Many nights I heard audible groaning at Target Field when the Twins brought in Griffin Jax or Emilio Pagan. The bullpen’s late-inning struggles leave most Twins fans on edge. It’s enough to make anyone cranky and demoralized.
#MN TWINS GAME TODAY SERIES#
Since dispatching Oakland in the ’02 Division Series (remember Eddie Guardado’s ninth-inning tightrope act in Game 5?) they’re 0-9 in series or single-elimination wild card games. The second? That’s the last time the Twins won a playoff series. The first represents the Twins’ MLB-record postseason losing streak, mostly to the Yankees. Why? Two numbers tell the story: 18, and 2002. Certainly much less than the 2019 Bomba Squad. Though Target Field attendance is up more than 2,000 a game over last season, when the Twins drew the fewest fans for a non-COVID year since the park opened in 2010, there’s dramatically less buzz in Twins Territory for this club than almost any other. So what are we to make of the Twins, who, despite uneven hitting and an unreliable bullpen, lead the AL Central by a fair margin with three weeks to play? And the Mets and Padres, who spent prodigiously in the off-season, couldn’t buy their way into the playoffs.
The Yankees and Red Sox were major disappointments. It’s been a lousy summer for fans of teams with lofty expectations.
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