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What an unfortunate day to not have Twins play-by-play announcer Cory Provus in the TV booth. A pair of thrilling Twins home runs were marred, from an entertainment standpoint, by weak calls from Royals announcer Ryan Lefebvre, who was theoretically a neutral broadcaster.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s Twins-Royals game was exclusively aired on the Roku channel, which has carried games since the start of last season. Roku doesn’t have its own announcers, so it creates a mashup of the two teams’ broadcast crews. In this instance, that meant Lefebvre calling the game alongside Twins.TV analyst Justin Morneau and reporter Audra Martin.<\/p>\n
In that role, the play-by-play announcer is supposed to be neutral. But Lefebvre sounded like he was doing his usual duties on the Kansas City broadcast during the Twins’ two exciting home runs in their extra-inning victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the third inning, Twins infielder Ryan Fitzgerald collected his first MLB hit and his first MLB home run after nearly 3,000 plate appearances in the minor leagues. Lefebvre didn’t muster much energy on the call.<\/p>\n Ryan Fitzgerald’s first Major League hit is a two-run homer! pic.twitter.com\/y8sLsn2A3u<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 MLB (@MLB) August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n Then, in the bottom of the 11th, red-hot rookie Luke Keaschall continued his incredible run with a walk-off two-run homer to right-center. It was the second career homer and first walkoff for Keaschall, who has gotten off to a historic 12-game start to his MLB career. Lefebvre hardly brought any juice to that call, either.<\/p>\n Luke Keaschall #WALKOFF<\/a> homer!<\/p>\n The @Twins<\/a> win it in the 11th! pic.twitter.com\/zEmFEWVk7C<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 MLB (@MLB) August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n On almost any other day, it would’ve been Provus in the booth for the Twins’ home broadcast, and fans would’ve gotten a couple electric home run calls from one of the best announcers in the business. That would’ve added some extra excitement to the biggest highlights of Fitzgerald and Keaschall’s careers thus far. <\/p>\n But even with the game not being on Twins.TV, the calls didn’t have to be as flat as they were. Provus has called Roku games before and brought energy to his calls of big moments for the Twins’ opponent.<\/p>\n Numerous people took to social media to criticize the calls.<\/p>\n The Roku play-by-play guy with what was arguably the least exciting walk-off homer call in baseball history.<\/p>\n \u2014 Joe Nelson (@JoeyBrainstorm) August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n I really like Ryan Lefebvre but his calls on the Twins\u2019 homers today have been abysmal for their situations<\/p>\n \u2014 Brandon Warne (@Brandon_Warne) August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n that was the most unenthusiastic walkoff call i\u2019ve ever heard in my life https:\/\/t.co\/LzdHhu8Zrt<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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