Kansas City, Mo. – As if the Minnesota twins were not already confronted with many at the start of the season, Pablo López left Tuesday’s match against the Royals of Kansas City with a leg injury.
The best start to the season of the twin launcher was interrupted when he underwent a slight injury to the hamstring in the fifth round of a match tied.
López, who left the possible 2-1 defeat at the Kauffman stadium without as much warm-up, will undergo an MRI on Wednesday. Although he recognized that the afflicted area feels “weird”, López wants to be optimistic. He hopes to launch in five days when his turn comes back.
But few these days seem to go in favor of the twins.
In a period of four strikers in the eighth round, twins went from the loss of loser inexplicably. Carlos Correa founded a double end of the sleeve game with runners in the corners, and the launch error with three bases of Griffin Jax, the third in Minnesota game, paved the way for a defeat that dropped the Twins record at 3-8.
“We are tested at the moment,” said twins director Rocco Baldelli. “We must be exceptionally strong. When things are not going well, it is not when you start to question everything and start tearing up certain things or the locals you believe. You must be even stronger mentally. You must continue to work hard, just as you have worked all the time, and you trust that players and their abilities will go there and do the work, as they have done so many times for us. ”
The twins had overtime this spring to avoid the type of departure they are experiencing. They made the practices of hitherto remained mandatory, created a more structured work environment and played the regulars sufficiently for where the majority received 50 plaques appearances, a rare number in the grapefruit league.
However, at the beginning, twins must feel snakes.
After late rain starts in Saint-Louis and Chicago, López obtained a lot of swings and puts on Tuesday, withdrawing the first 10 strikers he faced and recording five stick withdraws from his first time through alignment. The good start was essential for a besieged twins enclosure, which covered 13 1/3 rounds during the three previous games. López finally paid a blow to Bobby Witt Jr. with a withdrawal in the fourth round, a double which – with two defensive errors – led to the only race he would authorize.
Pablo López granted an unprecedented race, three strokes and a walk while withdrawing six in 4 2/3 innings before leaving the Tuesday match with an isolated leg lock. (Images William Purnell / Imagn)
López was exceptional Tuesday, going for the Tour with the ace of the Royals Cole Ragans, when he caught the back of his right leg between the throws in the fifth round. Correa noticed that López was bearing on her leg during a walk by Jonathan India and immediately went to the mound for a visit. When López recognized an injury he felt for his last three throws, the decision was made to call the Twins training staff.
“It makes him very frustrating,” said López. “I feel like I have an idea of my business in terms of location and power. We had very good sequences. We kept the guys unbalanced early and made the ground we wanted in the number of toes. It was void to leave the game this way because I knew everything was moving as it was supposed, and I had a good feeling for both sides of the plate, from top to bottom. ”
A downward trend for twins finally continued, but not for several rounds. After entering two men on board and walking Witt to load the bases, the lifter Cole Sands withdrew Vinnie Pasquantino on the 10th launch of their force test, a 3-2 swinker that the stroke of a hitter struck on the warning track.
Jorge Alcala and Danny Coulombe’s aimless sleeves kept the twins attached to the eighth round, when the offensive finally reconstructed a rally.
Two rounds after the end of the night of ragans at 11 strokes of time, Ryan Jeffers and Trevor Larnach each chose the Kansas City John Schreiber lift. With Correa in the circle on the bridge, Pinch Runner Dashawn Keirssey Jr. put the twins in a position to win with a crazy dash on the simple hard of Larnach on the right, heading to the third to beat a throw from the big arm of the Royals, Hunter Renfroe.
Correa, who had doubled twice, took 2-1 advance in the account but made an intermediate boost in a double game 6-4-3.
Two days after making a two -point equal circuit in a competition they should have won, Jax took over to preserve equality. He removed India from a popup and followed by the induction of a four hopper of the Witt bat, an easily gloved jax balloon. But Jax launched his throw at first high, and Witt ran to the third, marking on the slow Chopper of Pasquantino to place Kansas City. The Royals’ previous race came to score after the second basic player, Mickey Gasper, launched a routine group with Witt in second position.
“It’s difficult when you go every night and are on the wrong side of the game,” said Correa. “At the same time, I feel like I have a big team, and we have a great talent that can do great things. We just have to bring everything together. Right now, we are missing the main important things in the game, and we are not playing our best baseball.
For the moment, they could be without lópez.
The veteran launcher is trying to be optimistic about his leg injury in preparation for Wednesday imaging. López received treatment after leaving and recognized that his injury was in a strange place, which he never felt before.
Despite this, López said he was expecting to make his next departure, which is scheduled for Saturday. He also knows that it could be a wishful wish.
“I move, and I am aware that there could be a certain tension there, but there is a certain stability and a certain strength,” said López. “I am optimistic in MRI, but I come from a doctor’s household. I know you have to wait for real imaging, the actual exam and review these things to fully know what we will face. But I’m going to bed with this optimistic mentality. “
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