These two guys have Minnesota sports flowing in their veins.

Mackie and Shot on Score North and ScoreNorth.com.

In a game like today, being down by a run, still in the ball game, but being down by a run,

I thought that's a good time to get him in there and actually get him back on the horse

and let him go out there and do his job.

He's a guy that I have a lot of faith in.

He's throwing the ball, like I said, in a lot of big spots for us.

And, you know, this was a time to work through some things, I think, for him and still give him a chance to go out there and get three outs in a spot that still really

mattered, but maybe not the same kinds of spots that he's normally pitched in.

Obviously, it didn't go the way that we wanted to.

Oh, I just got triggered.

Oh, I just, okay.

Last night, we were texting each other, and Declan was the most apoplectic.

You know, Judd, you were covering the game and down there.

And I kind of told you guys, oh, they weren't going to win this game anyways.

Like they were, you know, they were heavy underdogs.

What are people so worked up about?

And hearing Rocco there say that a one run game trailing by one in the seventh,

in which Fangraphs gives the twins still a 30% chance to win that game.

So it's not like, oh, they're down 10 to 1.

A one run game in the seventh inning is, quote, a time to work on some things, end quote,

for the reliever getting hammered the most in the Twins bullpen.

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