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Ober gave up 10 hits, walked one and struck out five. He came out of the bullpen to get a save last week, but still lost his last three starts of the season. Ober finished 7-7 with a 4.47 ERA, 1.30 WHIP and 96 strikeouts in 130 innings.

Ober was expected to start Monday against the Giants, but the Twins instead used him to give a weary bullpen a break today. Zebby Matthews presumably will now start on four days’ rest tomorrow. Ober still could get another start next weekend or maybe even Wednesday against the Giants, but we’ll see.

Ober gave up nine hits, walked two and struck out three. He fell to 7-6 with the loss. Ober hasn’t won a start since July 17 against the Cubs, a span of nine starts. He has a 4.32 ERA. Ober is lined up to face the Giants on the road next week.

Ober fanned six in four scoreless innings before giving up a double and an RBI single in the fifth. He departed with one out, and the Twins pen proceeded to give up nine runs the rest of the way. Ober dropped to 7-5 with a 4.28 ERA. He hasn’t won since July 17, having gone 0-2 in his last eight starts despite maintaining his first-half performance. He’ll face the Guardians next weekend.

Ober needed just seven pitches in the fifth, but the Twins didn’t bring him back out for the sixth at 80 pitches on the day. Since his surprising two-hit shutout of the Marlins back on May 12, Ober has made 12 starts without ever getting fewer than 12 outs or more than 18. The quick hooks are a big part of which he’s just 1-1 in 10 starts since beginning of July. He’ll face the White Sox again next weekend.

Ober did his job. The Twins’ bullpen did not, giving up seven runs after he exited the game. His only blemish in run prevention was a solo homer from Fernando Tatis Jr. — one of two that Tatis hit in the game — and he gave up just three singles outside of that roundtripper. Ober will take a 4.49 ERA on the year into a scheduled start next weekend against the White Sox.

Ober gave up six hits, walked one and struck out four. The 31-year-old right-hander hasn’t won a start or recorded more than four strikeouts in a start since July 17 against the Cubs, a span of five starts. Ober has a 4.62 ERA. He’s lined up to face the Padres on the road on Sunday.

Ober allowed three homers in the game, and two of them came in the first two innings, both two-run shots. It’s pretty hard to overcome that, and while he gave up just one more run — another homer — the damage was done. Ober just hasn’t shown any consistency in 2026, and now has a 4.64 ERA on the season. He’s set to face Atlanta on Monday.

Interestingly, Ober did not walk a batter or record a strikeout in the ballgame. He allowed a pair of runs in the third inning on a two-run single off the bat of Jac Caglianone, then gave up an RBI single to Salvador Perez in the sixth. Ober got six swings and misses on 74 pitches on the night, compiling a CSW of 24 percent. He’ll try to get back in the win column as he brings a 4.45 ERA, 1.22 WHIP and a 63/24 K/BB ratio (93 innings) into Tuesday’s battle against the Orioles.

Ober was able to generate nine whiffs on 28 swings against his non-fastballs and hold the Royals to six hard-hit balls. The bad news is that one of those hard-hit balls, from Jac Caglianone, still hasn’t landed yet. This is about the best you could have hoped for from Ober, who lines up for a rematch against the Royals next Wednesday assuming nothing that happens at the trade deadline scuttles that.