Well the Twins have had two previous three game winning streaks this season – I don’t think we have ever done more than that yet – and I would really like to see today make the third. Who knows if we have any chance of getting back into the realm of competitive opportunity this season but I would just like to approach EVERY game with a must-win attitude. Get it done Boys.
| Minnesota | @ | Oakland |
| Span, CF | Crisp, CF | |
| Plouffe, SS | Barton, D, 1B | |
| Kubel, RF | Sweeney, R, LF | |
| Morneau, DH | Matsui, H, DH | |
| Cuddyer, 1B | Suzuki, K, C | |
| Valencia, 3B | DeJesus, D, RF | |
| Young, D, LF | Ellis, M, 2B | |
| Rivera, Re, C | Kouzmanoff, 3B | |
| Casilla, A, 2B | Pennington, SS | |
| Blackburn, P | Ross, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 16 | 3 |
| Oakland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
WOOOHOOOO!!! The Twins no longer have the worst record in baseball! Today’s win officially moved them past the Astros. And wow, was that a fun game to watch. The boys remembered how to use the bats and the pitching was ON! I really miss that kind of baseball. Lots of people contributed today but the eventual BOD debate came down Justin Morneau, who really is starting to get his rhythm back, and Nick Blackburn, who followed up his last three consecutive quality starts with another gem. We finally said, why are we arguing about this?
They’re BOTH today’s BODs! Congrats!
By the way… I know it was only a two game series, but I don’t care… this was a SWEEEEEEEEP!!!!