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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A few minutes after Minnesota Twins manager Rocco Baldelli aired out his frustration with his team in a loud closed-door meeting, following a 2-0 loss to the Kansas City Royals on Sunday, he declined to take questions during a postgame news conference. “That was an unprofessional series of baseball that we just played, and that’s my only comment for the day,” Baldelli said. “I’m not commenting on anything else. I don’t think anything else really has to be said.” The Twins, swept in their three-game series at Kauffman Stadium, totaled two runs in 27 innings. There weren’t many run-scoring opportunities throughout their miserable road trip, which concluded with a 2-5 record, and they wasted their best one in the first inning Sunday. With Jose Miranda on first base, Trevor Larnach drove a double to the right-field wall. Miranda received an overaggressive wave from third base coach Tommy Watkins, and he was thrown out at the plate by about 10 feet. The Twins left two runners on base when Royce Lewis struck out to end the first inning, and they didn’t have another runner touch second base until there were two outs in the ninth inning. The Twins sit 2 1/2 games behind the Royals for the second wild card, five games behind AL Central leader Cleveland and 3 1/2 games ahead of Seattle and Detroit for the third and final wild card with 19 games remaining
A team becomes a team in this situation,” rookie pitcher Simeon Woods Richardson said. During the Twins’ worst stretch of the season, losing 14-of-20 games, their offense has deserted them. They were shut out twice in three games by the Royals. In the past two weeks, they’ve scored 37 runs, the lowest in the majors. Injuries to Carlos Correa, Byron Buxton and Max Kepler impacted the offense, but it’s a team-wide slump. Baldelli previously said he thought they became “a little swing happy at certain times,” and they struck out 30 times in their Royals series.
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