Opening Day: Minnesota Twins vs Kansas City Royals

We skipped out early on our regular Thursday club night to watch the Twins opening game live. I've not been paying as close attention to the off-season signings, or the Spring Training games, as cosmolinguist so there are a few surprise omissions and fresh faces on the field. Still, Carlos Correa is still there, I'm sure nothing exciting happened with him since last season!

(if I ever had ridiculous billionaire money, I'd buy the Kansas City Royals and move them to Jersey. I think this would be even more hilarious because nobody in the USA would get the reference.)

It's been a fun game. The new pitcher, Pablo Lopez, was apparently a controversial signing but put in a great opening session. No scoring for the first 5 innings, then the Twins got two runs in one inning, after Byron Buxton returned to the game after injury with a joyous triple. It's been Twins as usual in some places though - three times the bases have been loaded only for the runners to get stranded.

Just as I thought the Royals were going to score, on a hit with bases loaded, there was an amazing double play - the ball was intercepted at first base, thrown to the catcher at home plate to take out the lead runner, then back to first to take out the batter. Apparently this is called a "3-2-4" double play.

The new pitch clock rule has been interesting - on average it only shaves about 25 minutes off a game, but it certainly feels a lot faster. Maybe the time limit is now shorter than my attention span? Anyway, not gonna complain about a 2-0 win on Opening Day.