{"id":282534,"date":"2024-05-17T08:48:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=282534"},"modified":"2024-05-17T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:48:41","slug":"twins-dont-look-much-like-themselves-against-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=282534","title":{"rendered":"Twins Don’t Look Much Like Themselves Against Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MINNEAPOLIS – The New York Yankees very much played like the better team in this series. The results in all three of the games at Target Field this week left little doubt of that, capped by another uncompetitive\u00a05-0 Minnesota loss<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday that brought a merciful end to a listless sweep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting beaten by a better team will happen over the course of a long season, especially considering how well these fortified Yankees have been playing to start this campaign. But the Twins also helped too much by beating themselves with miscues, even beyond their 26-inning scoreless streak to finish the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe came into this series off of a month of pretty spectacular play all the way around,\u201d manager Rocco Baldelli said. \u201cI didn\u2019t kind of recognize much of what I was watching over the last three days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should help a good deal — on the defensive side, at least — that Byron Buxton could rejoin the team this weekend following the expected completion of a rehab assignment with Triple-A St. Paul on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s because Minnesota\u2019s outfield play in particular produced about as messy of a three-game stretch as has been seen in the Baldelli era — and another mishap impacted Thursday\u2019s game in the first inning, when left fielder Alex Kirilloff couldn\u2019t handle a fly ball that hit his glove at the warning track in left-center field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Yankees scored three runs in that first frame to seize a lead before the Twins stepped into the batter\u2019s box. Two of those came as a result of Kirilloff\u2019s misplay — ruled an RBI double for Gleyber Torres — that happened as he drifted over for what would have been the second out of the inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s far from the only reason why the Twins lost on Thursday. But after two games in which Minnesota already appeared \u201cstale-ish,\u201d in the words of Baldelli, an immediate misplay perhaps stopped the Twins from turning around that energy in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe didn’t play good baseball at all, and you’ve got to be able to, as a team, take accountability in a lot of things we did wrong and fix them for the next series,\u201d Carlos Correa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a particularly rough series for interim center fielder Willi Castro, who not only lost a ball in the sun and botched the transfer in Tuesday\u2019s first inning but also made two mental errors when he threw to the wrong base on a sacrifice fly Tuesday, then lost track of the number of outs during Wednesday\u2019s second inning, allowing an easy Yankees run to score on another sac fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin Martin also had a tough game in left field on Tuesday. And several rough routes in center by Castro perhaps led to some catchable balls dropping through the series — and his frustration was palpable after he forgot the number of outs in the second inning Wednesday, when he threw the ball over the right-field upper deck in frustration after the final out of the inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS – The New York Yankees very much played like the better team in this series. The results in all three of the games at Target Field this week left little doubt of that, capped by another uncompetitive\u00a05-0 Minnesota loss\u00a0on Thursday that brought a merciful end to a listless sweep. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":274823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282534","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\/282534","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=282534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282535,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282534\/revisions\/282535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}