Written by Wow, I thought sitting through YESTERDAY’s games was a hot deal. It’s like some little blond girl is staring at a dopplar screen and saying “it’s baaaa-aack.” We’re looking at temps around 95 degrees for game start time and given the ridiculous levels of humidity, the heat index says 117 degrees. Yeah, that’s even worse than it was yesterday. At least they are only playing one game today – too bad it’s after the last three. At least the evening looks clear for any more storms so we shouldn’t have to deal with any rain delays.
After yesterday’s performances though, I have to say that as long as Liriano holds it together for more than 5 innings, the problem is going to be OFFENSE. We simply have to see more guys hitting more often with men on base. Gotta start getting runs before the last inning of the game.. first rule in the baseball primer is: you win when you score more often than the other guys. If we’re able to win tonight and tomorrow, we’re at least back to where we started in relation to Cleveland. We fought pretty hard to get to the point where we were in striking distance. I would hate to see all that dissipate in a single series.
At any rate, thinking positively, I think we can do this. Win Twins!
| Cleveland |
@ |
Minnesota |
| Carrera, CF | Revere, CF | |
| Cabrera, O, 2B | Casilla, A, 2B | |
| Cabrera, A, SS | Mauer, 1B | |
| Santana, C, 1B | Cuddyer, RF | |
| LaPorta, DH | Thome, DH | |
| Kearns, RF | Valencia, 3B | |
| Hannahan, 3B | Young, D, LF | |
| Marson, C | Nishioka, SS | |
| Buck, T, LF | Butera, C | |
| Masterson, P | Liriano, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Cleveland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
I have to say that game didn’t exactly come with the offensive outburst I think many of us have been hoping to see, but a win is a win and the guys certainly came through with a big ninth-inning come-from-behind walk-off win over the ‘Toons.
Frankie wasn’t exactly efficient, but he survived six innings of 1-run pitching and the bullpen arms of Dumatrait, Capps and Perkins were just about perfect, so can’t give anything but praise to the pitching staff tonight. They also got some excellent defense from their team mates behind them, as well.
But at the end, when it was needed the most, Michael Cuddyer doubled and then read Danny Valencia’s game-winning base hit perfectly to score from second base behind Joe Mauer. So Cuddy and Danny V are our co-BODs tonight! – JC
Danny Valencia
Michael Cuddyer
The Twins bats are as quiet as church mice. Twins may have to win this game 1-0 or 2-1.
well I’ll be happy with the W regardless but I would really like to see the bats start working.
AMEN to that CapitalBabs. From your cute mouth to the Baseball god. Maybe Danny or Cuddy will put one in the seats and then all of us will be happy.
Did I say 2-1. Go Twins!
If all it takes is you saying the score you want, would you mind asking for something like 10-1 next time?
No prob Jim. I think we will score 8 tomorrow. That’s close to 10.
yeah, 8 is a good number as long as it’s bigger than what Cleveland gets! I know I’m picky but.. the baseball gods like specificity.
Good point CapitalBabs. How about a final score of Twins 8 The Feather 3.