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A taxing stretch of 17 games in as many days started with Connor Prielipp on the mound in Boston on May 22. It ended Sunday with Prielipp starting the final game back at home in Minneapolis.
The Twins’ longest run of consecutive games all season came to a close as they fell 6-5 to the Kansas City Royals, dropping three of four games in the series at Target Field.
“It seems like we’ve been playing longer than 17 days,” manager Derek Shelton mused before the game.
It was a tough stretch that saw the Twins go 7-10, lose pitchers Bailey Ober and Kendry Rojas to the injured list and designate Simeon Woods Richardson for assignment and trade him to Toronto. It was particularly hard to piece together pitching plans as Minnesota starters threw fewer than five innings in nine of the 17 games.
One of those 17 games was a bullpen game — with Ober’s injury, the Twins currently have four starters on the roster — and in one game, the Twins had to press Woods Richardson into duty after scratching Rojas an hour before the game.
All that made it seem as if they were “limping pitching-wise,” to the end of the stretch, Shelton said.
The Twins got another shorter start Sunday with Prielipp lasting 4 1/3 innings, giving up a pair of runs. The Royals broke open the game in the fifth with Starling Marte’s three-run home run to the batter’s eye in center field off Andrew Morris giving them a four-run cushion.
The Twins’ offense, meanwhile, was relatively quiet through the first eight innings. At one point, Royals pitchers had sent down 13 straight batters before the Twins sparked to life in the ninth.
Orlando Arcia’s walk and Kody Clemens’ single preceded Josh Bell’s sixth home run of the season, a ball struck at 111.6 miles per hour off the bat.
Victor Caratini’s single drove in Trevor Larnach, who doubled with one out, for the team’s fourth run of the inning. But their comeback bid fell just short as Brooks Lee flew out to left to end the game, leaving a pair of runners stranded.
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The Twins’ longest run of consecutive games all season came to a close as they fell 6-5 to the Kansas City Royals, dropping three of four games in the series at Target Field.
“It seems like we’ve been playing longer than 17 days,” manager Derek Shelton mused before the game.
It was a tough stretch that saw the Twins go 7-10, lose pitchers Bailey Ober and Kendry Rojas to the injured list and designate Simeon Woods Richardson for assignment and trade him to Toronto. It was particularly hard to piece together pitching plans as Minnesota starters threw fewer than five innings in nine of the 17 games.
One of those 17 games was a bullpen game — with Ober’s injury, the Twins currently have four starters on the roster — and in one game, the Twins had to press Woods Richardson into duty after scratching Rojas an hour before the game.
All that made it seem as if they were “limping pitching-wise,” to the end of the stretch, Shelton said.
The Twins got another shorter start Sunday with Prielipp lasting 4 1/3 innings, giving up a pair of runs. The Royals broke open the game in the fifth with Starling Marte’s three-run home run to the batter’s eye in center field off Andrew Morris giving them a four-run cushion.
The Twins’ offense, meanwhile, was relatively quiet through the first eight innings. At one point, Royals pitchers had sent down 13 straight batters before the Twins sparked to life in the ninth.
Orlando Arcia’s walk and Kody Clemens’ single preceded Josh Bell’s sixth home run of the season, a ball struck at 111.6 miles per hour off the bat.
Victor Caratini’s single drove in Trevor Larnach, who doubled with one out, for the team’s fourth run of the inning. But their comeback bid fell just short as Brooks Lee flew out to left to end the game, leaving a pair of runners stranded.
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