These days, every day is a new adventure with the Minnesota Twins’ bullpen. This, of course, is not unexpected after a trade deadline in which the Twins depleted their bullpen by trading their top five arms to contending teams.

Tuesday, the Twins’ bullpen gave up nine runs, sending them to an ugly blowout loss. Wednesday, it was a more painful ninth-inning lead that the bullpen gave away, spoiling a great start from Zebby Matthews. Down to their last out, former Twin Michael A. Taylor sent a two-out, two-run double to left field that hit the foul line and helped lift the Chicago White Sox to a 4-3 win over the Twins.

Chicago’s three-run inning started when lefty Kody Funderburk allowed a one-out single and walk, leading to his departure. But Justin Topa couldn’t extract the Twins from th

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