First Pitch: 6:20 PM Central TimeTV: Bally Sports North, MLB Network out-of-market)Radio: TIBNKnow Thine Enemy: Battery PowerWhat a distinction a week , kind of. Yet that's how gross points felt a week earlier, when I evaluated the Doubles' 9-3 loss to the Red Sox. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575004597440 The Twins lost the next night, 10-4, bringing the journal to five losses in their last 6 games with a -22 run differential over the half-dozen then, however, the Doubles have actually won 4 out of 5. No, it hasn't exactly been quite, conserve for a 6-0 win in the finale of the Red Sox series. However the pitching is back to being affordable and the infraction has actually made use of miscues by opposing defenses, which has actually papered over several of their very own continuing , the Doubles head south to handle the National League-leading Atlanta Baldelli's club has their job cut out for them as Spencer Strider will certainly take the mound for the opener. Strider has actually been just one of the far better pitchers in baseball for the past year or two, completing in 2nd in Rookie of the Year voting last year and pitching to the tune of an 8-2 document with a 3. 93 period as well as a league-leading 14. 5 strikeouts per 9 innings so far this period-- greater than two-and-a-half strikeouts-per-nine more than Shohei Doubles will send out Sonny Gray bent on oppose Strider. Gray has battled a bit recently however has actually still been affordable, throwing 5 innings of three-run ball against Boston last time Monday evening baseball!