guaranteed Rate, maybe he'll get a couple hits this series. Let's string together some wins and prove the Sox can take the helm of the mighty AL Central.

May 24, 2005 - The Houston Astros would give up 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th and lose 4-2 to the Chicago Cubs. Chad Qualls started the inning off with a double and walk before being replaced. The loss brought the Astros to 15 games under .500 at 15-30. They would get hot and from from June 7th with a record of 21-35 they would improve to 63-52 by Aug 12th. A winning clip higher than Tampa so far this season. The Astros would finish the season 89-73-1 and make a deep postseason run beating the Braves and Cardinals (a 100 win team). In a 4 game sweep they would lose the World Series to the Sox including an iconic grand slam by Paul Konerko off the aforementioned Qualls in game 2. I'll keep drinking my Kool-Aid, but if they could turn their year around 15 under from today, the Sox can do it 9 under. We have lots of ball to play and some big guys coming back soon. 3-4 (or what should be) 4-4 in Detroit and I think we get a lot more people giving this team a shot after abandoning the season.

Twins next series: Blue Jays .531 Astros .571 Guardians .429 Rays .700 Blue Jays .531 Brewers .551 Good time to take over the "AL Comedy Central" as @Greg Hibbard coined it last night.

Michael KꓘKKKꓘKꓘKopech

Bug in the eye. Kopech to 15 day IL

Bases loaded and no outs, our old nemesis!

Kopech vs. Quantrill Kopech following up an absolute gem of a start. Lets grab another series win and start a streak!

Genuinely curious, has there ever been an entire division under .500 this late in the season? I think mathematically it would have been harder in the past playing your own division way more. I think we have a real shot!

Gives me Dunn flashbacks

Come on Jake you're due.

I really wanna see TA get a hit here, just for his mental well being.

Glad we pulled Yas to watch 3 K's.

Romy!!!

Cle just giving the game away

Vaughn running makes me laugh out loud.

"Infield single for Vaughn" Not a phrase you hear very much

He looked 100% safe to me. Surprised it stands

I didn't realize how crazy Burgers home vs. road splits were. Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ sOPS+ Home 20 20 72 66 12 22 4 1 9 21 0 1 5 16 .333 .375 .833 1.208 55 1 0 0 1 0 0 .310 139 215 Away 11 9 34 30 2 4 2 0 1 2 0 0 2 15 .133 .235 .300 .535 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 .214 16 50