{"id":154401,"date":"2025-07-05T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/154401\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:35:10","slug":"game-89-rays-at-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/154401\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 89: Rays at Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV: Twins.TV \/ ~ \/ Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM<\/p>\n

The vibes ran high on the Fourth of July (from a baseball sense), with Harrison Bader breaking two deadlocks \u2014 homering to start the scoring, and homering again in the ninth to end it. Now, the Twins have a chance on Saturday afternoon to clean up a series against the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>, a chance to keep their home record running strong, and a chance to win a game which is going to be started by…<\/p>\n

Well, he may not officially start \u2014 MLB.com<\/a> currently has Cole Sands listed as part of an opener\/bulk situation \u2014 but opportunity has officially knocked for the 25-year-old former 6th-rounder out of California State. With 19 outings (five starts and three saves) in St. Paul this year, Adams has a 3.68 ERA, 2.8 BB\/9 to 8.2 K\/9, and has only allowed three homers in over sixty innings.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Bailey Ober\u2019s much-awaited IL stint (hip impingement), Adams will be the latest in a recent line of Minnesota pitching pipeline debuts to keep an eye on, even if his appearance is only due to Derek Falvey running out of all other internal options.<\/p>\n

Of course, all this depends on the game actually getting started on time today. Thunderstorms are due for the metro right around first pitch, with a few hours of rain in the forecast threatening outdoor summer events beyond just those scheduled to take place at Target Field. We\u2019ll keep an eye on the weather; with Tampa Bay done with the Twins after tomorrow, there is plenty of incentive to get the game in even if it takes until this evening.<\/p>\n

GO TWINS GO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV: Twins.TV \/ ~ \/ Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM The vibes ran high on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[422,5,181,14,822,60,3190,4,297,3251,3250,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-154401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-front-page","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-minnesota","13":"tag-minnesota-twins","14":"tag-minnesotatwins","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-rays","17":"tag-town","18":"tag-twinkie","19":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114802309854624600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}