Royals 7, Twins 2: Odorizzi can be painful

Receiving the game comes from sioux1337, through my cries about doing so:

‘Shouldn’t be that difficult (excluding a big cover) … A bad game happened. Odo hit, then hit. The Twins, unfortunately, got no hits. You have not missed anything ”

Yes, that’s about it.

In Jake Odorizzi’s third straight start against the Royals, and Dazi Duffy’s first bastion start against the Twins, it was Odorizzi who was hit harder by batters familiar with what he throws. A first-inning pass from Jorge Soler put Kansas City up 4-0, and Minnesota never really did much of that past.

Crummier than this, Odorizzi took a hard line drive to his midsection in the fourth inning. It looked pretty bad. Radio later reported that it was an “abdominal contusion” and that X-rays showed no broken bones. (But muscle injuries can still be pretty bad. I’ve had them, they are not recommended.)

Gladden: ‘I saw Kent Hrbek do that once. He put a six pack of beer on it, that’s how he got off. ‘You are you, Danny. Thank the Living Gods, Cory Provus later mentioned how today is Wilt Chamberlain’s birthday and Dazzle did not go where I would go with it. (He’s very famous because he’s great at basketball, that’s the only possible thing one Wilt Chamberlain knows, you do not ask anymore.)

That’s really how stupid this game was, Provus used to read 8/21 birthdays of famous people.

After Odorizzi got hurt, 25-year-old Jorge Alcala came on for the Twins and put up three scoreless innings with a hit, a walk, and six strikeouts. He was part of the 2018 Ryan Pressly-to-Houston trade, so let’s all hope he does well.

The twins had all sorts of cunning field-mishaps that I will not go into because they neither you nor I need such a thing.

At least I’m never going to play another Kansas City game this year! Oh wait …

Here is Joel Hernandez’s live seventh-inning artistic take:

Robot roll call:

The loss and the loss of Cleveland keeps these Twins 0.5 games ahead of the Spiders. South Side Sox up there. Guardy’s Tigers have unfortunately gone 1-9 over their last 10 and have probably been condemned, but that’s what some genius soul invented Lone Star looks for.