The Minnesota -Tvildingarna hopes that a return home can cure what makes them.
Minnesota will be swept in a three-game series against Atlanta Braves. The twins have lost 15 out of 22 games to start the season, and their biggest challenge has been on the record.
Now the twins are traveling back to Minneapolis to open a series of three games against Chicago White Sox, which begins Tuesday night.
Minnesota hopes to be able to strike at first that has been anything but strengthening.
“It was rough,” Twins Infielder Brooks Lee said about the Atlanta series. “You see our team, we do not strike as we know we can, and even when things become interconnected, we do not use.”
With 17 losses in 22 matches, White Sox is one of only two large league teams with a worse record than the twins. The other is Colorado Rockies, which is 4-17.
Chicago comes from a 4-2 loss on the road to Boston Red Sox on Monday. Andrew Benintendi hammered, but White Sox succeeded only four other hits.
White Sox has lost seven of its last eight matches.
To make things worse, Chicago must find someone to add their rotation after losing his left hand Martin Perez to an elbow injury. Perez left his last start on Friday, and on Monday the team transferred him to the 60-day injured list.
White Sox Manager Will Venable said it was too early to project Perez’s long -term views.
“We know at least 60 days (that he will be out),” Venable said. “He feels, I think, better than he did after the first day. But (it is) still too early to really speculate on what this timeline will be, so we will see here in the next few days what we have.”
Twins Right Hander Bailey Ober (1-1, 6.16 era) is scheduled to take the pile for its fifth start of the season. The 6-foot-9, 260 pounds North Carolina natives are looking for their third quality start in a row after posting strong performances against Kansas City Royals and New York Mets.
Ober has made 13 career starts against White Sox. He is 5-2 with a 3.60 era in these games, with 13 walks and 72 strikes in 70 rounds.
White Sox right-wing dealer Davis Martin (1-2, 4.84 era) will also make his fifth start of the season. He hopes to be able to bounce back from a loss on Thursday, when he allowed four runs on eight hits in 5 1/3 rounds against athletics.
Martin, 28, has a career record of 4-13 with a 4.64 era. He has hit the twins in three matches, including two starts, went 0-2 with an 11.32 era in these matches.
This is the second series between the clubs this season. The twins took two matches out of three from March 31-April 21 in Chicago.
White Sox won the opening game 9-0 when Andrew Vaughn and Benintendi each met a three-Run Homer. The twins came back to win the second match 8-3 thanks to a fifth sixth inning, and Minnesota took the rubber match 6-1 and got all its runs in the fourth round.
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