"Every day is a new adventure with the Twins' bullpen, not entirely unexpected after a trade deadline in which the Twins traded their top five relievers to contending teams. On Tuesday, the Twins' bullpen gave up nine runs, sending them to an ugly blowout loss. Wednesday, it was a ninth-inning lead that the bullpen gave away, spoiling a great start from Zebby Matthews."
"Down to their last out, former Twin Michael A.Taylor sent a two-out, two-run double to left field that hit the foul line and helped lift the Chicago White Sox to a 4-3 win in front of an announced crowd of 11,904 at Target Field. "Game of inches. I thought it was as close as it could get," third baseman Royce Lewis said. "It could have been two inches foul and I would have loved that.""
Twins bullpen instability following the trade of their top five relievers culminated in a ninth-inning collapse that produced a 4-3 White Sox win. Kody Funderburk issued a one-out single and walk in the ninth and was replaced by Justin Topa, who allowed a run-scoring single and then yielded a two-out, two-run double by former Twin Michael A. Taylor that hit the foul line. The Twins led most of the game after scoring twice in the first but left multiple opportunities unconverted, including a fifth-inning Byron Buxton triple, a bases-loaded fourth, and a stalled ninth-inning rally. Attendance was 11,904 at Target Field.
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