Matt Macqueline and Cincinnati Reds will look at the three-game series sweep, when they host the Minnesota twin children in Thursday’s Matini.
Reds finished its fourth straight and ninth position in 11 matches on Wednesday, defeating Twins 4–2 in a competition which ended at the bottom of the sixth innings due to rain. Cincinnati has won four direct chains for the first time this season to play four games more than 500.
The twins suffered sixth consecutive losses.
As the raids are growing, the other basman’s batting average is also.
McLin was hitting only .175 through June 4. However, in his last 11 matches, he hit .314 (11 -for -35), increased his average to .196.
His fielding has been stable on Wednesday, including two more special plays on Wednesday. McClen ran in the field of dishonesty and made a grip against the screen in the fourth innings after snatching a line drive first.
Cincinnati manager Terry Frankona said, “When he was not hit, he was pleased to save, because he always protected.” “He always played the game. You don’t see him throwing a helmet there and do renting and raving. He just plays.”
Tightly knit Reds has also won five directly at home and is looking for his other three-game sweeps in Cincinnati.
Nick Lodolo of Cincinnati said, “It is just pulling for the boy in the (of the batter) box.” “We are not sitting there. We are not on iPads or anything like that. Everyone is watching the game. And we are there for that man in the box, pulling for him.”
Frankona will hand over the ball to Nick Martinez (4-7, 3.92 ERA) on Thursday. The right-handed batsman scored four runs on eight hits in a five-flour innings on Friday in Detroit, losing 11–5 against Tigers.
Martinez is 1–1 with 5.60 ERA in six career games (five beginnings) vs. Minnesota.
Twins will counter right-handed Chris Padac (2-6, 4.30), which started in Houston on Friday and a record pitcher in a jerk of 10–3. Padack was thickened to a career-high-tie nine runs (eight earned) on 12 hits, which matched the high level of career in four innings.
Padac is 1–1 with 4.09 ERA in two careers against Cincinnati.
The twins are waiting for children to see if they will be their best hitting option in the catcher back in the lineup on Thursday. Ryan Jeffers were excluded on Wednesday after maintaining an injury on their right hand with a dishonest tip a day earlier.
“I hope,” manager Rocco Baldelli asked Jeffers about returning to action. “I can’t say certainly. I am speculating. It is swollen and all that is and that is all.
Brook Lee on Wednesday enhanced his hitting streak for Twins for a career-high 17 games, which fell 0–5 on his six-game trip via Houston and Cincinnati.
Fielder Bayran Buxon, who was deep on the first pitch on Wednesday, has worked in each of the first two matches of the series. He leads twins with 13 domestic runs.
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