The Twins earned a 3-1 walk-off win over the Royals Friday night to cap a strange five days of mostly no baseball.
The Twins were supposed to play on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but Mother Nature definitely had other plans.
Monday’s game was suspended because of rain, then Tuesday’s game was a complete washout, which resulted in that game being bumped to Sept. 20. Then the resumption of Monday’s suspended game was played Wednesday as Game 1 of a doubleheader. And yet that game was delayed by rain for one-hour and 42-minutes. Then Game 2, as far as I could tell, was simply played in the rain.
The Twins were off Thursday, then the Royals came to town.
Carlos Correa rejoined the lineup Friday after a short stint on the injured list following a collision with Byron Buxton. The Royals scored first, Correa homered, then both teams took a 1-1 tie into the bottom of the ninth inning. Correa reached first base on an infield hit and Ty France brought him home on a game-winning, two-run dinger.
Zebby Matthews gets the ball Saturday.
Extra innings…
–If the Twins are in contention in September that rescheduled game against the Guardians could pose a problem. The Twins get the Yankees for three games, followed by four games versus Cleveland, including the doubleheader on Sept. 20. Those seven games have season-changing ramifications written all over them.
–The Twins are tied for second place in the division at 28-22, four games behind the Detroit Tigers who currently are tangling with the Guards.
–Wednesday’s doubleheader against the Guards resulted in a 6-5 walk-off win for the Twins and a 5-1 loss to Cleveland.
–Carson McCusker, the 6-foot-8 minor league slugger recently called up by the Twins, didn’t accomplish much against the Guards unless you’re interested in how far he could toss a bat. In that wet weather, McCusker had trouble hanging onto the bat as he swung through pitches. But the bat didn’t land in the infield, it went deep into the outfield.
–When it rains, it pours, Baltimore Orioles fans. A change of leadership there appears to have had no effect on the team. And then Friday came calling. The St. Louis Browns took a 2-1 lead over the Boston Red Sox, then fell behind 6-2 and remained behind, 6-3. And then the Red Sox completely unloaded on the Browns’ bullpen, scoring 13 runs in the eighth inning for an eventual 19-5 win. The Browns are 16-33.
–The Colorado Rockies are 9-42.