The most important moment for minnesota twins on Sunday could occur long before the first throw.
Indeed, the voltiseur des étoiles Byron Buxton should undergo tests on its injured left side before the twins took the nationals from Washington to Minneapolis.
The 31 -year -old Buxton left Saturday’s match due to left pain. Washington added the insult to the injury when he won a 9-3 victory against the Twins in the three-game series.
Buxton may not be in the Twins range for the rubber match. Anyway, Minnesota is looking forward to a serial victory after abandoning its first two series after the stars break.
The director of twins, Rocco Baldelli, said that the final of the series has a chance for a new start.
“Not the game we intended to play,” said Baldelli. “The match (Friday) was a brilliant match, then we arrived (Saturday) and played like that. I would like to win the series (Sunday) and come back to play full baseball.”
The range can be incomplete.
Buxton went 0 for 3 Saturdays and left the match after feeling pain. The team hopes that the injury is not serious, but the story offers a cause of dismay because Buxton has treated a series of injuries throughout his career.
This season, he strikes. 282 with 23 circuits, 59 products produced and 17 interceptions in 85 games.
“It was actually, what I would say, is relatively optimistic,” said Baldelli. “I spoke to him during the match, I went upstairs to check it. …
“We are just going to make him imagine (Sunday) morning just to see what we are dealing with. He felt it more on the way than anything else. When you have pain by your side and you do not feel it as much swing and you do not feel it as much – on the offensive side, you feel it run – it’s a kind of unique thing.”
The national right-hander Jake Irvin (7-5, 4.81 ERA) will take the mound against the team he grew up. Irvin was born in the neighboring suburbs of Bloomington, Minnesota, and played Jefferson High School before going to Oklahoma Sooners.
Irvin has a 0-1 file with an MPM of 2.84 at the start of his career against the Twins, a 3-2 victory in Minnesota on May 22, 2024. It was a home match for the Nationals, and it will be the first time he posed at Minnesota.
“It means everything,” said Irvin. “It is important to put everything in perspective. This is what made me come here: to grow a fan of twins, fall in love with twins and how much they meant for me in the development of my passion for baseball.
“The people around me with whom I grew up playing, I can see a lot of my school friends. I can be with my parents and my family, just all those who supported me along the way. Everything is completed, and (it’s) super special.”
The Twins did not announce leaving and plan to go with an enclosure game on Sunday. A launcher who thinks of receiving a good amount of work is the right-hander of the right-hander Travis Adams, which is 1-0 with an MPM of 6.00 in three appearances in relief.
Adams granted 12 strokes, traveled one and withdrew six out of nine rounds. He never faced nationals.
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