Can the Orioles Crush the Twins’ Streak and Rewrite the Season’s Storyline?
The Twins are 23-20 to start the season and will be in one of the more competitive divisions. I’m still not sold than any of the top four teams in this division will actually do anything once they make the playoffs, but they certainly all have a chance to at least make the postseason. The Twins are probably the fourth best team, and a testament to that is them playing fairly streaky baseball this season. They’ve lost four games in a row twice already, three games in a row three times, and they’ve won four games in a row once, and now are on a 10 game winning streak. Looking to extend that success for them today is Chris Paddack. For the season, Paddack is 1-3 with a 4.76 ERA. He has been pretty solid in terms of his WHIP at 1.29. If you take out his first start of the season where he allowed nine earned runs to the White Sox, he has thrown 36.1 innings and allowed just 12 earned runs. He is susceptible to the long ball, but they seem to be solo shots thanks to him not allowing too many baserunners. Orioles hitters have 10 hits in 39 at-bats against Paddack.
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