J.A. Happ has been splendid since joining the New York
Yankees — so good that he is undefeated.Happ looks to stay undefeated as a
Yankee on Monday night when he pitches in the opener of a three-game series
against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.Since being acquired from the
Toronto Blue Jays on July 26 for Brandon Drury and Billy
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spot in the standings and host the American League wild-card game.More Twins
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season, Sano begins critical offseason for TwinsPhotos of the Week: 9/30/18 –
10/6/18Top Tweets: Local teams give shoutouts to Twins’ MauerLove for Twins’
Mauer off the charts after emotional dayOverall, the 35-year-old
free-agent-to-be is 15-6 with a 4.00 ERA in 26 starts this season, his last
under a three-year, $36 million contract signed with the Blue Jays ahead of the
2016 season.His resurgence since donning pinstripes has led some to wonder
whether he’d be open to returning to New York next season. It is a notion Happ
isn’t ready to address just yet, but also hasn’t completely ruled out.“I’d hate
to get too far into that, but the one thing that I’ll say is, I’ve been
impressed since I came over here with how things have worked so far, and all the
baseball-related things have been a positive,” Happ told reporters last week.
“So I think I’d be foolish to cross anybody off the list. But, yes, certainly,
judging by how the first month has gone, it would be a place that I for sure
would consider coming back if there was interest.”Happ bounced back from a rough
outing against the Detroit Tigers to hold the A’s to a run and two hits in
six-plus innings on Tuesday. The Yankees are 3-3 on their nine-game trip and 2
1/2 games ahead of Oakland in the wild-card race.The Twins will still be without
former Yankee Tyler Austin. The first baseman missed Minnesota’s weekend series
with the Kansas City Royals because of back stiffness. He’s expected to take
batting practice Monday but isn’t likely to start against the
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Lance Lynn.In 20 games since, Austin posted a .243 average (17-for-70) with
seven home runs and 11 RBIs along with an .865 OPS. He was sidelined last week,
though, by a bout of back tightness that kept him out of action during a weekend
series with the Royals.Twins manager Paul Molitor is optimistic that Austin will
return to the lineup sometime during the series.“Obviously, I probably wouldn’t
play him right out of the gate after a couple of days off,” Molitor said.
“Hopefully, we’ll see him before the end of that series. He’s heading in the
right direction.”Miguel Sano will be out for at least the opener, too, as he
waits for his bruised left knee to show improvement. Sano injured it last week
while sliding into second against the Astros and also sat out the Royals
series.An MRI showed no structural damage to the knee, but the Twins are taking
their time with the third baseman.“We’re hopeful,” Molitor said. “Each day
hopefully he has a little less soreness he has to be concerned about and can
start trying to do some things on the field.”Right-hander Kyle Gibson gets the
nod for Minnesota, which is 3-7 in its last 10 games after Williams Astudillo
hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning of a 3-1 win on Sunday.After posting a
5.28 ERA in August, Gibson bounced back with a solid showing against the Astros
last week, allowing just two runs — solo home runs — in seven innings.Gibson is
1-4 with a 7.71 ERA in seven career starts against the Yankees. The Cubs lost a
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appears to be healthy starting the 2019 regular season.One other thing is for
sure: Darvish needs to go back to the drawing board and work on his command. He
had the shortest outing of his career and set a career high in walks, and no, we
are not talking about Tyler Chatwood.The Cubs broke out to an early 3-0 lead but
the Rangers got a three-run homer from Joey Gallo off Carl Edwards Jr. in the
eighth inning and beat the Cubs 8-6, despite some outstanding relief work from
Jose Quintana. (Weird, I know, but this entire game was pretty strange.)Darvish
didn’t allow the Rangers to put a ball in play until their 11th batter — the
first 10 either walked or struck out. By then, RBI singles by Javier Baez and
Kyle Schwarber had given the Cubs that 3-0 lead. Willson Contreras’ RBI double
[VIDEO] made it 4-1 Cubs in the third.Your browser does not support HTML5
video.Darvish stopped walking people in the bottom of that inning, instead
giving up a long two-run homer to Asdrubal Cabrera. Darvish walk facts:Enough? I
thought so. For his part, Darvish might have let the situation get to
him:Obviously, that’s got to change before his next start.Schwarber extended the
lead to 5-3 with this mammoth home run in the 5th [VIDEO].Your browser does not
support HTML5 video.That ball: Crushed!Contreras’ second double of the
game
Garrett
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making his first relief appearance since Game 5 of the division series against
the Nationals in 2017 (and first in the regular season since his rookie year,
2012 with the White Sox), threw pretty well, but eventually ran out of gas and
allowed a pair of runs in the seventh, making it 6-5. Q did strike out eight in
four innings of relief. Fun fact time!Unfortunately, CJ allowed a hit and a walk
before the massive blast by Gallo, and that, as they say, was that. CJ’s
velocity was down, according to the Jordan Bastian article linked above:That,
too, is going to have to get better. And even though Gallo’s homer was by a Cubs
opponent, have a look:This nifty pickoff [VIDEO] by Quintana in the fourth is
worth a look.Your browser does not support HTML5 video.And so is this
caught-stealing by Contreras [VIDEO].Your browser does not support HTML5
video.But Cubs pitchers issued 12 walks in this
game
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and you simply can’t do that and expect to win. The last time any Cubs team
walked 12 opposing hitters in a game was this awful game June 28, 2002 against
the White Sox, a game in which they blew an even bigger lead (8-0) than they had
Saturday night. Rangers pitchers walked seven, and usually seven walks, eight
hits and six runs should be enough to win a game. But Cubs pitchers are simply
going to have to do better than this. This was not the way to end this very
winnable game.But in baseball, you generally get another chance the next day.
Sunday, the Cubs will go for the series win with another former Ranger, Cole
Hamels, on the mound. He’ll face one of our old friends, Lance Lynn. Game time
is 3:05 p.m. CT and TV coverage will be via NBC Sports Chicago. (There’s also a
national broadcast on ESPN, available outside the Chicago and Dallas
markets.)
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