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White Sox 6, Twins 3: Not a great start for the rookie

Rookie Zack Littell made his first start for the Twins in the second game of tonight's doubleheader. It wasn’t great.

By Maija Varda
Chicago White Sox v Minnesota Twins - Game One
I’M USING THIS PICTURE BECAUSE YOU ALL LOOK LIKE DORKS, YOU DORKS!!!!!!
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After a 4-2 win in the beginning of today’s doubleheader, the Twins just couldn’t keep it together later tonight. I don’t want to blame it in Zack Littell — the 22-your-old who made his major league debut for the Twins tonight — but... he did kind of give up six earned runs over 3.0 innings? So like... I mean...? It was kind of your fault, Littell. Sort of?

What the Twins are supposed to do, is call in Matt Magill. I still refuse to acknowledge who Matt Magill is because I’m an asshole, but he’s actually been doing pretty well — posting a 1.53 ERA over 17.2 innings for the Twins this year, in fact. That is probably the scariest statistic I have EVER seen for the Twins and WHAT? I hardly known who Matt Magill is, but apparently he’s saving the Twins and he saved them tonight.

But yeah, apparently not even MATT MAGILL (*heaves into a paper bag for a second*) and whoever Matt Magill IS pitched three scoreless innings tonight! How about that? Trevor Hildenberger, Taylor Rogers, and Zach Duke each pitched a scoreless inning after that too... which calmed me down a lot from the WHO IS MATT MAGILL AND HOW DOES HE HAVE A 1.53 ERA OVER 17.2 INNINGS PITCHED FOR THE TWINS THIS YEAR? WTF?

But any-who, the Twins lost. They are now third in the AL Central, trailing the first-place Indians by 4.0 games.

ROLL CALL!

TOP COMMENTS YEAH

# Recs Commenter Comment Link
6 gintzer Hey, guys. Living the dream today. Skipped out early from work to go to the game.
5 Cbrolin or up 4-0
4 TeamCrazyMatt A Littell rough start to his debut
4 TawnyFroggy That's what....she..he? Said?
3 Hayden A GAME THREAD 2: TWINS-WHITE SOX BOOGALOO
3 TeamCrazyMatt One, two, three four five,
3 Cbrolin Tawny got double duty
3 Titus Decker Dear God, for my birthday, let Rosie hit a dinger.
2 myjah Rick Procello
2 TeamCrazyMatt You should know when
2 myjah I think we found ourselves the GIF OF THE GAMETHREAD!!!!!!!!!
2 Daniel Carlson Go Twins Go!!
2 myjah I was planning on going to the game myself!
2 Asthix Beans will haunt
2 Daniel Carlson Freddie Mercury came out a long time ago
2 Cbrolin as many times as you'd like
2 James Fillmore Oh ye of Littell faith
1 TeamCrazyMatt Had a relapse of concussion symptoms
1 Titus Decker I missed the first game.
1 montanatwinsfan he was a Littell wild
1 TeamCrazyMatt Not all of the credit
1 James Fillmore I hadn’t seen that one before now
1 TeamCrazyMatt Pregame footage of Sano
1 TeamCrazyMatt I did enjoy
1 James Fillmore Happy birthday regardless
1 TeamCrazyMatt Clearly the weather is not pleased
1 TawnyFroggy WOOOOOOO
1 TeamCrazyMatt Hence
1 Brandon Brooks Let's win or something
1 TJ Gorsegner Go Twins Go!!!!
1 TeamCrazyMatt No Weird Al love?
1 TeamCrazyMatt And to pitch in this league
1 Cbrolin but..but........
1 James Fillmore The biological Replacement for people my age gets out of it!
1 Cbrolin [no title]
1 James Fillmore I’d forgotten that
1 Cbrolin [no title]
1 TeamCrazyMatt DOUBLE GAME THREAD GO TWINS GO
1 bf4mvp I never feel like we're out of a game anymore.
1 bf4mvp Sadly
1 TeamCrazyMatt Can't spell Double
1 Titus Decker Its just such a great feeling,
1 gintzer Start getting nervous only when the Twins are down by 8 or more runs.
1 bf4mvp This might change
1 Cbrolin if I knew I'd tell you

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