Emmanuel Rodriguez

And even though he was able to salvage five innings out of the deal, uh, not great because when you get down 4-nothing like that, rarely have the Twins been able to claw themselves back into the game.

They muster just four hits overall, getting a couple, both of them on solo shots, from Brooks Lee as well as Emmanuel Rodriguez.

But that Emmanuel Rodriguez home run, though, 411 feet out to straightaway, maybe a little bit more towards left center.

We're leaving with something, and it's the fact that Emmanuel Rodriguez crushed that baseball.

No hits for Aaron Sabato in his MLB debut, either.

He played at first base in place of Royce Lewis today.

The Rangers, they have the three against the Mets and then the three in Minnesota, which that might not be that easy, because they've got some young guns.

Emmanuel Rodriguez is swinging it pretty well out there.

Walker Jenkins has been picking it up.

Talk about, like, just a fun young team that's, you know, d- doesn't have much to lose there.

Gives up a home run in three and a third innings to Brooks Lee, 24th home run of the season.

Then you had a home run number two of the season for the young outfielder in Emmanuel Rodriguez.

That'll come a little bit later on off of Jason Foley, who gives up that home run in his inning work.

But Tristan Beck, two and two, third inning squirrels.

He ends up hitting the home run and puts them up 5-1 for the Giants.

Then in the top of the eighth inning, Emmanuel Rodriguez goes yard.

Twins even get the score to within three at 5-2.

And then...

The fastball got hit at an average exit velocity of 94.1 miles an hour off six batted ball events.

And the cutter had a 95.4 mile per hour average exit velocity of five batted ball events today.

today and for zebby again uh that's just kind of the nature of having a number five you know four ish starter back end of the rotation let's say some starts gonna be great and you're like hey this guy's a nice solid pitcher glad we have him on our team and then there's some starts where you go ah yeah maybe like the bullpen at some point i i don't know again you go back and forth on Zebby I still think he deserves to be a starter still think the twins should roll with him and that to at least begin 2026 but you know not a great outing for Zebby today believe he'll get one last start I think if it lines up correctly if I have my math right he'll pitch on the final game of the season but again we'll see maybe the twins go in a different direction to end the year But overall for the twins, I think if there's a one thing that we want to take away from this one, it's that Emmanuel Rodriguez and Brooks Lee go yard and Brooks Lee, you know, obviously it's great for him that he's able to hit the home run continues to, uh, be one of the better home run hitters on the team, which I did not really predict at the start of the season as Brooks Lee went yard in the game and was able to, uh, hit his 24th home run of the year.

And it still isn't caught up to Byron Buxton, who hit his 25th home run in late June.

Now you can say, hey, Walker Jenkins is up.

Emmanuel Rodriguez is up.

Like next season, we are going to start to go.

And we have these guys.

Zevi Matthews struck out nine over five innings for the Twins.

Emmanuel Rodriguez, a home run rematch, 8-45, 6-10, 103.9. Bulldog men fifth in the preseason poll from uscho.com.

Defending national champion Denver, number one, getting 35 of 50 first-place votes.

Then it's Michigan, Michigan State, North Dakota, UMD, 6-10, Wisconsin, Quinnipiac, Western Michigan, Providence, Massachusetts.

Cool for him to make the adjustment.

I do want to give a shout-out to Jose's serious performance in center field for the Angels in game four, top of the sixth inning here, where... you know the the worst well first of all emmanuel rodriguez is on second base at some point here because jose siri like stood under the baseball and then like it was like when you're playing like with mario and you actually hit the jump button when you don't intend to and it felt like he jumped but then the ball fell and then manny rodriguez is standing on second and then there's a single and then ben ross tries to steal second and he doesn't stop he doesn't slide it was the weirdest i don't know what ben ross was doing there it's like he didn't know how to do that thing

Okay.

So I just want to say about the Ben Ross play here.

I'm really glad you asked this because what I want to ask is, well, because I think this matters more than it probably, we think it might, Dan.

Last episode, you and Hoag's were talking about about the outfield for the twins next season.

And you said, well, we'll probably see, or what we want to see is Emmanuel Rodriguez and left Walker Jenkins and center Luke Keyshaw and right now, Dan, I went back and I listened again because I wasn't sure I wanted to listen to the segment again, because you know, whose name was mysteriously absent.

Byron Buxton's name didn't even come up Dan in that conversation.

Let's move on to the last one from last week.

Uh, Emmanuel Rodriguez, um, uh, the sex pig of the week for last week added for an average price of $6 in the main event added 35 times to big ads by Ryan Lang.

If, um, mostly like one or two, mostly single digits, um, bad strikeout rate.

Like it looks like Weimer was on him a couple of times.