The Minnesota Twins put right-hander Bailey Ober on the 15-day injured list with right elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n
“Last night postgame, he came in and talked to Nick (Paparesta) a little bit, and we wanted to see how it presented this morning,” Shelton said. “And then the way it presented this morning, Nick felt it was an IL.”<\/p>\n
The Twins announced the move Sunday. Ober is 6-3 with a 4.59 ERA in 66 2\/3 innings this season. He allowed seven earned runs and 12 hits in 4 2\/3 innings in Saturday’s loss at Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Minnesota’s pitching injuries have been an issue. Pablo L\u00f3pez is out for the season following elbow surgery, and Mick Abel went on the IL in April with right elbow inflammation. Left-hander Kendry Rojas (left elbow) went on the IL earlier this week. Right-hander Garrett Acton (right shoulder) is on the 60-day IL, and right-hander Cole Sands (right forearm) hasn’t pitched in more than a month.<\/p>\n
The Twins are also in the midst of a brutal schedule, just coming off a 10-day road trip and playing 17 straight days, something that isn’t lost on Shelton.<\/p>\n
“We got seven more, so we got to figure it out and we got Joe (Ryan) going (Monday),” he said after Sunday’s loss. “So I mean, this is probably the first time a lot of these guys have been on a 10-day road trip and it’s the first time they’ve had 17 in a row. So we gotta keep going. But you know in Bailey’s situation, he’ll get some imaging tomorrow so and we’ll kind of go from there.”<\/p>\n
Braxton Ashcraft struck out 11 in six innings, Ryan O\u2019Hearn and Nick Gonzales homered, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the skidding Minnesota Twins 9-3 on Sunday to complete their three-game sweep.<\/p>\n
Ashcraft (5-2) allowed two runs and five hits with no walks, sending the Twins to their fifth straight defeat.<\/p>\n
Brooks Lee had a two-run homer in the sixth and a solo shot in the ninth for Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Chicago White Sox (32-27, second in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (27-33, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Monday, 6:40 p.m. Pregame 6:00 p.m. on 830 WCCO and the Audacy app (in-market only)<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: David Sandlin (1-0, 1.50 ERA, 0.17 WHIP, four strikeouts); Twins: Joe Ryan (3-3, 2.94 ERA, 0.93 WHIP, 70 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Twins -171, White Sox +143; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox are looking to extend a five-game win streak with a victory against the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is 27-33 overall and 15-14 at home. The Twins have hit 64 total home runs to rank seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n
Chicago has a 32-27 record overall and a 12-16 record in road games. The White Sox have gone 15-6 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n
Monday’s game is the fifth time these teams meet this season. The White Sox have a 3-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Byron Buxton has 10 doubles, a triple and 17 home runs for the Twins. Luke Keaschall is 11 for 35 with two doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Miguel Vargas has nine doubles, a triple and 13 home runs while hitting .232 for the White Sox. Munetaka Murakami is 8 for 35 with two doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 4-6, .234 batting average, 6.27 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n
White Sox: 7-3, .251 batting average, 3.46 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Twins: Bailey Ober: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kendry Rojas: 15-Day IL (elbow), David Festa: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Garrett Acton: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Jeffers: 10-Day IL (hand), Cole Sands: 15-Day IL (forearm), Mick Abel: 15-Day IL (elbow), Pablo Lopez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
White Sox: Derek Hill: day-to-day (back), Munetaka Murakami: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Noah Schultz: 15-Day IL (knee), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Austin Hays: 10-Day IL (calf), Jordan Hicks: 15-Day IL (lat), Everson Pereira: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Kyle Teel: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil: 60-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Twins put right-hander Bailey Ober on the 15-day injured list with right elbow inflammation. “Last night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[760,5,1728,822,60,3190,4,256,64,148],"class_list":["post-714517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-bailey-ober","tag-baseball","tag-derek-shelton","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116675028394086885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714517","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=714517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}