Joe Pesci would understand.
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Glad they got out of that brutal call…
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They have an RP named “Blewett”???
Yikes…
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Ok, that is funny didn’t even realize this until you posted.
Red fingernail. Thought it was Caleb for a second.
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Baez and Sweeney with back to back doubles, get the run back.
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Baez gotta be extended… 4 years enough? 
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This defense has been comical from the Twins.
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Have you guys listened to any of this live stream on apple?
Be honest.
This game is taking forever.
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Twins are 4 and 10 now…yikes
They really don’t have a lot of talent I was shocked how well they did last year to be honest. They’ve got starting pitching but beyond their closer bullpen’s pretty suspect. Their lineup isn’t particularly very scary they don’t have that top end guy and as we all know the top three they do have varying degrees of injury prone from more than you’d like to Chronic to mostly unbelievable.
They run the platoon game with a third of their lineup with six guys who really aren’t very damn good and the middle of three guys one of them is Willie Castro. That should tell you what you need to know
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I listened/watched the game until the 8th inning, way past my bed time. To say not impressed well, understatement.
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From the Freep:
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But his return does complicate what the Tigers do at first and second base.
With Torres on the injured list, Colt Keith returned to second base — his position last year as a rookie. This season, though, he has struggled defensively there, picking up three errors.
On Friday night, Spencer Torkelson will play first and Keith will be used as the designated hitter.
“Then we’ll figure it out day to day,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said before Friday’s game. “I don’t really need to commit any further than I have to.”
Hinch said he has a loose plan on how he will use several players who are all intertwined: He is going to ramp up Torres slowly playing him at second and designated hitter; Keith will play second, first and designated hitter; Torkelson will play first and designated hitter; and Justyn-Henry Malloy will be a designated hitter, play a little bit of first and have some outfield time sprinkled in.
“It’s just a puzzle to put together every day to try to win that game,” Hinch said. “So it’s a good problem to have.”
hhmmm,
from the DetNews:
Greene, after drawing the walk, took second on a wild pitch and on his head-first slide, blew out his belt.
“I feel like Riley’s done that a handful of times,” manager AJ Hinch said. “But I’ve never had a bat boy take his belt off and give it to Riley. So, here’s how the belt thing went: Riley’s broke, the bat boy gave his to Riley, (bench coach) George Lombard gave his belt to the bat boy and he got a new one.”
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… Entering play Friday, the Tigers were 8 for 8 going first to third on balls in play out of 14 opportunities. The 57.1% rate of attempts is best in the American League and second best in baseball.
… Zach McKinstry took a seven-game hitting streak into play Friday. He went 8 for 13 during the homestand. The lefty-swinger is also 6 for 10 against lefty pitching in the early going.
Regarding Jobe, who has also struggled a bit to start the season similar to Olson. From today’s DetNews:
Where’d it go?
Remember that two-plane curveball Jackson Jobe was throwing in spring, the one that garnered all the buzz with the way it fooled hitters with the near 3,000-rpm spin?
It’s been conspicuously absent from his arsenal in his two starts this season.
“It’s due to the fact that it’s not in the zone right now,” said Jobe, who gets the start Saturday against the Twins. “When I throw competitive ones, they have really good results. And I’m throwing a lot of non-competitive ones.”
He’s thrown 13 curveballs total and most of them have been out of the strike zone.
“Some of it is a mechanical thing that I’ve been getting dialed in on and some of it is just throwing it,” Jobe said. “Looking back, it was really good in spring training and it was good in San Francisco (exhibition start) but it’s been kind of inconsistent since the season started.”
He’s working to stay directional in his delivery, keeping his body moving downhill toward the plate. He loses the command of the curveball when he gets rotational in his delivery.
“I want to throw it,” he said. “I love that pitch. I still feel good about it. When I execute it, it’s good. And that’s kind of the kicker. It’s better than it not being good and having to go back to the drawing board.
“It’s just going to take more reps.”
It’s a key part of his arsenal. When it’s right, it’s a swing-and-miss pitch and it keeps hitters off his slider and changeup.
“I think he needs to be a little more unpredictable,” Hinch said. “And he needs to use his whole arsenal. In the heat of the moment, that can be hard, especially for a young player. But I think his appetite to be great is real and he has a ton of weapons to use.
“I think the curveball is an important pitch for him but he doesn’t necessarily have to use it against every opponent or every lineup. But the more the hitter has to deal with, the better.”