Joe Buck goes silent after the 0:11 mark of this 1:38 clip and didn’t talk again, just let the scene play out and the sounds of the celebration tell the story. P. good.
Miguel Sanó said that he celebrated his homer tonight because last season Joe Jiménez struck him out with a slider and told him to “get the f*** out of here.” Sanó plans to celebrate any future big moments against Jiménez, too.
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What pushed Carlos Correa over the top? Jucy Lucys.
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"When I go to Minnesota, I diet for a week before going there so I can just crush Jucy Lucys every day."
Carlos Correa is withdrawing from the World Baseball Classic after making a joint decision with the
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. Correa's wife is due with the couple's second child the same week that Puerto Rico opens WBC play. Twins don't want Correa juggling family/WBC.
Story to follow.
Did you know Nelson Cruz donated a fire truck, an ambulance, built a police station in his hometown in the DR and donated a motorcycle so local police no longer had to walk everywhere?
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There's a drone flying outside the ballpark and the umpires pulled everyone off the field. If you're the jackass flying the drone near the ballpark, this game is already taking long enough.
Kyle Gibson to Rocco Baldelli: "‘Listen, I haven’t played here for six and a half years to get this close to winning some playoff games to cause a fuss based on when I pitch and where I pitch.'"
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Carlos Correa wanted the smoke. Jhoan Duran brought it. "That's my fault bc I've been telling him since yesterday I'm going to take him deep. He brought out the big guns & he was pumping 102, 99 mph splinkers, 90 mph curveballs. I was like 'Holy shit, welcome back.'"
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Max Kepler was not happy with the strike 3 call. It was well inside and Royce Lewis swiped second base on the play. Instead of man on second, full count, inning over.
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Byron Buxton hurt himself sliding into second base on a leadoff pop up double. He knew it right away, slapped the ground as he finished his slide. Walked off under own power.
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While
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went to see Hamilton, José Miranda took advantage of the rain out and apparently caught up with his cousin Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Asked about the Dodgers’ World Series losses to Houston and Boston and what may have impacted those series, Rich Hill discussed the people most affected by those moments, clubbies, video guys, trainers.
Since March 12,
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have:
-- Traded M. Garver for Kiner-Falefa.
-- Traded Petty for Gray.
-- Traded Kiner-Falefa/Donaldson for Sánchez/Urshela.
-- Signed Correa
-- Signed Joe Smith
-- Signed Archer
-- Traded Rogers/Rooker for Paddack/Pagán.
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have wanted Chris Paddack forever. They get him w/ 3 years of team control.
RHP Emilio Pagán comes w/ 2 years of team control and a high career K-rate.
Taylor Rogers is headed for free agency, nearly dealt him to SD in July.
Brent Rooker was on fence to make 28-man.
Luis Arraez set up the Byron Buxton homer with an outstanding, nine-pitch at-bat and single. By time Buxton got up there, he’d seen all of Jorge López’s arsenal. That was the first homer López has allowed all season in 37-plus innings.
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BREAKING: The
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original summer sausage lives on. The Twins did not destroy it. And when they weren’t scoring early last night, the OG sausage was summoned in the middle of the game and the Twins put up three runs.
Carlos Correa ends it with a spectacular diving stop.
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even the series with a 6-2 win at Houston.
Correa was all-world tonight and Pablo López was equally electric. Kyle Farmer with an early monster homer.
Sonny Gray goes in Game 3 on Tuesday.
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have advanced for the first time in 7,669 days. Their 2-0 win over Toronto sends them to Houston for the ALDS, which starts Saturday.
Twins pitchers allowed one earned run over 18 innings in the 2-0 series victory. Bullpen followed Sonny Gray's 5 scoreless w/ 4 more.
Mitch Garver on the curtain call: "By far the coolest thing I’ve ever done on a baseball field, by far. I’ve never had a curtain call. I’ve always dreamed. I’ve watched Joe do them. I’ve watched Rosie do them. Like, ‘Man, I want to get one of those one day.’”
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Source: Huge key for the Byron Buxton extension was the no-trade clause.
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didn’t make it available in July. They did this time and it meant more to Buxton than additional money.