{"id":275035,"date":"2023-08-23T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=275035"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:32:56","slug":"twins-loose-to-brewers-7-to-3-in-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=275035","title":{"rendered":"Twins loose to Brewers 7 to 3 in Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Milwaukee -KFGO-\u00a0Dylan Floro<\/a>\u00a0was greeted by a pair of hard-hit singles upon entering Tuesday\u2019s game at American Family Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, a flurry of well-placed, softly hit singles off Floro followed, as the sixth inning slipped away from the Twins in Tuesday\u2019s 7-3 loss to the Brewers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to find a way and do a better job of staying in the ballgame right there,\u201d Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. \u201cYou might have a bad inning, but we weren\u2019t able to seal up the holes right there and find a way through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe just have to find a way to not give up five there. I mean, once you do that, it\u2019s tough sledding at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Floro, who took over for starter Bailey Ober<\/a>, surrendered singles to William Contreras and Carlos Santana with 109.4 mph and 100.8 exit velocities, according to Statcast. After striking out Willy Adames, the next four batters went as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 90.9 mph groundball single through the right side of the infield<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 64.2 mph bloop single to right field<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 62.9 mph single on a line drive that deflected off Carlos Correa\u2019s glove<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 80.6 mph single through a drawn-in infield<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s frustrating,\u201d Floro said. \u201cSometimes that\u2019s part of the game right there. I just had to find a way to minimize it, and I didn’t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe caught some breaks that inning, no question about it,\u201d Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. \u201cSome softly-hit balls found holes. But we kept putting it in play, and once in a while you get rewarded for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat’s the adage of when you put the ball in play, because every once in a while something good can happen. That\u2019s what happened tonight for us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Floro took over for Ober, who allowed two runs, two hits and three walks in five innings. He surrendered a two-run homer to Adames in the first inning, and a double and a walk to lead off the third. He got out of that jam with a double play and lineout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFelt pretty good today,\u201d Ober said. \u201cBall was coming out pretty good. I had trouble a little bit with command, but overall I felt like I pitched pretty well. The only one I wish I could have back was the changeup I left in the zone when I was trying to expand [to Adames].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ober\u2019s pitch count was at 78 through the fifth inning, and at that point he had retired eight straight Brewers hitters. He said he was expecting to go out for the sixth, but Minnesota went to the bullpen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the game, Baldelli said the Twins — with Joe Ryan nearing a return from the injured list — are considering going to a six-man rotation, and acknowledged, as a byproduct, Ober could be a beneficiary of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 28-year-old Ober has thrown a career-high 118 2\/3 innings this season, but Baldelli also noted there are other \u201csubtle\u201d avenues to lighten his workload the Twins could explore, if they see fit, such as giving him an extra day between starts or a shorter start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as Tuesday goes, Ober settled in after a shaky start to give the Twins five solid innings. Minnesota had a rested bullpen and liked the matchup Floro came on for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tight ballgame and our bullpen is pretty fresh and ready to go,\u201d Baldelli said. \u201cAre we going to send [Ober] out there every game, at this point in the season, and let him throw 100 pitches? He hasn\u2019t done that, anywhere near that, at any point in his career. We know that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is probably a little bit more because he gave us five good innings. Was he at his absolute best today? I don\u2019t know. He settled in. Probably not at his absolute best today, and he gave us a good effort. I liked what I saw out of him overall, and we took what we got.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee -KFGO-\u00a0Dylan Floro\u00a0was greeted by a pair of hard-hit singles upon entering Tuesday\u2019s game at American Family Field. Then, a flurry of well-placed, softly hit singles off Floro followed, as the sixth inning slipped away from the Twins in Tuesday\u2019s 7-3 loss to the Brewers. \u201cWe have to find a way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":274823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275078,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275035\/revisions\/275078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}