The New York Yankees are sitting pretty heading into this series finale against the Minnesota Twins. They have a long way to go to fully regaining their fans’ confidence after a summer slide pushed them from the AL East lead to the last Wild Card spot, but every journey has to start somewhere, right?
Morale was low following a series loss to the Astros, but their ol’ pals from the Twin Cities got the Bombers going again on Monday and Tuesday. It’d been a week and a half since a Yankees starting pitcher
had gotten through six innings of work, so naturally Will Warren and Carlos Rodón did so in back-to-back starts. Rodón even dared to go seven! He had been the last Yankee to go that deep, and that was back on July 11th against the Cubs. Perhaps rejuvenated by the superior support on the mound—or perhaps simply facing the Twins—the New York offense scored a combined 15 runs across the two wins.
So can the Yanks dust the Twins? Well they were supposed to get underway at the normal first pitch time of 7:05pm ET, but rain in the Bronx pushed the start back. Now, it looks like we’ll get underway an hour and 50 minutes later.
Join us in the game thread! Rookie starter Cam Schlittler does have a tough adversary in Twins All-Star Joe Ryan. This should be a good matchup. (And since the Twins don’t revisit New York again this year, MLB will absolutely want to just get this game out of the way without needing to reschedule.)
