Twins hope return house to face White Sox will reverse fortunes

The Minnesota Twins hope {that a} return house can remedy what ails them.

Minnesota is coming off getting swept in a three-game street collection towards the Atlanta Braves. The Twins have misplaced 15 of twenty-two video games to begin the season, and their greatest problem has been on the plate.

Now the Twins journey again to Minneapolis to open a three-game collection towards the Chicago White Sox that begins Tuesday night.

Minnesota hopes to hit reset on a begin that has been something however invigorating.

“That was tough,” Twins infielder Brooks Lee stated of the Atlanta collection. “You see our crew, we’re not hitting like we all know we will, and even when issues do get strung collectively, we’re not capitalizing.”

With 17 losses in 22 video games, the White Sox are one in every of solely two main league groups with a worse document than the Twins. The opposite is the Colorado Rockies, who’re 4-17.

Chicago is coming off a 4-2 loss on the street towards the Boston Purple Sox on Monday. Andrew Benintendi homered, however the White Sox managed solely 4 different hits.

The White Sox have misplaced seven of their previous eight video games.

To make issues worse, Chicago should discover somebody so as to add to its rotation after dropping left-hander Martin Perez to an elbow harm. Perez exited his most up-to-date begin on Friday, and on Monday the crew transferred him to the 60-day injured record.

White Sox supervisor Will Venable stated it was too quickly to undertaking Perez’s long-term outlook.

“We all know no less than 60 days (that he’ll be out),” Venable stated. “He feels, I feel, higher than he did after the primary day. However (it is) nonetheless too early to actually speculate on what this timeline goes to be, so we’ll see right here within the subsequent couple of days what we have.”

Twins right-hander Bailey Ober (1-1, 6.16 ERA) is scheduled to take the mound for his fifth begin of the season. The 6-foot-9, 260-pound North Carolina native is in search of his third high quality begin in a row after posting robust performances towards the Kansas Metropolis Royals and New York Mets.

Ober has made 13 profession begins towards the White Sox. He’s 5-2 with a 3.60 ERA in these video games, with 13 walks and 72 strikeouts in 70 innings.

White Sox right-hander Davis Martin (1-2, 4.84 ERA) additionally is about to make his fifth begin of the season. He’s hoping to bounce again from a loss on Thursday, when he allowed 4 runs on eight hits in 5 1/3 innings towards the Athletics.

Martin, 28, has a profession document of 4-13 with a 4.64 ERA. He has pitched towards the Twins in three video games, together with two begins, going 0-2 with an 11.32 ERA in these matchups.

That is the second collection between the golf equipment this season. The Twins took two video games out of three from March 31-April 2 in Chicago.

The White Sox gained the opening sport 9-0 as Andrew Vaughn and Benintendi every hit a three-run homer. The Twins got here again to win the second sport 8-3 because of a five-run sixth inning, and Minnesota took the rubber match 6-1, getting all of its runs within the fourth inning.

–Subject Degree Media