MINNEAPOLIS — All afternoon, a sold-out Target Field crowd packed to the gills longed for its chance to erupt in ways hitherto unseen around these parts this deep into October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They never got that opportunity. And now that the Twins\u2019 backs are against the wall, they might only get one more shot at unleashing all that pent-up energy — they\u2019ll need it, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 ALDS Game 4, presented by Booking.com: Today, 7 p.m. ET\/6 CT on FS1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Astros took that over-capacity crowd of 41,017 out of the picture rather quickly on Tuesday with a four-run first inning against Twins starter Sonny Gray<\/a>, and the home team remained deflated throughout the afternoon as its offense fell flat in a 9-1 loss<\/a> to the Astros in Game 3 of the American League Division Series. Minnesota now faces elimination for the first time this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think we can feel the energy, we feel the excitement in the stadium,\u201d Ryan Jeffers said. \u201cI hate that we weren\u2019t able to give them something more to cheer about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen you go into an elimination game, you\u2019ve got to be ready to do whatever is possible to help the team win,\u201d Carlos Correa said. \u201cEverybody’s available. All the arms are available. And we\u2019ve got to do a better job with people on base if we want to stay alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to do that tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n They have no choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe’ve got to punch,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cThey punched. We’ve got to punch back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MINNEAPOLIS — All afternoon, a sold-out Target Field crowd packed to the gills longed for its chance to erupt in ways hitherto unseen around these parts this deep into October. They never got that opportunity. And now that the Twins\u2019 backs are against the wall, they might only get one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":276430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276487,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276486\/revisions\/276487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}