Way-pointing weekend: The Red Sox receive the Twins to the pitching-duel!

With the outstanding Payton Tolle on the mound and neat tailwind from the Royals-sweep start we into an extremely important home series in the Fenway Park.

Hey Red Sox Nation! After the redeeming sweep in Kansas City return our boys with broad chest back into the home Fenway Park. From today evening stands an extremely important home series against the Minnesota Twins on the program. If we us the current starting position closer look at, becomes quickly clear: This series could absolutely direction-setting for the further course of our season be.

As under other things the Boston Globe in its current preview analyzes, meet here two teams onto each other, that themselves in the race for a conciliatory season absolutely no further slip-ups afford may. With a current record of 22-27 scratch we after the youngest win series finally again at the sporting respectability, while the Twins (23-27) in the AL Central likewise massively under pressure stand. Our biggest problem until now? The unsatisfactory home record of 8-14! The home stadium must finally again to a real fortress become, and this weekend is the perfect opportunity, exactly this home spell to break.

The absolute highlight of the today’s opening game is the sensational pitching-matchup. On the hill trust we on our brilliant left-hander Payton Tolle (strong 2.05 ERA), who himself in this season as absolute life-saver for our battered rotation turned out has. Especially after the injury-related outage of Garrett Crochet and the clear fluctuations of Brayan Bello is Tolle’s constancy on the mound pure gold worth. He meets on the likewise strongly playing left-hander Connor Prielipp (2.88 ERA) of the Twins. We can us therefore for a real, nerve-racking pitcher-duel prepared make!

Offensively hope we naturally, that Willson Contreras – who with 10 homeruns and 30 RBIs currently our absolute power-anchor is – his dominant role in the middle of the lineups further plays out and the deciding hits delivers. The Twins bring with power-hitters like Byron Buxton admittedly real weapons to the plate, show themselves however away (8-13 record) to the luck often very vulnerable.

How is your belly-feeling for the weekend? Can Payton Tolle the Twins-offensive directly in the first game cold-put and start we in the Fenway Park finally a real win series? Let it us in the comments discuss! Go Sox!