Minnesota Twins Daily Morning Dip for September 28th, 2017
Minnesota Twins Daily Dip, September 28th, 2017
Welcome to the September 28th edition of the Daily Dip, your daily piece of news and notes here on Puckett’s Pond. You’ll find the scores and a quick summary of every level of the Minnesota Twins organization and links to any information you need to know to follow the Minnesota Twins here every morning!
News and Notes
Cleveland Indians 4, Minnesota Twins 2
Adalberto Mejia was going good until he hit a wall in the 4th inning, and the Twins just couldn’t get runs off Danny Salazar, finally scoring late against the Indians, leaving the team to wait on the White Sox to defeat the Angels to clinch the Wild Card. Mejia went 3 2/3 innings, allowing 2 runs on 5 hits and 3 walks, striking out 3. John Curtiss did look very good in 1 2/3 innings of perfect relief, striking out 1. Brian Dozier had a single and a walk. Jorge Polanco had a home run. Max Kepler and Chris Gimenez each had doubles.
September 28th Probable Starter: Ervin Santana @ Cleveland Indians, 11:10AM CT
Wild Card Game Standings
- Boston Red Sox, 92-66, —
- New York Yankees, 89-69, -3.0
- Minnesota Twins, 83-75, —
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Notes from around baseball
- Cubs clinch division with win over Cardinals
- Red Sox hit 3 home runs to stop skid
- Yankees top Rays to keep pace with Red Sox
- Rockies defeat Marlins to move magic number to 2
- Dodgers tie LA record with 102nd win
- Yankees have dugout “interviews” after HRs
- Verlander now 5-0 with Astros as he looks to postseason
- Padres teammates fall to the ground, get up and laugh
- Reds win hurts Brewers’ Wild Card chances
- Delmonico’s walk off wins game for White Sox, ends Angels playoff hopes
One Last Thing
Eddie Rosario celebrates his 26th birthday today. This is Rosario’s third full season, and many Minnesota Twins fans were more than a bit concerned about his ability to perform for the team in 2017 coming into the year after he had two sub-.300 OBP seasons to open his career.
Coming into 2017, Rosario had played 214 games in the majors with a .268/.292/.443 line with 35 doubles, 17 triples, 23 home runs, and 16 stolen bases, but a concerning 27/209 BB/K ratio. This season, he’s hit .290/.329/.512 with 33 doubles, 2 triples, 27 home runs, 9 stolen bases and a 35/105 BB/K ratio.
To put the improvement into perspective on his walk and strikeout rate, before this season, Rosario struck out 26.5% of the time and walked 3.4% of the time. This season, he’s striking out 18.2% of the time and walking 6.1% of the time.
Happy birthday, Eddie, and thanks for a fun ride of a season!