Minnesota at Tampa Bay

After sweeping the Tigers earlier this month, the Twins have fallen back into being the bad team most envisioned. Minnesota is 1-8 in its last nine games. They have no bullpen and Byron Buxton and Luke Keaschall aren't hitting. The team is 26th in batting. Tampa Bay is going in the other direction. The Rays have won three in a row and are going for a series sweep here. Tampa Bay has scored six runs in each of its last four games. The Rays have put up five or more runs in seven of their last eight home games. Neither starting pitcher, Simeon Woods Richardson for the Twins (0-3, 5.96) nor Tampa Bay's Jesse Scholtens (1-1, 2.93 ERA), is a proven pitcher. But Tampa Bay's bullpen is deeper and better than the Twins, who lack a closer. Take the Rays.