If you thought the Twins’ Friday night loss to the Colorado Rockies — the worst team in the major leagues — was bad, what if I told you the Twins lost again and the series to the same team?
Well, that’s exactly what happened. After the Twins’ come-from-behind-effort fell short on Friday, the Twins ran out to a 3-0 lead over the Rockies on Saturday, then watched in horror as the Rockies responded with eight unanswered runs on their way to a 10-6 win.
The result is this: It is over, Twins fans.
Call it the symbolic end to the 2025 season, or call it whatever you want — maybe it was two bad losses and nothing more — but here’s the problem: if the Twins can’t beat the Rockies, how are they supposed to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers on the road and survive an increasing number of competitive teams through mid-August?
It looks pretty bleak, folks.
The Twins will try to avoid being swept on Sunday. Joe Ryan gets the ball.
Extra innings…
–The Twins are 47-51.
–Zebby Matthews was back on the bump for the Twins on Saturday. He struck out six batters, but he also allowed five runs on eight hits, including a home run, across four innings. Not his best effort, but he also hadn’t faced major league pitching since June 4.
–It’s a good thing Zebby is back because it appears the Twins have a “Bailey Ober” problem with pitcher Chris Paddack. Ober had a terrible June and the Twins found a reason to send him to the injured list for 15 days. What do they do with Paddack? He allowed five quick runs across two innings in Friday’s loss to fall to 3-9 on the season with a 5.14 ERA.
–You can’t say that Byron Buxton and Ryan Jeffers didn’t try on Friday. The two produced seven of the Twins’ 10 hits in the game. Buck, too, hit his 22nd home run of the season.
–You know what the All-Star game needed? More Twins and ex-Twins players because those that got the nod for the game nearly won the contest for the American League.
Ex-Twin Brent Rooker hit a three-run blast, Byron Buxton doubled and scored an important run and pitcher Joe Ryan entered the game in the fourth inning and fanned Manny Machado and Kyle Tucker.
–Not sure what’s in the water in Denver, but they sure do support their 24-74 Rockies. About 37,000 fans attended Friday’s game, followed by 42,000 on Saturday. In fact, the Rocks rank 11th out of 15 National League team in attendance. To date, the Rockies have attracted about 300,000 more fans than the Twins, according to Baseball-Reference.com.