Pablo Lopez is scheduled to take the mound opposing Sonny Gray on Saturday.
When the Twins were facing the first-place Cleveland Guardians earlier in August, manager Rocco Baldelli said that every series going forward was his ballclub’s most important of the season. While those words were mostly meant to not oversell the importance of that one particular series, they’re proving to be prophetic as the final month of the regular season inches closer and closer.
So that brings us to the most important series of the season: a three-game home slate against the St. Louis Cardinals that begins Friday with a 7:10 p.m. first pitch at Target Field in downtown Minneapolis. Gray was stellar in his second season with the Twins last year, finishing the season with a 2.79 earned-run average and an 8-8 record after fanning 183 across 184 innings in 32 starts. Gray has followed that campaign with another good season this year, when he's gone 11-8 with a 3.91 ERA across 135 2/3 innings in 23 starts. His Cardinals are currently five games out of a wild-card spot.
Gray was lights out to start the season, posting a 1.16 ERA in April. Lopez, meanwhile, got off to a slow start to the season, recording a 5.84 ERA in April — his worst month of the season.
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